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Nov. 29, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 29, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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Stand by uh if you would on audio soundbite number twenty-eight.
I'm in the mood to listen to a sissy.
And we have an audio sound bite here from Julian Assange, who looks like a sissy and is a sissy.
It was from yesterday in Amon Jordan at the third annual conference for Arab Investigative Journalists.
How cool is this?
The third annual conference for Arab Investigative Journalists.
And Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks spoke.
And there was a question during the QA.
The information you have released and are about to release could put people at risk not only with the State Department or in Britain, but in the areas that you are already suffering the atrocities of war.
When you weigh out the risks versus the outrage your project has sparked and the change it's made, what is your assessment?
It understands that we are a responsible organization.
It's trying to make it as hard for us as possible to publish responsibly in the home.
It can get us not publish anything at all.
Because not publishing anything at all would mean not publishing the abuses by that organization.
I don't believe that for a minute.
I this is a problem.
I don't think the State Department's trying to get this guy not to publish anything.
Do you?
Look, in the old days, if they didn't want you to publish something, you didn't publish it.
found a way.
They really didn't want you to publish something.
I just love this guy.
Well, the State Department understands that we are a responsible organization, so we're trying to make it as hard for us as possible to publish responsibly.
I'm gonna be a little over here.
No, I just don't like the guy on general principles.
I don't like the name, I don't like the way he looks, I don't like the way he sounds.
He's a sissy.
He's a waif.
Purely and simply an internet creation.
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Now look at this.
This is from the Associated Press.
It is from yesterday.
And it's in their energy writer.
How to Prep Your Home for an Electric Car is the headline.
The sub-headline.
Oh, and get this.
I learned sometime last week that electric car manufacturers are having to give training to uh EMS personnel.
Emergency medical responders and so forth on how not to get electrocuted when you come upon the car in an accident and you have to tow it or get people out of it.
But that's not the half of it.
Listen.
This is just kind of like Dennis Miller had a great line on these compact fluorescent light bulbs.
Not to paraphrase it.
I don't remember exactly what it was, but he said, I have not worked all of my life to have my house filled with lights that look like the kind of cheap lights that light stairways in James Bond movies.
Dank little lights in these stairways with the bad guys hang out.
All right.
Getting your home ready to charge an electric car will either require a little time or money, a couple of months, and thousands of dollars, a couple of months and thousands of dollars to get your home ready to charge an electric car.
It depends on what kind of electric car you buy, the wiring in your home, and how quickly you want to juice your ride.
Now I'd assume that you want to be able to juice your ride the day you get it.
Electric cars are powered by batteries that are charged by plugging them into a standard wall socket or a more powerful charging station.
The charging station will cut your charging time roughly in half and reduce the chance that you'll trip a circuit in your house.
But it'll probably cost $2,000 or more, including installation.
The price will rise if you need a new electrical panel, which could add another $2,000.
The main thing to consider is how you're going to use your electric car.
If your commute is short, or there's a charging station near your office, you might not need much of a charge at home.
You can get away with topping off your battery overnight.
Provided you have room and that the boss isn't using a charging station for his electric car.
A standard 120 volt wall socket will give your car about five miles of driving for every hour of charging.
That means if you had a 40-mile round trip commute, you'd be able to charge in eight hours.
So you have in most cars, most electric cars, a 40 to 50 mile per charge distance, depending, of course, on speed.
And then it's it's eight hours to charge it to do that.
All right, no, that's where that's where we are now.
If you deplete your battery all the way, most days, a charging station that is connected to a 240 volt socket, like ones used for most electric clothes dryers could be worthwhile.
The 41,000 Chevrolet Volt and the $33,000 Nissan Leaf are set to go on sale next month.
Buyers qualify for a federal tax credit of $7,500 because they have to be paid to buy these cars.
And additional and local state subsidies in some cases might apply.
You might end up being paid 10 grand to buy one of these cars.
To date, Apple has not paid me a penny to buy 20 years' worth of their products.
Nor have they ever been on sale.
But that's another story.
And Apple products use electricity, by the way.
Now, the Volt and the Leaf have two different batteries and different charging requirements.
Scott Little, 62, an experimental physicist from Austin, Texas, has reserved a Nissan Leaf, but he's not going to install a charger because of what he calls its ridiculous price.
The idea, the idea of paying $2,000 for what amounts to a dryer plug irritates a guy like me.
He said instead he's going to use his wall socket for a while and eventually install chargers himself in his home and his farm 40 miles away.
So the idea of paying $2,000, wait till he finds out what it's going to cost him to charge the damn thing.
A battery like this plugged into your wall for eight hours?
It's going to...
Bottom line here is you're going to have to upgrade your house to efficiently charge your brand new electric car.
Hubbahubbahub.
Here's the story.
If the house catches on fire, who do you sue?
Well, I if your house catches on fire when you're when you're charging your iPhone, who do you sue?
Well, you don't sue anybody, do you?
You just, well, you might.
I don't know.
I don't.
People's houses catch on fire with electrical problems, gas problems.
I don't know who you sue.
Uh you go to the insurance company and they pay off and then cancel you.
Uh we'll wait for that to happen.
You know, there's gonna there's gonna be a giant class action lawsuit or something when this happens.
It's gonna be fun to watch.
Uh, all these fadsters get involved here.
Anyway, here's the story that I mentioned uh earlier.
Secondhand smoke kills more than 600,000 people worldwide every year, according to a new study.
In the first look at the global impact of secondhand smoking, researchers analyzed data from 2004 for 192 countries.
They found 40% of children and more than 30% of non-smoking men and women regularly breathe in secondhand smoke.
The study was paid for by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare and Bloomberg Philanthropies.
This helps us understand the real toll of tobacco, said Armando Peruga, program manager at the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative, who led the study.
He said that approximately 603,000 deaths from secondhand smoking should be added to the 5.1 million deaths that smoking itself causes every year.
Okay, now we have in our archives in our essential stack of stuff at Rush Limbaugh.com.
We have a World Health Organization study that was suppressed when it came out.
We have it.
And I want Coco Jr. to link it back on the homepage today.
World Health Organization did a massive worldwide study of secondhand smoke, and they found it has no impact at all.
Zilch Zero Nada, and it was suppressed.
You can't find it.
We have it.
We kept it.
We copied it ourselves, not relying on their websites.
All this is.
I mean, this is pure bunk.
This is all of this is just a crock.
I look at this kind of stuff.
This debate's been going on for 30 years.
I don't know how many people have been around secondhand smoke all their lives.
This is just, it's all lies.
It's what the left does.
Lies about our light bulbs, lies about global warming, and now lies about this.
All for the express purpose of ending up controlling people's lives.
That that report that I talked about, we first revealed it March 22nd of 2001.
Secondhand smoke is harmless.
Passive smoking doesn't cause cancer official.
That's the headline, and we'll link to it.
Well, we've got it.
It's in our essential stack of stuff, but we'll make it prominent on our webpage this afternoon so that you can look it up tonight when you get around to it.
By the way, secondhand smoke had its biggest effect on who?
According to the story.
No, women.
And then children.
Women and children hardest hit.
And the uh the second hand smoke.
Uh, impact.
Now, let's say this is this is from uh Florida Sun Sentinel, South Florida Sunset, Fort Fort Lauderdale.
Medicare admits overpaying for common items like wheelchairs.
Here's a story.
Medicare pays $800 to rent a wheelchair that retails for $350.
I mean, you can buy one for $350.
Medicare rents it for $800.
Medicare spent 188 million dollars on manual wheelchairs in 2009.
Officials cannot say how much of that involved overpayments.
Who's responsible for this is Congress.
Classic illustration of what happens when the government gets in the way of the free market.
Great example, how out of whack the whole Medicare process is, and how the people in government have frigged it up just like they're about to screw up all of health care.
Alan Siegel of Fort Lauderdale discovered the overspending recently when he needed to replace a wheelchair for his wife.
He wanted to buy one since she suffers from a form of muscular dystrophy and requires permanent use of a wheelchair.
But Medicare only covers the cost to rent one for up to 13 months.
After that, the chair belongs to the patient.
Two months into Siegel's rental, he learned just how much Medicare was paying.
The total cost over the course of the rental would be $800.
He checked further and found the chair being rented cost less than $350.
I had the supplier stop the rental and I bought the damn thing.
It's ridiculous.
For Medicare to spend so much more for a rental in situations when a cheaper purchase makes so much more sense.
It is ridiculous.
And this is, I'm sure one of a thousand million examples.
Throughout government, not just wheelchairs, but everything else practically.
An Internet search shows that those prices are at least twice the retail cost, in some cases much more.
A lightweight wheelchair similar to the one Siegel bought is available for as little as $99.
Eight times less than the Medicare rent price.
For more than 20 years, Medicare has used a fee schedule set by Congress to determine reimbursement rates for wheelchairs and other medical equipment.
The fees are based on the average amount that equipment suppliers charged Medicare in 1986.
See, folks, how much if you just paid for it yourself, this guy just pay for it himself.
Easy for you to say, Limbaugh.
I know, I'm sorry.
Forgive me.
I know it makes me the uh bad guy.
There was a story in the Washington Post on Friday.
And I don't think too many people saw this because on Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, what are you doing?
You're sleeping, you're shopping, cyber shopping, you're watching football, your whatever you're doing, but the last thing you're doing is probably reading the Washington Post.
Well, get this.
Doctors say Medicare cuts force painful decision about elderly patients.
I read this story and I was in stunned display.
Well, I wasn't because it didn't surprise me, but it's in stunned disbelief nevertheless that it's happening.
You want an appointment with kidney specialist Adam Weinstein of Eastern Maryland.
If you're a seasoned citizen covered by Medicare, the wait is eight weeks.
It's no longer the UK and Canada that are the horror stories.
They are happening here now.
Eight weeks for a seasoned citizen to get an appointment with a kidney specialist.
Some cases you don't have eight weeks, depending on how bad your kidney is in.
How about a checkup from geriatric specialist Michael Trejos?
Expect to see him once every six months.
He's an Alexandria-based doctor.
He's been limiting most of his Medicare patients to twice yearly rather than four times a year.
That he considers ideal.
Still, at least he'll see you.
Top-ranked primary care doctor Linda Yao is one of three doctors with the district's Fox Hall internist group who recently announced they will no longer be accepting Medicare patients, period.
It's not easy, she said, but you realize you either do this or you don't stay in business.
Excuse me, doctors across the country described similar decisions, complaining that they've been forced to shift away from Medicare toward higher paying, privately insured or self-paying patients in response to years of penny pinching by Congress.
And that's not even taking into account a long postponed rate setting method is on track to slash Medicare payment to rates to doctors by 23% more on December 1st.
Maybe they need to be looking into that 188 million dollars on just wheelchairs last year, of which two-thirds is an overpayment.
So what's happening?
Very simply, Medicare doctors are opting out.
They can't stay in bidness on what the government's paying them.
And they are cutting the number of times per year they will even see a patient, even emergency cases now, like a kidney problem, you can be in line eight weeks.
It's not just the UK.
And you want to know the sad truth?
All this is by design.
Once this actually begins to happen to a large number of seasoned citizens.
Now remember, I saw a story, we got a call coming up about this.
Alan Simpson said that the older generation is a bunch of selfish people.
They call the selfish generation.
These seasoned citizens are expecting all this medical care for nothing.
Well, who regardless whether they're that or not, when in mass they start saying, I wanted to get in the doctor, and the doctor won't see me and my mother died because.
Guess guess who we'll see on TV with a big smile when he's supposed to be Obama?
Well, let's see that we're gonna have to set up a public option.
Single payer, the only way we can deal with this.
Now, this Washington Post story, and I just referenced from last Friday on how Medicare doctors Are opting out because they're not being paid enough.
They're going to patients that pay themselves, or high insurance patients.
Not once in this story will you read the word Obamacare.
Not once will you see the name Obama.
Not once will you hear national health care reference at all.
This is just, you know, this is this happening out there.
I want it no explanation as to why.
And the reason for this is quite simple.
These seasoned citizens, when the doctors won't see them, are going to start clamoring for something.
And Obama's going to be right there.
See, these doctors are mean.
We told you from the get go.
The doctors are in for it themselves.
The doctors don't care.
The hospitals don't care, but I do.
And that's why we're going to make sure that the government doesn't let you down.
The government will handle it.
But the problem is that the public option is just Medicare for everybody.
So the same problems exist.
So pretty soon the doctor's not going to see any of us but twice a year.
Unless you can pay for it yourself.
Pretty soon the doctor's not going to see any of us, depending on the ailment, but twice a year.
Or once every eight weeks.
Because the public option is Medicare for everybody.
So Obama's solution for the Medicare problem is more Medicare.
Let's have more of it.
Pure and simple.
Be his solution for everything.
Such temporary reprieves have increased the potential paid down the road, compounding not only the eventual cut, but a cost of doing away with it for good.
Now estimated in the tens of billions.
Physicians are having to make really gut-wrenching decisions about whether they can afford to see as many Medicare patients, said Cecil Wilson, president of the American Medical Association.
Oh, yeah, it's very tough out there.
Really, really tough.
Here's another guy, some guy named uh Barenson, who co-authored a study at the Urban Institute.
The argument that doctors literally can't afford to feed their kids if they take Medicare rates is absurd.
It's just that doctors have gotten used to a certain income and lifestyle.
All right.
Fine.
Let's let's dump on the doctors here, but then let's let's ask a question.
Why is it axiomatic that doctors ought to not get paid for what they do?
Because it's health care, and we all have a right to it.
Why?
At some point then Obama's gonna say none of us should get paid for what we do.
First the doctors, then everybody else.
And if you're on Medicare, it's illegal to pay any extra money.
If you are on Medicare, and if you're a Medicare doctor, you can't take private paying patients.
No, they've got to opt out.
All this sadly, my friends, by design.
Here's Kevin in Missoula, Montana.
Nice to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Well, thank you.
It's an honor to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I was I wanted to comment on that Alan Simpson statement.
Um, and I'm a little nervous here.
What was it he actually said?
I don't have the exact statement, sir.
Well, I think you pretty much quoted it as it is.
And and my comments on that is the Alan Simpson being a former senator of many years, it always drew the conclusion that he himself was part of the selfish uh government uh elected government people who probably went out and told all his constituents that he was going to keep all benefits for future generations.
And now, as he is on the government deficit reduction committee, he is an almighty man who now says everybody else is the problem.
You hear what you hear what else what uh Alan Simpson said.
He said you can't you can't listen to people on talk radio like Rush Babe.
I mean, they could they couldn't get elected in a lifestyle, and they couldn't govern their way out of a paper sack, is what Alan Simpson said about me.
Well, you rush babe.
I have uh how how I view people like Alan Simpson, when he makes a statement that the senior citizens are the selfish one, I say that he's a selfish one because he's the one who was not proactive when he was in the Senate.
We all knew this day of reckoning was coming.
Everybody knew it.
Here it is today.
Alan Simpson is one of the blue blood country club crew chef Republicans that have helped get us into this point where we are today.
Well, there is um uh I I can understand an argument you're making.
Uh a lot of people would agree with you on that.
Uh But I wish I could remember his exact quote, because it was it was something along the lines that they're not the greatest generation or the most selfish generation, but it wasn't greediest.
It was the greediest.
That's what he said.
He called them the greediest generation.
And uh, oh, Kevin here is going to ask me what I thought about that.
I have deftly moved on, if you've noticed.
What do I think about his claim about the greediest?
I don't think that there is a greediest generation.
In the way that Alan Simpson babe means it.
But I do, if you've been listening carefully the last month, you do know that I think that we have way too many people who think that they are entitled to stuff just because they're Americans.
And I don't think it's generational.
If you look at, he's talking about the greatest in the World War II bunch.
And I know the argument of the World War II bunch is that, yeah, they saved the nation and a great bunch of self-reliant people, and something happened to them.
And after the World War II, if they saved it and became called the greatest generation, they said, okay, pay us.
This is the argument made about them.
That they're the ones demanding freebies here, freebies there, Social Security, Medicare, all this kind of stuff.
They want this, and they vote for it and all that.
That's an argument made about them.
Not by me.
But I do think, as you know, I've we've got a rising problem in the country of expectation on the part of way too many citizens.
I don't care what generation they're from.
I don't know if it's greedy, it's just um they expect everything to be bought for it.
It's like these students running around.
If you, if college costs too much, then you don't go.
I mean, it's the way it used to be.
If um if a car you wanted to buy cost more than you can afford, you bought a different kind.
If you can't go to a major university, that's no big problem, by the way.
It's probably not that harmful.
Go find a junior college.
There's no, there's nothing that says you can't get educated if you don't go to some so-called high-falutin university.
You can get educated in all kinds of ways.
But the idea that how do you in one way, as far as these little crumb crunches are concerned, they've been told from the moment they've been able to understand English that education is the single most important thing.
They've heard their parents talk about it, politicians talk about it.
It's the only thing that matters if you don't get an education, you're a dim whip failure, you have no chance.
And so they've been scared into believing that that's true.
And then when they come across the uh come to the realization they can't pay for it, then they panic and want somebody else, the very people telling them how important, well, then you pay for it for us if we can't, because you're one telling us we can't get anywhere without it.
So, in a way, uh, these people that have been building up education as an end-all to every problem, sort of have themselves to blame in part with all these people demanding one.
It's no different than if everybody in your life have been telling you that the way out of misery is to learn how to fix a car.
Then that's what you'd want to do.
Uh so I don't know.
It's it's a tough call out there, certainly on this uh greediest uh generation business.
And you had a president, you had LBJ promising people stuff, a great society, the war on poverty, uh, Medicare, Medicaid, uh student aid, student loans, all of this stuff has been promised to these people.
A retirement has been promised to people.
The Democrat Party, the Democrat Party, the American left have been promising people a panacea, a utopia.
And then when those same people pull it away from them, they're going, I want it, I want it, you give it to me.
You told me it was mine.
And then they start rioting and they blow up bank buildings and throw rocks through trees and whatever else they do.
And they irritate self-reliant people like me.
Well, I know, I know.
This is what Alan Simpson babe is forgetting, that the seasoned citizens paid into this.
They've they've they've they've paid their FICA, they've had the Social Security payments, they think they've been paying for their Medicare.
They bought all that, they bought that this was a retirement plan.
They bought it.
People like me, the self-reliant, have never believed that somebody else other than me is gonna pay for my retirement.
I'm sorry if it makes me a bad guy, but I've never believed it.
It's like when I watched the TV show, The Millionaire, that that guy, Michael, whatever is it, was gonna knock on my door someday.
I knew it was never gonna happen.
And that if somebody did knock on my door, offer me a million bucks, the stuff I was gonna have to do for it was stuff I would never do.
It just doesn't happen.
But a lot of people, from the time they were young people, have been told it does happen.
It will be their life.
It will be their reality, so um.
Now, this is interesting.
What is this?
This isn't the Wall Street Journal.
It's from a blog.
Uh, Chikons are trying to plug WikiLeak.
Can the world's uh most elaborate censorship system put the clamps on the internet's most prolific source of confidential information?
A day after Icky Leaks began to release a quarter million diplomatic cables sent from U.S. embassies, propaganda authorities in Beijing appear to be trying to control how much of the content of those cables leaks through to the Chinese public.
As of Monday evening in Beijing, the icky leaks cable gate page was blocked by China's great firewall, a rudimentary first step in the Chikom's censorship checklist.
More significantly, Chikom news media have received orders not to report on the icky leaks dump.
Contained in the cables are assertions that could make things awkward between the Chikons and the U.S., including suggestions that Chikoms ignored a U.S. request to stop transference of ballistic missile technology to Iran.
We knew this was none of this is why I say it's a surprise.
We knew the ChaiCons are sending stuff over to the Iranians.
We knew this.
This stuff just confirms it in almost an undeniable form.
State Department cables.
As I said, very few people lie on their cables.
They lie to their diaries in the Clinton administration, but not that they're cables.
People generally don't lie to their State Department cables.
So uh I think we've got the problem here.
Let's find Julian Assange and give him to the Chikoms.
And let's tell the Chikoms that he um what is he?
He's uh he's uh what can we say he is?
He's Falloon Gong.
We'll tell the ChaiCons that he practices Falloon Gong and they'll put him in a hard labor camp.
And if it all we'll have to do is tell them, they'll whether they believe it or not, they'll accept it.
Oh, Assange Fulong Gong?
Fine.
We'll gong his Falloon, you know, we'll put him away.
Or uh tell the Chai Kongs that he's Hmong.
Something like that.
Now, what's in the the ChaiComs, the ChaiComs have their Mao shorts in a knot over this.
The ChaiCons are not happy about it.
The Obama regime, I don't think they really care, but the ChaiCons are not keen here.
Uh they don't mind people suspecting they're giving nuclear weapons and stuff to the Iranians, but they have it confirmed.
So, whoever wants to curry favor with the Chikoms, find Assange.
Turn him over.
What I love that.
Might have to get into this in a little bit more detail tomorrow because this is funny.
This is a story from the day before Thanksgiving in Politico.
And this is this is I love this.
First Lady of the United States' White House is not Camelot.
And this they're not happy about this.
The inside the Beltway state-controlled media, very upset that Michelle My Bell is not turning the White House into a big social event and occasion and location.
The reality is of Washington make that difficult.
We're in an era where it's hard to recreate Camelot.
People are increasingly cynical about politics.
It's really a partisan world.
I don't think either party would allow the president of the opposite party, the first lady to enjoy that kind of ex- Oh.
So, the only reason why the Obamas are not Camelot's because the Republicans are not letting them.
Right.
Anyway, they're lamenting the story that Michelle has not turned it into Camelot.
But folks, uh as I said, more detail on this.
Different from what?
What's she different from?
Ugh, Camelot, Schlamolat.
The one thing you can't get away from a class is class.
It's just that simple.
Yeah, I like that idea.
Give over uh Julian Assange to the Chi Kons, tell him he's falloon gong because you know, no matter what happens, Eric Holder would never put Assange in Gitmo.
Which would also be a good place.
Alright, folks, we'll see you tomorrow.
Be here.
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