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March 11, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Yes, indeed, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, living in the shadows and loving it.
My pathway to citizenship got sequestered, but I don't care.
I'm uh I'm still here doing the jobs that Americans won't do.
Uh actually this is one job that Americans will do guest hosting for Rush, because this is America's number one radio show, and there's lots of guys who would love to do this show, and it's always an honor for me to be here.
Rush returns live tomorrow to take you through the uh end of the uh end of the week, so you need not be discompobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts.
I know, I know it's never the same when uh when the guest hosts are on, but don't forget Pope Benedict will be uh being put into the guest host rotation, I believe, starting the Monday after uh Easter.
So you might want to put that in your uh in your diaries.
Breaking news.
Breaking news from the Larry Craig bathroom sting case.
Do you remember this?
This is like six years now.
He he he this this is like this must be this must be the most expensive, longest running uh bathroom sex sting in the history of bathroom sex stings.
Six years ago, two thousand and seven, uh he was uh Senator Larry Craig, Republican Senator, so I'm being bipartisan here.
I love all the media matters thing uh oh Stein Bartisan ha partisan hack and all the rest of it.
No, when uh when our guys slip up we we we we we hold them to the fire.
The d the Democrats would just make this guy nominate him for president.
But uh in the Republican Party caused him a few more problems.
He he uh he was uh he was in the bathroom, and uh he stuck his foot as I understand his explanation, he had a wide stance and he stuck his foot under the divider, and the fellow on the other side uh happened to be an undercover cop from Minneapolis Airport.
I've actually been in this Minneapolis Airport men's room, and I have to say, you know, that if uh I think I think they should probably just uh uh mandate uh minimum federal width for uh bathroom stalls, and they would probably uh they would probably have avoided all this.
But anyway, this this bathroom cop, undercover Minneapolis bathroom cop went full George Michael on him, and uh it didn't go well for Senator Larry Craig.
Now the thing is I've loved this guy's legal defense.
I'm not really interested in his wide stance or or or his playing footsie under the divider with the cop, but I've always loved his his uh his hi the the legal ingenuity of Larry Craig's representation.
Uh because around the time he was having his trouble with the bathroom cop, I was uh on trial in Canada, had my difficulties with the human rights commission up there over free speech, uh, and they said that I didn't have the right to write what I'd written.
They essentially an excerpt from my book in the country's biggest selling magazine was was put on trial.
Uh and round about the time I was trying to fend off this legal suit.
I read in an American newspaper that Senator Craig's lawyer had filed a brief arguing that the hand gestures that Senator Craig made under the bathroom stall divider were constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment.
Well, you know, what a great country.
What a great country.
Who doesn't love America?
In Canada, uh according uh to the human rights guys up there, freedom of speech doesn't extend to my books and newspaper columns.
But in America, Senator Craig's men's room semaphore is protected by the First Amendment.
And I thought this was terrific, and I made a resolution that from that day forth, instead of writing about radical Islam, I was only going to hit on MMs in bathrooms.
It was it was a a lot safer.
And this legal genius.
Now you've got to hand it to Larry Craig, getting a guy who'll advance that argument.
Now it's all come crashing down.
Because the Associated Press has just reported breaking news that a federal judge there's now another case.
First there was the case in which he he pleaded guilty to uh to playing FTSE under the bathroom divide and cop to fine for it.
Uh then Senator Craig attempted to fight back by arguing that it was constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment.
Then the Federal Election Commission sued Larry Craig for using his campaign funds to pay for the hot shot lawyer who advanced that ingenious argument.
So Larry Craig is now in federal court in Washington, uh, arguing that the two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars in campaign funds that he used to pay the lawyer who represented him in the bathroom sex sting fall under his official duties as senator.
Therefore he's allowed to use campaign funds to pay for the lawyer in his bathroom sex case because as Senator he was travelling between Idaho and Washington for work.
And therefore the bathroom at the Minneapolis the Minneapolis Airport men's room is a legitimate public expense that falls under his senatorial duties.
So he said if you gave money to the Larry Craig campaign, he used two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars of it to pay for the loy legal representation he had in this bathroom sex case.
And the judge, the US district court judge, is concerned, A. B. Burbard Jackson is concerned that that is too broad a reading of official travel.
Okay, like these guys, congressmen and senators pay for nothing.
Do you remember the incident with Barney Frank?
Uh he was on the ferry from I think it was Fire Island in in New York with his significant other, and the ferry ride is uh two dollars or whatever it is, three bucks, and he goes, uh don't you know who I am?
He didn't want to pay for it.
He didn't want to but Barney Frank didn't see any reason why he is a congressman.
Do you know what it's like getting these guys, once they've gotten used to that, to write a personal check.
So clearly in this instance, Larry Craig thinks that paying for the lawyer to represent him in his bathroom sex case is part of his official duties.
And the judge is concerned that this could be too broad a reading of official travel, uh because uh, you know, after all, if if everything he does between flying between Washington and uh and uh Idaho uh counts as official business,
you know, suppose uh anyone and then any other senator could decide to, you know, uh you k you you you've got a change at Minneapolis Airport and uh the plane's put back a couple of hours, so you go to one of the hotels and you order up a prostitute and you put the hotel room and the prostitute,
you say that's part of your official duties, because uh Larry Craig's argument is that the Minneapolis men's room uh expenses incurred in use of the Minneapolis men's room fall under his official duties as Senator.
Uh he's not trying hard enough.
He could easily have said he was just checking whether the toilet tank was compliant with the Bill Clinton Al Gore maximum size toilet tank regulation.
If he did if he'd done that, he wouldn't have had these problems.
But instead he's basically saying that anything he d anything he does in a Minneapolis Airport's men's room is part of his official duties as senators.
You know, there's a mentality here, and it isn't just it's nothing to do with uh Republican or Democrat.
Once you get once you get a permanent political class, uh and once you get people into the habit of not thinking like citizen legislators, uh then it becomes entirely normal to carry on like this.
And when you have these senators uh with their Gulf Emir sized retinues, why why would Larry Craig think after enjoying that lifestyle that he somehow uh should be, you know, expected to dip into his own pocket to pay for his legal representation.
It's uh we we accept too much of that.
I said the last time I was here that Obama's Christmas vacation cost more than the entire cost of flying everybody in the royal family around their various realms, that's to say, not just around the United Kingdom, but uh to Canada and Australia and flying Prince Harry to Afghanistan and all the rest of it, uh it costs uh th one Obama vacation cost more th costs more than the entire cost of the royal family.
And people and and that percolates down the chain.
You look at the way you look at everything.
The s the salaries are irrelevant.
It's like so much of American life now.
It's all in the benefits.
Uh sala uh senators and congressmen have nominally small senator uh small salaries, but when you actually look at what they're required to dip into their pocket and pay for uh it's very little.
Uh it's it's it's it's less and less, less and less.
You see it.
It's the the the that li you slip into that lifestyle very easily, to the point where when you get uh when when when you get uh collared by an undercover cop in the next stall at the Minneapolis Airport bathroom men's room, you hire the top legal representation, and you think that's some kind of legitimate public expense arising from your duties as senators, uh as a senator.
Uh and that mentality, that mentality is very revealing.
You know when you have these guys with large retinues and large staffs and the whole thing, you know, there's just uh ev there's so much of everything now.
Uh the legislators themselves it's not just that there's fourteen thousand TSA officials at Newark Airport at one lousy unsafe airport, Newark Airport, New Jersey, there's fourteen thousand TSA officials just for that one airport.
And they do a lousy job, but there's fourteen thousand of them there.
So it's apparently the least safe airport in the in the would it be safer if they made it seventeen thousand, thirty-seven thousand?
It's very difficult for our legislators to actually get a grip on any of that when they're used to to leading this uh regal lifestyle themselves.
Uh and that's where and that's what the the significance of the Larry Craig case is.
Look at this guy.
He's on the ropes.
So he's pushed it slightly marginally too far than you would expect to go, because he's basically saying now uh two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars I I by the way, two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, that's one hell of an expensive legal tab for a bathroom sex case.
But two hundred and seventeen thousand dollars, uh he takes the money the public give him to elect one of their own to go and represent them in Washington, DC, and he gives it to his lawyer in his bathroom sex case.
You can't have big government when you've got big bloated legislators with big bloated retinues.
In other words, these guys have got to start thinking di if you wonder why they don't see it, why they don't think about it like this, it's because they're living this imperial lifestyle too.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, gonna take lots more of your calls.
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Hey, Mark Stein in for Rush on the EOEIB network.
Let's go to Everett in I said I said we were only going to take calls in honor of the incoming Canadian Pope.
We're only going to take calls from border states.
Uh so we're going to Spartanburg, South Carolina.
And Everett, you're alive on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing, Mark?
I'm doing good.
How are you?
I'm a long time listener.
I've been listening for over twenty years.
Well we got calling today is about your sequester.
Right.
We had a piece in the Washington Post uh last Thursday and they were talking about how the District of Columbia had put dependent entirely on government jobs.
And how this sequester is gonna hurt 'em because a lot of these government jobs are gonna leave the District of Columbia.
So that's why they're screaming now.
Their their unemployment rate has been around four and a half percent.
I live in a county with the unemployment rate's been around eleven percent.
Yeah, you and and you're right about that, that the uh the the DC is basically now uh the boom town in an era of growing government.
Uh last year they uh found that seven of the ten wealthiest counties in America are uh basically in the Washington suburbs, because that's you you know, the that's where the big paying jobs are in government.
Uh proximity.
Well I have one other issue I'd like to bring up is I'm really disappointed in the Congress and their inability to get answers on Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the launching of uh uh anti-ballistic missile off the coast of California.
Uh and now they're talking about uh the Justice Department has stopped an investigation of NASA officials shipping top secret documents to China.
And what's going on with that?
Yeah, all these all these things are uh are important, Everett, and actually today it's six months ago uh that Benghazi happened, September eleventh, uh twenty uh twenty twelve.
And the the president and the behavior of uh the government officials uh is is still something that very few people know about, has not been covered, uh and it's absolutely d it's absolutely disgraceful.
The more we know about this, uh the more there is a total absence of responsibility and accountability at the top of uh of this.
Uh all these guys well, by the way, one of the most disgusting and nauseating aspects of the whole Benghazi thing, uh since you mention it, Everett, is that uh when the bodies were returned to the United States of the four dead Americans, uh the president and the vice president and the Secretary of State were all there, and they all did this Chris this Chris that Chris this is Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
That's what he's known known as.
If I met him, I'd say uh Mr Ambassador or Mr. Stevens or Ambassador.
Uh but uh uh uh Obama and Biden and Hillary Clinton all it was all Chris this, Chris that, Chris this like he's their best friend in the world.
Like they knew he couldn't get their attention.
Uh Hillary Clinton testified in in uh in when she was testifying in Congress, uh said she she gets she gets all these uh she gets all these cables and emails, can't be expected to to look at them uh look at them all.
She didn't see his cable.
He's Chris this Chris that when she's standing next to his coffin.
But but uh but when he's trying to email her to tell her the security situation's all gone to hell, uh he can't get her attention.
She doesn't open uh she doesn't open uh her uh e emails.
And uh and that's and that's the same same thing the same thing with uh with Obama.
He made one call, I think it was at 5 30, and then he went off to prepare for his big Vegas, glittering Vegas campaign event, and he never called again.
He never called again.
He wasn't even interested.
There's an American consulate or whatever this thing is, we you know uh we don't quite know what this facility still is.
Uh and it's being ransacked live in real time.
They've got drones watching it.
They've got they've got they can watch it in real time, which very few countries around the planet, you know, if they'd seized the Australian consulate or whatever, the Australia wouldn't have drones over there that could watch it in real time.
They can watch it in real time.
And it's not just that he doesn't send anybody, he does he's not even interested.
For the first time in decades, a US ambassador is killed and Obama doesn't even think it's a he doesn't think it's a big deal.
He said, Oh, five thirty well, you know, okay, great, so there's something going on in Benghazi.
Excuse me, I've got to go off to Vegas and prepare now.
And nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
You know, you look at Abu Grabe, for example.
Uh that was on the front page of the New York Times day after day after day after day after day for months on end.
And nobody uh nobody bought any of the stories about how it's the responsibility of this or that low ranking nobody uh out there running the prison.
No, it's all Rumsfeld is responsible.
Bush is responsible.
Uh this time apparently no cabinet official, nobody, nobody you've heard of is responsible for this.
It's just one of those things.
Could happen to anybody.
Could happen to anybody.
It's six months ago today, six months ago today.
Nobody cares.
Everyone mentioned uh a couple of these other things, Fast and Furious.
First Fast and Furious.
That's that's there's there's a big pile.
Let's put aside the uh American agents killed by these guns.
There's a huge big pile of dead Mexicans killed by these guns.
Do you think George W. Bush could get away with uh with with with with killing persons of color in foreign countries uh with American guns?
This this isn't like uh this isn't like uh Reagan Iran Contra sending a cake to the Ayatollahs or whatever that was all about.
This is actually a mountain of dead Mexican corpses.
And that's exactly the sort of thing the so-called American liberal media, uh liberal progressive media are supposed to care about.
Suddenly, suddenly these corpses, if you happen to these corpses don't matter because they're killed by Obama.
Uh they're killed by Eric Holder, uh they're killed by drones in in Yemen or Somalia.
You look at these drone attacks, by the way, uh just uh just to bring up one final thing.
These these drone attacks uh it's not just that there's more drone attacks in the Afghan theater, the drone attacks have been massively expanded to Yemen and Somalia, two countries that uh the last time anybody checked, uh the United States wasn't at war with.
Uh what in the legal sense, there's nothing different about Obama sending drones out to clobber people in Yemen than there is about him sending drones to whack some guy in in Belgium uh or in Sweden.
Uh but but apparently uh you know that's that's something that's just uh under the radar there.
Where are the principled left on this?
Where are the principled left?
You know, this ambassad ambassador Chris Stevens wasn't one of our guys.
He was one of your guys.
He believed the whole Arab Spring narrative.
Uh he was fully on board of that.
He was your guy.
He was a progressive liberal guy who died because of this administration's stupidity.
Is he just one of the you know you can't what what whatever it was Lenin's line or Stalin's line.
You can't uh uh make an omelet without breaking a few eggs and uh Chris Stevens is just one of those eggs and these dead Mexicans killed by Fast and Furious are just one of these eggs?
When where are the principled left?
Where's the principled left?
These are your guys uh these are your people these are people you profess to care about.
When are you going to do something about this?
Yes, Rush returns live tomorrow for full strength all American excellence in broadcasting through the end of the week.
Uh and uh for the moment uh we're down to the final half hour of uh wishy washy cheap uh minimum wage, outsourced offshore uh foreign labor.
Don't worry, Rush will be here live tomorrow.
One one final thing on this business with poor old seven year old Josh getting suspended for nibbling his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun uh Julia uh emails to uh to say that the real crime here is uh actually sending a kid to school with a Pop Tart which is not on the list of Michelle Obama government approved snacks.
So we need to back up here.
It may not be that this kid has been suspended and they're now passing this law in the Maryland legislature to forbid teachers from suspending kids for nibbling food items into the shape of guns.
It may just be, it may not be the gun shape, it may actually be the Pop-Tart that is to blame.
I mean, for example, if he was, you remember when the president was campaigning in 2008 and he was in Iowa and he said, have you seen the price of arugula these days?
taken a piece of arugula to school and nibbled it into the shape of an AK 47 would he have been suspended?
That is the interesting question.
If you take a Michelle Obama approved uh meal to take some say Rutabega slices can you can you nibble uh say the uh Rootabaker slices uh into various shapes and put them together to form an ammo belt would that be permitted uh we don't know it might just in fact be the Pop tart that is the real crime here it's like in uh in Mayor Bloomberg's uh New York where he's banned the maximum size uh sugary drinks it might just might just be a a nutritional issue here.
Let's go to Janet in Mansfield, Ohio.
Janet you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
It's great to have you with us.
Hello Mark I'm happy to speak with you.
Thank you for taking my call.
My my pleasure great to have you with us.
I I want to make my word known that I, along with many other Americans, take umbrage in the fact that Obama President Obama uses our government money recklessly for his own use.
He takes his wife to dinner for a date he bought two big buses every time he goes anywhere he has to take two airplanes he does not care about our government at all or the sequester never would have come to this point.
And also I take the fact that his lack of interest in the government and Benghazi as an assault and an affront to us who are paying his wages and trying to keep our government and America as it was intended to be well what you what's objectionable here,
Janet, because j just as a simple monetary item uh the the presidency costs more than every single European royal family puts together.
Um people people don't believe it when I I say that but uh I said uh about half an hour ago, the cost of flying the royal family around the world in uh I believe the most recent year was twenty eleven, seven million dollars.
Uh the cost of flying uh the Obamas around the world in one year, last year it was three hundred and forty six million dollars transporting the because uh b because in a sense nothing he does is real.
You know, he takes uh he takes a 40 car motorcade uh when he pretends to uh visit a hamburger stand uh or a bookstore in in suburban Washington.
Uh and and what's and what's he doing there?
I mean, that's what I find odd, Janet.
He's like saying, Oh, oh look, I'm just uh I'm pretending to be a regular even though I'm president, I'm pretending to be a regular person eating a hamburger and going to a pet store to buy dog food for my photo opportunity dog.
Uh but it it but the fact that you take a forty car motorcade to visit a hamburger stand wipes that out.
It totally nullifies the whole point of it.
If you've got an imperial president, if you've got the mighty why why not just pretend why not just drop the pretense?
Uh but the there's something so condescending uh that all it ought to it ought to make any true republi anyone with a truly Republican sensibility vomit to see a 40 car motorcade pulling up at a hamburger stand.
It's ridiculous.
Another thing too, he took a four million dollar vacation to Hawaii.
And we have people in uh Staten Island and Upper New Jersey who still have not received the government funds promised to them to even have a place to sleep, let alone live.
Yep, and again you're that's atrocious.
You're you're you're right there.
He flew in.
He flew in, Janet, and he he was there in the days after the storm and he was photographed putting his arm around all these people whose homes were devastated and saying that I've directed my officials to cut the red tape to make things happen, to get things done.
Uh the FEMA guys moved in.
Three, four months later, whatever it is, there are still people in Staten Island.
I mean, this isn't like some remote little upcountry village hundreds of miles from the nearest city.
Staten Island, New York, there are still people living there uh in homes without light, without heat, without electricity, who've been clotted by all these other winter storms uh that have come along in the four months uh since uh since I am you.
Look at the way they uh the they hammered Bush on New Orleans everything that happened in New Orleans was Bush's fault.
Obama flew in two days later, looked cool in a bomber jacket on Air Force One in his monogram bonner jacket saying commander in chief on uh and then flew away and not and that's it.
He doesn't he doesn't he's he's made a photo op, he doesn't have to pay.
And by the way, just to just just to uh fact check your uh four million dollars on that Obama Christmas vacation, that's actually an underestimate.
I believe the most recent estimate of that is that that vacation cost over seven million dollars, Janet.
Uh so it's seven million.
And that's to impeach him for a lot of things.
He has not yet proven that he is a US citizen, especially when his passports showing that he was taking trips back and forth to um Africa when he was getting uh a student aid from the United States and he wasn't living here, just wasn't his residence.
Oh, right, right, right.
All the uh b the the business about Columbia.
Yeah, you yeah.
It but here's the here's the here's the thing.
Here's the thing though, Janet.
You know, nobody's nobody's going to impeach him.
Nobody's going to impeach him, because the Republicans don't want that hung around uh hung around the neck.
Um but uh but what what they should do, what everybody should do is say, look, either if people are hurting, if people are hurting, if it's necessary when you've got a c a nation with fifty million people supposedly on food stamps, the president has to the president has to uh forgo the occasional golf game with Tiger Woods.
Look, he's provided with the White House.
That's pretty nice.
Used to be actually a a pretty simple affair, but the but like everything else, it uh it it kind of uh growed like topsy.
Uh and it was a simple affair, by the way, Until pretty much the Eisenhower era.
This is not something with deep roots in American life.
Um he's got the White House, he's got Camp David, so he's got a town place and a country place.
He's got twice as many homes as the average uh American uh uh American has.
And uh and uh and that's not enough.
And he has and he has to be told, well, why don't you cr why don't you spend Christmas at home?
What is this business of Christmas uh Christmas in Hawaii every year?
Most uh why he's gonna why doesn't he spend Christmas in the White House or uh Christmas at Camp David or Christmas back at his house in Chicago?
And the the the forty car motorcade doesn't impress anybody when you're broke.
When you when you've got a federal debt of sixteen trillion dollars, having a forty car motorcade to pretend to visit a burger joint or a dog food store uh doesn't impress anybody.
And that's not that's not a left right thing.
It shouldn't if if if a uh if a Republican were carrying on like that, uh the left would be right to be uh up in arms about it.
You know, you either have a citizen president or the whole revolution thing is a waste of time.
Uh I for some some reason or other I happen to be watching over the weekend a uh video of the the Queen uh opening the Scottish Parliament uh last year, I believe it was.
It's basically the Scottish equivalent of the State of the Union.
Uh the Queen arrives with a car in front and a car behind, right?
That's a three-car motorcade.
Uh no the the forty car motorcade doesn't make the president any safer.
It'd be just as safe with a twenty car motorcade.
Uh with the more people you have involved, the more opportunity you have for security breaches as anybody who's you you know, I've I've seen things uh at uh at at presidential events in New Hampshire where if you happen to know the uh the ins and outs of the buildings, you realize that exactly as with the TSA, the forty car motorcade, like the uh fourteen thousand TSA officials at Newark is basically all about security theatre.
It's security theatre.
But at some point, at some point, people have to say they're i i either he's right that people are hurting and there's fifty million on food stamps, and we've all got to, you know, somehow we've all got to uh live prudently.
Uh and he's got to be part of that too.
It ought to revolt anyone.
Tiger Tiger Woods golf game, why don't you just why don't you just halve the number of golf games?
Why don't you invite him over to your place?
Why don't you play at Camp David?
You got twice as many homes as your subjects.
Why do you need to fly off here and fly off there?
Why do you need to shut down uh Manhattan because you want to pretend to take Michelle Obama, the first lady to a Broadway show?
Why do you need to shut down Manhattan?
It's absolute I just said the whole revolution's a waste of time.
Because this is George III didn't carry on like this.
And no monarch can.
That's the advantage, by the way, of monarchy in a democratic age, that monarchs can't go around queening it.
Only presidents can go around queening it.
Uh and this guy and this guy uh is it's an affront to any kind of sense of Republican self-government.
Mark Stein for Rush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in Farush on the EIB network.
Uh the Senators, the senators have crafted a bipartisan overhaul of US immigration laws to agree a path to legal status, Aid say, but other hurdles remain.
This is from the Los Angeles Time Times.
This is what what is fascinating to me about this, this is about legalizing the status of eleven million people who or more, twenty million, who are here illegally, who are here illegally.
And uh and that may or may not be a good idea.
But what's crazy here is the assumptions made by the way it's reported.
Still undecided is how long illegal immigrants would need to wait before they could apply for permanent residence status and eventually become citizens.
The delay for a green card probably would be ten years or longer.
What what is this about?
They're there people who are here working, living here illegally, in many cases for many, many years, right?
Uh what difference does it make whether you whether your your official government permit to live and work here is called a green card or a purple card or a pink polka dotted card?
Doesn't make any difference.
The minute you've got the first bit of paper uh from the US government saying uh you're here and nobody's gonna deport you, all your worries are over.
The idea that somehow there is some kind of punishment uh that you you've got to uh, you know, you won't get your green card for ten years, which means in theory you won't get your US citizenship for fifteen years, that doesn't care.
Who cares about that?
The meaning you've got one little no nobody except some stupid bureaucrat would care about the distinctions between uh this particular uh documentation and that particular documentation.
Once your status is legalized, it doesn't matter whether it's green card legalized, whether it's chocolate cupcake legalized, uh, whether it's pink unicorn legalized, once you've got the documentation saying you're not a criminal, nobody's gonna deport you, you're here legally, all the rest is mumbo jumbo.
The fact that the United States Senate, by the way, every other country in its immigration program understands that.
No, but why why do you think people who come here illegally are like gagging for some path to citizenship?
They're coming here essentially for economic reasons, and there may or may not be advantages to U.S. citizenship.
There's certainly if you're remitting uh most of your money back to your pals uh your family in Mexico every month, there's certainly a downside to taking U.S. citizenship.
This idea that uh the senators are arguing over uh the the uh time at which they'll get a proper official green card, the time at which they'll get a proper official certificate, the time in which they'll get an official welcome letter from Joe Biden, none of that makes any difference.
The fact that we're talking about it in these kind of terms i is uh is uh is a sign that we're uh the the debate is insane.
Once they've got the official legal status, all the rest all the rest is applesauce, all the rest is details.
Another great story I don't want to l let go by today, this is from the Boston Globe.
Liz Kavalchek.
People have noticed that suddenly there's certain kind of fees, a certain type of fee seems to be creeping up uh in their medical bills.
Uh, you know, so you pay these are all people in New Hampshire, by the way.
They're paying like uh this this one person paid two hundred and fifty dollars for the surgeon, Tufts Medical Center.
The surgeon billed two hundred and fifty dollars for his service.
But the patient was also charged with a five hundred dollar facility fee uh for a uh for spending twenty minutes in the building, right?
So the doctor is two hundred and fifty dollars, but you've got a five hundred dollar facility fee for using the waiting room.
Uh and people have begun people have begun to notice this.
Uh that this is a essential uh my experience, by the way, of American health care, is that if you question any of this stuff, they'll roll it back.
If you question any item on the bill, they'll roll it back.
But that's the point.
Third party systems, whether it's insurers uh or whether it's uh whether it's the government are always more expensive.
When people have to pay their for their own health care, as these people in this story with their high deductibles do, they start to notice these items.
Five hundred dollars uh facility fee for sitting around in the waiting room for twenty minutes.
When you have to spend your money, you look at the bill.
Uh when it's a third party cost, whether it's the insurer or the government, it's just about whether the third party will give you access to the treatment.
So I say bring it on and question the items on the bill.
Mark Stein for us, more in a moment.
Mark Stein in Farush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
What a day.
Day ten, day ten of the sequestration nightmare devastating America.
I think it's up now to nineteen.
Nineteen states reporting uh cholera outbreaks.
Uh so we've discussed that and uh we've uh we've dealt with all the exciting news regarding baked goods that one is not permitted to nibble into gunshapes in American schools.
I feel I feel safer already.
Uh I feel safer already knowing that.
And Kwame Kilpatrick, uh, who will be he he he's committed a sin almost as serious as nibbling a Pop Tart into a gun shape, and he's going to jail for conspiracy and all the rest of it.
I've had uh a great time being with you, but the border patrol is knocking at the door.
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