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March 29, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 29, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Uh great to be with you.
Uh Rush will be back uh Thursday, Thursday.
Uh he has flown eighteen hours there.
He's gonna fly fifteen hours back.
He's scouting uh potential uh potential healthcare systems, alternative healthcare systems around the planet.
We've had people trying to guess which healthcare system.
I think New Zealand is in the lead, New Zealand.
New Zealand, yeah.
I mean, just ask the extras in Lord of the Rings, because that that they they just uh uh A HR wanted to know whether they had a good health care system in me, but they yeah, they filmed all the uh the suddenly like uh the the population in New Zealand trebled because they filmed Lord of the Rings down there, and uh the healthcare managed to cope with them.
Whereas in Vancouver when they had the Olympics, they said uh when the Olympics were there a few weeks ago, they announced beforehand we're not gonna do elective surgery in if you you may have had, you may have been waiting three years for your hip replacement uh and you were gonna get it uh and you were gonna get it in Vancouver uh during the Olympics.
Unfortunately, we didn't know about this Olympics thing, so we now postpone it for another three years because we'll be uh focusing on uh luge accidents or whatever.
So luge trauma.
You can't handle hip no health.
It would be unreasonable to expect any first world health system uh to be able to cope with both hip replacements and an increase in luge trauma at the same time.
So you have to be able to prioritize.
Australia's had some uh they're doing that thing.
Uh H HR is you're not gonna go through every country, are you?
I'm uh Okay, okay, he's stopping it, he's stopping it.
You know, because I've got I got a Bulgarian health care story and a couple of others I could uh I can feel.
I had a uh I had a broken leg in Bulgaria once.
Um, and uh and uh that was that was fun.
Uh but the um but the uh I forgot what were we talking about?
Australian healthcare system, yeah, they've got that thing now.
The government down there, and this is a feature of all these systems is reduced wait times, reduced wait times.
Uh so they're now trying to get it down below whatever it is, three years, two years, whatever it is before you get the sur before you get the surgery.
Because one thing that happens, by the way, is that the minute you have this kind of system, America was already looking at it's just got under a million doctors, I think.
But uh big percentage of them are over the age of fifty-five and were coming up for retirement.
And now since this thing, in the weeks that this thing has been rumbling through, forty percent of them have been saying forty percent of primary care practitioners have been saying they want to get out of the business.
It's not gonna be worth it to be in the business under this new system.
So there's gonna be a catastrophic uh uh shortage of primary care physicians.
Uh if you look at the basic numbers here, America has a two-point something or other uh uh in terms of uh uh of doctors per uh uh uh per uh people in terms of doc uh per per capita doctors per capita and uh that's uh much better than uh Europe where it's like three point one five or something like that.
Significantly better than you.
And it's much better, it's even better than what it is in Quebec, which has the lowest ratio of doctors, uh worst ratio of doctors to patients in the Western world.
So there's gonna be a there's gonna be a lot more of that coming on.
But we can't, you know, there's no point discussing things like doctors, nurses, hernia's broken legs, because that's not what it's about.
It's about uh incoherent rage.
It's about you haters.
It's about all you haters out there uh who just cannot cope with the fact that there's a a black man in the White House and there's a woman in the speaker's chair, and there's a gay man on the banking committee, and there's a wise Latina on the Supreme Court.
You haters just can't handle it.
And the hate is getting out of control now.
The hate is getting out of control.
A Philadelphia man, a Philadelphia man has been charged with threatening to kill Guess?
Any guesses?
Any anybody want to take a wild whack?
Who?
Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank?
Philadelphia man has been charged with threatening to kill Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Barack Obama, uh the wise Latina.
No, no, no.
Representative Eric Cantor.
Can't can't quite place him.
Can't quite place him.
Republican of Virginia.
A Philadelphia man has been charged with threatening to kill Representative Eric Cantor, Republican Virginia and his family.
Thirty-three-year-old Norman LeBoon made the threats in a YouTube video.
FBI agents included A transcript of the threat in a sworn appidavit affidavit.
My congressman, Eric Cantor, and you and your cupcake evil wife.
Remember, Eric, our judgment time.
You are a liar.
You're a Lucifer.
You're a pig.
You're an abomination.
You receive my bullets in your office.
Remember, they will be placed in your heads.
This guy, it's hard to believe he's targeting a Republican.
That's how stupid these knuckle dragging uh white racists are.
He can't even get the party right of the guy he's been trying to kill.
But the hate is out there.
There's so there's too much uh too much uncontrollable hate out there.
We've seen it before uh with uh people going on TV with a black president and doing watermelon jokes.
Oh no, wait a minute, that was uh that was Dan Rather.
Uh anyway, we're gonna be uh we're gonna be rolling back the hate.
It's okay when Dan Rather does a watermelon joke, though.
It somehow just sort of drifts away, doesn't it?
It's like it never happened.
It's like the watermelon flies down the memory hole.
You'd think you'd at least hear the dull thud at the bottom of the shaft.
I mean it's a watermelon.
But no, Dan Rather's watermelon joke just floats off into the ether.
It's like balloon boy.
One minute the watermelon's there, and the next it's like four states away and up in cloud cuckoo lad.
So uh so uh Dan Rather's watermelon joke.
It's like it never happened.
But but but the racists at the tea parties, that's real.
They're out there, they're homophobes.
You're a homophobe.
You're a misogynist.
It's because Barney Frank is gay that you don't want to spend trillions of dollars.
You'd be completely cool with it.
If he would if he would just date a woman, you'd sign on to this Obama K. It's that simple, isn't it?
Uh, dear me.
Mark Stein InfoRush, 1800 282, 2882.
Um we wonder we want to talk about the uh the s the c the cost of all this, though, because uh everyone keeps pointing out that uh the the so-called benefits uh don't kick in till 2014 or whatever.
Actually, there's tons of arguments about that because uh it it's it looks like this now.
Kids with pre-existing conditions.
By the way, I love the term kids.
Kids now extends to anybody at twenty-six, twenty-six.
If you're a twenty-six-year-old kid, you know, in the old days, a twenty-six-year-old kid would have kids of his own.
It was what they would have called uh early middle age.
But today, today, twenty-six-year-old uh can still be on his parents' health plan.
Uh this is the this is the phenomenon they have in Europe where all these thirty-five-year-old men are all living with their parents uh because it's a because it's too expensive now.
So like if you go into like if you're this is this is this is for you gals out there, if you if you say you want to take a bachelorette vacation in Rome, you buy a cheap air ticket to Rome, you go into a singles bar in Rome, and some smooth talking 37-year-old guy comes up to you and says, Ah, bellissima.
You know, like Katrina, that's a nice name.
Sounds beautiful with an Italian accent uh when we're talking to Katrina.
Bellissima Catrina.
And uh the 37-year-old smooth-talking Italian guy uh says, uh, hey, why don't you come back to uh to my place and uh look at my linguini?
And uh and she says, sure, whatever.
He's he will he's sleeping in the same bedroom he's been sleeping in since he was three years old.
He's living at his parents' place in the same room with the same teddy bear wallpaper, although maybe he's painted over it by now, that he's lived in all his life.
Thirty-seven-year-old men.
This guy would be a laughing stock in any previous culture.
But uh Yeah, that's right.
The term and it would be the universal term, loser.
That's right.
HR says loser.
It was a universal word, loser.
You you say, and everybody, he we we would get that message if the nice American girl in the singles bar said, you sir are a loser, he would get that.
He would he would know it'd be the one word he'd understand in English.
But now it's no problem because they're all doing it.
In uh Germany, same thing.
Massive increase in uh 30 30-year-old and 40-year-old men still living with their parents.
Uh and same thing in uh same thing in Canada in Toronto.
Uh there's been a huge increase in men now staying at home, m moving out, uh not moving out till they're 30, 35, 40.
It's getting later and later.
This is brutal.
This is brutal.
You know, you think of that about you're like an old person.
You don't have to be that old, but like let's face it, you generally get sick of kids around about 15, 16, you're ready for them to move out.
If they said, Don't worry, Dad, you've only got another quarter century to go, you'd be pretty you'd be pretty depressed about it.
This is this is one of the strange byproducts of uh of a socialized uh big government, a big entitlement system.
Nobody ever moves out.
There was an old Benny Hill joke, Benny Hill joke about public housing years ago.
Benny Hill was like a biker, and he was with his dolly bird, and they're both in the biker gear, and they're being interviewed by a BBC guy about how difficult it is trying to find affordable housing.
And the BBC guy says to Betty Hill, Well, couldn't you move in with your parents?
And Benny Hill says, uh we would do, but they've moved back in with theirs.
And that that is what that is what is happening for real in uh Italy, Germany, Canada, 45-year-old guys uh live in living with their parents.
Now we've done that here.
We're just starting it, just starting it.
So we're not saying if you're 45 year old, you can still be on your parents' health insurance.
But we've said you if you're a twenty-six-year-old, if you're twenty-six years old, that's when when Obama is talking about children.
He got a round of applause for this when he spoke in Ohio.
He said, if you're twenty-six years old, uh you'll still be eligible to be on your parents' health insurance.
And people applaud it.
If you're 26 years old and you can't stand on your own two feet, if you're 26 years old and you're still a child, this is this is exactly what big government does to you.
It's the infantilization of the citizenry.
A 26-year-old by any reasonable definition is an adult.
And the idea of this country congratulating itself, because it's now ensured that twenty-six-year-olds will still count as children and thus will still be covered as infant minors for the purposes of health insurance should be a mark of shame.
If you're twenty-six years old, you are an adult, and uh you should be treated as an adult.
And that gets to the heart of what this whole lousy process is about.
It is about the infantilization of the citizenry so that you will be teenagers in perpetuity.
Mark Stein Infrarus, 1800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Uh have you noticed, by the way, all these uh companies now announcing what the uh costs of the Obama health care will be.
Uh a few of them, just a few of them have uh begun uh announcing them, ATT, uh Verizon, Caterpillar, a couple of others.
By the way, they're obliged by law to announce them.
Uh you've got to report you've got to factor in uh future liabilities uh and adjust your earnings statement accordingly, or if not the uh SEC and the uh U.S. attorney's office will be dragging you into court and shutting you down and tossing you in jail.
Uh I'm a friend of mine uh fell afoul of some SEC reporting requirements and uh uh and it wasn't a happy experience.
So you've got to do this.
There's no it's the law.
You've got to if if, for example, your uh uh health plan costs rise because of something the government does, you've got to adjust your earnings statement accordingly.
But Henry Waxman, representative Henry Waxman, uh doesn't like that.
Uh he's the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and I believe he is a heterosexual white male.
So uh so we will have to so he doesn't afford the same pleasure for us racist homophobes and misogynists as going after Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank or Barack Obama.
He seems he's he's one of us.
He's he's I mean uh after a fashion, he has a sort of curious mien about him, but he is a uh heterosexual white male uh as far as we know.
Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, uh, has now uh wrote uh written to all these uh chief executives, ATT, Verizon Caterpillar, John Deere, uh, and uh is hauling them before Congress to come and account for themselves for having the temerity simply to state uh the additional costs that they say will result uh from the from the health care reform bill.
This this now is not even this this isn't even uh uh uh uh disguised anymore.
This is just naked intimidation.
They're saying if you and this is uh this isn't even a matter of debate.
They're obliged to issue these statements anyway.
They're obliged to report them in their earnings.
It's just something you have to do.
Uh but nevertheless, Henry Waxman is saying, how dare you do that?
How dare you have the impertinence uh to uh issue these numbers that c that will show that Obamacare is not the bountiful blessing that will bring universal health care to all and actually control costs and reduce the deficit and reduce the debt.
How dare you uh how dare you speak out against that now you'll have to come and testify to Congress.
Uh they wrote to the executives and requested that they appear at a hearing that Henry Waxman and Chairman Bart Stupak.
Remember him, the pro-life Democrat?
Chairman Bart Stubak on April the twenty first.
This is this is a very interesting uh form of intimidation.
I don't even like it.
We saw this with the guy when they hauled the guy in from Toyota.
Uh do you remember the guy from Toyota?
Uh the the fellow he put the uh put the couldn't get his Prius to slow down, so they haul in the chief executive of Toyota, who's Japanese and he's listening to these idiotic questions.
And I would uh I would bet, I would bet, if I'd been in his shoes, I would have had a strong urge listening to these idiotic questions, uh all generated by some phony baloney story of a guy who couldn't find the brake pedal I would have had a strong urge to say I can't believe Hirohito and Tojo lost to you guys.
Because this is idiocy.
And now they're calling in the chief executives of Verizon ATT Caterpillar and John Deere to come and testify to Congress about their less majesty against the Great Barack about the about the Great Barack and his great healthcare bill.
Let's go to Donna in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Donna, you're live at on the Rush Limbo Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello Mark, how are you?
I'm doing great.
Well actually um I am an angry white female.
Right.
Um I went to my first tea party uh actually my only tea party on March the twentieth which was that Saturday basically my husband and I decided that it was the last opportunity for us to be able to take a stand for something we really believe in.
And we were actually right there at the point where everything was supposed to have happened with the spitting and the name calling.
Right, right.
And and if you look on YouTube you can see there's a large female with grey hair pulled back in a bun in a white blouse I was there nothing happened.
It was like a nothing thing there was just a little outburst from the black caucus and also Charlie Wrangle followed up in the behind and my husband did say something different b besides kill the bill he said lie or cheat Charlie Wrangle.
Oh yeah but he's only doing that because Charlie Wrangle is a black guy.
And when you say kill the bill we know, we know that that is just code code, isn't it?
That's code for the for sniper sites and all the rest of it.
It's clear, it's clear that this is uh you can try and explain it away, Donna, but Frank Rich and the and the media are on to you.
They understand this is just like coded talk.
Now was there an exchange of saliva by the way were bodily fluids exchanged in this incident?
No, no, not at all.
Um nothing that could be seen and there was never any person who spit if anything might have touched him maybe people screaming kill the bill when they did the B though the B and Bill it's hard to say oh come on.
Come on Donna now you're saying now you're saying uh it was just accidental expectoration on the B of Bill, is that right?
If there was anything at all, I'm not even saying that there was anything because I certainly saw nothing and heard nothing that you know it it's just it it's crazy.
It's like they're they're making up things.
No no no because they don't they don't want to deal with it.
They don't want to deal they don't want to they don't want to accept the idea that you can be opposed to Obamacare and to all this spending and be a perfectly normal person.
He can only cope with it if he thinks that you are uh some sick twisted racist hater.
That's his only way of coping for it.
That's the only mental box he can put you in Donna.
Well don't keep talking you're starting to convince me embrace embrace you're in a racist order.
You'll feel happier about it.
You'll feel happy instead of blaming it on the bee in Bill, just spit over everybody.
Yeah the CNN will be filming you night and day when you show up at the next tea party.
Just let loose over and let loose a torrent of uh of of saliva over Anderson Cooper, and you'll be on CNN wall to wall.
Uh thank you for thank you for your call, Donna.
Great to have you with us.
This is what it's come down to now.
This is what it's come down to now.
Uh in the end, the people who think race accounts for everything are the odd things.
Why should by the way uh socialized health care?
Most people who talk about it talk about it the way I do.
We've seen what it does.
Uh we we've seen what it does in certain countries.
It dissentivized in the Western world, it decentivizes everything that matters.
So it gets in the way of wealth creation and responsibility and all that.
No racism need be involved.
Great to be with you.
Rush back Thursday.
He is in an undisclosed location.
Don't forget, you could win your very own free Rush Limbaugh guest host.
If you can identify the jurisdiction that he is receiving quality health care in right now.
Rush will be back uh Thursday, Thursday.
He's just scouting out the quality of health care.
We had uh people say New Zealand, Singapore.
I suggest he might be checking out the uh the jungles of New Guinea where they've got very good head operations that they uh perform there.
Uh but he will be back here and ready to go with uh real premium quality excellence in broadcasting uh on Thursday.
We're talking about this hate, this idea that demonizing the haters, the racists, the homophobes, and all the rest out there.
Uh he took a call, Rush took a call uh from somebody in Canada, uh I think it was on Tuesday, uh Wednesday last week, uh, about Anne Colter's speech at um uh the University of Ottawa, which w wound up getting cancelled.
And it was uh uh fascinating to me because in the run-up to Anne Colter's appearance in Canada, this was her first Canadian appearance.
There'd been all these pieces in the paper, including one from Francois Ouluz, the provost of the University of Ottawa, saying, Oh, well, you know, we're not like all you right-wing haters down there.
In Canada, we have a tr a strong tradition, quote, of restraint, respect, and consideration.
This is with the provost of the University of Ottawa.
The next day, a howling mob shuts down and culture's speech because nothing says uh, you know, restraint, respect and civility, like a a thuggish mob threatening to rampage through and destroy everything in sight.
Uh that's an interesting glimpse in what uh, you know, respect and restraint and civility mean when the left uh starts using those words.
And and in incidentally, uh, when when the left uses those words, they are euphemisms for power and for muscle.
Uh and that so it's not just like uh Dan Rather's throw away watermelon cracks, you know.
There is a there's a strategy here.
The idea is to criminalize, criminalize conservative arguments.
So if every time you make a conservative argument, they say, Oh no, that's racist, oh no, that's homophobic, then in effect you can't talk about anything except on their terms.
Uh and so every time uh every time a leftist says, Oh, well, you know, it's about respect and restraint and civility, uh, that's code, that's de facto uh the the object of that is to criminalize your opinion and make conservative arguments impossible.
Let's go to Susan in Hartford, Connecticut.
Uh hitherto the insurance capital of the United States, but uh but I would imagine it's uh it's gonna be uh property values will be plummeting and everybody will be moving out uh once the effects of this bill kick in.
Susan, great to have you with us.
Oh, thank you for taking my call.
I just wanted to tell you about my diversified experience at a large major medical center.
Uh there were uh four black women and with their elderly mother and uh two Hispanic girls, one that worked in the insurance company, by the way.
Right.
And uh then there was another guy that was a white guy and a black guy, and me and I'm white.
Right.
And we were all talking because we had a lot of time to kill.
And I imagine that's gonna get to be a lot worse, too.
Anyway, nobody thinks that this is a good bill at all.
There's a lot of hidden things there.
And about the racism.
We all completely agreed, but this one beautiful black lady stood up and she actually got a standing O from us Because she said there really hasn't been a huge race problem, especially around here for over 40 years.
She said, I do believe that they are pitting us against each other so that we will not really look at what they're doing to all of us.
And I completely agreed, and so did everybody else.
And by the way, the one Hispanic girl, I'm calling her sp Hispanic, she just flat out said she was Puerto Rican, but she was born in this country.
She works in the insurance company, and she said she does not appreciate having to talk bilingual, even though she does it fluently to people on the phone or people that come in, it's not cost effective, it's not productive.
She said, if you want to live here, learn English.
Like my ancestors from Europe had to come here and learn English too.
Well, good good for her, because nobody's about the racism.
As far as that goes, this guy had a white mother, so he's fifty percent white.
This is not about race.
No, no, no, no.
This is this is the thing.
It's gotta be about you're saying you were in a representative Connecticut emergency uh waiting room, a Connecticut waiting room, four black women, uh two Hispanic women, there's you, there's a black guy, there's a white guy, and you all oppose Obamacare.
So all the all these four black women, two Hispanic women, they're all racists too.
Oh, I'm sure.
And the one that works for the insurance will probably be out of a job too.
Yeah, yeah, that's that that'll be coming.
But what you you Susan, you make a very good point when you say the object is to divide us, because one of the uh key Well, the black lady stood up and said that.
And she was a beautiful woman, and she said, I do believe that they are drumming this up purposefully to pit us against each other so that our eyes will be shut on what they're doing to us, and nobody likes it.
But that's that is a uh a big government, uh left wing government way of looking at things.
So you divide people into identity groups, and the big centralized planning government then is the only legitimate arbiter between all these different identity groups, and that's a very key feature of big government states, and that's why the Democrats love identity politics.
Uh that's because they like to be able to think of people in groups.
You know, the the uh the the most the the the most important minority is the individual.
And historically in the common law tradition, uh there's been very little deference given to group rights, because uh in the common law tradition, what matters is is the individual.
If you're an individual, uh you have individual liberty, and we all have the same liberties, we are all equal before the law.
But big government says no, we would rather think of you as members of different uh interest groups and identity groups, and we can then arbitrate the relationships uh between you.
Let's go to Jude in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Jude, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
It's a pleasure, Mark.
I've been listening to you many times, and I'm a longtime Rush listener.
Well, good good to have you with us.
And Russia's gonna be back on Thursday and for many years to come.
Listen uh, Mark, my point is, and uh, you know, been listening to the negativeness about losing our constitutional rights, uh, you know, growing big government.
But now that the health care plan has passed, I think you need to start harping on the actual individuals increasing costs for health care, taxes, and putting specific numbers by each category.
Now, I realize that we can't do that yet because maybe no one has understood the plan.
But I think we need to put it to the individual.
What is my individual cost going to be for this plan?
So you you think instead of talking about it in terms of constitutional issues or as an individual liberty thing, because you're I guess the argument is that most people uh mo or yeah, well, the total ecop apocalypse end of America, end of the global economy, I'm again out of here.
You think we need to bring it down to because people can't comprehend macroeconomic trends, they're not interested in constitutional theories.
They want to know what is this gonna cost me in hard dollars and cents.
Yes, exactly.
I think what uh the constitutional uh I guess loss of privilege is is what got us to this point.
But what's going to go across parties and across race and across prejudice is when you take home less money.
Right.
Right.
And if you can somehow come out with uh like the uh person out of a making a certain amount of money, middle a middle class person making a hundred thousand dollars, sixty thousand dollars, I don't know, some fund, and show the people what has after January what this is going to cost him.
Because, you know, I understand that uh we he's not he hasn't uh uh rolled over the Bush tax cut.
No, and a lot of people are going to be seeing uh tax increases of up to forty percent uh come uh come the come the new year.
So the bo the Bush tax cuts are are lapsing, there's gonna be tax increases anyway.
Um some people are gonna be paying uh uh already in some jurisdictions uh in some states in this country pay over fifty percent uh in combined uh federal and state taxes.
Now what do you get for that, Jude?
That's that's the way people think about it.
In Germany, for example, I think something like fifteen percent uh the uh the cost of the health service uh accounts for fifteen percent, the an extra fifteen percent uh on your taxes uh in effect.
And uh you don't you don't is it worth that to people if you put it in those terms, if you say you'd pay this much per year uh and the government will take care of your health needs, is it worth it to people?
Uh there are y uh in the early days you can people will you know, people will feel differently about that.
But the problem here, the problem is uh that if you complicate it enough, and the American tax system and the system of uh tax credits for this and tax credits for that is sufficiently complicated anyway, that many people don't understand in real terms what they're actually giving to the government.
And this is knock on effects i in all kinds of other ways.
Uh for example, if you look at what's happened to Fanny and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Basically, the government said, No, you have got to lend money to people for houses uh for homes in certain circumstances, regardless of whether you are prepared you would be prepared to issue them that mortgage in normal circumstances, you've got to do it.
You've got to do it.
The Federal Government says it doesn't matter what you think of them as a risk uh or w what you think of their chances of repayment or whether they can afford the mortgage, you've got to give them to it.
Now they've just done that to the health care industry.
Now they've just done that to the insurance industry.
They've turned the private insurance industry, in effect, into Freddie May, uh uh Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
And we saw how well that worked out for the housing market.
Uh it actually undermined property uh as one of the great uh bedrocks of a free society.
Uh and they're proposing now, uh, with this health care bill, what they've done at a stroke uh is effectively turn the insurance uh market, insurance business, health insurance business, into Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Uh and the the object is always to make the costs and benefits or you will your twenty-six-year-old child will be able to go on uh your health insurance policy.
Okay, that sounds great if you happen to be in favor of raising twenty-six year old deadbeats who are still gonna be uh uh uh treated like minors uh when they're uh when they're twenty-six years old.
That's fine, that sounds great.
But it's very the government makes it all but impossible to quantify the costs on something like that until it's too late.
And that's the trick of big government.
You never see the bill until down the road.
And if uh and in this situation, uh where essentially, as uh Robert Samuelson explains in the Washington Post today, we're spending twenty-five percent of GDP, but we're only raising nineteen percent in revenue.
That's a recipe for two things either total societal collapse or for actually spending your children and grandchildren's future before they're born.
Uh Charles Moore in the Daily Telegraph of London, my old boss, Charles Moore had a great line in his Saturday column.
We've spent too much of tomorrow today.
We've spent too much of tomorrow today.
And that's the trick that the uh the government is very good at doing.
Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush.
You know, I slightly disagree with uh with Jude.
I understand his point uh we were discussing earlier that um you know, a lot of people aren't interested in these big philosophical constitutional issues, they're not interested in liberty and all the rest of it.
You've got to explain it to them in dollars and cents.
And the point is here, though, that the government makes it all but impossible to explain it in terms of dollars and cents.
You know, it's a two thousand page bill.
Nobody knows what's in it.
Uh the government uh doesn't even know uh know uh what's in it.
We're getting contradictory versions of events.
Um uh uh w what's the uh Kathleen Sibelius?
That's the name, the health uh secretary.
She's now said the the New York Times has run a story saying, Oh, this business about how your children with the pre existing conditions, now they're all covered, isn't happy days are here again.
There's nothing to worry about.
From the first of September they're covered.
Uh The New York Times now says, whoa, hold on a minute.
That's not so.
They're only covered if health insurers choose to cover them.
Kathleen Sabalius has indignantly said, no, no, no, that's the case.
Whatever is in the bill.
Now this is the Health and Human Services Secretary, by the way, and she doesn't know what's in the bill.
And so she said, well, if it isn't in the bill, we'll just issue an executive order to make it the law.
So this is absolute monarchy, folks.
This is why this is what you didn't like.
If you remember back to the day before yesterday, this is what you didn't like about King George the Third back in 1776.
What's happening here is that you've got a you've got a parliament, you've got a legislature that has passed a bill and Kathleen Sabalius, Commissar Sabalius, Health Commissar Sabelius, is saying, well, you know, okay, if they didn't put it in the bill, I'll just announce it anyway.
We'll have it anyway.
We'll have it anyway.
This is this that is why that is why I disagree with Jude, because it's it corrupts the heart of the Republic.
It it makes Republican government impossible.
It makes citizenship impossible.
Because if if the if the federal government can require you, you Joe Schmoe of 27B Elm Street, to buy a particular product by fiat, by order of Kathleen Sabalius and Barack Obama, then they can make you do anything.
They can make you do anything.
Now they're telling you they got to buy health insurance.
If you start dating, will they require you to buy a certain amount of condoms per month?
Federally manufactured condoms, so they won't even work.
If the government will be able to the government will be able to do anything if they can uh i if they are free to declare that you have to buy a particular health insurance product regardless of whether you want to uh or not that's why it is a liberty issue.
And that's why for all the talk about the costs, it is important to talk about it in terms of a liberty issue.
I was very sorry.
We had a caller lined up who wanted to talk about the Stamp Act, which was passed 245 years ago.
And HR, I was all fired up looking forward to him, and HR said, we don't want to get into the Stamp Act.
He said, because I've always been fascinated by this business, the Stamp Act.
You know, you compare the length of the Stamp Act to the length of the health care bill.
people knew what was in the Stamp Act at least you you imagine you imagine if you'd gone back 245 years when they passed the Stamp Act and King George the Press uh King George the third had gone on um Meety Press with uh David Brinkley he was he was hosting Meet Ye Press back then was yeah David uh yeah David uh so he's on Meaty Meet Ye Press in the 1770s when it was anchored by David Brinkley.
David Broder was still on it every week back then.
Yeah, yeah.
And so it's like a lot of the same participants, in fact, were on Meet Ye Press when they remodelled it and they redesigned the set in 1862 for the new look they have now.
So anyway, George III goes on Meet Ye Press and says, oh, don't worry about the Stamp Act.
Please just pass it and you don't know what's in it.
We don't know what's in it, but once it's been around for a while, you'll get to like it.
like it.
Don't worry about it.
Uh and he's sitting there stroking his powdered wig and everyone saying well that sounds reasonable enough to me.
What was the point of the revolution?
What was the point if all the people who stood up the angry white men by the way the angry white men who stood up to George the Third because they because his him wearing that powdered wig made them uncomfortable about their sexuality as Frank Rich would say those angry white men who stood up to George the Third would have uh would have what would have happened if they'd said oh you know you're right we should just take his word for it.
That seems like the sort of thing that freeborn people he he he's he's the king and he's saying there's nothing to worry about.
Mark started for Rush.
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Eighty-four percent of Americans, according to a Quinnipiac poll, say the middle class will have to make financial sacrifices to reduce the budget deficit.
But they also say they don't want him to touch Social Security or Medicare.
You can't make the two halves of that answer work.
Gotta figure out which one's important to you.
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