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April 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 6, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I am Rush Lynn Boyd.
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Great to have you back with us.
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And the email address, lrushball at EIBNet.com from the Boston Globe.
By the way, you might, let me preface this.
By telling you that, you know, they have in Massachusetts what is considered the test market for Obamacare, and it isn't going well.
And last week, insurance companies in Massachusetts applied for a rate increase of anywhere from 8 to 32 percent to cover costs.
The insurance commissioner flat out turned them down.
So a half dozen health insurers yesterday filed a lawsuit against the state, seeking to reverse last week's decision by the insurance commissioner to block double-digit premium increases, a ruling they say could leave them with hundreds of millions of losses.
The proposed rate hikes would have taken effect April 1st for plans covering thousands of small businesses and individuals.
Insurers wanted to raise base rates an average of 8% to 32%.
Tacked onto that are often additional costs calculated according to factors such as the size and age of the workforce.
Yesterday's legal action sets the stage for a showdown between state regulators and the health insurance industry.
And this is a forerunner of the same kind of legal challenges that are going to spring up once Obamacare is fully implemented.
So keep a sharp eye on that.
Also, I shouldn't say I love stories like this, but anything that embarrasses the regime, I like, if it does embarrass them.
I'm not sure that any kind of destruction or unintended negative consequence does embarrass them.
From the Christian Science Monitor.
With 22 penstrokes, President Obama signed into existence not just a historic health care reform law, but also monumental piles of paperwork, new member registration forms, more claims, ever-expanding databases, and on top of that, pressure to cut costs.
The bulge in administrative work may look like a nightmare to American insurance firms and government employees, but to outsourcing executives here in India, it is heaven-sent.
A number of Indian companies are already anticipating an increase in workload thanks to Obama's health care law.
This is in Mumbai.
The addition of 32 million insured Americans is very significant for Indian outsourcers, said the chief executive officer of First Source Solutions in Mumbai.
Companies like his will see increased opportunities as U.S. health insurers and hospitals scramble to reorganize to comply with the law.
The extra work will include processing new enrollments, organizing bigger member databases, processing more.
In other words, India thinks they're going to get all this work.
And it may be the case.
You know, you may, when you call a doctor, call a hospital, call the insurance company, you may get somebody on the phone from Mumbai.
Oh, my goodness.
Harry Reid, well, before you hear what Harry Reid said, this is another great story embarrassing the regime.
This is from the AP.
President Obama's top health official says that scam artists are taking advantage of the new insurance law to peddle phony policies, just like there are scam artists peddling phony census forms.
The Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, said today that she's writing state officials about a proliferation of scams involving the new health care law, which Obama signed March 23rd.
Federal fraud investigators are also keeping a sharp eye.
Well, that's confidence-inspiring.
Some of these hustlers, it says, are going door-to-door claiming there's a limited open enrollment period to buy...
I love this country.
I just absolutely love this.
We're not going anywhere, folks.
Even the people who aren't politically oriented are still going to kill this.
Even the sharks, the hustlers.
Some of the hustlers are going door to door claiming there's a limited open enrollment period to buy health insurance now.
So they're actually out there selling bogus insurance policies because people do things.
It's like Dawn said the woman came into the breast center and expected everything, the day after Obama signed a bill, expected everything to be covered.
And the nurse said, no, you're not just covering.
Well, didn't you know it passed?
Well, yeah, but you're not still not covered.
Well, when is it covered?
Well, we don't know.
So there are people who think, I wonder how many people are buying bogus insurance policies.
Rush.
How dare you laugh at people being taken advantage of?
Oh, yes, I admit it.
I am laughing at it because it's an unintended consequence of the regime.
And I just, you know, they're practical jokers, except they're scamming people for money.
I mean, I'm really not laughing, but I am.
I love practical jokers.
I love this kind of entrepreneurism.
I love this kind of creativity.
I don't like ripping people off.
Don't misunderstand.
The thing I like about this is that people are not acting like a bunch of sheep and bowing down and acting afraid.
Whatever the regime does, if they see an opportunity, they're going out and maximizing it.
And what do you bet some of the people being ripped off are already ripping off us?
Well, what do you bet?
Most of them are on handouts anyway.
What do you bet?
Most of them have an entitlement mentality anyway.
So here come the fraudsters and the hucksters just getting some of their money back, going the direct route, not waiting for their IRS refund.
Oh, speaking of your IRS refund, that is the insurance commissioner.
This guy was put in there by Bush and Obama kept it.
His name's Schulman.
The IRS commissioner says that the way they're going to recover money from you for fining you, for the way they're going to fine you, because there really isn't a fine, he says, although there is.
These guys don't know what's in their own bill.
But he says the way they're going to get you, if you don't buy health insurance, is to withhold your refund.
They're going to withhold a portion of your refund that they are owed as your fine if you don't pay up, if you don't buy insurance.
That's what they claim they're going to do because they're not going to go door to door demanding money.
They claim that they're just going to withhold whatever your refund is or a portion of it, whatever they need to pay the fine.
Now, that's what I was going to say.
Now, the way you counteract this, folks, is to not have a refund.
Now, I know a lot of you love having refunds because it's the one time of your life that you have of the year that you have that big a chunk of change in one pile.
So you can go out and pay off debt with it or buy whatever you want, muffler.
But it's really a lousy use of your money.
You're letting the government use your money interest-free all year and you're not getting, I mean, if you had that money yourself and were investing it, it'd be a lot more valuable than what you're getting in a refund.
Now, I, I always try to end up owing a smidgen.
I don't want them using any of my money during the week.
As I told you, my battle plan is my last check bounces and it's written to the IRS.
Now, I got no animus against the IRS.
Don't misunderstand.
They're just the collection agency.
But the bottom line here is, is that if you adjust your withholding so that when you file your taxes, you don't get a refund, then you don't owe anything.
And that way, they can't abscond any of your refund to pay your fine.
You're still going to want to pay the fine.
We're going to be urging people to pay the fine here rather than buy insurance.
The fine's going to be cheaper.
And especially since you're going to be able to buy insurance the day you get sick or the day you have the accident, according to Obamacare.
So here's the point, though.
Kathleen Sebelius is worried about fraud.
Already there are hucksters out there selling bogus insurance policies to the poor, unsuspecting who think they have a narrow window to comply with the new law.
Back to Greta Van Susteren.
She asks Harry Reid, what about all the people that are going to scam the system?
Most people aren't going to be out looking for ways to scam the system.
You don't think so?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think so.
I think that most people are going to comply with what the rules are.
The rules are that people should have insurance.
And I think people are not willing to do that gamble.
I wish people were as decent as that.
And, you know, and I don't mean to be a cynic, but I can even point to members of the Congress and the Senate are sort of gaming this system.
You've got people in this country who are here not legally.
You've got people cheating on their income taxes.
I'd like to think that everyone is so noble as you say, although I'm a little bit suspicious.
Dingy Harry, oh, no, no, nobody's going to scam the system.
They already are.
Now, the IRS, you know, to people that live in blue cities, their refund check, I mean, a common term for it is Christmas in July, Christmas in the summertime.
And if they don't get it, you ever heard the term long, hot summer?
So the IRS people had, if they start tampering with people's refunds, because they are important to people.
I mean, people plan all year.
People think they are shaving the government when they get a big refund.
They really think they're sticking it to the government, which of course is not true.
But I understand the lure.
You know, wanting a relatively big pile of cash to go spend or save or invest or what have you.
Anyway, quick time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
More of your phone calls coming right up.
So Harry Reid says that there's no fraud out there.
From the Houston Chronicle, today, the former co-owner of a Houston durable medical equipment company has been convicted of bilking Medicaid of nearly $1 million in a scheme involving adult diapers.
The kind of stuff that Patrick Leahy, Senator Depends, wears.
Fred Jesse Cole Jr., 44, pleaded guilty to 14 counts of health care fraud.
Don't tell Dingy Harry about this.
Connected to a scam to file fraudulent claims for incontinence supplies, such as diapers and briefs, according to federal authorities.
From January 18th of this year, from Reuters, unfazed, some $260 billion is lost globally every year to fraud and error in healthcare, enough to quadruple the World Health Organization and UNICEF's budget and control malaria in Africa.
$260 billion, and that's all they found.
There's undoubtedly more.
And this from CNN, October 22nd of last year, experienced in running drug, prostitution, and gambling rings, organized crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it's safer and more profitable to file fraudulent claims with federal Medicare program and state-run Medicaid plans.
So the mob, the mob is involved.
There's fraud and abuse all over.
Remember, Dingy Harry said, no, no, there won't be any of that.
People aren't going to scam the system.
Remember, Obama said, you know, Republicans have a good idea at the healthcare summit.
We ought to incorporate that in our plan, eliminating fraud and abuse.
As though, if we don't incorporate the Republican plan to eliminate fraud and abuse, we're not going to have it in the plan.
They're going to be sponsoring fraud and abuse.
Back to the phones to Huntsville, Alabama.
Debbie, welcome to the EIB Network.
Welcome.
Welcome to you.
I'm loving having you here.
Thank you very much.
I'm able to listen to you, Dittos.
I've been listening to you since Gulf War I. My wonderful husband turned me on to you all that time ago.
Thank you very much.
And I'm originally from Illinois, so I know all about the Illinois machine.
I worked in healthcare management for years and years.
Now I'm very fortunate to be a college professor teaching healthcare management and international business.
Wow.
And I'll get wound up real quick here, but this is going to be our finest hour because it's the wonderful teaching opportunity that you have illustrated us how to do by teaching absurdity.
There's thousands and thousands of examples.
You look at the education system, they're not teaching critical thinking.
Nope.
But that doesn't mean they can't learn it.
So you use examples to be able to show them.
And I'll give you one.
I'm five years younger than you.
When we were growing up, there was a Vietnam War.
They were throwing feces at people coming back, right?
My dad marched through the Hertzkin Forest in World War II.
People come up to him and shake his hand now and buy him meals because they've learned.
They learn from what we did so badly before to doing what we should be doing now.
And there's lots and lots of these examples.
You can sit down every day and say, okay, look at bureaucracy, which is what you keep illustrating so very well in all these articles.
Draw a picture.
Here's the dollars here.
Here's the dollars here.
Or I can hand it directly to you.
Well, the theory of the young bloggers is that, hey, if there's a gravy train, let's get on it.
If it's easier to get on a gravy train than forge away for ourselves with 10% unemployment and growing.
I mean, if that's the way of the future, let's get on board now.
Let's just get on the entitlement bandwagon because it's going to be tougher and tougher to provide for ourselves.
But that's just insulting.
It's insulting to people who think they have to be dependent.
And that's the mindset that they're being given, the culture that they're being given.
Exactly.
And they can learn to step beyond that.
I sit and I stand and talk in front of all these young folks and not so young folks who are coming back to colleges now and understanding the value of being able to learn these things.
And I'm not saying you have to have a college degree, but opening your eyes to critical thinking, it's very invigorating.
And you don't have to be able to do that.
That is absolutely right.
One of the things that is most fun for me is to run across somebody like you've just described who has been maleducated, propagandized or whatever.
And when you give them a legitimate truth about something and show them the pathway of thought to get there, they are invigorated.
They are enthused and they want more of it because at some point they realize that they have been ill-served in their own education.
And a lot of it is walking away from labels.
You know, we all know as conservatives that we care if somebody is able to eat.
Liberals just feel it.
Well, we've got to give them a fish.
Right.
Well, conservatives say, you know what?
We know how to teach you to fish for yourself.
And that's the difference between them.
Liberals stop with the feeling because they have no critical thinking or they don't want to admit it.
But teaching international business, the examples are amazing.
I mean, look at Rwanda and Kagame.
He came in there after, you know, they had a genocide, and he's trying to build a middle class.
Well, we're not.
We're trying to destroy it.
We're trying to create a permanent underclass.
And then you look at Zimbabwe, and it's corruption.
Well, I know, but this is what people are afraid of.
For example, you know, you say that I'm just going to play devil's advocate with you here, but I could argue that all of these people who want to get on the gravy train because they see that's where the country's headed are probably already dependent, no matter what they do, because of Obama, they're already so in debt to the government with all of this spending that they may not be able to get out from under it.
What would you say to that?
I think that anything can happen with this country.
That's the exceptionalism of it.
We can turn it around.
Look at what even just JFK cutting taxes and Ronald Reagan cutting taxes.
And what I think is the double-edged sword of this country is the fact that we have people who have to go and give their lives to protect our freedom, and yet we can raise generations who don't understand the value of the wealth and the freedom that they're given.
Right.
So we have to turn around and do it again.
Unless Oprah or Snoop Dogg cut taxes, a whole generation of people is not even going to know what it means.
But their parents do.
I mean, I know what my dad did.
I lived through Jimmy Carter.
You know, I managed a restaurant when everybody that working for me had a college degree and I was in high school.
I mean, I remember I knew what was coming.
When you educate people who don't know Jimmy Carter because they're not old enough, do you tell them, ha ha, this is it on steroids?
Absolutely.
I talk about a loaf of bread, a gallon of gas, double-digit inflation.
You know, I go, do you know what stagflation is?
And we sit and look at these things and then you can trend.
But I don't have to stand up and say, listen, I'm a conservative and I'm going to tell you.
I just give them example after example and let them contrast and compare for themselves.
Yeah, you did say that.
Take the label out of it so that you avoid the stigma.
I understand that.
Let me ask you a quick question before we have to go here.
You said you're from Illinois.
Originally, yes.
And that you understand the machine.
Absolutely.
Did you happen to know Michelle Obama when she worked in health care management in Chicago at that hospital?
Well, I knew that she put forth a big program that she was going to help make health care more readily available for people in lower income areas.
Yeah, but she didn't.
Well, no, it had no teeth.
It had no substance.
It had no reality.
It was, here's my program.
This is what I'm going to do to make me look wonderful.
And then she left and it died.
Well, it was worse than that.
Her hospital actually was turning away.
We've done the stories on this program.
Her hospital was turning away the poor to send them to other hospitals to keep their profits up.
But see, the exact problem with it is, and people just have to keep remembering, is the folks that are getting squeezed here are the providers, the doctors and the hospitals.
And it goes right back to what you were just talking about before.
If you, it's just like gun owners.
Legal gun owners have to register their guns so everybody knows where they are.
And if you want to obey the law, you have to do that.
Well, providers bend over backwards to meet these regulations and forwards.
Medicare looks at them as guilty until proven innocent.
While all these crooks who don't really care if they get caught or not, or at least they'll be able to get out of it and they wouldn't have their life ruined.
Well, I know exactly.
So when you talk like this, people are genuinely asking, How can this woman be optimistic?
President Obama in the broadcast booth yesterday, being asked to name his favorite players on the Chicago White Sox.
You know, I thought that you know the truth is that a lot of the Cubs I like too, but I did not become a Sox fan until I moved to Chicago because I you know, I was growing up in Hawaii, and so I ended up actually being an Oakland A's fan.
But when I moved to Chicago, I was living close to what was then Kaminsky Park and went to a couple games and just fell in love.
And the nice thing about the Sox is it's real blue-collar baseball.
The hell is blue-collar baseball?
Somebody tell me what I mean.
If there's a blue-collar team in that town, it's the Chicago Bears of the National Football League.
If this guy was an Oakland A's fan, why is it because Oakland is closer to Hawaii and somehow they got Oakland A's games on the radio in Hawaii?
And if he's an if he's an A's fan, why couldn't he?
At the time he was growing up, the time he was a teenager, I mean, the A's, you know, a blue collar, Raleigh Fingers, Sal Bando, these clowns, Gene, Gene Tanachi, tennis.
These guys were winning three World Series in a row, and he couldn't name one of them either.
Bottom line is, this guy doesn't know a thing about baseball.
Bottom line, whether he's mispronouncing Kaminsky Park on purpose or not, he doesn't know a thing about baseball.
It doesn't matter to him.
He may have been to a couple of games, and he doesn't know diddly squad.
It's not, it wasn't part of his experience growing up.
Now, we always back up things we say.
I was just talking to our caller in Alabama, and I asked her if she knew Michelle Obama when Michelle's hospital was turning away the poor.
And of course, I know that people out there, you just can't make stuff up like I didn't make it up.
We reported it back on the healthcare summit day, but it's actually from August 23rd of 2008 in no less than the Chicago Sun-Times.
Senator Obama's wife and three close advisors have been involved in a program at the University of Chicago Medical Center that steers patients who don't have private insurance, primarily poor black people, to other health care facilities.
Michelle Obama, currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000 a year no-show job as vice president, helped create the program, which aims to find neighborhood doctors for low-income people who were flooding the emergency room for basic treatment.
Hospital officials say that such patients hinder their ability to focus on more critically ill patients in need of specialized care like cancer treatment and organ transplant.
Really?
Cancer treatment, organ transplants in the emergency room?
What the hell is that?
Who gets treated for organ transplants in the emergency room?
And anyway, it's her program: turn away poor people, turn away black people to other hospitals so her own hospital will keep her profit margin up.
Keep a sharp eye, by the way.
We're talking about education here with our last caller.
And, you know, Obama talks about education a lot.
And it's very well worth your while to remember what he taught when he was a lecturer.
He was not a professor.
He was not an adjunct.
He was a lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
He taught, if you look at a picture of him writing on the blackboard, you see him teaching rules for radicals.
You'd see him teaching Alinsky.
That's what's on the blackboard.
He essentially, Obama taught rights and race and gender law.
That's what he taught.
So when you hear him talk about education, that's it.
Also, talking about the young people.
Honest to God, Fox News.
After years of waiting, Apple has finally released the iPad.
To celebrate, a group of teenagers broke out a baseball bat and destroyed one, videotaped it, and put it on YouTube.
The three teenagers purchased the iPad at a Best Buy in Pittsburgh before proceeding to destroy it on the sidewalk outside the store.
They recorded the destruction of their newly purchased gadget.
They posted the video to YouTube, and it's gone viral.
Since April 3rd, it's attracted almost 300,000 views.
So this is the notice me culture: the stupid quest for fame.
Back to the phones.
Bill in Smithfield, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here, sir.
A pleasure to talk with you, sir.
How are you today?
Very well.
Thank you.
Well, I wanted to call in and let you guys know that from where I sit, with respect to whether it's over or not with the future of our country, I'm convinced completely that it is not.
However, being a 24-year-old college graduate who can vouch that where things are now, it's damn hard to find decent work.
I actually live in Charleston, South Carolina, up in Virginia visiting family.
You know what I saw today?
There's a report speaking of that from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that says there are 5.7 people for every job opening in the country.
Well, it certainly looks that way from what I've seen.
But with respect to your question from yesterday, I think that we certainly are in hot water, to put it one way.
But for what it's worth to the listeners out there who are not necessarily in touch with or don't have any sort of finger on the pulse of the younger mid-20s age range, I can say that there is a consistent move, at least here and there in my own circle of friends and throughout the people that I know and interact with, away from supporting the policies of the sitting administration.
That the health care bill is one that is not at all popular with even some of my liberal friends who question how this thing can possibly work without the money behind it to support it.
But the largest issue I think that face that is facing my age range is lack of an articulate motivational figure in the grand political scheme of the United States.
Out there for the mid-20s age range folks, we don't have someone that articulates a message of concise conservatism, certainly not in a way that you do.
And what's wrong with me?
Well, I think that the trouble is that with a lot of conservative, particularly talk radio figures or Fox News figures, that people in my age range are inculcated from what they see in the mainstream media to view people like yourself, other talk radio hosts, as being very radical and detrimental to their actual education in American politics, which, of course, I would stringently disagree with.
That said, there's a lot of work to be done to overcome that.
Oftentimes, if I, let's say, am sitting around at my house doing whatever I may be doing and have your program on the radio, it'll result in arched eyebrows from whoever might be coming in, although less and less so as they actually hear what you have to say.
But I, you know, am an intense advocate of what it is to be an American, of what I believe our founding fathers intended.
Okay, so what you're basically saying is that people your age are hungering for a credible leader, preferably close to their age, in whom they could place their confidence.
I believe that if there was someone who could embody conservative principles in such a way as to illuminate them beyond the sort of silliness of mainstream media argument and point out, this is what makes sense.
This is what it's about to be in American.
Your individual responsibilities are this.
You are promised an opportunity for success.
There is no guarantee anywhere in any document in this country or any point in our history, there is no guarantee that you will have success.
You must work for it.
I'm not doing great in terms of my financial state.
And as I said, the employment situation is not wonderful.
But I'm not going to sit here and blame someone else for that situation other than the policies that I feel have inflamed them.
Yeah, blame the regime.
I'm not going to give up and wait for somebody to hand me something.
And I don't think that there are a lot of people outside of those who already buy into that mentality that want to do that either.
And I believe, as you said, that there are definitely many among my age range that hunger for someone to get out there and tell them, you know what, you can do this.
You don't have to wait for someone to do it for you.
And that's an important message that is not being espoused.
You know, about your 24-year-old buddies, I'll tell you a little short story.
Not long ago, I was in Las Vegas, was out there with some friends, went out and had dinner in one of the restaurants, and then took the great career risk of venturing into the casino.
And I went to the craps table with a friend, and at the craps table, people left me alone.
And I had a good role as a shooter.
People made a lot of money off my role.
When my friend and I left the table, I literally was swarmed by college kids, most of them from the University of Miami.
They wanted to talk about nothing but politics.
They were into it.
And these kids were, I think, about 24, maybe a little few years younger.
So depending on where you happen to go geographically, this program does reach those people.
And if we could be made to reach even more of them, then we could dispel all of this BS of the radical nature of this product.
Who's radical?
This country is the regime.
I mean, this country's as mainstream as anywhere you can get.
Did we lose you?
Did I hear a disconnect?
No, no, I'm here.
Probably just a little bit of wetness.
Oh, okay.
You're on a cell phone hearing some noises.
But why don't you become the articulate spokesman?
You're out of work or looking for work.
You're plenty articulate.
You're very persuasive.
You already know people your age.
You know what it all means.
Why don't you become the youth leader?
Have you ever thought about that?
You know, I said, Pete, I've advised people, become the go-to guy in your group that's got all the answers.
You could be it.
Well, for what it's worth, I think that at least in a very small group of people, that's certainly what they would evaluate me as being.
But it's something I would like to try and extend in my own life and do better and more of because at the risk of sounding immodest, you are not the only person who has ever told me that I am articulate, but thank you very much.
It doesn't mean a lot.
Yeah, I think that that's...
You just get a...
Joe Biden never tells you.
Okay.
Right, right.
Look at CPAC.
Look at all the college kids who were in attendance at CPAC.
Well, I'm not saying there aren't young people out there.
Don't get me wrong.
One of the things that I, at the Newport News Tea Party last April, I had a wonderful opportunity being plucked out of the crowd essentially at random.
The fellow that was standing up there speaking said, hey, do you have anything to say?
And I got up there and essentially started out by addressing a crowd that had very few young people in it and letting them know that not all of us went for Obama, regardless of what CNN will tell you about young people wave of Obama support.
And I think it's important for other young people to know because oftentimes we're made very much, I think, to feel like we are in some kind of minority or that we're wrong or in some way fighting our generation or fighting the ideology that should be prevalent in our age range by saying we don't agree.
Well, I think you could be the guy.
You could get yourself in a situation where people would pay to have you come in and give a speech.
And you could earn a little money at the same time.
And who knows where that would lead?
But you ought to think seriously about that.
You sound very capable of qualified to me.
I'd be honored to hear you speak about some of your kid friends.
Not kid friends, younger friends.
Anyway, Bill, I'm glad you called.
I appreciate it.
We got to take a quick time out here, folks.
Be back.
I didn't really mean kid friends.
I just'm running over time here.
I'm looking for one-syllable words here to get to the break, Snerdley.
All right.
I have been waiting for this to happen.
By the way, according to the new insurance law, they are kids at age 24, Snerdley.
Okay, somebody in the state of Washington has an AP news alert.
Somebody has been formally charged with threatening to kill Senator Patty Murray over her vote for the health care bill.
Now, I am convinced that this is the thing Obama has been waiting for.
I think that they've been trying to bait Tea Party people into one extreme act so as to further besmirch and impugn the integrity of Obama's opponents and so forth, and perhaps so the regime can take even more drastic action.
And I've just, you know, I don't know how many people get death threats.
Have somebody now be charged with it?
We're crying out loud.
Are people writing books about how to assassinate George W. Bush in his second term?
Harrisburg, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has opened a census help office at City Hall.
Mayor Linda Thompson said that it's important to get the right information because she's already been the victim of a census scam.
We warned you about this.
There are people out there already, they're pretending to be census takers.
And the mayor of Harrisburg said that she received and filled out a census form a few weeks ago.
She didn't realize it was fake until her legitimate census form arrived last week.
I was just eager to be a leader in the city that fills it out.
I didn't think the census had said they don't ask for social security numbers, and they even asked for my address and where I worked and my job title.
So there you have it: buyer beware.
Now, the 2010 census form is just 10 questions.
Now, the supplemental thing is a different thing entirely.
And the questions are name, sex, age, date of race, date of birth, race, household relationship, and if you own or rent.
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City Controller, Los Angeles.
Wendy Gruel declares an urgent financial crisis, says the only way to continue paying bills in LA in the short term is to begin draining the city's already limited emergency reserve.
City of Los Angeles, out of cash.
No way to pay bills.
They cannot print money.
The EPA wants to dump more corn into your fuel tank this summer.
This actually, this is amazing.
We all know the problems with ethanol.
Obama's EPA issued these final rules, forcing automakers to increase fuel economy by 40% in five years.
By the same date, the new 35.5 mile per gallon EPA mandate is due to go into effect.
Oil companies are also mandated by Congress to double the amount of corn ethanol from 2007 levels to 15 billion gallons, despite the fact that everybody knows a gallon of ethanol gasoline is less efficient than a gallon of standard gasoline.
Big corn wins again with the EPA.
Back after this.
And just a reminder here, individuals who do not purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds.
According to the regime's IRS commissioner, after acknowledging the recently passed health care bill limits the agency's options for enforcing mandates, the commissioner told reporters the most likely way to penalize individuals that don't comply by buying insurance is by reducing or confiscating their tax returns.
Have a wonderful Tuesday, folks, and we'll be back here tomorrow.
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