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Jan. 27, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 27, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Ladies and gentlemen, Barack Obama was out selling his uh State of the Union uh class warfare rally in Vegas, a couple other places.
I mean.
And did you hear what he said about the economy?
I want this Obama.
I want an economy where we're making stuff and selling stuff and moving it around.
I want an economy where UPS and moving stuff around.
We're gonna make stuff, we're gonna sell stuff, we're gonna move it around.
Obama nomics.
And it's Friday, so let's keep going here.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Great to have you here.
It's so much fun being with you to do this every day.
Telephone number, and we'll get to your call zone quick over here, 800-282-288-2, and the email address Ill Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Now, this examiner piece, the Washington Examiner.
1994 report, Santorum supported individual mandate.
That's very short story, but it says Rick Santorum supported the idea of requiring individuals to buy health insurance when he ran for the Senate in 1994, according to a local feature article comparing the candidates during the uh election cycle, 1994.
And then at the end of the short piece in the examiner, it says the morning call, that's a local newspaper in Pennsylvania.
A morning call does not quote Santorum making comments supportive of an individual mandate, nor does the newspaper quote any other candidates in the piece, which attempts to summarize several candidates' positions on health care.
There are no direct quotes, but yet he supported the individual mandate back in 1994.
Next, we'll hear that he ripped Reagan.
Santorum hated Reagan.
That's next.
Now you remember 1994.
That was the height of Hillary care and the debate there.
So everybody had that position, and I do know that Santorum was for individual health care accounts, medical safety's accounts, which he still favors.
Now, there's also a piece here, raw story.com.
It's one of those blogs out there.
And I'm just gonna tell you what it says.
I don't know if true, I never I don't know who Rawls story is.
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros told Reuters global editor at large, Christia Freeland that he still supported Obama, but he predicted that voters would not be very enthusiastic about the 2012 elections if Romney was nominated by Republicans.
Soros said, look, either you're going to have an extremist conservative be it Gingrich or Santorum, in which case I think it'll make a big difference which of the two comes in.
But if it's between Obama and Romney, there isn't all that much difference except for the crowd that they hang out with.
And then maybe better food.
Probably probably better food on the uh on the Romney side, but anyway.
Soros acknowledged that a major difference between Romney and Obama would be their Supreme Court nominations, but other than that, there's no difference in these two guys other than the people he hang out with.
George Soros.
Now, why would Soros say that if he did, why would he say this?
Yeah, yeah, well, what's the psychological game that he's playing?
What what?
He's endorsing Romney.
Yeah, he says, yeah, Romney, hey, that's cool.
No difference.
I could go with either way that way.
And now Soros knows that he's hated by the Republican base.
So if he's playing psychology, he's trying here to stoop Romney.
If you will.
Back now to the uh audio sound bites.
We left off with Santorum saying, going up against Obama, who who are you gonna claim top-down government run medicine on the federal level doesn't work, and we should repeal it.
And he's gonna say, wait a minute, Governor, Obama's gonna say, you just said top down government run medicine, Massachusetts works well.
Folks, we can't give this issue away in the election.
It's about fundamental freedom.
Next up, it was Romney's turn to reply, who gives a defense.
See what do you think of this?
I didn't say I'm in favor of top-down government-run health care.
Ninety-two percent of the people in my state had insurance before our plan went in place.
And nothing changes for them.
They own the same private insurance they had before.
And for the 8% of people who didn't have insurance, we said to them, if you can afford insurance, buy it yourself.
Any one of the plans out there.
You can choose any private plan.
There's no government plan.
And if you don't want to buy insurance, then you have to help pay for the cost of the state picking up your bill.
Because under federal law, if someone doesn't have insurance, then we have to care for them in the hospitals.
Give them free care.
So we said no more.
No more free riders.
Now, I know I'm going to get a lot of trouble here with certain people, but I think Obama could say the same.
Obama has said the same thing, defending Obamacare.
For example, uh Romney says 92% of people in my state had insurance for our plan went in place.
Nothing changes for them.
Obama, if you like your plan, you get to keep your plan, except that you don't.
But that's what Obama said.
You like your plan, you get to keep it.
We're not touching.
You like your doctor, you get to keep it.
We're not changing it.
For the 8% of the people who didn't have insurance, we said to them, if you can afford it, buy it.
And if you don't want to buy insurance, then you gotta help pay for the cost.
Obama.
You gotta buy insurance or pay a fine.
It's the same thing.
This is Santorum's point, is the same thing.
You option is to buy insurance required, or you pay a fine.
Now, the way Obamacare structured, the fine is much cheaper than the insurance for a couple of years by design.
The idea is to get people paying the fine.
They are the free riders.
Romney's right.
They pay the fine, but they show up in the emergency room.
By law they have to be treated.
They're the free riders.
So Santorin says, see, it's the same thing.
Obama's doing the same thing.
Romney doesn't call his plan a fine.
You don't buy insurance, then you have to help pay for the cost.
It's the same thing.
This is why people say there's not much difference in two plans.
And Romney says, because under federal law, if somebody doesn't have insurance, then we have to care for them in the hospitals, give them free care.
So we said no more free riders.
So you're paying the fine or you're buying health insurance, which is what Obamacare is.
And the fine is cheaper.
At first, the whole point of Obamacare, remember, is to get people out of their current insurance plans.
And if somebody's 25 or 30 thinking they're immortal, they're not going to get sick.
Why go out and spend 15 grand on an insurance policy?
Well, all I gotta do if I have an emergency is go to the emergency room.
So I'll pay the what the fine is is $800, I think I'm grabbing a figure out of the air.
But it's compared to whatever the insurance policy will cost you.
The fine's nothing.
The structure that way.
Obama wants people paying the fine.
He wants young people pay.
He wants them not having insurance because while they're doing that, Obamacare is going to push private sector health insurance out of business.
And by the time it's all said and done, five years or more, the only place you're going to be able to go to get health insurance is the government.
And one of their numerous exchanges.
It's the plan.
The plan is to wipe out private sector insurance.
And once it's gone, somebody tell me how it comes back.
This is why this is so crucial.
So Santorum then replied and gets Romney to admit that his plan's a mandate.
Does everybody in Massachusetts have a requirement to buy health care?
Everyone has a requirement to either buy health care or pay the state for the cost of providing them free care.
Because the idea of people getting something for free when they could afford to care for themselves is something that we decided in our state was not a good idea.
So in Massachusetts.
Mr. Understand that.
In Massachusetts, everybody is mandated as a condition of breathing in Massachusetts to be able to buy health insurance.
And if you don't, and if you don't, you have to pay a fine.
What's happened in Massachusetts is people are now paying the fine because health insurance is so expensive, and you have a pre-existing condition clause in yours, just like Barack Obama.
All right.
So the similarities, this this was the best attack, I guess, on Romney care that's happened yet in these debates.
So Romney this is where he gets frustrated and says, Look, it's not really worth getting angry about here.
First of all, it's not worth getting angry about.
Secondly, the the uh secondly, 98% of the people have insurance.
And and so the idea that more people are free riding the system is simply impossible.
I know you don't like the plan that we had.
I don't like the Obama plan.
If I'm president of the United States, I will stop it.
And in debating Barack Obama, I will be able to show that I have passionate concern for the people in this country that need health care, like this young woman who asked the question.
But I will be able to point out that what he did was wrong, it was bad medicine, it's bad for the economy, and I will repeal it.
Wolf, what Governor Romney said is just factually incorrect.
Your mandate is no different than Barack Obama's mandate.
It is the same mandate.
He takes over you take over 100%, just like he takes over 100%, requires the mandate, are the same fines that you put in place in Massachusetts, are fines that he puts in place in the federal level.
Congressman Paul's right.
Same program.
And and Paul said they don't either of them know what they're talking about.
And the place erupted.
So that was the assault.
That was the ta-t-tate, the back and forth on Romney care being Obamacare, and Santorum saying, we can't give this issue away.
And he's right, and finally Romney, look, it's not worth getting angry about, and it is.
Maybe anger doesn't sell on television.
This is where I don't know.
I actually think people mad on TV can be made to work.
I used to do it in Sacramento.
I debated the mayor at Davis three times a week.
He couldn't help but get mad.
He's a nice guy, but he was a commie.
And and just uh in fact, that's where I debuted the he was all upset about feminism one day and my position on it.
Oh, you remember, he was all exercised and doing a typical academic liberal.
Well, I think Mr. Limboard would quite agree with me.
I said, Look, let me just cut to the I love the feminist movement, especially when walking behind it.
And even the cameramen started to laugh, which never happens.
So that was the back of the it is worth being mad about.
And Romney said, hey, come on here, not worth getting angry about.
Now I've been told that was Romney's attempt to call attention to the fact that Santorum looks dour and he's got a propensity to getting mad and so forth, uh, that it might not have been Romney not understanding the passion about it.
Either way, it was an attempt to stanch the flow of blood that was taking place.
Okay, so I got to take a timeout here, folks.
We will do that, and uh we'll come back and get to your phone calls.
Gallup is out with more polling data, and this is not a surprise.
2011 was the most polarized third year of a presidency by a wide margin ever.
Although, you know, Mama is going to bring us together, we're gonna become one, you're gonna get rid of all the old divisions, we're gonna love each other.
Uh world was gonna love us, uh, we're gonna come together.
I'm gonna put it put aside the old politics.
The historically high gap between partisans' job approval rating of Barack Obama continued during his third year in office, an average of 80% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans approve of the job he's doing.
That is what we call polarization.
And it's the most polarized third year of a presidency in many, many moons, according to Gallup.
We are back.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Here are the numbers.
Where are the numbers?
Where are the numbers?
Uh Where are the numbers?
Here we go.
Obamacare fine by 2016.
Four years from now, for those of you in Rio Linda.
The fine for not helping having health insurance, $695, or 2.5% of your household income.
I don't know if it says whichever is the least.
But 2.5% of somebody's household income could be pretty high.
But if you've got the option to pay $695, I mean, who wouldn't pay that?
That's the whole point.
You make that fine so cheap.
I mean, you could move out of mom and dad's house, so you could get off of mom and dad's policy for $695 a year.
And then when you get sick, go to the emergency room.
That's what they're counting on.
And by the way, that's 2016.
The fine's cheaper than that before you get to 2016.
I uh I do believe.
Oh, it's the higher of the two that you are required to pay, the higher of the two.
For a lot of people, 695 is going to be the higher of the two.
695 is the minimum.
Now, in Massachusetts.
The people of Massachusetts favor Romney care three to one, according to polling data.
According to every poll, the people in the U.S. oppose Obamacare 3 to 1.
Romney, there's there's some things he could say to defend himself.
They could do a better job on this.
If it were me, I could do a better job defending it than he's doing.
Uh what I was going to say scrolled out of view here in my notepad, because I keep jotting stuff down here.
But anyway, I promise to go to the phones, we'll do it.
Here's Jim in Concord Township, Ohio.
You're up first on Open Mind Friday.
Great to have you here, sir.
It's a great honor, Russ.
Hey, um, I'm a diehard conservative.
Um the thing that bothers me during these debates, um, especially with Romney and Gingrich, is the uh gotcha questions that they keep coming up with.
And uh, for instance, the health care last night.
I mean, uh Romney has said over fifty times he'll repeal Obamacare, and every one uh every one of the candidates has said the same thing.
The thing that I'm a little uh frustrated about is nobody's saying what they would do going forward, because health care is on a little bit of a mess right now, and uh nobody has a plan that's out there.
And I'd like I'd Romney being the um best fiscal conservative out of the three and promising as he has that he won't uh follow Obamacare, I'd like to see what he has, and I think he'll have uh a great plan going forward.
That's an interesting point.
Um saying he would repeal it, but they don't offer an alternative.
Um maybe they have, and it's out there in their white papers uh in their 59-point plan.
It's hard to do that on a debate where you only get like 30 seconds, you know.
Well, you know, you've got some of them say we want to replace parts of it, some of them say that we're gonna can't get rid of the whole thing.
Uh some say, as I said in the first hour, hey, there are parts of this that the American people want.
Pre-existing condition, uh keep your work with kids on the policy up to age 26, all that kind of stuff.
We've got to be very careful, Rush.
We can't just broom the whole thing.
Some of them are saying that.
Um Santorum, I thought last night got closer to anybody else has and talking about what needs to be done to fix this, and that is orienting health care costs to people's ability to pay, i.e., market forces.
Imagine if hotels were not priced according to people's ability to pay.
And nothing about a hospital stay that is that is priced according to the market, according to what people can afford.
But in the hotel business, you've got every option from renting by the hour right by the George Washington Bridge to the St. Regis.
Whatever you can pay for however little or long you want to stay, the option, hotel-wise, is there.
I I've never been there, but you can't miss it, since it's right there when you're going through the it's actually the Lincoln Tunnel.
I'm sorry, it's a Lincoln Tunnel, not the George Washington Bridge.
The Lincoln Tunnel.
You're heading into the city, it's right there.
Right before you go down the hill and make the uh the turn into the tunnel.
By the hour.
I often I drive by there.
I wonder who's in there right now.
Some mob guy in there with some mole or mo I but it's there.
You go to Indianapolis.
Indianapolis has a Super Bowl next weekend.
Uh you can't get a room now.
Now you probably in Dallas you could, but there's six thousand hotel rooms in Indianapolis.
Six thousand hotel rooms.
That's not very many for a Super Bowl.
One of the best hotels in town, there's the Conrad.
It's a Hilton.
It's been booked for three years.
The NFL took it.
Point they can they charge whatever they want for it this week.
Any hotel can charge whatever they want.
And that's the market.
The market working.
You know.
Of course there's gouging of all everybody complains about the gouging, but they pay it.
We're a nation of whiners.
But everybody can there if you want for example, if you want to buy a suite, least one at Lucas Oil Stadium for the Super Bowl.
I checked.
There's one for a million dollars that has something twenty-four seats in it.
Now, what's that for?
A million dollars for a suite.
Somebody leased it early on, either can't go or is trying to flip it for uh it's the market.
That doesn't happen in health care is my whole point.
And Santorum was saying, go to medical savings accounts, make it so that people buy their medical care and they can only pay what they can afford and watch what will happen at prices.
Ha!
How are you?
Half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
George Soros did say it.
This is a Wednesday on Reuters website, Reuters.com, the Freeland file, digital editor Christian Freeland interviewing George Soros.
This was in Davos.
That isn't all that much difference, except for the crowd that they bring with them.
Romney would have to take Gingri for a Santorum as a vice president.
And uh probably have some pretty extreme candidates for the Supreme Court.
So that's the downside.
On the other side, uh the Obama administration is a bit exhausted, so it's not all that strong.
So it won't be that great a difference, and I think there won't be a great deal of enthusiasm on either side of the battleground.
It could be a more civilized than the previous elections have been.
That's George Soros, who thinks if it's Romney, there's gonna be a boring election, nobody's gonna be enthused on either side.
The Obama side's exhausted, tired, worn out, his supporters down in a dumps, nothing's happening like it was supposed to.
Romney doesn't excite the Republicans.
Be pretty uh civilized.
Won't be a great deal of enthusiasm.
This guy sounded like a bond villain or what?
But he said it here, if it's between Obama and Romney, there isn't all that much difference.
Except for the crowd that they bring fish down.
George Soros, who, by the way, got a big stake in this stuff, as we all know, Jacob in Atlanta.
We go back to the phones and open line Friday.
Hello.
Uh yes, sir.
Uh I'm actually an independent voter and I'm an Army veteran.
And I have a two-part question for you about Congressman Paul.
Okay.
Um being he's uh currently polling five point eight points behind Obama in the general election, while Newt Gingrich is pulling eleven point seven points uh behind him in the general election, and that's a real clear politics average.
And the second part, do you feel that he's failing to energize the Republican base um due to his radical policy changes, such as ending income tax, ending Obamacare and abolishing the IRS?
Also, one to say hello to my dad in Las Vegas, the bottom chip.
Uh no, I I I think the problem with Ron Paul uh that most people have on the Republican side is this foreign policy.
Uh there's no reason For us to do it.
In fact, we're responsible for all the terrorism.
We are responsible for all the bad guys shooting at us because we're shooting at them.
We're going to war all over.
We're making a war.
What would you do if we did if they did what we did?
So a lot of people have a big problem with thinking that the United States is responsible for the incident on 9-11.
That's probably the number one problem people have with Ron Paul.
Okay.
Were you aware of that?
Well, I am.
But a lot of my friends who are also independent voters uh were just you can obviously see in the polling for Ron Paul that it's just it's definitely helped him a lot.
Let me ask you this question.
Can I ask you a question as an independent voter?
Yes.
When Republican candidates are highly critical of Obama, what is your reaction to that as an independent voter?
Uh there's certain things that I disagree with President Obama on as far as his funding for veterans and veterans' affairs and everything of that nature.
I I strongly support that.
However, you know, I do feel that we do need to get back to a balanced budget and uh, but when a Republican candidate goes after Obama is incompetent or says he's a socialist or um the the the guy is is is ruining the economy, what is your reaction as an independent?
Uh at times earlier earlier in his uh earliest presidential years it was a lot different.
I wanted to essentially give him a shot at the presidency.
However, now with uh with the lack of everything that's been done in Washington over the last three or four years.
What is the challenge in answering this question?
The challenge I'm not asking you about policy.
I'm asking you what is your reaction to a Republican when they criticize Obama.
It's neutral.
I don't I don't get offended anymore.
Really?
Okay, cool.
Cool.
All right.
Um do you what what is Ron Paul like uh he he wants to legalize most drugs?
Uh so the government's got no business uh denying people that kind of freedom.
Uh do you agree with that?
Um not necessarily to a certain extent.
Uh I know that there's a lot of as far as marijuana legalization.
Um it's it's a waste of taxpayer dollars um for such a petty crime, in my opinion.
What trying to shut it down?
I'm sorry, sir.
What's the waste of taxpayer dollars?
Uh the battle in marijuana.
Oh, the battle in marijuana.
I saw a story, by the way, there's uh some some Swiss, Swedish, French, some other some uh outfit has made a marijuana spray for multiple sclerosis.
It's been approved in some European countries.
They're gonna ask the FDA to approve it here.
They hope to get it approved by 2013 or 2014.
And it's got THC and the cannibavoid cannibalist, whatever the uh ingredient is.
But it doesn't give you the high.
You spray it in your mouth like a breath spray, and it's supposed to have all the wonderful medical benefits of marijuana without the high.
And it's primarily being used to treat multiple sclerosis in the European countries where it's been approved.
I wonder we'll see the medic and by the way, it also does not, from what I understand, what I read it does not enhance the appetite, which marijuana does.
So I it'd be interesting to see if the medical marijuana gang in this country would support a an oral spray of marijuana doesn't give you a high, does not increase your appetite, but effectively deals with a medical problem.
That would be fascinating.
Jacob, thanks for the call, Tony in Denver.
You're next.
It's great to have you here, sir.
Megadiddos are great, maha.
Thank you for taking my call.
It's the name of the drug is Satavx, S A T I V E X, Satavx.
Sativex, I don't know how you pronounce it.
There are side effects.
Sleepiness, nausea, dizziness.
They usually go away in period of weeks, is what I'm told.
I'm sorry about Tony.
Yeah, hi.
Hey, it's very clear to me from last night's debate that Romney supports an individual mandate as a condition of breathing, that we must buy health insurance.
Rush, what is going to happen this summer when the Supreme Court decides if an individual mandate is constitutional?
If Romney is a nominee, there's no way the court will rule against Obamacare.
Our nominee has to be opposed to an individual mandate.
Do you really believe that Romney would pressure the Supreme Court to rule against something he supports?
Oh, the the president's not there's no president's going to pressure a Supreme Court.
I mean, uh what Romney support, you know, um pressure the Supreme Court.
If he uh uh to rule against something he supports the individual mandate.
And one more thing.
Wait, wait, hold it.
I'm I'm losing you on this, is maybe it's the language you're using I'm not following.
Romney pressures the Supreme Court to rule against something that he supports, the individual mandate.
Yeah, he's not gonna pressure the court to rule against an individual mandate because he supports an individual mandate, just like Santorum brought out of them last night.
Uh what's gonna happen?
The Supreme Court is gonna have to be.
Well, if the Supreme Court rules that the mandate's constitutional, it doesn't matter.
That's that's um you you your your your fear is that Romney will cave if that happens?
No, he's he's gonna be on Obama's side when it comes to ruling on the individual mandate.
That's my fear.
He supports it.
And Rush, can I please ask you another question?
In a few days you have to vote.
Sarah Palin was brave and told us who she would vote for.
Are you going to show courage and tell us who you're voting for?
See, my way out of that is to say that's not how I define courage.
Now I'm still trying to figure out the other thing you said.
I want to understand this.
The Supreme Court could rule.
I don't think it's automatic.
Now, my friend, I have a lot of friends in a legal community who think that it is automatic.
I have a lot of friends in a legal community who think the Supreme Court wouldn't dare declare it unconstitutional.
Separation of powers and all that, that they wouldn't dare.
That they sometimes read the election results.
They don't want the hassle, the problem.
It's something that the elected representatives, the people passed, and it's just gonna happen.
A lot of people, legal side, do not see the court rendering a decision that says Obamacare is unconstitutional.
I'm more of an optimist.
If the court renders it unconstitutional, then Obamacare's that's the fundamental element of it, and it breaks apart, falls apart, breaks down.
Now, I'm I'm I don't understand your question about Romney.
Um But he didn't he didn't say embarrassed to me.
So I I Tony, try this one more time.
I I'm not sure what you're asking me about Romney and the Supreme Court.
Well, if Romney's our nominee, hold on, hold on, hold on.
I'm looking, I need to go very slow.
If Romney is our nominee, okay, that'll be in September, August September.
Okay.
If he's our nominee, and he does not pressure the Supreme Court to rule against an individual mandate, and Obama does not pressure the court to the presentation.
Okay, the court's decision is going to come in June.
Long before we have a well, we might know who the nominee is, but he won't be coronated until the convention.
Yeah, our nominee is going to be chosen by you down in Florida this coming Tuesday.
Okay.
I got what here's what I'm getting.
I think we are uh two ships passing in the night is your term, Romney, if Romney does not pressure The court uh presidents don't pressure the Supreme Court, and I think you know that.
And I and the court, so you might be asking, is the court going to be influenced by the Republican nominee?
Are you asking me if the Republicans nominate Romney, then the Republicans are saying, hey, they like an individual mandate.
Right, exactly right.
Okay, so the court will then have the freedom to rule in favor of it, since the Republican nominee is for a mandate, Obama's for a mandate, the court can say the people have spoken.
You've got it, Rush.
What's going to happen then?
We're gonna lose for sure.
Because Romney's our guy and he supports what Obama supports.
Okay, and then in your scenario, once the court declares it constitutional because both party nominees are for it, then Romney can say, Well, look, there's nothing I can do now, and he will drop the issue altogether.
Is that what you're afraid of?
Yes.
Yeah.
And that's why this next week in the foreigner primary and my endorsement is so important.
That's what it's all at.
Now, as to our last caller, who says that once the Supreme Court sees that our nominee is Romney and goes in and finds Obamacare constitutional and it's over.
So we don't want to have Romney nominated.
Romney, just to be factually correct out there, Romney says he opposes a federal mandate.
He says he's all in favor of the states, like he did when he was governor mandating stuff.
But the federal government, no way.
So if he if he tried to opt out based on that, people could zero back and say, wait a minute, Governor, you said you oppose a federal mandate.
For not endorsing a candidate in these primaries, and uh two things about that.
People angry at me for not endorsing yet.
Meanwhile, a lot of the same people are furious at the media and the Republican elites for telling them who to vote for.
This is apparently required of me to endorse, but when the Republican elites tell you who to vote for, as in Romney, they get mad about it.
The second thing is look at just what has happened this week.
I wonder how many of the people yesterday, before so the truth is known, who had endorsed Newt wonder how they felt like Fred Thompson last week endorsed Newton.
And it was full throated, and it made it was great.
It was made a lot of sense.
I think Fred Thompson felt when that stuff happened yesterday.
These guys, by that I mean candidates, they've got so much hidden stuff that can come out and embarrass endorsers and cause questions to uh to bounce back to the uh to the endorsers.
Anyway, Linda in Nashville, it's great to have you on the EIB network and open line Friday.
Hello.
Yes, sir, Rush.
It's an honor.
Thank you very much.
I'm calling regarding all of the rhetoric that's going on with the Obama administration regarding tax increase and the wealthy pay more.
Rush, my husband is a physician.
We have five children in college.
We don't take handouts.
Uh meanwhile, thanks to Obama, fewer and fewer um charges can be collected.
I mean, it in returns of receivables or procedures, what you can collect.
So the income gets chopped away practically daily.
Um, like doctors are evil and they have to be punished.
But yet nobody addresses health care refer welfare reform, people who just repeatedly take advantage of the situation, um, and indeed some of them have issues that prevent them from working or prevent them from educating themselves, and I understand.
But some of them just plead the system dry.
Also, um unemployment reform.
What about that?
I mean, it used to be if you collected unemployment, you were expected to take um, you know, a paper around to the different You were supposed to look for work, but Chicoms still do that, by the way.
You're unemployed in China, you have to prove you're looking for a job.
You have to do it.
A lot of other countries, uh, particularly emerging countries, and we used to too.
We used to do that.
But see, the answer to your question is simple.
Your husband and you are in the 1%.
And as such, you've been exploiting all of his patients.
You've been overcharging them for years, and that's led you to have the money to put your kids in college without a loan.
Or without a handout, as you say.
And you probably have a fairly nice house.
And you've done that by exploiting these poor people.
You've charged them much more than they could pay for simple medical care, which ought to be free in a fair and just society.
So these people who aren't paying their fair share of taxes, the poor, the middle class, paying no taxes.
These the doctor having his um uh payments, his reimbursements cut back.
That's only fair.
That's how we're transforming America.
That's how we're equalizing.
We're making the one percent finally pay for all the exploitation of the poor and the sexual whatever the the uh all of these uh poor people and stuff.
It's about time you found out what it's like.
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