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July 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 15, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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No, I don't know if I own any Apple stock.
I don't know.
Because I don't worry myself with that.
I have trusted advisors that do all that.
I'm not a day trader.
I couldn't, I don't.
My work and my income.
Are my growth?
My investment portfolio is based on preservation of principle.
Okay, so Howard, if you're out there listening, send me a quick note and tell me if I have any Apple shares.
None of what I'm saying here is based on any self-interest in Apple.
I'm not even speaking about Apple per se.
I'm talking about what's happening in this country.
Chuck Schumer.
Well, I got some emails.
What do you care about this rush?
Apple stock?
Because it's been falling because no, I don't own the Apple stock.
If I do, I don't know.
And I haven't sold any if I own it.
I don't.
People won't understand this.
I do not monitor it every day.
I do not know the stocks I own.
I'm mostly in municipal bonds anyway.
Screw it.
But and they're gonna be targeted anyway.
Tax-free munis, they're gonna start taxing those before Obama's finished.
We're all gonna get it no matter where we are.
No, this this and Chuck Schumer, Chuck Schumer owes Toyota an apology.
Chuck Schumer was part of the cabal that led to all a hassle at Toyota has, and he owes them an apology.
Every other politician jumped on that chili.
Owes them one is two as well.
Greetings, Rush Limbaugh back, EIB Network.
Uh 800-282-2882.
And the email address is L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
In the interest of further disclosure.
Let me just tell you about me and Apple.
I've already I've already told you.
I can't, we can't even get a meeting for 21 years to discuss advertising.
We can't.
They're not interested.
It's a there's a there's a complete total ideological divide.
I don't care.
They make the best stuff for what I need.
There's nobody even close.
And I don't care if they're a bunch of commie green back whatevers.
They make the best stuff for me.
They make me more productive.
I bought 40 iPhones.
40 iPhone 4s.
I gave them to every employee and a couple of friends because they improve people's productivity.
It's why I keep the air conditioning at 68 degrees where my employees are, because I don't want them complaining about heat and humidity.
I want them working.
And I want them to enjoy the work atmosphere.
Yes, I made a deal.
No, I did not get 40 phones and pass them out.
I got gift cards for redemption.
Nobody can go out and buy 40 phones.
But you know what else I did?
I picked up two years of service for every employee.
Or the equivalent of two years.
If they go through it in six months, it's their problem.
But nevertheless, I believe in this stuff.
I believe in productivity.
I believe in employees, people at work with you being productive and enjoying what they do.
I also believe in rewarding them when they do it well.
And above and beyond what they're paid for.
Most of the people work for me have an attitude.
There's always something else to do after you've done everything you think you can do.
There's always a little bit more to do.
And so I happen, you know, to really believe in these products.
This is to see this kind of assault against it.
Uh not one person, not one person to whom I have gifted an iPhone has told me they have to take it back.
Now, they may have, but they haven't told me.
You taking yours back, snurtly?
Don, have you taken yours back?
Brian, you take it you got any problem with yours?
HR can't make his keep the recession problem, reception problem happened on his phone.
I can't make it.
Catherine can't make it happen on hers.
The broadcast engineer, we got two engineers.
If they know about antenna attenuation, is they and they can't cause the problem.
They can't duplicate it.
They can't make it happen.
But the media.
Every phone everywhere, disgruntled here, disgruntled there.
Uh anyway.
This is just to straighten all this out.
You know, I'm uh one thing you have to keep in mind here, folks.
You listen to this program.
I'm about America, I'm about I'm about success.
I'm about opportunity, prosperity, American exceptionalism, being the best, doing the best, pursuing excellence, uh uh pursuing happiness, contentment, or what have you.
And I am just, I'm worn out.
I'm worn out, not to the point of giving up.
Don't misunderstand.
I just am exhausted with a never-ending ongoing assault on happiness, productivity, greatness, exceptionalism, and excellence.
That is the hallmark of the American left and the Democrat Party.
They target those things.
Anytime is excellent, anybody somebody does anything superbly, uh, if they're even pursuing it, it's the mediocre and the lazy who get propped up by the American left.
It's the mediocre and the lazy who are the beneficiaries of redistributionist largesse.
I'm sick and tired of the producers being punished for success.
I'm tired of it.
I don't care whether it's high taxes, burdensome regulation, or all out character assaults by members of the government or the regime.
It's just it's about country to me.
It's about tearing down for whatever reason these people have for wanting to destroy what it is, what it has been, those things that have defined this country's exceptionalism and greatness and has set it apart.
You know, I've I I have said, I don't know how many times, and this is a feature of every personal appearance I do, we are no better human beings than anybody else on the planet.
Our DNA is no different.
There's nothing special about us in a genealogical or a physical sense whatsoever, but there is something special about where we are born and where we grazed and where we grow up and where we seek opportunity.
And that is the United States of America.
And it's not an accident of our birth, it is a blessing from God.
I'll never forget Phil Donahue, wringing his hands, lamenting his hands in his TV show in the afternoons, lamenting, feeling guilty about the accident of his birth.
Only because he was born in America was he rich.
If he'd have been born in Mexico, he wouldn't be rich, he'd be horribly poor.
Uh his birth may have been an accident.
You'd have to ask his parents about that.
But he was born in a country that was blessed, not lucky.
Pray to God every day for this country.
You should too.
This is just never ending.
And the people, some people in this country who have benefited more than most are the ones trying to tear it down for everybody else.
And are educating others to think evil, mean, rotten, ill thoughts about their own country.
Now, if they if they're screwed up, if they're psychologically all out of whack and don't like the country, fine, but keep it to yourself.
Don't spread it to your kids, don't spread it to your neighborhood, and certainly don't take it to your classroom and teach it.
Unfortunately, all that is being done.
From the politico today, NAALCP, we did not call the Tea Party racist.
Really?
I thought the media told us it's a giant resolution yesterday.
The Tea Party's racist.
But the NAAC, we didn't, we didn't call Tea Party racist.
What what so yesterday wasn't real?
The media lied to us yesterday again.
MAA LCP President Ben Jealous said today the resolution passed by the group on Wednesday does not call the Tea Party racist.
The resolution the NAA LCP approved Wednesday alleges that the Tea Party has used racial epithets against Obama and has physically and verbally abused African American.
Oh, this is the old John Lewis argument.
Official Obama criticizer does a perfect impression of Georgia Congressman George John Lewis.
As uh just as a warm-up.
I want you to repeat for the audience something I heard Congressman Lewis say once during the confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas.
He was on the floor of the House of Representatives, he said, you know, I can do a great impersonation too, but I will get creamed if I do it.
See, I'm not allowed to impersonate Congressman Lewis.
But Snerdley is.
He's got the right amount of slave blood, he's certified black enough to criticize.
Congressman Lewis said I have been beat upside The head.
But it doesn't mean that I'm qualified to be on the Supreme Court.
Go.
I have been beat upside my head.
But it doesn't mean that I'm not qualified to be on the Supreme Court.
Right.
So it is thank you, Mr Mr. Snurdy official Obama criticized us.
So is Mr. John Lewis, who claims he was spat upon, and that the N-word was shouted at him while he was walking amidst Tea Party protesters on healthcare Sunday.
Andrew Breitbart has offered a hundred thousand dollars for anybody to show audio or video.
There has been no proof.
And yet, in the nothing is real media, it happened.
And so now the NAA LCP says, well, no, no, no, we just uh we said a resolution alleges the Tea Party has used racial epithets.
A portion of the resolution, however, does indeed characterize the behavior as a racist, but Ben Gellis said yesterday during an interview on MSNBC that the resolution was not intended to condemn the entire movement as such.
But that's exactly what the resolution said, and is actually what the what the media reported yesterday.
So what's changed here?
What's changed?
Because the hell they didn't.
The hell they didn't have a resolution claiming a Tea Party was racist.
That Mr. Jealous sees the need to back away from his own resolution is interesting.
There must be some real backlash going on or coming at the NAACP from someplace.
And I just, you know, to all of you leftists in this audience, and all of you um blacks who are Democrats, can I ask you a question?
The theory is that you're not energized to vote this November for whatever reason, and the theory is to get you energized, that your party has to run around and say there's racism all over the place.
There's racism in Uganda because of Al Qaeda.
There's racism at the Tea Party.
Isn't it it does it does it not perplex some of you black democrats that your party members never come to you and talk to you and get you to vote for jobs or tax cuts or things oriented toward economic growth?
Is it ever dawned on you that the only time or the primary weapon they use to get you interested in voting is to shout racism every there, racism behind net rock, racism over there, bigotry.
What does that say to you?
What does that tell you they think of you?
I gotta take a brief time out.
We have Stacy from Georgia, somewhere lurking in the parts unknown of Georgia.
She is our insurance agency employee who has been advising us every step of the way what's coming, and she's been right on the money, and she wants to comment on what has happened in the New York Times today, reporting that by fiat.
The administration yesterday just demanded that preventive services be provided free.
By the insurance industry.
Back after this.
Okay, as promised we go back to the phones and we're gonna get to we haven't been to the phones yet, have we?
Oh, that's right, we did have one call.
Yeah, okay.
So, Stacy from Parts Unknown in Georgia, always a pleasure, and welcome back to the EIB network.
Well, hey, Rose, it is so thrilling to talk to your newly married self, and congratulations on your nuptial.
Thank you very, very much.
And um, I tell you, watching this health care stuff unroll the past few months, nothing is surprising me anymore.
Um the fact of the matter is, and I and right now my internet's acting up, I'm trying to um find it.
But when I talk to you last when Obama put out his uh 11-page document for the congressional meeting, remember that?
One of the things that he had in that document, and it's on page three, and the a new quote health insurance rate authority will determine whether or not insurers can increase premiums.
Right.
Just like in Massachusetts.
Bend me money that this one and a half percent is gonna be proposed, and they're gonna strike it down.
And we will have to eat it.
Well, not for long because you're not gonna be in business.
Well, yeah, that's true.
Um, but you know, I've just watching it, Rush, the the uh high risk pool story from the hill a couple of weeks ago.
You remember that?
The high risk pool story.
You remember that?
Uh Refresh my memory.
Okay.
Well, um turns out that all these high risk pools that were supposed to be created within six months of passage where individuals who have preexistent conditions who have been denied private coverage.
Oh, yeah.
Remember that?
Yeah, people that have been given three weeks to live.
Yeah.
Well, they came out, um the CBO came out and said only about two hundred thousand people be able to enroll in this program.
Really?
Only two hundred thousand people nationwide.
Nationwide.
Well uh seems to me millions and millions of Americans thought that the they're gonna be qualified here, all you had to do was have a pre existing condition and you get covered.
Well, no time comes to find out, not only do you have to have not had any coverage for six months, but the premiums will range from four hundred and fifty to nine hundred dollars a month for these two hundred thousand people.
You mean it's not gonna be free?
The pre existing coverage is not gonna be free.
No.
Well, they touted it as being free.
I mean, you and I both know it never's gonna be free, but they touted it as being free.
Oh, I know.
But the funny part is that all these people who thought they were gonna get something for nothing are screaming in comment sections and message boards that you know, I have a pre pre ex, I've not worked for however many months, and they want me to pay, you know, four hundred and fifty dollars a month premium for this.
Right.
They thought a millionaire is gonna be paying for it.
And they're having cows.
But Rush, let me tell you.
People talk about uncertainty in in the business world and hey, I'm here to tell you I see it up front.
But even more than that, just in my little part of this industry, where we have to write code and programs that that will process this data.
We don't know what to write.
I mean, we're we're basically guessing and hoping to do that.
Yeah, and you know why you you know because what happened yesterday, even though you saw that one coming, the the reality is that you have any uh hundreds of different bureaucracies uh and and lines in the legislation uh up to the secretary's discretion.
The Secretary of Health and Human Services can mandate anything any day of the week she wants to.
That's right.
That's why you can't plan for it.
Exactly.
So not only are we losing um time and being able to meet government timelines, but we're also losing money out the law zoo.
Well, but that's not unexpected, is it?
I mean it's not.
And I told you that I didn't think we were gonna last very long under this.
But to see it in action, i it really it's just depressing, it really is.
And furthermore, doctors are dropping out like flies.
Yeah.
Now that I keep seeing, and we keep getting uh phone calls about that.
I mean, it's not only the Medicare and Medicaid docs.
By the way, I've got the story here.
It's uh it's the New York Times Ricardo Alonso Zeldebar, uh, July first, a it's actually AP, but uh the premiums for a new high risk pool could be steep.
Three hundred to six hundred dollars a month.
That was just uh couple weeks ago.
Oh, they lowered it in that one because in the Hill they were talking up to nine hundred dollars a month.
Um in that well, wait, this is AP.
I mean you're assuming they got it right.
Well, that's true.
But um Yeah, it's just been it's really hairy and in Rush, you know what scares me.
I know you mentioned a poll that forty one percent of people who want this monstrosity um removed think it's not gonna happen.
I know over sixty percent want it repealed, forty-one percent of those do not think it will be.
Exactly.
And and I'm right there with them.
I mean, what in the world is wrong with Boehner and these people, you know, not standing there screaming from the top of the cap over.
I do not know.
I I had a note from a friend of mine today uh uh about Kagan and and about this Berwick guy, the uh the the health care czar.
Uh that's why why are the Republicans not shouting from the roof?
People have been asking me this, Stacey, for twenty one years.
Here's four I'll give you four answers.
One, cowards, two, they are part of the Washington scene.
They really are not connected to their voters.
They really aren't.
Number three, they're afraid to death of the U.S. media, the DC media, and the social set.
And four, they are they really believe it if they're nice to the Democrats in these circumstances that when they are in the majority, Democrats will let them have their judges and let them have their legislation.
Uh they just they think the worst thing they can do is rock the boat.
Well, Rush, let me tell you this Berkwick guy is a nightmare.
This guy is a nightmare.
And people don't even realize what's well this guy th the the this Berwick what what people don't realize is that this guy has been as as a uh where he used to work or provide some service.
He's been given a lifetime free health care policy.
Oh Lord, why does that not say that?
I I kid you not, this was the Wall Street Journal uh yesterday.
Daniel Henniger, I'm gonna get to this column later on in this hour.
Daniel Henniger has a column today entitled Berwick Bigger Than Kagan.
If the American people want the health care world uh that Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that's their choice, but they must be given that choice.
This is about this recess appointment of Berwick.
Remember now, he was he was appointed, recess appointed, not because he was being opposed.
The Republicans couldn't wait for the confirmation hearings.
They wanted this guy's resume and his thoughts, his theories, philosophies to be out there.
That's why Obama recess appointed him to hide who the guy really is four months before the election.
And did you see Robert Gibbs trying to do the hokey pokey around that question?
Uh that was hilarious.
Well, I yeah.
I mean, this guy is Baghdad Bob on the Hudson or something.
He is constantly hilarious.
When you when you said when you said Gibbs trying to do the hokey pokey, I was envisioning Gibbs in the hokey.
Pokey and that's that's why I got this.
Stacy, as always, thanks very much for calling.
It's um enlightening, informative, entertaining each time we speak to you.
We'll be back, folks.
Byron York had the story on the D.C. examiner on uh Berwick, Donald Berwick, the new health care czar.
He's the czar of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, CMS.
And uh here's from Byron's story.
During fiscal year 2003, the institute, where this guy worked at the time, created a post-retirement health benefit for its chief executive officer.
It provides the CEO and his spouse medical insurance from retirement until death.
The present value of the estimated cost of this benefits, approximately 120,000, which is being accrued over the CEO's estimated remaining service period.
The amount expensed by the institute for the years ended 2009 and 2008 related to this liability was approximately 12,017,000, respectively.
The bottom line is that Berwick and his wife will be covered for the rest of their lives, a benefit that was on top of the 2.3 million dollars in compensation the nonprofit gave him.
He was working for a nonprofit in 2008, and he earned $636,000 a year in 2007.
This is this is all from his deal with a nonprofit Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a nonprofit health care charitable organization he created, and which he served as CEO.
So he gave himself lifetime and his wife lifetime health insurance from the time he retires until the time he dies.
And he's a he's huge.
Oh, not just rationing, he's a huge rationing supporter.
He's a which ultimately means death panels.
Now here's Henniger.
Daniel Henniger today in the Wall Street Journal.
And as you listen to this, and you couple this with all the other news, today, yesterday, this week, last week, last month.
It will become obvious to you that Obama and his thugs really don't care.
If they lose a House in the Senate, doesn't matter.
The polling that shows the majority of the country hates all of this stuff, it doesn't matter to them.
They are taking full control without the legislature, without a mandate.
They are just waving their magic wand and doing all of this.
Barack Obama's incredible recess appointment of Donald Berwick to head the centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is probably the most significant domestic policy personnel decision in a generation.
It is important to the direction of the country.
More important than Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court.
Court decisions are subject to the tempering influence of nine competing minds.
Dr. Berwick would direct an agency that has a budget bigger than the Pentagon.
Decisions by the CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shape American medicine.
Dr. Berwick's ideas on the design and purpose of the U.S. system of medicine aren't merely about change, they would be revolutionary.
Now, one may argue with these views or not, but for the president to tell the American people they have to simply accept this through a recess appointment is beyond outrageous.
It isn't acceptable, nor is accepting the rules for free service that were announced yesterday.
The Democrat chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, was taken aback at the end around.
He said Senate confirmation of presidential appointees is an essential process prescribed by the Constitution that serves as a check on executive power.
Well, let's look then at what Obama will not let the American electorate hear Dr. Berwick say in front of a committee of Congress.
These are excerpts from past speeches and articles by Dr. Donald Berwick.
Quote, I cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care.
That is for leaders to do.
You don't have the brains to be in charge and make choices involving your own health.
That's for leaders to do.
Here's another one.
You cap your health care budget.
You make the political and economic choices you need to make to keep affordability within reach.
Thank you.
Not you, but they will cap the budget.
Please don't put your faith in market forces, he wrote.
It's a popular idea that Adam Smith's invisible hand would do a better job of designing care than leaders with plans can.
Indeed, the holy grail of universal coverage in the U.S. may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.
It may therefore be necessary to set a legislative target for the growth of spending at 1.5 percentage points below currently projected increases and to grant the federal government the authority to reduce updates in Medicare fees if the target is exceeded.
About 8% of gross domestic product is plenty for the best-known care.
A progressive policy regime will control and rationalize financing.
It'll control its supply, too.
The unaided human mind and the acts of the individual cannot assure excellence.
Health care is a system, and its performance is a systemic property.
Health care is a common good.
Single-payer speaking and buying for the common good.
It's important also to make health a human right because the main health determinants are not health care, but sanitation, nutrition, housing, social justice, employment, and the like.
Hence, those working in health care delivery may be faced with situations in which it seems that the best course is to manipulate the flawed system for the benefit of a specific patient or segment of the population rather than to work to improve the delivery of care for all.
Such manipulation produces more flaws, and the downward spiral continues.
For profit, entrepreneurial providers of medical imaging, renal dialysis, and outpatient surgery, for example, may find their business opportunities constrained.
Meaning, if he gets his way.
One over-demanded service is prevention.
Annual physical screening tests, other measures that supposedly help catch diseases or there are many quotes go on and on and on that illustrate the socialist collectivist nature of the bureaucratic command and control belief of this guy.
One of them is young doctors and nurses should emerge from training understanding the values of standardization and the risks of too great an emphasis on individual autonomy.
Now there's no need to rehearse the analogies in literature and social thought that Berwick's ideas summon.
That the Obama White House would try to push this past public scrutiny with a recess appointment says more about Obama than it does Berwick.
Vilifying Berwick alone for his views is in a way beside the point.
Within Obama's circle, they all think like this.
Defeat Dr. Berwick, and they'll send up 50 more who would pursue the same goals.
If the American people want the world that Dr. Berwick wishes to give them, that's their choice, but they must be given that choice with full televised confirmation hearings.
Barack Obama, Donald Berwick, the rest may fancy themselves philosopher kings who know what we need without the need to inform or persuade us first, but that's not how it works here.
And that is Senator Baucus's point.
Although Bark is not going to do anything other than caterwall about it.
He's not going to stop anything.
Hanninger says it should be clear why Donald Berwick's bigger than Kagan.
We need a large public debate over these views over what Obama has said his health plan would and would not do.
We need to find out if every Democrat in Congress and every Democrat writing newspaper columns and blogs agrees with Dr. Berwick about clinical and individual autonomy and about leaders with plans.
And then we need to build an election around whether we want to go down the road Dr. Berwick has planned for us or start dismantling this one that President Obama paved through Congress on a partisan vote.
Hanninger, I've never seen him so worked up.
This is more important than Elena Kagan.
I have never seen him.
I've never read him this worked up about anything.
Folks, you're going to hear about the president visiting Western Michigan today at the opening of a new manufacturing facility making batteries for electric cars.
I got the story here in the stack of stuff.
The White House are going to spin this event as an example of how the stimulus plan is working out just fine for America.
Some hundred, some odd million dollars is going to a battery plant, I think owned by the Koreans.
Somebody needs to tell Obama that a battery has to get its juice from someplace.
You know, you you think oil is hard to pull out of the earth.
You do a quick research project on how lithium is mined.
Lithium is what's in these batteries.
Now rechargeable, you have to plug them in.
You're going to need a power plant to recharge all these wonderful batteries.
Five hundred thousand dollars a year per employee.
He's going to create three hundred jobs.
The amount of money they're going to spend on this equals five hundred thousand dollars a year per employee to create these jobs.
Heritage Foundation ran the numbers.
And that simple statistic is today's example of why Obama's porculus plan is a failure.
You always get the truth from me, America's truth detector, and the Heritage Foundation is right there.
They're working on this stuff constantly, day in and day out, and they never get distracted by single issues.
Here we're focusing on health care today.
They're focusing on Obama and the porculus bill, the twenty million dollars that have been spent on signs, congratulating the government for all the great works.
They they say have been done.
But as we all know, government spending does not stimulate the economy, and whether you're listening to me or getting into the flow of information from Heritage or both, the facts are indisputable.
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And back to the phones we go.
This is uh Butch.
Butch in Hampton, Virginia.
You are next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Yes, hello, Rush.
Uh, to kind of dovetail with your recent talk here about some of the health care issues.
Uh just wanted to make a comment going back a bit here.
Um as a potential partial fix to this defective iPhone crisis, perhaps Steve Jobs can be forced to offer free counseling to iPhone owners.
I don't think any iPhone owners are uh pro the people that need a counseling of the media.
This is true.
This is true.
I I I like the idea.
I I just I wonder what some there's a there's a there's a quote from uh the the Microsoft.
Now get this.
Microsoft, I think chief operating officer.
He said the iPhone, iPhone 4 is our Vista.
Now, do you know what that I I guess I'm not a Windows person because I don't like cheap knockoffs.
But I gather VISTA was a bomb.
It was an operating system upgrade that bombed.
Right.
So here you have Microsoft admitting, in order to take a shot at Apple, that they had an operating system upgrade called VISTA that was a bomb.
Now they're equating the iPhone 4 to it.
I don't see this uh everybody wanted to go back to XP.
I remembered there the the the constant moaning complaining was everywhere about Vista.
Nobody wants to go back to the iPhone 3GS.
Everybody nobody wanted any part of VISTA.
At any rate, counseling.
I just wonder what Jobs thinks.
He's deeply involved in left-wing causes.
Then look who's going after him.
All because of the way you hold the phone.
They got a yeah, in the lower left-hand corner, they're uh called a death grip.
If you grip the phone normally and they ask Jobs about it, well, you're holding it wrong.
There's an old phone there.
Nah, that didn't go over well.
What do you mean?
Don't hold it.
You're holding the wrong.
When there's nowhere in the instruction manual where it says how to hold a cell phone.
So I mean, Jobs didn't help himself here, but we also don't know if Jabs actually said that.
You know, somebody they everybody emails Jobs about six Apple addresses that you can send email to Steve Jobs to, and people that send him emails say he replies.
And then these people in the media and blogs report supposedly what Jobs has said in the replies.
But they never really know that it's jobs.
Who said it?
One of these emails that I read in one of these blogs, some guy supposedly wrote complaining about the iPhone 4 and the reception issue, and Jobs wrote back stuff supposedly, look, it's just a phone.
Why don't you spend more time with your family and leave me alone?
Now, there's no way Jobs would say, but the media's out there reporting this.
And some of the media said, We really doubt that this is Steve Jobs.
But anyway, I just so Microsoft, yeah, the iPhone 4.
You wish Microsoft, you wish the iPhone.
Why don't you talk to us about your failed cell phone?
They have one, you know.
Yeah, you never heard of it, right?
You took it off the market, right.
Here's uh here's here's Mary in Chicago.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
Um yes, I I'm calling to comment about the mandates that the president has initiated for the insurance companies, this whole class containment for health care.
Yes.
This has all been done before.
And it doesn't work.
I uh I used to work for a Fortune 500 company in the benefits area.
And in the early 80s, when health care costs were exploding, all of us benefit managers got together and we tried to think of ways to contain the cost.
Yes to reduce the increase.
Yes.
And all this class containment stuff came up in pre-screening and wellness programs.
the thought was that if you could uh prevent serious illness, it's all a crock.
We all know this is a crock.
Well it it didn't work and if you stop and think about it, because when the uh results came out we were rather mystified but upon it was never designed to work uh in the way they said Mary the purpose of it was control.
Well this I that may have been part of it but most companies I think really were serious about trying to reduce their costs.
And oh I'm sure that I'm I'm sure that yeah this is this is though now you're I'm out of time.
I wish I can you hang on Mary now you've hit a hot button.
Okay.
You have hit a hot button.
Dawn don't don't lose that transcript.
She I'll tell you what she said when we get back.
You just hit Steve Wozniak is one of the three really primarily two co-founders of Apple who's no longer part of Apple Ian Jobs started a company garage just commented on the the uh antenna attenuation problem the death grip.
That if you hold a phone in the lower left hand corner it loses signal the solution is just get a second phone and put it in your right hand when the iPhone loses signal place the call on the other phone until the iPhone signal comes back.
Meaning the iPhone's so great don't get rid of it just get a spare phone for when you lose signal on the iPhone.
It ain't gonna happen much.
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