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April 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 10, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Hiya folks, great to have you back.
We are here serving humanity.
Well, I am serving humanity.
The support staff is helping me serve humanity, but only I actually serve humanity.
And how does that happen?
Well, I show up.
That's basically it.
Happy to have you here, as always.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
And the email address, Elrushbo at EIBnet.com.
There is another law that Obama keeps repeating, and this is it.
It's a direct quote.
What drags down our entire economy is the growing gap between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
Direct quote.
And this stems, ladies and gentlemen, from his belief that the founding of this country was unjust and immoral.
And it's gone on for 200 plus years.
And now finally, a little over three years ago, we started finally to get it right.
It's going to take a while.
And the big problem with this country since its founding is the gap between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
And the founders were ultra-rich, and they set up a system to maintain that for themselves and their family and everybody else in their group.
And at the same time, make it impossible with this, you're on your own economy, because most people on their own are incompetent.
Most people on their own will be walked all over.
Most people on their own are weak and helpless.
This is how the left looks at people.
But quite simply, this is preposterous.
There are no facts to back up this assertion that what drags down the economy is the growing gap between the ultra-rich and everybody else.
What drags down the economy is Obama.
What drags down the economy is the government looting the private sector, transferring wealth from people who produce it to themselves in government, and then giving it to people that they ultimately want to vote for them.
When you loot the private sector, when you make it smaller, you are by definition reducing the size of our economy and its potential to grow.
In fact, you might say that the opposite is true.
If anything, you need very rich people to drive the economy, which some of our news media have even admitted in previous random acts of journalism.
And the most recent example I could give you is the Christmas season when they lamented and they were rubbing their hands together that the luxury segment was suffering.
Remember that?
The rich just were not going to Neiman Marcus or Sachs, wherever they go.
Luxury sales were down.
And this was bad for all of the sensible reasons.
It was going to hurt future employment.
It was going to hurt overall economic growth.
So they do engage in random acts of journalism now and then.
There's no capitalism without capital.
And there's no capital without the rich.
Everybody has had a story today on the healthcare law adding $340 billion to the deficit except the New York Times.
I looked.
AP's got it.
Hank Reuters has it.
Everybody's got it.
Breathlessly talking about it.
It's some sort of big news.
I looked at the New York Times website.
It's not there.
I googled the words to find it.
Not there.
Maybe I'm not looking in the right place.
But I wanted to see what the New York Times had to say about the fact that Obamacare blows up the deficit by hundreds of billions of dollars because it is news to people.
Amazingly, this is news to people.
So I went to the Washington Post and lo and behold, there it is.
I write here my formerly nicotine-stained fingers, I have it.
And they actually report this fraud.
This massive fraud perpetrated on the American public by Obama and virtually every Democrat in Congress.
It's outrageous what Obamacare does to the economy, to doctors, patients, private health insurance companies.
And we've talked about it before, but the New York Times, nothing.
In fact, by the way, Jay Carney, the spokeskid at the White House.
You know, I know Jay Carney and his wife, Claire Shipman.
Claire Shipman is a reporter for ABC News.
She used to be at CNN.
Jay Carney used to be at Time Magazine.
He's now at the White House.
But before he was at the White House, he was at Biden's office.
He might have been the spokeskid for Biden or something else in Biden's office, but then he moved up the chain when Robert Gibbs.
Gibbs left to go earn some money while there still is some.
Gibbs?
Oh, okay.
I guess he earned enough money while there is some to earn.
And he left that and went back to the campaign now.
Oh, okay.
Well, anyway, Carney, when he was at Time Magazine, called me one day to ask me a question about a story he was working on.
And I wasn't in, but they left a message for me to call back.
So I did.
I called back and he picked up the phone.
He said, you return your own calls?
I said, yeah.
Wow.
He was really impressed that I didn't have a secretary to place my calls for me.
Why they didn't tell him was that I don't really do the phone much.
And then I saw him once at a Washington Redskins game in the owner's box back in that season where I spent five games with ESPN.
The opener, ESPN covered.
We did the ESPN pregame show, and Dan Snyder invited the ESPN crew to his suite to watch the game.
And Claire Shipman and Jay Carney were there.
I said hi, very, very nice people.
And now he's the spokeskid for Obama.
Spokeskid from Time Magazine to the White House.
And I'm sure when this ends, he go back to some magazine.
Anyway, yesterday, Carney was asked about the IRS agents.
The White House, the press briefing, and Wendell Gohler at Fox said, hey, Jay, there's a report in the Hill that says a couple hundred million dollars of IRS money been used to fund aspects of Obamacare.
And there's some Republicans on the Hill who feel that this is improper given that there is already a fund for implementation of Obamacare.
Can you react to their criticism?
This is about enabling the IRS to provide the essentially the tax breaks to small businesses and individuals to assist them in acquiring health insurance or in the case of small businesses, providing health insurance.
Okay, so there, ladies and gentlemen, is our answer.
4,000 IRS agents, according to Obama's spokeskid, to help small business and individuals in acquiring health insurance.
Did you know that?
Did you know that you were going to get assistance from the IRS in complying with the mandate?
Did you know that, Folks, that you are going to have assistance from the IRS to acquire health insurance?
Yeah, the IRS is going to come, and they're going to help you.
It says here, the small businesses, they're going to essentially tell you of the tax breaks.
The IRS are going to come along.
They're going to knock on your door.
I don't know how they're going to find you, but they will.
If you haven't bought, if you haven't abided with the mandate, they'll find you.
Hey, you know what?
You're missing out on some tax breaks here.
We're from the IRS, and the president has sent us to advise you of the tax breaks that are involved here in Obamacare.
And we're here to assist you in acquiring health insurance because our records show that you don't have any.
And the law is that you must have some.
We're here, the IRS, to help you get your health insurance.
Or if you are a really small business, we are here to help provide health insurance.
So the regime has admitted, whatever words Carney used, the regime has admitted that the IRS is the enforcement mechanism and that you can expect to get a friendly visit from the IRS to help you have health insurance, to help you get your tax breaks, to help you provide health insurance.
That's exactly.
Don't know what happens.
Snerdley's asking a bunch of questions I can't answer.
I don't know what happens if, I mean, let's see, you know, you're from the Acme small business and your primary customer is the coyote.
And the coyote has had a bunch of trouble catching the Roadrunner and none of what you have sent to coyote is working.
Everything from Acme fails.
You ever watch the Roadrunner?
Okay, so you're having trouble making ends meet at Acme and here comes the IRS and they knock on your door.
Hi, we're here.
We see that you don't have health insurance and we're here to help you get it.
What is your reaction going to be?
And then what happens here's Snerdley's question.
What happens if you don't buy it?
If the IRS comes in and you don't like the menu of services being offered by the IRS, and if you say, I'm sorry, I appreciate your concern.
I really don't need or don't want health insurance.
What happens to you then?
Well, what happens is you are going to be fined.
You will pay a fine.
And early on in Obamacare, the fine is not very much money.
It's much less than what a policy would cost you.
And if I may be bluntly honest, that is by design too, folks.
The fine is seductively low in cost.
Anybody who is young or has a small business would choose, if it's legal, to pay the fine instead of buying health insurance.
It would not do that.
I don't think most people will tell the IRS agent, take your health insurance assistant here and shove it.
I don't think that's going to happen, Snerdley.
That's why it's the IRS that has been hired to help citizens get their health insurance.
I don't think that citizens are going to tell the IRS to pound sand here.
What instead will happen is the IRS will present all of the wonderful options available.
Here's the cost of your average policy, and here's the cost of the fine.
Well, the fine is going to be so much cheaper at first than the health insurance policy.
And if it's legal to pay the fine and the IRS will wave goodbye and leave, you'll do that.
That's by design, folks.
Now, the way it's by design, it's by design, the fine purposely priced much lower for the first two or three years.
Now, what happens when all of these people choose the fine instead of the policy?
Well, who is hurt then?
Insurance companies.
Now, remember, the insurance companies were among the early adopters for Obamacare because of the mandate.
Requiring people to buy health insurance, that was a godsend.
That made most insurance companies forget Republican versus Democrat, liberal versus conservative, and all they saw and applauded was a powerful force like the government making everybody buy their product.
My ship has come in and I'm at the dock.
If you're an insurance company, this is the greatest day of your life.
The federal government in Association of the IRS making everybody buy health insurance.
Whoa!
If you sold happy meals, wouldn't you love it if every American had to buy a happy meal?
Wouldn't you support that if you're McDonald's?
If you were General Motors and that order came down, everybody has to have a vote.
Would you care if it was Joseph Stalin who issued the order?
No.
You'd sit there and go right on.
So the insurance companies, folks, didn't care.
They forgot whether they were Republicans or Democrats, liberal, conservative.
They didn't even think about the future of the country.
They just saw, man, everybody hates us.
We're insurance companies, but now it doesn't matter.
They've been ordered to buy our product.
Yes, they have.
But guess what?
The insurance companies weren't told.
There's an opt-out, a much cheaper opt-out.
You pay a fine.
So all of these 30 million, whatever the number is uninsured, pay the fine instead of buy the policy.
What happens to the industry of private health insurance?
Just like the coyote falling off the cliff trying to catch a roadrunner using an acme product, bam!
The insurance company ceases industry, ceases to exist.
And then, after three years, folks, the fines all of a sudden become more expensive than the policy.
Doesn't take long.
This is all in Obamacare.
This is in the plan.
After three years, four years, what it doesn't take long.
The fines end up costing much more than the policy, which means you will then, as a matter of economics, buy the policy.
Because you have to now, remember, the mandate.
But now, where do you go?
Because the private health insurance industry has been dealt a potentially fatal blow.
It doesn't exist because all these people could opt out and pay the fine instead.
And so the real objective is finally realized.
The only place you can go when you have to, by law, have health insurance is a state-run exchange like an office at your county building where the DMV is or whatever.
You go in there, you buy your health insurance.
It's going to be the only place you can go.
And if you don't, after all this, if you don't, then someday soon, knock on the door and you look through the peephole and it's the IRS there to help you Get your health insurance and to tell you about all the tax breaks.
Yes, sir.
By the way, the fine for companies is 8% of the employee's salary.
That's their option.
The fine for not buying health insurance under Obamacare is 8% of the employee's salary.
Now, it ain't going to stay at 8% for very long, but that's what it is the first couple of years.
Well, what are they going to do?
Companies are going to pay the fine.
You lose your health insurance.
They're going to pay the 8% fine, and you're on your own in an economy that Obama says being on your own never worked.
So where are you going to go?
Now, that 8%, by the way, doesn't last long, but it's enough to get the ball rolling to get all these companies to give up their health insurance programs, kick you out, get rid of you.
It's all part of a plan to make the government the sole vendor for health insurance.
To the phones.
Raul in Miami.
Raul, great to have you on the program.
Hello, sister.
It's a pleasure, Raj.
What an honor.
Thank you.
I'm just calling to complain about you comparing us to Fidel because we want Ossie Guillen to leave the team.
We don't point nuclear missiles at the United States.
Wait a second, Raul.
Wait a second.
Raul, I think you're laboring.
You're a misunderstanding.
I didn't.
What did you say I did?
You compared us to Fidel.
How did I do that?
Correct.
I did not mean it.
How did you hear that?
Because you were saying that if we asked for Mr. Guilleng's firing, we are doing the same thing that Fidel does.
All we're doing as the owners of the stadium, which this county imposed on us to the tune of $2 billion.
Oh, I understand this.
And it was a dumb thing for Ozzy to say.
Are you an Ozzie fan?
Of course not.
He's been having these problems.
I said Fidel would admire the speech police.
But we're not acting as speech police.
We're acting as the owners of the stadium.
We don't want our tenant.
Yeah, but I wasn't even thinking of you.
I'm thinking of the management of the team did what they could.
I mean, they had to suspend the guy because of the.
What I said was the American left is scratching its head.
They can't figure out what Ozzy said that's wrong.
They love Castro Cozy.
It's too bad.
And in fact, we're so we admire his love of Fidel so much.
We want him to do is to resign his $10 million salary and go to Cuba and play for Fidel.
I think that would solve everything.
I do, too.
Send him down to the event, let him manage, and then when he tries to defect, nobody take him.
As an aside, Roche, I know you're a cards fan, but Mike Gonzalez, the famous Cuban coach of the Cards.
I'm with you, man.
That's all you need to know.
Look, the only reason I keep pronouncing Ozzy's name now is Guijin instead of Guillain, as I've heard it pronounced that way back when he was the manager of the Chicago White Sox, and it stuck with me.
So occasionally, you know, I use that pronunciation, and it's probably incorrect.
Ozzy Guillain.
Let's not forget something.
Ozzy Guillain, I think when he was the manager of the White Sox, also attacked, and he's Venezuelan.
He loves Hugo Chavez.
Ozzy Guillain loves dictators.
He fashions himself as one.
What he really admires about them is the same thing that Sean Penn admires about these guys.
They're jealous of the power they've got.
And people ask me all the time, how come these liberal Hollywood types have such great admiration for Castro and what's his face?
Hugo Chavez is because nobody get rid of him.
They have all this power.
They admire that.
And Ozzy, as much as admitted it in the run-up here to getting caught, what I really meant to say was this guy, 50 years down there, have been trying to admire this guy.
So he's just hung in there.
And Ozzy's been fired a bunch of times because he admires this about Fidel Castro.
But Ozzie Guillain has attacked Arizona any number of times for its immigration policies.
I don't remember any outrage about that.
All Arizona's trying to do is enforce the country's laws.
We've got, by the way, this is coming up.
There's a poll.
The media, folks, is orgasmic today, as is the White House.
There's an ABC Washington Post poll today on Obama being way ahead of Romney because of the gender gap, because of women, with the help of women.
And of course, that means because of me, Obama's ahead of Romney with women because of me, because I facilitated this so-called war on women.
But we need to put this ABC poll with the Washington Post in proper perspective.
And I don't think anybody remembers how off, how horrible their accuracy was in 2008.
Now, I'll have that coming up.
We got two soundbites from Ozzie.
This morning in Miami, Marlins Park, a Miami Marlins manager, Ozzie Guillain, press conference talk about his five-game suspension for saying he loved and respected Fidel Castro.
Here is a portion of it.
We got two sound bites.
Very stupid comments because when you are a sportman, you should be involved with politics.
And politics is nothing to do with sport.
And I was very stupid, very naive about the comment.
And that's the reason I'm here because I want to try to make this temp better and people know exactly what I feel.
Which is what?
Well, let's listen to the second one because I don't think he cleared anything up there.
All he said was that when you are a sportsman, you shouldn't be involved with politics.
That's an entirely different subject about which I totally disagree, by the way.
Being in sports, I don't think should mean you can't talk about politics.
I understand why they don't want to, but that's a whole nother subject.
That's a real, in fact, sore spot with me.
That's what do you call those things?
No, bugaboo, but there's a word for it.
That's one of my pet peeves.
Here's the second Ozzy sound.
Let's see if this one makes some sense.
I was making the stupid comments.
You learn from mistakes.
You learn from mistakes.
And I hope this is the biggest mistake so far in my life I made.
And when you make a mistake this big, you can sleep, you constantly think about for four days.
If I don't learn from this, then I will call myself a dumb, but not yet.
I'm 48 years old, then we can sit back here and you can call me dumb because I will take that one.
Right now, I can take it because I'm not dumb.
You know what I mean?
I know I did the wrong thing.
I'm not considering myself a dumb.
Well, okay.
I don't know if this is helping him or not with the offended group in South Florida.
I don't know if he's not dumb yet, but he might be.
Depends on what he says next after four days.
He says, having trouble sleeping, so I'm not dumb yet.
I'm admitting my big mistake, but I might make it again.
In which case, you can call me dumb.
That's what I'm hearing here.
I don't think he's ever got anything to worry about.
There's always ESPN.
If this thing with the Marlins, if this gig doesn't pan out, there's always ESPN.
I think Ozzie said that he, at first, he claimed he was mistranslated from the Spanish, and that didn't fly, obviously.
How do you get mistranslated when you go over and over how much you love and respect Fidel Kestro?
But speaking of dumb, how smart are you to say this as the manager of the Florida, the Miami Marlins in South Florida?
Back to the phones, because people have been waiting here for a long time at Dillard, Nebraska.
This is John.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
My question is: if the Obamacare is appealed, what happens to all the employees that were hired because of it?
The IRS agent?
Yes, sir.
It's a good question.
If the Supreme Court says it demandates unconstitutionally strike it, then what happens to the IRS agents?
I assume, I assume fairly confidently that they will be kept on board.
They will remain employed and they will have a role in implementing Obamacare with what's left of it.
I fully, they're government workers.
What happened?
I mean, when was the last time you heard about any of them en masse being dismissed?
A government job is forever.
I don't.
But if they dis here's what I wouldn't put past Obama.
If they strike the mandate, but leave everything else, then they'll continue implementing it and they'll try to take some drastic action to replace the mandate, probably with Medicare for everybody.
Just go ahead and do single-payer.
Just do it.
But we must also consider the possibility that Obama will just ignore it.
There is precedent, not at the Supreme Court, but a federal judge ruled that the moratorium against oil drilling was invalid in the Gulf of Mexico, and Ken Salazar, the Interior Secretary, just ignored it and kept the moratorium.
This administration simply ignores judicial rulings it doesn't like.
Now, this one would be pretty big.
Supreme Court strikes down your mandate, or if they throw the whole thing out, the first thing that'll happen is it'll become the biggest campaign issue you have ever seen.
Obama, we told you this last week.
What Obama is going to do is say five Republicans have just taken away your health care.
They didn't lose theirs, but you don't have five Republicans on the Supreme Court just took away your health care.
Five Republicans of the Supreme Court don't care if you or your family get sick.
That's what's the immediate, nobody's going to care about the IRS agents.
But it was the judge named Martin Feldman that Salazar ignored.
And he wasn't happy about it.
Four rich white Republican judges and one Confused, deranged black Republican judge took away your health care or an Uncle Tom or whatever, however, they'll refer to Clarence Thomas in that.
But they're already setting that up and they're probably setting it up with a degree of great expectation.
They're probably looking forward if that happens to turning it into a campaign issue because to understand the left is to know that they never acknowledge ultimate defeat.
Never happens.
Like global warming.
You could establish daily, multiple times a day, the hoax this is.
It's not going to have they stopped.
Have they stopped trying to implement everything that they were doing because of global warming, even though it's been established?
And by the way, how do they do that?
How do they do that?
It's a giant guilt trip.
They come at you.
All these global warming people come to you.
You have caused this massive destruction of our planet.
But then they offer you redemption.
Agree to higher taxes.
Agree to limit your travels to wildlife.
Agree to drive different cars.
And you can redeem yourself.
And you can win the approval of the state if you do the right thing to save the planet.
Global warming and the race industry have one thing in common, and that is incidents which prove their allegations or lend credence make them happy.
The Trayvon Martin situation caused happiness somewhere in the civil rights community because it gave them a shot in the army.
It launched them.
It allowed them to get in gear and to start leveling the charges that they always love to make about the country when you have the hottest march, supposedly on record.
It makes the global warming people happy.
What is global warming?
If you listen to these climate change, it is the destruction of our climate, the destruction of the planet.
They live in happiness whenever they think they have found evidence that what they're saying is right.
You would think normal people wouldn't be happy about that.
Normal people would not be happy when a racial incident happens.
Normal people aren't.
But leftist activists are happy.
And then they come along.
And the way they corral everybody else is through condemnation.
You're to blame.
You are the reason.
It's your fault that there is racial strife in America.
And they say that to the population in general.
It's your fault that the polar bears don't have any place to live, even though the polar bear population is at a record all-time high.
It's your fault.
There's condemnation, accusation, guilt.
And this is how they get you to go along with whatever you must do to correct what you have done to bring about this destruction.
And that's cede a little freedom and power to government so we can get bigger, raise taxes, pay higher taxes, drive a tiny little car that you really don't want.
But it allows you to turn your life into something meaningful.
You're saving something that you heretofore didn't even know you were participating in destroying.
And that's the technique that every liberal special interest uses, the psychology behind every area they're in and how they try to advance it.
Let's take a quick time out here.
We'll do it the fastest three hours in media rolling right on, but don't go away.
We'll be right back.
Now, here's the answer.
By the way, we feature solutions here at the EIB network.
When Obama says, if they strike down the mandate at the Supreme Court, when Obama says five Republicans on the Supreme Court have just taken away your health care, they didn't lose theirs.
Five rich Republicans on the Supreme Court have just taken away your health care.
The answer to that is five Republicans on the Supreme Court have just saved your private health care.
Five Republicans on the Supreme Court have just saved your current health care plan.
That will be the truth of what has happened if the mandate is struck down.
Because if this mandate is upheld and that 8% fine for businesses for not having health insurance, guess what?
Your health insurance at your place of business is gone.
When your place of business, your employer, can pay 8% of what he is currently paying for your benefits, what's going to happen to your benefit?
Sayonara, and you are on your own.
If the mandate is struck down, your employer will not be getting rid of your health plan.
Five Republicans on the court will have saved your private health care.
And here's another dirty little secret.
There are more Americans with private health care than not in this country.
As we speak today, vastly more Americans have private health insurance than, say, Medicare or Medicaid.
Although that's going to change if we don't succeed here.
People don't want their private health care, their employer health care terminated.
They don't want that taken away from them.
People have been led to believe they're going to be able to keep it if they like it, and you won't if the mandate is upheld.
Five Republican judges on the Supreme Court will have saved your private health care.
And then the IRS will not need to come help you with your health insurance.
Who's next?
Ann-Marie in Gilbert, Arizona.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thanks, Rush.
It's a pleasure to talk to you today.
Thank you.
How are you?
Very well.
Thanks very much.
Yay.
Hey, I just wanted to call and say thanks for what you're doing.
You've made a huge difference in my life and in my girls' lives.
My youngest wants to be president one day.
And so thank you.
I grew up in a Democrat household, very Democrat.
Half of our family was black.
Half our family was white.
I grew up hating Ronald Reagan, thinking he was going to start World War III.
I went to school, was taught in college that, you know, the founding fathers were elitists.
And then the wall came down and it totally changed.
Like it rocked my world because I thought, wait a second, if all of this is true, how is this happening?
And so then I found you on the radio, and I've been listening to you ever since.
Well, music to my ear.
We are here to make a difference.
And you have.
My youngest was watching me Take the Payload interview the other day and she was watching it.
And the minute Matt Lauer started asking questions, she looked at me and she goes, he's a liberal, isn't he?
By the way, speaking of that, Anne-Marie, you will like knowing this.
So will the rest of you people.
Sarah Palin's one-day appearance secured NBC defeating Good Morning America, hosted by Katie Couric the whole week.
Sarah Palin's ratings on that one day.
I've got it right here in the stack of stuff.
And furthermore, yep, with Palin, it's the Washington Post.
With Palin, NBC's Today Show widens gap over ABC's GMA despite challenge from Couric.
And also, 30 Rock Tina Fey Show has hit a new series low, had a 1.6 rating the last episode that aired.
That's Tina Fey, you know, who was one year one of Barbara Walters' 10 most fascinating people for impersonating Sarah Palin.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Inside the Beltway, a buzz with the latest ABC News Washington Post poll.
It shows Obama way ahead of Romney, primarily because of Obama's big advantage with women, the gender gap.
But we need to look at historic accuracy levels of the ABC Washington Post poll.
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