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April 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 23, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to come and study here.
And little old ladies from Indiana, concerned about levels of federal spending, get six months in an al-Qaeda training camp in Raziristan.
Everything's included, complimentary goat from room service and free use of the executive latrine at the back of the cave.
By the way, Rush has a great column in today's Wall Street Journal about Bill Clinton returning to the scene of his outrageous opportunism from 15 years ago and in effect demonizing half the American people as terrorists, just itching to blowers.
Timothy McVeigh's in waiting.
We'll get to that column a bit later.
So even though Rush is off today, we will get to his Wall Street Journal column.
It'll be just like having Rush here.
His words, but read in a sinister foreign accent, like that bit in Iron Man where the terrorists in the cave said Islamic terrorist type things, but for some mysterious Hollywood type reason, they were really Bulgarians or whatever.
So we'll get to Rush's column a bit later.
We're coming to you live today from WNTK, New London, New Hampshire, home of Central New Hampshire's leading mini roundabout.
WNTK was one of the very first Rush affiliates way back when, 20 years ago, and we're very happy to be here.
Normally, when I guest host for Rush, I fly out of Burlington, Vermont, and do the show from Rush's studios in New York.
But as you know, when Vermont airspace is closed due to excess levels of bovine flatulence, instead I drive down to WNTK and do the show from here.
But in fact, the bovine flatulence levels are safe today.
It's very manageable out there.
But the giant Holstein cloud of bovine flatulence has drifted out over the Atlantic and merged with the volcanic ash from Iceland and shut down European airspace for another week.
So it's not the bovine flatulence that meant we couldn't fly out from Burlington, Vermont today.
Apparently they got carried away during the Earth Day celebrations.
You know the way every politician likes to plant a tree for Earth Day.
And unfortunately, Vermont is already 93% forested, so they're nowhere left to plant any trees except the landing strip at Burlington Airport.
So now it's 94% forested.
Well, it's great to be here for three hours of substitute host-level excellence in broadcasting.
And being as how, it's the end of the week.
That means...
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, 1-800-282-2882, as Rush always says.
Monday to Thursday, the show is under the control of a highly trained broadcast specialist.
But there's no highly trained broadcast specialist here today.
There's only me, and what do I know?
So anything you want to talk about, go for it.
1-800-282-2882.
Usually when I'm guest hosting for Rush, I talk about Uyghurs, the Muslims from China that Obama sprung from Camp Gitmo and relocated to a beach in Bermuda.
And for some reason, I got into a Uyghur groove, and people keep sending me Uyghur updates now.
And I'm now like the go-to guy for all your 24-7 Uyghur news needs.
And then when I was here a couple of weeks ago, you might remember, I got talking about moobs.
You know, man-boobs.
And with the best will in the world, I can't honestly say that moobs or Uyghurs are really the pressing geopolitical issues at the moment.
So call up.
We'll talk about whatever you want to talk about, except Uyghurs or moobs.
Unless, of course, you've got some interesting news about Uyghurs with moobs, in which case, our call screeners will move you to the front of the queue.
Other than that, give it your best shot.
Rush's repost to Clinton in the Wall Street Journal.
Obamacare, it's the dawn of month number two, and it's getting more expensive by the day.
Financial regulation, we'll talk about that.
Iranian nukes, the new gay character in Archie Comics.
Did you see this?
They've introduced that on the front of I think it's the latest edition of Veronica, which is one of the Archie Comics.
Veronica is trying her womanly wiles on a new boy at Riverdale High called Kevin.
And Kevin is extremely resistant to Veronica.
And this turns out to be because he is the first openly gay character at Riverdale High in Archie Comics.
So this is a landmark development there.
Of course, in the Democratic Party, they're way more advanced than Archie Comics.
They've reached the next stage of sexual identity politics.
This is from the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Veteran Representative Babette Josephs, Democrat Philadelphia, last Thursday accused her primary opponent, Greg Kravitz, of pretending to be bisexual in order to pander to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender voters, a powerful voting bloc in the district.
I outed him as a straight person, Representative Joseph said during a fundraiser at the Black Sheep Pub and Restaurant, as some in the audience gasped.
But Greg Kravitz, this challenger, who may or may not be bisexual, and we only have Representative Joseph's word for it that he's just pretending to be bisexual.
He's furious at having been outed as a closet heterosexual.
And Kravitz, 29, insists that he is, quote, sexually attracted to both men and women and called Babette Joseph's comments offensive.
Of course it is.
It's grossly offensive to imply that this man is heterosexual.
Mark Siegel, publisher of the Philadelphia Gay News, said, We've hit a new high point when candidates are accused of pretending to be gay in order to win a seat.
So this is what it's come to.
Now, don't take when candidates are trying to pander to you by insisting that they're gay or bisexual or transsexual or whatever, don't take their word for it.
Because I think this could be a huge issue in the Democratic Party.
We've got all these fake fake bisexuals, fake gays, fake transsexuals who may, as far as we may, for all we know, secretly be deeply closeted heterosexuals.
I wouldn't be surprised if Barney Frank hasn't just been putting it on for the last 20 years.
You know, we don't know.
So this is a new trend.
Just as Archie Comics introduces an openly gay character, it turns out that the Democratic Party has a secretly non-gay character.
There may be a few more of those lurking around in the party.
HR has just made the most.
He has just asserted that Veronica is actually Vern.
So your point, HR, is that Veronica is a transgendered, is secretly a transgendered male.
A male to me, I don't know.
I don't know.
Jughead.
I think Jughead.
If anyone was going to be transgendered in the Archie Comics, I think it would be Jughead.
Anyway, 1-800-282-2882, the searing gay issues in both the Democratic Party and in Archie Comics.
Happy post-Earth Day, post-Earth Day.
Yesterday was Earth Day.
It also was Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
Is that normally the same day?
I don't remember that in previous years.
I always thought Earth Day was, you know, take your tree to work day.
But apparently, Nancy Pelosi was taking questions from daughters of journalists yesterday.
Actually, they asked rather better questions than the journalists.
Her answers, though, were even worse than usual, but you kind of have everything.
So yesterday was Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
Unless, of course, you're in Waziristan, where it's take your child bride to work day.
They don't have Take Your Daughter to Work Day.
Well, you can take your daughter to work day, but they generally have to then make her a victim of an honor killing.
So yesterday was Take Your Daughter to Work Day, which I guess makes today suddenly remember you left your daughter at Work Day.
But it was also Earth Day, and Mrs. Obama said the girls, and the Obamas seem to be taking their daughters to work, Mrs. Obama said the girls' pressing priority is their very concern about saving the tiger.
And that she and President Obama talk with them about saving the tigers once a week.
I don't know why.
How many tigers can they have at the White House?
I didn't know about this.
It's all new to me.
I was here, now I come to think about it, the day after Earth Day last year.
I don't know why Rush always takes the day after Earth Day off.
I don't know whether he's all tuckered out after spending the afternoon planting trees.
But he will be back.
He will be back Monday.
And in the meantime, Rush never rests.
He does have this piece we're going to be talking about later in the show about Bill Clinton and liberals playing the violence card that he's written in the Wall Street Journal.
So take a look at that.
And if you've got a copy of the journal line around, we're going to be discussing that a bit later.
Earth Day, President Obama and Vice President Biden flew on separate jets, by the way, from Washington to New York to help plant trees.
And say what you like, but when you're looking for fellows who know how to dig a huge hole, Obama and Biden are the guys you need.
Maybe with like Harry Reid, Barney Frank and the rest of the crew with them.
As I said, I live in a township in New Hampshire that's 90% forested.
But you can never have too many trees.
It's like that bumper sticker you see in Vermont all the time.
More trees, less bush.
So on Earth Day, I always like to plant some trees, get the tree cover in my town up to maybe 97, 98%.
So I'm out all day in the yard planting trees.
But then, you know, it's the morning after the holiday's over, and it's time to take down the trees.
Big pain in the neck, having to take down the trees the day after Earth Day.
And so yesterday, I just instead, for the first time, just planted artificial trees with the nice silvery tinsely branches.
And then, you know, like Ron Paul's artificial Christmas tree and his campaign Christmas message two years ago, you can just take them down and put them in the attic till next year's Earth Day.
Anyway, in honor of Post-Earth Day, I'm going to be recycling all my post-Earth Day jokes from last year's show in the course of the show.
So we'll talk about Earth Day, the waning politics of environmental fear-mongering.
They're really playing to diminishing returns these days.
Did you celebrate Earth Day?
And if so, what for?
Did your school insist that the children participate in Earth Day?
And if so, what for?
We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about financial regulation.
These regulators are really, they're watching out for you.
They're watching out for you, the little guy.
They're particularly watching out for you, the little guy, if you happen to have a side career going as a hardcore porn movie actor, because there's a story in the papers today that says the SEC regulators are spending most of their time sitting around watching hardcore porn movies all day.
And say what you like, actually, but if you're a regulator, you don't want to take your, you know, you need a break from work.
And clearly, you know, what's going on in those porn movies is pretty darn unregulated by the standards of these things.
So you can understand why they need to take a break from their hardcore regulation of you and relax with a nice porn movie during business hours.
So we'll talk about that.
And anything else you want to talk about?
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you.
Rush will be back on Monday.
Breaking news, breaking news.
Millions face tax increases under DEMS budget.
President Barack Obama's Democrat allies in the Senate, who promised to cut the deficit by almost two-thirds.
They're now saying not just an average for 30 million people paying an average $3,700, but just on healthcare alone, Obamacare is going to cost more than advertised.
A new report by the Economists at Health and Human Services figures out that the increase will be a third increase in healthcare spending is going to be a third of a trillion dollars.
Now, think about this.
We were told that the reason that America had to get with the program and move in the same direction as the rest of the Western world with the governmentalization of healthcare is that America, if you just leave it to 300 million Americans to make 300 million individual decisions consistent with principles of individual liberty, they're spending too much.
And so to control costs, we have to governmentalize the whole thing.
It now turns out there's going to be at least, and this is from the Health and Human Services guys, there's going to be at least an extra third of a trillion dollars more in the amount of money that Americans spend on healthcare.
And they're going to have to get that from someone.
And I wonder if you've got any idea who they're going to get it from.
Yeah, I think they might be getting it from you, if you're still one of the people foolish enough to be working in the private sector in the United States.
But there are interesting developments in healthcare.
According to a study carried out by doctor and researcher Anne Vries at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, fat people have a different gut flora than thin people.
And you can use thin people's poop, insert it into fat people, and help them lose weight.
In one trial of a poop transplant, a woman was cured from an intestinal disease by having her son's healthy fecal matter injected into her own intestines.
I don't understand.
From this story, they explain rather graphically that to insert this fecal matter, they use your nose.
I don't know why they put it in through the nose.
It seems like a long way to go.
But they insert a tube into your nose and shove it down to your intestines.
And apparently, this is a terrific way.
This is a terrific way of controlling weight problems, is to insert other people's fecal matter down your nose.
Don't try this at home, by the way.
I know you may be thinking, oh, I don't have much planned this weekend.
I might maybe try that on Saturday night.
Don't try this at home.
You need a highly trained medical specialist.
By the way, my prediction is that after Obamacare has been operating for about five or six years, this will be the only procedure you'll be able to get.
You won't be able to get your hernia fixed.
You won't be able to get a hip replacement surgery, but you will be able to have other people's fecal matter inserted down your nose.
It'll be the cure for everything.
You'll go to the doctor and you'll say, doctor, doctor, I feel terrible.
I fell off the roof this morning and I think I've broken my leg.
And he'll say, just take two quarts of fecal matter and call me in the morning.
And that will be the one procedure you'll be left with under Obamacare.
So that's an interesting medical new development out of Amsterdam.
And I'm sure, you know, that could control costs because eventually, eventually they won't need hospitals.
You'll just be able, people will, it'll be like drive-through.
It'll be like going to Dunkin' Donuts or Burger King.
You'll just be able to go in the drive-through lane, they'll pump the stuff up your nose, and you can swipe your credit card or bill it to Obamacare and your next-door neighbors and be out of there.
So we'll talk about new developments on the unaffordability of healthcare to come and anything else you want to talk about: 1-800-282-2882.
We're supposedly in the era now of financial reform.
And Conservatives have to get real about this.
Conservatives have done a brilliant job in the last year of reminding the American people that this is a country that does not instinctively look to government and to bigger government and to government fixing more and more of the problems in your life.
And when you look at, for example, the new Pew poll, it shows very clearly that Americans, in fact, want the government and the federal government in particular to do less with less money and to just get out of the way, to just get out of the way.
We could do just fine if you guys would just keep out of the way, stop micro-regulating us, and get your hands out of our pockets.
But the one exception to this is that the cheap demonization of Wall Street continues.
And people are still very thinking, oh, the government needs to regulate Wall Street more, needs to regulate Wall Street more.
No, the reason why the United States got into half these problems is because of an over-regulated financial sector that, in effect, incentivized the behavior of some of these Wall Street, so-called Wall Street fat cats.
But Obama understands that demonization works.
He keeps calling this reform now.
It's his new term for it.
He calls it Wall Street reform.
You get that?
You know, sometimes he's demonizing health insurers.
Sometimes the Democrats are out there demonizing people at parties.
He understands very carefully at the Tea Parties.
He understands very carefully and very cleverly what words resonate.
So he's now stopped calling this financial reform because that sounds as if the government might be interfering with your right to make money and your right to invest your money.
And he started calling it Wall Street reform because that demonizes the so-called Wall Street.
He's in fact demonizing a zip code.
This is what the President of the United States has been reduced to in his peculiarly petty and petulant way.
He's demonizing a zip code, Wall Street reform.
We're going to talk about that because at some point, at some point, conservatives have to make the case that the American financial sector is regulated, is already over-regulated.
And what we're going to be doing if we regulate it further is going to be great news for Hong Kong, it's going to be great news for Singapore, it's going to be great news for the stock market in Frankfurt, but it is going to make it much harder for companies to access any equity in the United States.
We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
Great to be with you.
Rush returns Monday.
This was the story I mentioned earlier.
SEC and pornography.
On a day when, this is from ABC News, on a day when President Obama argued for more government regulation over the financial industry, a new government report reveals that some high-level government regulators have spent more time looking at porn than policing Wall Street.
This is why we need more regulation because the regulators we've got are just sitting around watching pornography all day long.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is supposed to be the sheriff of the financial industry looking for financial crimes like Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
But of course, that's like, I mean, let's be honest, that's like rather boring, isn't it?
It's like lots of numbers.
It's all kind of highly complicated and technical.
Wouldn't you rather be looking at, you know, Debbie does Wall Street or something for a couple of hours?
That's a much better way to pass the time.
One senior attorney, one senior attorney at SEC headquarters in Washington spent up to eight hours a day accessing internet porn.
When he filled all the space on his government computer with pornographic images, right, he's got a government computer.
You know, when you've got it, when you want to store internet porn, you've got to do it on your own dime.
You've got to do it on your computer.
He's got a government computer, but he completely filled it up with pornographic images.
So then he downloaded more to CDs and DVDs that accumulated in boxes in his offices.
This is why we need to build a brand new purpose-built SEC center in Washington, because they don't have enough room in the existing building to store all their pornography.
An SEC accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a two-week period and had 600 pornographic images on her computer hard drive.
This is the only good news, by the way, that the micro-regulatory state regulating every aspect of your life will be so boring that rather than ruining your life, the regulators will just while away the happy hours at your expense watching hardcore pornography all day.
Because it's the one largely unregulated industry left in the United States.
Although, I think it was last month, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board voted to set up a committee to examine whether condoms should be required on all pornographic film shoots in California, because they say they want to submit the porn movie industry to the same standards of hygiene as hospitals and medical clinics are required to meet.
And actually, oddly enough, if you've ever been in a National Health Service hospital in, say, Scotland, it does approximate in hygienic terms to one of the rather rougher pornographic hardcore shoots in Thailand.
In my experience, and it's a long time since I've been on a pornographic movie set.
Let's go to Brad in Marble Falls, Texas.
Brad, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, hi, Mark.
I have another reason here why heterosexual men might claim to be homosexual.
Right.
I have in front of me the last page of an application to do work for Fannie Mae.
And on section one, it talks about being an HERA qualified vendor, and that stands for Housing and the Economic Recovery Act of 2008.
Right.
Right.
Business has to be over 50% owned by African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, Native American women.
Right.
Could just say no white males.
I don't know why.
They say it the long way.
But then in section two, and I'm reading verbatim here, Fannie Mae also considers other categories of diversity and eligibility criteria.
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans and gender-owned businesses.
Right.
So the mess, yeah.
So the message here is clear, Brad.
You do not want to be in the embarrassing position of being unable to check any of those sexual diversity boxes.
Yes, sir.
Well, you've got to go for it.
Had this because one of the things for us sinister foreigners is like we've, you know, the rest of the world uh, has been going down this path well ahead of America.
So we we're kind of old hands at this.
I my pad in London years ago.
I got a form from the local council.
It was a kind of mini local census thing and it wanted to know whether I was a gay B lesbian C bisexual D transsexual E, heterosexual and heterosexual coming at the bottom of the list pretty much let you know what their priorities were.
So naturally, I just checked transsexual, just on the off chance that there might be some kind of special government grant or program in there that I could access down the line.
My advice to you always Brad, in Marble Falls, as anywhere else in this great Republic, is always check the transgendered box, because that way you can access them more opportunities.
And that's certainly true when you're filling in a form from Fannie MAE.
Right really HR, they fix up your dates for you HR as well.
Is that right?
That's great, that's terrific, Brad.
In Barble Falls, Texas.
By the way Brad, what?
What box did you check on that?
Oh, is Brad gone?
Yeah no, I just, I just couldn't check.
But but you know, to me it's a foreshadowing of what some people want in this country.
They want the government to to control an ever increasing percent of the employment right and then and then once I mean Fannie MAE is a huge, huge agency.
You know, right now, residential real estate you've got the distressed part of the market is what's booming, and you know I'm a building contractor.
All these houses need painting and carpeting and things.
Yeah but but, but.
But Brad, you're never gonna be able to paint a house or shingle a roof if you're a heterosexual white male.
Who the hell has ever heard of that?
I don't think I don't.
I don't know what it's like in Texas, but I'll tell you something, in this part of northern New England it's entirely normal to see entire crews of transgendered people from the Pacific Islands shingling your roof, that is.
That is basically the way of the future.
You've got to get with the program and under Obamacare.
By the way, you don't even have to pay for your sex change.
Just check the transgender box and get on with it.
It'll all work out swell for you.
Well, I guess you know the these other categories have a certification path.
I don't know what the certification process would be.
But I think, I think well, you don't want to be like that fake, that closeted heterosexual guy at the Democratic primary in Philadelphia.
You know when, when they come round to check, when they send the IRS agents very round to verify that you're entitled to your sex change, sex change, construction industry bonus.
You want to be able, you want to be able to show you've had all the relative uh, construction and remodeling done in that particular part of part of your body uh, so that you meet all the existing criteria.
Hey Brad, is business picking up again, by the way, in the construction industry in Texas?
Well, I could say the distressed part.
Right, right.
Yeah, that's true.
Well, they're doing a great job, though, in incentivizing the transgendered Pacific Islander construction industry.
So I think great things should come of it.
Don't despair.
Thank you for your call, Brad.
Do you know, by the way, this is the reason that you shouldn't have big government.
Because this is basically sexual apartheid now.
You know, the Liberals got mad because in South Africa, they regulated your life according to whether you were black or white or colored.
The term colored in South Africa meant you were mixed race.
And liberals here got mad about it and they had waged a big campaign, free Nelson Mandela.
They pressured companies and corporations to withdraw and pull out of South Africa and all the rest of it.
This is sexual apartheid.
Why should you have to tell if you do have, and also, I don't even get it.
The point of being transgendered, by the way, is to be able to, if you're a man and you decide you want to have your old wedding tackle snipped off and become a woman, the point is to pass for a woman.
What is the point of paying a lot of money to have a big, expensive sex change?
You've got fabulous hair, you've got bee-stung lips, you've got a fantastic breast that would stop a train.
But at the same time, you have to tell every government employee who comes around is, well, no, actually, I have had a sex change just in order to access the government money.
Transsexuals should bring a class action suit and take it to the Supreme Court of the United States as an affront to their dignity.
I thought the whole point of having a sex change was that so you were a man, but now people just accept you as a woman.
People don't say, as you're walking down the street, oh yeah, there goes that big transgendered contractor who used her sex change to access all the big bucks in Washington.
What's the point of having the sex change then?
This is where big government leads, folks.
Mark Stein in Farush on the Rush Limbaugh Show live from WNTK in New Hampshire.
Lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network, Open Line Friday.
You remember that story from a couple of days ago?
This was some big shot Imam, big shot Ayatollah in Tehran, the big Friday prayers guy.
And he attributed the increase in earthquakes.
He's sounding as scientific as Charlie Sheen and Rosie O'Donnell these days.
Hoyatolla slam, Kazem Siddiqui.
I don't know whether Hoyatolla slam is like a category.
It's like the category that comes after Ayatollah, you're a Hayatolla.
Or if it's his first name, it's kind of embarrassing.
It's an awkward way.
He might be Ayatollah Hoyatolla, or it might be his first name, or it might be his title.
Hoyatolla Slam, Kazim Siddiqui, was quoted as saying that many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity, and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes.
So I'm surprised they didn't bring this up at the big Copenhagen Environmental Summit last year, that it's all these slatternly Western women going around who are causing the big uptake in earthquakes.
And Jen, I think a lady called Jen at a website called Blag Hag is now, on Monday, she's encouraging women to test this theory scientifically.
And she wants women all around the world to wear the most revealing clothes, least modest dress you can, and test Ayatollah Hoyatolla's big theory and see if we can't cause some like huge earthquakes around the world.
Maybe we can get that volcano in Iceland to blow again and take out European air traffic till the end of the year.
So she's going to test this theory.
And I think it's a shame they didn't do this on Earth Day, by the way, because environmentalism is a religion, and Ayatollah Hoyatolla, or whatever he's called in Tehran, just seems to have got a slightly different take on it.
But she's encouraging women to dress immodestly on Monday and see if you can cause like a giant boob quake on the other side of the planet.
So I will be interested to follow that.
I take scientific issues very seriously, and I obviously would be entirely culturally insensitive to mock Ayatollah Hoyatolla as some know-nothing.
He's the big shot Friday prayer guy in Tehran, so that's a competitive position.
He had to certainly demonstrate a lot of acute insight to get to that position.
And if he says that immodestly dressed women are causing earthquakes, I'm inclined to take him at his word for it.
But the thesis is going to be tested scientifically this Monday.
So wear revealing clothing and see if you can't cause like maybe an earthquake, a tsunami that kills hundreds of thousands of people, maybe get a couple of volcanoes in Iceland to blow, and we will demonstrate that this Ayatollah Hoyatolla guy is actually right on top of things.
Let's go to Ron in Sterling, Virginia.
Ron, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello, Mark.
You are uniquely qualified to answer this question.
With the passage of Obamacare, what on earth is going to happen to the Canadian health system?
Because the only reason it's worked so well all these years is because the United States was right next door.
Yes, that's true.
That was the functioning part of the Canadian healthcare system.
There's a, if you take whatever that one is, is it I-87, I think it is, the one that runs from New York up to Montreal, like a hundred yards south of the border, they've got a big hospital there with all the signs pointing north saying Canadian checks accepted.
The basically, the basically Canadians who couldn't get treatment in their own timely treatment in their own country, because of course, if you're prepared to wait six or seven years, they'll give you the operation if you haven't died by then.
But people who couldn't get timely treatment could have the safety valve of the United States.
Now the safety valve, I guess, is going to be Costa Rica or wherever you can get to.
But people who do not live in overly regulated societies sense opportunity.
There will be medical tourism.
If you take some of these ramshackle colonies in the Caribbean, the Turks and Caicos Islands, for example, I love the Turks and Caicos, but they don't have the kind of high-end tourism to quite the same degree that the Bahamas do.
It would be terrific for them to just open up a couple of hospitals there and make treatment available for people who can't get timely treatment in the United States once the United States has taken up a bureaucratic and governmentalized system.
So that's the thing to keep an eye out for, Ron.
As prices skyrocket here, you could go and be treated in, it doesn't have to be India, as I said, it could be somewhere like the Turks and Caicos for 10% of the cost, which leaves you enough money left over to cover your airfare and all the rest of it.
So I think we're going to be seeing a lot more of that.
By the way, Ron, you're not like our caller from Texas a couple of minutes ago, Brad.
You're not planning on having a sex change to access government money, are you?
Oh, of course not.
I am going to be part of the minority of white heterosexual males.
Oh, you're determined to be the last functioning white heterosexual male in America.
Absolutely.
Last man standing in a very literal sense.
Well, Rob, that speaks well for you.
But if you ever do, if you ever do suddenly feel the urge, you know, there's like a big stimulus package that you can access if you decide to go and have the sex change.
Just take my word for it.
Never have your sex change done in a government hospital.
There's some things it's worth, you know, paying the extra dollar and going private for.
And that's one of them, because if you notice, there's like a huge, I mean, I'm not, I don't spend a lot of time at transsexual beach resorts, but there's clearly a measurable difference between those who've had it done in state-of-the-art American facilities and, say, having it done in a government hospital in northern Scotland.
So it's worth just a personal tip for me: if you're planning a sex, I know you're committed to being the last heterosexual male in the lower 48, but if you ever decide to just get with the program and go for the sex change, don't get it done in a government hospital, Ron.
Hey, thanks, sir.
Thank you for that great advice.
Yeah, well, we try.
It's not just like airy theoretical speculating here.
We like to give good, solid, practical advice on this show, too.
Thanks.
Thanks for your call, Rod.
Have a great weekend.
Open Line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more still to come.
Open Line Friday, government regulation.
The government regulators are all sitting around in the SEC downloading so much pornography, they filled up their government computer and have to start storing it on CDs in the closet behind them.
That's where big government gets you.
And I'm proud to say that I personally defy big government.
I got a letter from the state of New York earlier this week informing me that I was in non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance, whatever that is.
I've no idea.
By the way, have we sorted that out?
Oh no, Tiffany says, oh, it's too early to start making.
My assistant is shaking her head and saying it's way too early to start making jokes and insulting the Bureau of Compliance because we're not yet in compliance with the we're still in a state of non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
I'm proud to be in a state of non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance and I hope to bring that up to a perfect 50-state non-compliance record.
There's something very Orwellian that the government is so tin-eared that it doesn't it thinks it thinks nothing of creating an agency called the Bureau of Compliance and having the letterheads printed.
That's a big part of what's the problem.
Rush Limbaugh in the Wall Street Journal today, quote, few presidents have sunk so low as Bill Clinton.
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