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April 1, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2013, Monday, Hour #3
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Now, what I was going to say, that the Medicaid, sorry, Medicare under Obamacare is now going to start doing sex change operations is the point.
I didn't finish that story.
For the first time since 1981, when it called Sex Change Operations Experimental, Medicare has opened the door to paying for addictomies, adding to the list of options that would be allowed under Obamacare.
Acting on a new request, the Centers for Medical and Medicaid Services said that it is starting a new analysis that could lift the spending ban for sex change operations with a goal of making a decision two days after Christmas and on the eve of Obamacare kicking in January 1st.
Now, Medicare is for the elderly.
What does this have to do?
How many elderly people want anadictomy operations?
Maybe more than we knew.
Heck, who the hell knows anything anymore?
I mean, we're getting to the point where the elderly are going to be named biff and muffy.
So who knows?
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
I just want to complete the thought that Medicare, which is medical care for the elderly, are now going to be providing coverage for sex change operations, which I didn't know was a health problem.
I thought it was an elective preference based on the fact that you thought you got screwed in the womb.
You should have been born in a way that you weren't.
So you want to get that fixed.
Fine and dandy.
But it's not.
I guess they're now a civil right.
Sex change operations are a civil right.
Speaking of which, you know, it freaks me out.
I have to tell you, it freaks me out that Vladimir Putin is saying things I agree with.
The Russian president has opposed the adoption of Russian orphans by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, foreign couples, and has instructed the government and the Supreme Court there to prepare changes to existing law before July 1st.
So Putin is not allowing foreign, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender couples to adopt kids in Russia.
He tells their Supreme Court what to do.
Now, just like here, now, stop and think of this.
You know what I find ironic about this is that back when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s and the 50s, the left in this country loved the Russians.
The Soviet Union was where all the freedom was.
The communists were the idyllic.
The communists, that's where utopianism was, communism.
Everybody was taken care of equally.
Was this wonderful?
That's where utopia was going to be.
Kid you not.
To the left back, and still today, the United States was the great Satan.
And so now here's a KGB officer who is, I mean, this guy is what he is, and he's an old communist.
And he's speaking out against the popular issue of the day in Russia.
You know, they're all kinds of left-wing publications and individuals, folks who are beside themselves over global warming.
I have an entire stack of stuff today from the Australian newspaper, 20-year hiatus in rising temperatures has climate scientists puzzled.
And they are all citing a magazine article in The Economist, which has a lengthy article this week, in which they say that if climate scientists were credit rating agencies, then climate sensitivity, the way climate reacts to changes in carbon dioxide levels, would be on negative watch.
Because this story, this story indicates that carbon in the atmosphere may actually be making things cooler, not warmer.
They are beside themselves with rage and anger and frustration in the global warming community, which we know is a hoax now.
That's what continues to be something that's utterly laughable to me.
We know by virtue of released emails from the University of East Anglia in the UK that the whole thing, the man-made global warming program is a hoax.
It's a political hoax.
Now, I realize there's some people, we had new listeners tuning in each and every day.
And I realize that many of you new arrivals here think that global warming is the law of the land.
You've never questioned it, and you think it's happening.
Global warming is as real as the sun coming up.
Considering the alternative is impossible.
And you believe that people who don't believe in it are literal kooks.
And I want to tell you, you new arrivals, and I know you low-information people, you are here in increasing numbers each and every day.
Again, I've got no reason to make anything up.
I have no reason to lie to you.
There's nothing in it for me to do that.
I don't have an agenda so important to me that I want people believing what I believe it isn't true.
That's the exact opposite of what my objective is.
My objective is to have people grounded in truth and reality in greater and greater numbers, governing themselves responsibly, participating in the arena of ideas and all that.
I have no interest in lying to you.
I have none.
It wouldn't facilitate one thing.
It wouldn't get me anything.
I'm not trying to get your votes.
It doesn't matter.
No reason to lie to you.
Now, there are rare times when I'm wrong about something, but not purposefully.
And I'm telling you that if you are a new listener to the program or a recently arrived low-information person, I'm telling you the man-made global warming story is a hoax.
Revealed by emails that scientists emails one scientist to another, acknowledging how they left out data that contradicted their theory.
They added data that wasn't true.
The whole hockey stick theory that explains medieval warming.
None of it's real.
It was all manufactured.
It literally is a hoax.
So in light of that, I marvel at the release of stories nearly every day, people just now figuring out that it isn't warming, regardless, man-made or otherwise.
And the stories they're telling themselves to explain this are hilarious.
If you operate from the baseline level, that it's a hoax.
Now, you may want to believe it's true.
I wouldn't be surprised if a number of you do.
And here's why.
The way you've been approached on this is to first make you feel guilty.
And if not you personally, at least other Americans who've been living their lives too irresponsibly without concern for the environment.
They've been polluting, they've been wasting electricity, they've been driving big cars, they've been cooling or warming their homes to extreme, whatever.
And you have been made to feel appropriately guilty or angry, but then you have been offered absolution.
You've been offered a way out of the guilt for having contributed to the destruction of the planet.
And that is, if you will go out and buy a hybrid, or if you will oppose oil companies, or if you will oppose fracking, if you will oppose the Keystone Pipeline, if you will oppose the growth of any fossil fuel industry, then you're a good person.
If you will agree that people need to pay higher taxes in order to save the planet, you're a good person.
They've offered you absolution.
It's all a hoax.
And then I would hope once, if ever, you could be made to believe this, if I could convince all of you who don't believe me to accept that man-made global warming is a hoax.
And I could do it if you give me two straight hours.
I could do it probably in less time than that.
I could walk you through how it's been done.
I could have you nodding your head in agreement at several intervals as I explain how the left has been approaching you on this.
I would ask you some questions that if you honestly listened to and tried to answer, you would have no choice but then to conclude I'm right, but you would also have to be able to independently think, not just accept a bunch of propaganda.
One such question.
Who is to say, I mean, how old is the earth?
Nobody knows for sure.
Some people think it's 10,000 years.
Others think it's billions.
But whatever the answer, your length of time on the earth is insignificant.
It's infinitesimal.
Your time on earth is barely the size of a head of a pin, if that big.
So what possible impact could you be making?
But more importantly than that, who's to say that the time you are alive is not normal?
Or who is to say that when you are alive is normal?
What is normal when in 10,000 years or a billion years of the existence of the Earth, what is the normal temperature?
What kind of vanity does it take to think that the spate of perfection, the state of perfection and normalcy happens to be when you're alive?
And then when that's changing, something's dreadfully wrong.
How do you know all these things?
Why do you accept that when you happen to be alive, it's normal?
Anyway, I'm just taking individual little stabs here at trying to make you think and question the propaganda that you have been assaulted with, that America primarily is responsible For the earth getting warmer, and that means utter disaster, by the way.
When it probably doesn't anyway, if it got warmer, I mean, if some people have been freezing their tushes off here for six months, you'd probably appreciate it being a little warmer.
Anyway, the point is, there's now this article out in The Economist, which has everybody just roiled.
They don't know what to do.
And in fact, a companion story here about the problem in the UK: old people are freezing to death.
Two things: it is so cold, and taxes are so high that old people cannot afford the fuel necessary to stay warm.
And sorry, their windmills aren't cutting it, and the solar farms aren't cutting it, and all the people out driving hybrids is not making their houses warmer.
So old people are dying in Britain because it's so cold, and taxes, environmental taxes, are so high.
So that's one.
But here's what's got them all upset in The Economist.
Over the past 15 years, air temperatures at the Earth's surface have been flat.
They haven't moved.
While greenhouse gas emissions have soared.
Everything you were told about greenhouse gas, the more of it, the worse it gets.
The more of it, the hotter it gets.
Well, greenhouse gas emissions have soared.
By the way, greenhouse gas is what you exhale.
You realize that by virtue of your very existence, you are poisoning the planet.
Sorry, carbon dioxide, you exhale it.
I just poison the planet.
The problem is, I can't help it.
I was designed that way.
Do you really think that a God, that's another problem, you may not believe in God.
If you don't believe in God, it's real easy to accept man-made global warming.
If you do believe in God, it becomes a little harder.
Because if you believe in God, then you believe in creationism, and then you have to accept that you really don't matter.
Not in these terms.
Your life matters in terms of what it makes, but in terms of the ecosystem and complexity, you don't possibly matter.
None of us do.
But of those who matter, only those who fly on jets and drive cars do.
Right.
Right.
The people that fly in jets and drive cars, they're the ones that are ruining the planet.
Yeah, right.
People who are engaging in progress are destroying the planet.
Right.
That makes a lot of sense, doesn't it?
Anyway, over the past 15 years, air temperatures at the Earth's surface have been flat.
They haven't moved.
In fact, they may be lowering while greenhouse gas emissions have soared.
The world added roughly 100 billion tons of carbon to the atmosphere between the years 2000 and 2010.
That is about 25% of all the CO2 put there by humanity since 1750.
Can I put that another way?
10 years, 2000, 2010, 100 billion tons of carbon was added to the atmosphere.
That's 25% of all the CO2 since 1750.
That's really concentrated levels.
And yet, James Hansen, the head of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, says the five-year mean global temperature has been flat for a decade.
Hansen, by the way, is one of the hoaxers.
Temperatures fluctuate over short periods, but this lack of new warming is a surprise to scientists, but it's not to me.
Ed Hawkins, University of Reading in Britain, points out that surface temperatures since 2005 are at the low end of the range of predictions derived from 20 climate models.
And if they remain flat, they're going to fall outside the model's range within a few years, meaning their models are all wrong.
If, however, temperatures are likely to rise by only two degrees centigrade, the calculation might change.
And it goes on to get into some scientific minutia here.
But the point is that just one story has the entire science community in an absolute tizzy.
And in the Australian, the way they write this, their headline, 20-year high AVIS in rising temperatures, has client scientists puzzled.
20 years.
The actual length of time that there hasn't been any warming now is 20 years, despite all that carbon dioxide put in the air, and they can't figure it out.
And it's very simple.
They were that excrement crazy.
They're just flat out wrong.
Global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern, and that's now widely accepted.
No, it's not.
It should be, but it isn't.
Another story: sunspot activity has slowed down, and that means global warming has stopped, and the earth is beginning to cool.
Enjoy global warming while it lasts.
The last ice age was 4,000 years ago.
Therefore, my friends, the earth has been warming for the last 4,000 years.
The problem is, scientists can't tell us why.
Not the last 4,000.
They say global warming is just in the last 25.
Man-made, yes.
But why has it been warming for 4,000 years?
They can't tell us.
They have no idea.
In fact, they don't know why we have ice ages in the first place.
They don't know why it cools.
All we know is that a lot more people die from the cold than from global warming.
And here is Vincent, Indianapolis.
Hi, Vincent.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi, Teaching today.
I'm fine.
Thank you very much.
Okay, I just wanted to call and thank you and let you know that I started listening about six months ago, and my eyes have been opened, and my mind's been in Latin from you.
And I watch the news now from just with more realization eyes.
Six months ago, how did it happen?
Well, I was raised in a Democratic family and then just started cruising through the radio trying to find something that I could listen to and happened upon your show and was just okay.
Somebody making sense.
Somebody made sense.
The stuff that you had probably thought all your life.
So it wasn't, was I saying things that you hadn't heard before or things that you believed anyway?
Pretty.
And just my family.
Why is this happening?
And none of them could give me an answer.
But you were able to have those answers explained on this program.
Absolutely.
Yes.
I'm one of the few under 35-year-olds, 27 here at the end of the month.
And it's just that we're not all low-information voters out here in this age range, and we all do.
I know.
And it's because of people like you that we have hope.
Who's next?
Ellen, Clearwater, Florida.
I'm glad you waited.
It's great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, thank you for taking my call.
I think I could clear up a little bit about the Medicare for you.
I'm disabled.
I've worked 40 years, and about 10 years ago, I became disabled, and I'm on SSDI.
Okay, so because I paid into it, because I worked, you were able to get Medicare after two.
Well, this is how it was.
I don't know how it's going to be with Obamacare.
You were able to get Medicare coverage after two years of being disabled on SSDI.
Right.
Okay?
So, how hard was it to learn this?
Well, I worked for the state of Florida.
So I kind of knew it, but when I became disabled, I didn't know that there was a two-year wait for Medicare.
I found that out through Social Security.
And it's like, but I'm disabled.
So, I mean, I had to, on $800 10 years ago, figure out how I was going to pay for all my medications.
My doctor said I became very creative.
I'm not surprised.
Well, like, I went the one time Ford, you know, they have those trial things that you set up for, and I couldn't afford to go to the doctor.
So I signed up for that, got all my blood work, told them I forgot, and then gave it to my other doctor.
Very, very creative.
Yeah, you're exactly right.
And then at the time with my prescriptions, they were more, I was transferring all over to get gift cards so I could buy.
Wait a minute.
Hold on a minute.
I want to know how you scammed this.
Tell me again what you did with prescription.
I'm not a scammer.
Oh, pardon me.
I misunderstood.
No, no, no, no, no.
Okay.
It was creative.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I misunderstood.
No, no, no.
I was creative.
I thought because you work for the state of Florida, you learned the ins and outs and all that.
No, no, I mean, I didn't qualify for food stamps because I was $20 over the monthly income.
But you could have fixed that.
How?
Well, just say that you weren't $20 over.
You have to bring documentation in.
And then they have to get.
How do you document that?
Because I know people are scamming food stamps.
What is documentation?
Actually, the paper from Social Security is saying how much you're going to be getting.
And then plus they have notifications when someone goes on Social Security that goes to the food stamp area.
So Social Security will provide evidence of whether you qualify for food stamps or not.
Right.
No, well, they'll tell you the income, and then depending on the state, you know, how much what they consider.
How does Social Security know what your income is?
Because you have to report Social Security deducts.
This is before.
This is, you know, when you're working.
Oh, oh, oh, that's where I was getting confused.
When you're working.
I worked for 40 years.
I worked from when my father died when I was 14.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
Forgive me.
shows you on that, and then...
I didn't know work was involved in here.
Oh, yeah.
No, no.
You have to, to get the SSDI, Social Security Disability Insurance.
Right.
Okay, you had to have worked.
Yes.
And then when you work.
What you're going to tell me here is that there's probably on Medicare via SSDI a two-year window where you can qualify for an addictomy.
No.
You have to wait two years.
You have to wait two years to get the addictomy.
When I became disabled, I had to wait two years to get on Medicare.
So I pretty much went two years with no medical except out of pocket.
That's not fair.
Who made you do that?
The government.
That's how it works.
You can't get Medicare.
You had to pay out of your pocket?
I had to pay out of my pocket for my medicines.
So that's why I would go and get my medicine and I get a gift card.
That's not American.
Who likes that?
I did the promotions back then.
And then it's like, okay, I could buy toilet paper this month.
Really?
So you were faced with that dilemma.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Prescriptions or toilet paper?
Wow.
I got the gift card so I could buy the stuff that, you know, I needed the gift card.
Yes.
Yes, yes.
Because you've seen in the paper where it's like, transfer this prescription, you get a $25 gift card.
Yeah, I saw that.
Where you transfer your prescription.
Sure.
And then you transfer the prescription.
And the way it worked, you transfer your prescription and you get a gift card.
Right.
And then when that month was over, another store would have it.
And then I transferred to like the other pharmacy, get the gift card, and then the next month transfer it back to the original one when they had another.
Now they're stricter.
Now it's like you could do one in six months.
But, you know, we're talking 10 years ago.
Are they tightening down on you or the pharmacist?
Oh, no, the pharmacy, because I assume a lot of people are doing this.
Yeah.
You know, so now it's like one every six months you could get.
But no, I mean, I didn't get any trouble.
The pharmacists were actually nice.
It was like, okay, you know, if you bring one in today and then you bring one in next week, we could do both cards.
Wait, bring what in?
What?
A transfer?
I had like seven prescriptions that I was paying out of pocket.
Oh.
So the one pharmacist said, okay, if you do this one today, when you come to pick up the other one, bring this and we could do another gift card for you.
Transfer.
Yeah.
Either new or transferred, yeah.
But how in the world, how in the world, Ellen, did you, were you able to keep up with all of this?
What is your disability?
Bipolar, bipolar, major depression, anxiety.
There was insomnia I take medicine for thyroid, really, really bad arthritis now.
Oh, God, what else?
That's pretty bad.
Yeah.
Pretty bad.
Yeah, I mean, I have it really bad in my spine and in my knees.
And it's like if I stand for 10 minutes, my knees start to like sink or I'm sinking to the floor.
And then if I sit too long, then it starts with my spine.
Did you by any chance play basketball or football in school?
No.
That could have been the reason, but you didn't.
No.
But with the, you know, if they worked, you know, that was the, you know, years.
If you're, you know, you're collecting the Social Security discipline, and it has to be SSDI.
Okay, because SSI is for people who have never worked.
Right, as opposed to SSDI, SSI for people who haven't worked, SSDI.
And I don't know the one for the when the when the Cuban people come over, there's Social Security, because one of the girls I worked with, she came with Cuba.
What do the Cuban people have to do with this?
There is a division in SSI that when they come over to the country, they get $300 a month Medicaid and food stamps.
When they get off the boat.
Yeah.
Or the raft, whatever.
So I don't know how Rubio's going to do this because he's first generation.
How he's going to do what?
Qualify?
No, how he's going to cut back on with immigrations.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Because, you know, who's going to vote for him?
You know, the Latino vote won't vote for him down in Miami if he gets rid of the Social Security.
Do you?
Because when she told me this, it's like, you're lying to me.
She's like, no.
Ellen, do you have to tell people that you have depression?
Oh, no, no, no.
I have major depression and I have bipolar.
I know, but do you just have to tell them that?
Or is it obvious?
Or do you have to have documentation?
Documentation.
For a doctor and a pharmacist?
Well, no, I was going to counseling and then the counselor suggested a psychiatrist to me.
And then I was going to him and it was diagnosed.
I see.
I see.
You know, and that was while I was still working.
Did you have to prove that you have insomnia?
Yeah, because, well, I would go two, you know, two, two and a half days without sleeping.
Yeah, but how did you prove that?
I mean, I told them.
And they just believed it?
Well, with the other things that were going on and what we were talking about.
Yeah, I guess it would be kind of conclusive.
Yeah.
And then he, you know, then I got the medication for that.
Wow.
I'll tell you, I've learned a lot from you.
I've only learned a lot from me?
I've only been listening to you for about three months because my computer died and I don't have cable because I can't afford it.
And I was having a hard time sleeping.
Well, there's got to be a program for that.
Please don't take offense to this.
I went to start listening to talk radio to help me fall asleep.
And then when I would wake up, your show was on and I started listening to.
And it was like, it was like, okay, he's not as rude as everybody says.
Because I was a lifelong Democratic.
Yeah.
You know, and now I'm an independent.
Let me tell you, I'm honored.
I appreciate this.
This has been a fascinating story.
I'm glad to be the one that wakes you up.
Yeah, because it was like, oh, my gosh, you know, there's a couple people that I don't like on the talk radio because you don't call people stupid.
You don't call them and scream at them.
Right.
I just think it.
Yeah, no, there's a couple of them that just like start screaming and you know, you stupid liberals.
There are certain things that I know you're never going to change, in my opinion.
Right.
You know, but I've learned a lot in the last couple months.
I appreciate that.
I'm stunned, but I am flattered.
I really am.
And I've got to go.
I've just noticed the clock.
I'm way long.
I've got to take a.
Ellen, thanks very much.
I appreciate it.
And we will be back for whatever good it does.
So when I say and greetings to those of you welfare recipients who are just getting up, we now know that officially they are there.
You know, 8.7 million Americans are on SSI.
That's the population of New York City.
They're not counted in the unemployment number.
And it's quite interesting and amazing.
Okay, folks, that's it.
We're out of busy broadcast moments for today, but we'll be back and do it again tomorrow eagerly.
We'll see you then.
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