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October 25, 2010, Monday, Hour #3

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	So that means we're going to start with number eight.
	Basically, what that means.
	All right.
	Greetings and welcome back.
	Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	Great to have you with us.
	The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, is 800-282-2882.
	The email address, lrushbaugheibnet.com.
	The poll the woman was talking about was this.
	One-third, it's an AP poll.
	APGFK poll, one-third may still switch candidates.
	It's just, it's part of the news that I've predicted you should be on the lookout for, designed to undermine your enthusiasm.
	Trying to make it sound like the voters are sick of all incumbents rather than just sick of Democrats.
	And this is a rewrite of another story.
	It goes like this by Alan Fram of the AP.
	One in three people has yet to lock onto a choice in the November 2 congressional elections.
	Yet in this year of the Fed Up Voter, even these folks offer little help to Democrats.
	Despite record political spending and months of frenzied campaigning, one-third of likely voters remain steadfastly undecided or favor a candidate, but say they could change their mind.
	Such a large group might seem like a motherload of opportunity for Democrats scuffling to unearth enough votes to prevent a Republican takeover of Congress.
	Yet, a close look reveals that these people aren't especially friendly to the party that seems all but certain to lose the House and maybe even the Senate on November 2nd.
	Now, what they're hoping is that nobody reads past the headline in the lead paragraph because the lead and the paragraph, one-third may still switch candidates.
	One-third's still undecided.
	You have to dig deep in the story to find out it doesn't help the Democrats.
	So, once again, you know, I'm fully expecting a number of you all week, despite my entreaties here, despite my warnings, to call and ask me about something that you've seen that has you in a near panic.
	Feel free to call, but I'm telling you, you'll be able to figure this out on your own.
	If you see a story that makes it look like everything you've thought up to now is not right, if you see a story about Republicans wanting to compromise with Democrats or Republicans may not win that many, it's all designed to make that a reality.
	Look at, is it like David Brooks and that column last week I described very accurately as mental masturbation without a climax?
	That's what the media is going to be doing all week with these polls and these stories about the outcome of the elections in November, mental masturbation without a climax.
	And you don't want to be part of that, do you?
	So I'm just telling you, you know, don't give him a hand.
	Don't help out.
	Don't fall for this.
	Also from the AP, Ricardo Alonzo Zaldivar, the new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the country with coverage for generations.
	Now, I'm fully convinced the AP is trying to irritate me.
	I think they've got probably a picture of me somewhere in their editor's room, and they have a, let's do a story that tweaks Limbaugh every day.
	And one of the stories is unexpected job news.
	Greater than or less than expected unemployment claims.
	Like another one is this.
	I think they sit there.
	How can we write a story that's designed to get under Limbaugh's skin?
	The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations.
	Of course it was supposed.
	That's the purpose of it.
	It was supposed to destroy, not undercut, it's supposed to destroy the entire private health insurance business, just as we've been saying for two years.
	It's amazing.
	I'm just joking about them trying to tweak me.
	I think they live in a bubble.
	I think these people in the media are really devoid of reality.
	They construct their own.
	And their own reality are all these various templates.
	We are destroying the planet with global warming.
	The Republicans are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
	Obama does want insurance premiums to go down $2,500 per person, and they will.
	Obama wants to improve healthcare, and it will be improved.
	I mean, they just robotically buy into all this.
	And then when something comes along to challenge it, it's, ah, this doesn't compute.
	This doesn't go with what we thought.
	Therefore, you get a story like this.
	Let me read the whole thing to you, not the whole thing, but let me keep going without adding my own editorial comments within.
	The new health care law wasn't supposed to undercut employer plans that have provided most people in the U.S. with coverage for generations.
	But last week, a leading manufacturer told employees their costs will jump because of the law.
	Also, a Democrat governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that open in 2014.
	Shazam, who knew?
	We knew.
	We said on this program, this is exactly what's going to happen in 2014, long after Obama's been re-elected and long after the 2014 midterms have happened.
	When no longer can anybody take out their anger on Democrats for this debacle, that's when it's all going to be implemented.
	It'll be implemented after these elections, in part.
	And then the next real bad phase of it won't start till after 2012.
	And then it finally kicks in after 2014.
	Long after Obama's long gone and the Democrat midterms.
	The Democrat governor laid out a scheme for employers to get out of health care by shifting workers into taxpayer-subsidized insurance markets that opened in 1240.
	It's all in there.
	Governor Manchin didn't know this, West Virginia, until the bill was passed, and now he's opposed to all this.
	And while it's too early to proclaim the demise of job-based coverage, corporate numbers crunchers are looking at options that could lead to major changes.
	Mr. Ricardo Alonzo Zaldivar, what does it feel like to be a slave?
	I want to know what does it feel like to be a journalistic slave?
	What is it like to be a stenographer?
	He fashions himself a reporter.
	If he were a reporter, he would have reported this months ago before the bill was voted on.
	Because it was all known.
	The Heritage Foundation uncovered it all.
	We uncovered it all.
	A number of people read the legislation in all of its various iterations and forms in both the House and the Senate.
	Now, the AP didn't have enough people to do that, but they certainly did have a whole bunch of people to assign, what was it, nine reporters to a story on Bush doing something or other.
	But they don't have anybody but poor old Ricardo Alonzo Zaldivar to look into the health care law months after it's signed.
	And even Mr. Alonzo Zaldivar, after discovering this, is still doubting that it can be.
	The economists, rather the economics, of dropping existing coverage is about to become a very attractive thing to many employers, both public and private, said the governor of Tennessee.
	Now, the White House said it's just not going to happen.
	But it is.
	All of this, everything in this story, by design.
	And it was all knowable.
	So here's Mr. Ricardo Alonzo Zaldivar, well-known stenographer and journalistic slave, doing all kinds of intellectual gymnastics to avoid admitting the obvious, like going out and quoting actual economists and businessmen who have studied this because of how it's going to affect their business.
	The story prints out to three pages.
	Paul Keckley, executive director of the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions.
	What we're hearing in our meetings is that we don't want to be the first one to drop benefits, but we would be the second.
	We're hearing that a lot.
	A lot of companies just waiting for somebody else to do it first, and then the landslide begins.
	Well, the only way the administration can stop this, you see, would be to give McDonald's-style waivers to every employee.
	Remember, McDonald's and some of these fast food companies that supposedly never did offer health insurance.
	Remember that during the campaign?
	Those evil people, McDonald's, hamburger flippers, part-time, they don't even have health care.
	That's why we need to pass the law.
	So we pass the law.
	We find out that they do have health care, but they're going to have to cancel it because of the law.
	So we have to give them waivers until next year, just a waiver to get through this election.
	We're going to exempt them from the law.
	McDonald's, Burger King, you're not going to have to follow the law.
	We'll give you an exemption from this new health care law that is a panacea, that's a utopia that's going to make everybody's health care cheaper and better.
	It's actually going to cause a lot of people to lose their insurance, but we'll exempt companies for a year.
	The reason why nobody wants to be first, the reason why no major business company or even industry, the reason they don't want to be the first to actually drop coverage.
	Can you imagine what Obama and Kathleen Sebelius will try to do to those companies?
	Remember when AT ⁇ T and a number of others took the billion-dollar charges within 30 days of the original legislation being signed because of what was going to happen to their bottom lines?
	And what happened?
	The regime's Henry Waxman sent them all letters demanding that they bring their books and they show up to his committee to explain why they were canceling health insurance or taking all these big losses because everybody knows Obamacare was going to reduce expenses.
	So the regime passes a law.
	People follow the law.
	The regime doesn't like that.
	So they call you up.
	And then when Waxman learned that, hey, you know, these guys just follow the law, he had to back off.
	And the hearings never took place.
	So if it's General Motors, I don't care what the company, if they are the first to announce that they are dropping employer coverage because of the new health care bill, Obama might fire the CEO and pillory that company and the stock price will plummet and then they'll be held up for ridicule.
	That's why they don't want to be first.
	That's why this guy is saying what we're hearing in our meetings is we don't want to be the first one to drop benefits, but we would be the second one fast.
	We'll jump in there, be second before you knew it, but we're not going to go first.
	And all of this was known.
	See, the real purpose of Obama's health care reform was not to fix health insurance.
	It was to break it.
	It was to demolish it.
	It was to break private sector health insurance so thoroughly that only the government could fix it once and for all by begrudgingly, regretfully having to provide insurance.
	Look at those mean, rotten, nasty corporations.
	Look what they're doing.
	We come up with a great health care plan that's going to reduce people's premiums and expand their coverage.
	And look at them.
	They're canceling their own employees' coverage.
	They're canceling their own employees' coverage.
	Those rotten.
	Well, Obama calls a national address to the nation.
	He says, I'll jump in and say for today, don't worry.
	We'll put you on the government plan that your congressman and senator is on.
	We'll put you on the federal exchange.
	We'll bail you out.
	That's exactly what the plan is and what it's all about.
	A brief time out.
	We'll come back and continue after this.
	Don't go away.
	Now, let me remind you of something.
	I just reminded you in reading this AP story on Shazam, why employers might actually drop their employees' coverage because of health care.
	You believe that, Mabel?
	Every time I have predicted what turns out to be true about leftist extremists, Democrats from Obama to members of Congress and the Senate, invariably a ranking Republican will say to come on, Rush, why are you being so extreme about this?
	He'd be the first president ever doing like this.
	I mean, that just sounds so extreme.
	I remember before Obama was imaculated, I told a couple of Republicans, well, no, no.
	After Obama told the joint congressional leadership in the White House not to listen to me, that's not how things get done.
	A Republican said, why would he do that?
	Why would he say to the Republicans in that room, don't listen to me?
	What's the point?
	And I said, what's the point?
	He's hoping that one of the Republicans in the room would agree with him publicly.
	Obama's taking every step he can to discredit every credible conservative.
	Sorry, I'm distracted by something I see on TV for the second day in a row.
	I do not believe.
	He's doing everything he can to distract and discredit every sensible conservative spokesman out there.
	And Republic, you really think that he'd waste time with the Republican leadership to tell them what's he trying to focus on you for?
	You're not always.
	Because he wants me to be labeled by you as an extremist, not by him.
	He's hoping you'll agree.
	Come on, Rush, he's not that extreme.
	He's not that kind of guy.
	And these people have all apologized to me now.
	They've all said, you know what, you were right about this guy.
	You were right.
	He is an extremist like we've never seen.
	He's a radical like we've never seen.
	So when I say the express purpose of Obama's health care reform bill is not to fix insurance, but to break it, people say, come on, Rush.
	He'd be the first president in the history of the country to try to break an American industry.
	He's not going to try to do that.
	And then months later, you know what, Rush, you were right.
	You're probably not going to hear anyone else discussing this today either.
	The Heritage Foundation released its annual index of economic freedom.
	Now, they've been putting this report out for 16 years.
	The researchers look at 183 countries.
	They accurately measure the freedoms enjoyed by populations in those countries.
	Now, previously, the United States had always been designated in the top category or freest.
	North Korea comes in dead last.
	But in today's study, we have dropped out of the category, number one, to the second one.
	We are mostly free.
	We are not the freest.
	We're mostly free.
	We're no longer at the top.
	Our country ranks eighth behind Canada.
	Now, when the government takes control of an auto industry, puts a hand into the banking industry, assumes control of the healthcare industry, it's going to happen.
	When Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending eats up 41% of federal spending, this is going to happen.
	And see, what makes America great is our freedoms.
	The Heritage Foundation puts a new pamphlet out, well, it put a new one out a week ago called Why is America Exceptional?
	And I'll give you the punchline from it to entice you to get a copy of the new release.
	This nation was created with a creed that states that all men possess certain rights and that government derives its powers from the consent of the governed.
	All of this is online at askheritage.org.
	The pamphlet, the index, it's all there.
	Just go to askheritage.org and enrich yourself even more after this program ends and make yourself a member of the Heritage Foundation as well.
	It's just a gold mine to be able to access the brilliance that is published at the Heritage Foundation every day.
	And you can do it for as little as $25 a year membership.
	From InvestorsDaily.com, their blog, CBO confirms Obamacare discourages work.
	Lo and behold, Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf said last Friday that Obamacare includes work disincentives likely to shrink the amount of labor used in the economy.
	Now they tell us.
	Who knew?
	We knew.
	You knew.
	That's why you are part of the over 60% of the American people who did not want this health care bill passed and signed into law.
	That's why you and I are part of the over 60% of the people who want it repealed.
	Only now, after the fact, are all the truths coming out in the mainstream media.
	Obamacare might result in loss of employer coverage.
	Obamacare discourages work because the expansion of Medicaid and new health insurance subsidies will reduce the amount of labor that workers choose to supply because they will not need to work.
	They will not need to have a job in order to get health insurance as a benefit.
	It's that simple.
	And it's not good.
	Back to the phones.
	We go to Long Beach, California.
	John, thank you for waiting.
	And welcome to the EIB Network.
	Hello.
	Thank you.
	Nice to talk to you.
	Rush, I don't know if you remember this, but around 1993, you did a rally here in Long Beach, California, and I interviewed you for the local newspaper.
	That would have been National Conservative Forum, right?
	And we had.
	It was before 94, though, because we had talked about what was going to happen in 94.
	Yeah.
	Anybody just remember interviewing you.
	Yeah, but who was now?
	This was either in Long Beach, it had to be.
	We had Bob Bork there.
	We had.
	Yeah, okay, that's what National Conservative Forum.
	I remember that.
	We had an advanced guy that was very sharp that I don't know if you remember him, but he was a good guy, set it all up.
	You were just emerging on the national scene at that point.
	Right, right.
	Anyway, it was a great interview.
	I wanted to mention, because I don't know how much time I have, I'm a West Virginia Democrat, which is different than most Democrats, although I live in California.
	Nobody's mentioned this, and I think because you were in Pittsburgh, you might understand this concept more than most.
	You know how rabid the West Virginia Mountaineer fans are about their team.
	You know that, right?
	You lived in Pittsburgh.
	You probably went to West Virginia Pincape when we're lonely.
	Anyway, although we're not happy about the losing the Syracuse, the lowly Syracuse did it.
	I wanted to mention, though, that Manchin force-fed pretty much a series with Marshall on West Virginia.
	He wanted to leave a legacy.
	And it was bad enough to play him seven times, you know, and all that.
	But now this year in September, which I don't think was a very wise political move for him.
	Well, now wait, wait, wait.
	We're going a little bit too fast here for people.
	Marshall University, you're talking about a series with Marshall University.
	I'm sorry, Marshall University is, you know, West Virginia fans, like 90% of Mountaineer fans, you know, Marshall wanted to play West Virginia for years, and they wouldn't do it, you know, because it's like Kentucky and Louisville for years.
	They would say, I don't think there's much for us to gain by playing them.
	Exactly right.
	This evolves around that.
	Anyway, Manchin forced the game, pulled rank.
	He wanted to leave a legacy, and he forced the game on the athletic director quite a few years ago.
	He pulled a power play, and that made a lot of Mountaineer fans unhappy.
	And it didn't cost him in the governor's race because, you know, it's 2 or 3% perhaps that would vote against him.
	But in this race, anyway, in September, when the series is getting ready to end in a couple years, he made this play to be extended for 10 years.
	And a lot of Mountaineer fans got really upset about it.
	And I know this sounds weird to many people.
	I think people in Nebraska might understand, you know, in Alabama or somewhere, college football is huge.
	A lot of Mountaineer fans, I think, might take it out on him.
	And I don't think it was a good political move for him to make in September, you know, with the November elections.
	He was in a tight race with Racy.
	I think that 2% or 3% of people who make him pay for that series may be the difference in this election, I guess, is what I'm saying.
	And it's hard for people to understand that, but I think you might.
	Yeah, but I want you to try.
	I want you to try to tell people why people in West Virginia would take it out against Manchin.
	He forced the Mountaineers of West Virginia to play Marshall.
	What's so bad about Marshall?
	Well, it's just the fact that there's a lot of acrimony between the teams.
	The people in Marshall, we view them as, you know, I didn't even go to West Virginia, but I've been a Mountaineer my whole life.
	They view Marshall, they don't have the athletic history.
	They always wanted to play West Virginia.
	They couldn't justify it financially, so they resorted to name-calling, and the coach of Marshall went on the state house steps and had a placard up like that Bob Dylan video holding up placards and all that about why won't they play us?
	You know, the athletic director, you know, negotiated in the press and all that.
	And West Virginia could never, they wanted to play him one-on-one, you know, one in Morgantown and one in Huntington.
	And they won't do that.
	It's not financially feasible.
	So because of the size of the stadiums and things like that.
	Well, anyway, Manchin, who wants to leave a legacy, you know, got everybody together, and they played, it turned out they played five games in Huntington, I mean, five games in Morgantown, two in Huntington, and it's going to end soon.
	Now, Mountaineer fans thought, well, why is the governor?
	I mean, isn't there something else to worry about, like coal mine safety or something?
	Why is he making this at the top of his agenda?
	Why is the governor of the state even involved in something like football?
	Now, but explain to people what in the world Manchin saw as something positive for his legacy to make the Mountaineers play Marshall.
	Yeah, he views, he views, I think Manchin views himself as, you got to understand, you know, it's like a war shooter, like a guy that it's his state, it's his little fiefdom.
	You know, he's from a political family.
	His uncle was military service.
	Doesn't it stimmer on the fact that Marshall's the little guy?
	Marshall's the little guy that the way they're conducting themselves, there's a lot of things.
	They're not on the step on the stand, you know, the level of West Virginia.
	And it's a fine, you know, and they have to support themselves financially on their own.
	They don't get any state money.
	Marshall does, you know, and all that.
	And they agitated and became, it just became such a, it's just not a popular series among the Mountaineer fans because they've been forced on it into it.
	Right.
	And they, you know, anyway, the point being that the governor actually got involved in foaming.
	It's affirmative action.
	And they might.
	It's affirmative action.
	It's affirmative action for Marshall.
	And it would be compounded if Marshall beat them.
	That's what they live in fear of.
	They almost did.
	They almost did.
	But anyway, it's not even that.
	I think you're right.
	If I think about it, it's exactly right.
	It's given them something that they depend on basically on playing West Virginia to sell because the fans when they play Marshall will buy season tickets just to go to the game, that one game, like Ohio State fans do when they want to go to the places.
	Anyway, I think this has not been said over a forum as big as this, or any forum I've listened to, that this may, I think, this would not show up at a poll either.
	No, but I think there's resentment about that.
	And, you know, Racy's run a good campaign because he's made it a referendum between Obama and Manchin, basically, and tying him to it.
	And, you know, and Obama's very unpopular in West Virginia, extremely unpopular.
	Well, I know.
	That's why he wore the flagpin to try to overcome that.
	Well, John, I appreciate the call.
	Thanks much.
	You never know.
	I mean, people take sports allegiances and college football supposed to keep the politics out of it.
	I mean, even on this show, we get to the stick-to-the-issues crowd when football comes up.
	But, I mean, even journalists have to call here to get the real story.
	Don't forget that Marshall is the university.
	Remember the movie We Are Marshall?
	The team was lost in a plane crash.
	They had to rebuild that program from absolute scratch.
	And they went around the state and other parts of the country begging that when the new team was formed, please play us.
	And nobody wanted to play them because it was like playing little leagues when they first put the team back together.
	It was had no prayer.
	So that weighs into this as well.
	There's a whole lot of subterfuge here that would never make a political story.
	And if there is, and I'm not saying it's a factor, but if it is a factor, you will never understand why.
	People would never understand it.
	If Manchin's going to lose the race and it's by three points, nobody would ever say, yeah, it's because of what he did scheduling a five-game home and away series with Marshall.
	Because it's not on the journalists' radar whatsoever.
	Even though they might know it, they would not report it because it doesn't even compute.
	I mean, even I had to explain it.
	It's affirmative action.
	Plane crash was 1970.
	Plane crash doesn't have anything to do this, but it's all Marshall's still not.
	And it's a very popular look.
	Randy Moss came out of Marshall.
	He graduated because he's the only place that would take him.
	Well, not the only, but I mean, wrong way to put it.
	He got into some trouble, and Marshall took him.
	They took a chance on him.
	Chad Pennington, quarterback for the Jets and now the backup quarterback for the Dolphins, played with Randy Moss at Marshall.
	So they've got a great history and they've got some players that have made the National Football League, but they are a small program compared to the Mountaineers.
	Mountaineers are not happy.
	Well, they are.
	It's hard to say.
	Mountaineers are in good shape anyway.
	They love getting rid of Rich Rodriguez, the coach that walked out on a contract.
	They loved Rodriguez.
	He walked out on him.
	He went to Michigan, and Michigan is hardly noticeable now.
	So they're licking their chops at West Virginia over that when they were originally upset.
	You know, we don't know what role Manchin had in getting Rodriguez out of there, if he had any role at all, or trying to keep him in failing.
	The bottom line is, despite all this, all you have to know in West Virginia, Manchin, a governor claims not to know any of the horrible, rotten, anti-constitutional stuff in Obamacare when it was other governors around the state who led the charge against it on the basis of its not being constitutional.
	It wasn't until after it was passed that Manchin says, you know what?
	I didn't know what was in the weeds of that bill until the thing was passed.
	Everybody else did but him.
	And now he's trying to play it both ways.
	He's trying to explain, I didn't know what was in it, and I don't endorse that bill.
	Now they want to get elected to Robert Byrd's seat.
	Brief timeout, El Rushbo will continue right after this.
	Don't go away.
	All right, I got an email from West Virginia.
	Dear Rush, that caller was spot on.
	I would go so far as to say, had Marshall beat West Virginia a few weeks ago, this thing would already be over.
	Manchin wouldn't have a chance.
	And this is from a businessman in West Virginia.
	His name is Buck.
	Buck in West Virginia.
	Now, Marshall's, they got a fairly impressive list of alumni in the NFL.
	Randy Moss, Troy Brown, who played forever, the New England Patriots, great player, Chad Pennington.
	Byron Leftwich, the number two quarterback for the Steelers.
	And who could forget, pro football Hall of Famer Frank Gunnar Gatsky came out of Marshall.
	And I got this email.
	Dear Rush, I have a bone to pick with you.
	You say you have talent on a loan from God, as we all do, and I agree with that.
	So why aren't you telling your audience that they should be praying to God so that we win really big in this coming election and to continually pray to him?
	Remember, what's impossible for man is possible with God.
	Now, When I saw this, I said, what is the heck is this?
	I decided to print it out and read it to you because it reminded me of a story.
	If all you're doing is praying for a victory, it ain't enough.
	God helps people who help themselves.
	I will never forget being told how the Soviet Union tried to convince their children that God didn't exist.
	They would get two potted plants and they'd put them in a window and they would water one and not water the other.
	And they said, we're going to make one plant grow.
	We're going to leave the other one to God.
	Of course, the plant that they took care of and nurtured and watered grew, and the plant that they didn't died.
	And that's how they would convince people that there wasn't a God.
	The answer is God helps those who help themselves.
	You can sit around all day and pray.
	It ain't going to matter a hill of beans if you're not willing to get out and do something about it yourself.
	Pure and simple.
	Try this headline.
	Half a billion records breached in five years.
	Over the past five years, criminal hackers from all over the world, not just across the fruited plane, have been targeting huge databases of social security and credit card numbers.
	The end game for these hackers is identity theft.
	Once they obtain the stolen data, their objective is to turn it into cash as quickly as possible.
	This entails either selling the data to identity thieves on black market forums or using the information to create new accounts for themselves.
	Using your information and your data, it's ongoing.
	Identity theft happens daily, numerous times.
	Half a billion records breached in five years.
	Half a billion is a large number.
	The odds increase that you could be part of that number if you don't do something to protect yourself.
	And there is something you can do that's better than anything else.
	And it's called Life Lock.
	Nobody is going to totally stop identity theft.
	But when you see articles like this, you say, why doesn't it cost so little?
	Why do people not have Life Lock?
	It's so simple.
	You call 1-800-440-4833.
	You give them a little information about yourself.
	They will never sell it.
	They won't give it to anybody.
	The one group of people you can trust your Social Security number to is LifeLock.
	They use it because if somebody then steals your data and is trying to steal your identity, they get a phone call at LifeLock saying it's happening and you will get a call.
	Are you using your credit card to blah, blah, blah, blah.
	If you say no, the transaction stopped, your identity is saved.
	You don't want to have to rebuild your identity.
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	Jim in Oil City, Pennsylvania.
	Great to have you on the EIB network.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	Hey, I'm a lifelong Democrat.
	I started listening to you about a year ago.
	Thank you, sir.
	When this healthcare stuff started coming out.
	Right.
	And my health insurance, starting at the beginning at the first of the year, is going up 579%.
	Starting in 2011.
	In 2011.
	And I wouldn't vote for a Democrat for anything.
	And I'm a lifelong Democrat.
	I voted for 30 years.
	And I don't vote one way.
	I'm not a staunch Democrat or anything like that.
	I'll listen to both points of views.
	And I agree with you most of the time, except on one thing.
	And we'll never agree on that, I guess.
	What's that?
	Unions.
	Unions, okay.
	Well, I'll bet you, if I had time with you, I could come up with a couple things about unions you and I would agree with.
	Correct.
	I don't agree with the way unions are today.
	And I don't agree with them taking all of our dudes money and putting it toward Democratic campaigns.
	And I don't agree with them trying to persuade my vote.
	All right, there you are.
	I'm not opposed to unions existing as long as people who join them know what they're doing.
	Free country.
	You want to be a union member?
	Go ahead, but realize what you're doing.
	The one thing I don't understand, I'm being totally honest now.
	You just said you vote Democrat for 30 years, but no more because your insurance premium is going up whenever it's going up.
	Your taxes have gone up that much and more over those 30 years for the same reason.
	So I, honestly, folks, let me dead serious here.
	I'm not trying to be provocative.
	I don't know.
	I don't know why anybody who wants freedom and control over their own life would ever vote for a Democrat.
	The only people I can think of voting for Democrats are people who don't want to work or who don't have to work or what have.
	I can think of no reason to vote for one.
	Rush Limbaugh saying what needs to be said for 22 years and counting.
	Mind over chatter as we start a million conversations each day here on the EIB network.
	Now remember, keep a sharp eye.
	Don't let whatever's in the media about this election depress you.
	I'll tell you when to be depressed, and it's not now.

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