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April 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 3, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, Snerdley, I've found them, because I keep everything.
And I've I've got a uh an excellent organizing system, which is called keyword search.
And it works every time it's all you have to remember is well.
Key word, I found it.
I found a lickety split.
And I'm glad you reminded me I had forgotten that I had promised to talk about it.
I did know when I got it, I said there's something wrong here.
The desk has nothing on it.
And I left half of yesterday's show on this desk.
It's not here.
And so I didn't remember what was in it, and Snerdly said right before the last hour.
Well, you're gonna tell us about never apologizing at work and slacking off and succeeding and oh my gosh, I forgot all about it.
So found it, it's coming up.
Great to have you.
We're back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIV network, Limbaugh Institute, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program.
I I I want to once again expound upon a theory, maybe even make it a prediction.
Folks, Obamacare, I don't think can work.
I don't think it can be successfully implemented.
Now that can be disastrous, by the way.
The people in charge of it may not ever realize that and may try to make a go out of an absolute disaster.
But I don't think so.
All of these rules and regulations.
This thing that we just went through, keep your income low.
That's how you get your subsidy up.
Goes against the grain of everything this country's about.
I know health care is important to people, but administering this is going to be impossible.
Even with 16,000 new IRS agents.
People have to fill out a 61-page form just to just to qualify for a subsidy at one of these exchanges.
Not every state signed up for the exchange, so some states are not even messing with Obamacare.
Some states are basically punting Obamacare as as much as they can.
And those states, I think, is where the savior in all this is gonna end up being found.
As I don't think Kathleen Sebelius doesn't know what the hell she's doing in health care.
Who is she?
Secretary of Health and Humans, she doesn't know what she's doing.
And Obamacare has, I don't know how many times in it, as the Secretary shall determine.
Look, it's a it's a socialist's wet dream, the power and the control in this thing, but it's this could end up be like trying to herd cats.
It's just too big, it's too wieldly, it's too unresponsive to the real needs that people have.
It is a it's a it's a it's a utopian dream of a bunch of people who've never been in the real world, a bunch of theoretician leftists who sit around and talk amongst themselves at Starbucks or the faculty lounge or whatever, and think they've got all the answers because they care more than anybody else.
They've got all the compassion and they know who it is that's screwing everybody.
It's big business and big insurance, and so they're gonna get even with all this.
And they they have no clue how markets work.
And they think they can control markets, either with intimidation or with goodwill, either way.
But I'm just thinking the what what they have devised here is simply impossible to implement.
It is impossible to track it.
It's too open-ended.
They can add regulations at any time that contradict existing regulations, which is going to happen.
When something that's in the bill doesn't work, it's oh well, we'll try this.
It's gonna end up being this giant jigsaw puzzle that nobody could ever put together if they lived forever.
Because the parts are gonna forever be increasing, changing in size.
It's not gonna be workable.
And the day is going to come where the federal government is gonna beg states to bail them out of this.
I don't know if it's ever gonna be fully repealed.
And by the way, don't misunderstand something.
The last thing in the world these utopian socialists are want to do, are going to want to do is get rid of it.
I don't want to create the false impression that I think a panacea awaits us.
I'm just saying, as devised as dreamed about by you know who these people are.
They're like Obama, that all they've ever done is sit around and chat among themselves and whine and complain about everything going on.
They've got chips on their shoulders about everything.
They're perpetually angry.
They don't like capitalism because they think it's unfair, in unequal, unjust.
So they've sat around all their lives, and despite everything they believe demonstrably failing every time it's been tried in world history, they think they've got the answer because they're finally the right people.
And they think they've got their hands on a lot of money now.
They can find they're going to be the ones that we've all been waiting for.
They're the ones who are going to do it right, but it doesn't work.
Socialism, massive total control of people and their lives, even for benevolent purposes, does not work.
It cannot.
It goes against every aspect of human nature and the way we are created.
That's why I made big beefs with socialism.
And communism is that at its base, it is a violation of human creation.
It's a violation of human nature.
It's simply socialism, communism, all of these isms simply cannot peacefully coexist with the natural existence of the human being.
It just doesn't work.
It never has and it never will.
Not as it's on the drawing board, not it, not as it's dreamed about.
Because then it's impossible.
You can't have perfect equality.
Wrong button.
You can't have everybody turn out the same.
You can't have everybody uniformly happy and satisfied and content.
You can't rid the world of all the evil.
You can't rid the world of risk.
You can't keep people from dying.
We can't stop the climate from doing whatever it's going to do.
We can't stop the sun from doing what it's going to do.
We can't change the weather.
Anything about it.
We can't alter one thing that bothers these people.
Because we are not God.
They think they can be.
None of what they believe is practical.
They can make it sound good on paper.
They can get a guy like Obama who can deliver great lofty, meaningless speeches that make you think that a panacea awaits if we just put the right one guy in charge, which is what we did in 2008 in people's minds.
But the bottom line is it just it contradicts basic human nature at almost every turn.
Liberalism, socialism, communism, whatever you want to call it, whatever ism you want to attach to it.
Because a human being is not destined to be controlled.
A human being's outcome in life is not something he or she naturally turns over.
Few people might, masses of humanity never will.
Isn't going to happen.
That's why they have to be coerced into this system.
That's why I have to build a wall around country, keep people in.
Because it is such an a bastardization of the normal, natural human existence.
It's why this country is exceptional, because it's the first country traditionally officially formed That states the exact opposite of the tenets of socialism and communism.
Socialism and communism are based on false premises.
It's based on the premise that every human being is an SOB, except the liberals.
It's based on the proposition that most people aren't worth scum.
It's based on the proposition that nobody can take care of themselves.
It's based on the proposition that people, populations are made up of nothing but people who exploit everybody else.
It's based on the proposition that there are just some good vibes around everybody can have the same thing everybody else has, that everybody can be happy.
That we can eliminate misery, we can eliminate suffering.
We can eliminate risk.
We can eliminate losing.
We can eliminate pain.
And we can't.
And liberalism is essentially saying they don't like life as it is about to change it.
They don't like the terms, but they can't.
And that's what Obamacare is.
Obamacare is all of that.
Obamacare exists in anger.
Obamacare exists on one false premise after another.
And it's been created by a bunch of people that have lived lives that have not come in contact with real world situations.
They are in glass houses or faculty lounges or protected areas of some other kind.
And they sit around and they theorize.
Like we've all done.
Every time you go to work, or many times at your job, you've sat around people, you know how to do it better than the boss does.
You know how to treat people better.
You know how to make it more profitable.
These people on the left do that constantly, daily.
It's their natural existence about everybody else's life, not just a job or a company.
But it flies in the face of nature, natural law, common sense.
It can't.
Socialism and communism cannot peacefully exist anywhere.
But especially not here.
Not in a country where people's expectation is to be left alone.
Expectation is economic and moral freedom.
And it doesn't permit any of that.
Socialism, communism must, by definition, tell you what you can't do.
The way this country's formed, our constitution tells them what they can't do to us.
What the leftists want is a constitution that permits them to do whatever they want to us in their minds.
It's for us, but it's not.
It's to us.
And this Obamacare is an absolute disaster.
It's impossible to implement.
It's impossible for this to work.
It can't.
It can work in somebody's dream.
But it cannot work.
Our culture, our country, our society, human beings are too complex.
Every life is different.
Every circumstance is different.
You cannot devise on piece of paper a law, an idea or a plan that will accommodate virtually every human possibility in the ebb and flow of every day of life in a country like this or any other country.
You just can't do it.
And as I see all these stories that could have been published before this was voted on.
All this stuff that these health care experts are just not finding out.
It was known, it was in there.
The 61-page form to apply for a subsidy.
All we want to do is go to the doctor.
What the hell is this subsidy?
What a 61-page form.
What is this?
I've got a cold.
I want to go to the doctor.
I want to find out if I'm sicker than I think I am.
I just need some tests.
That's all I want to do, and then I want to leave.
I want to go home.
I don't have to feel like I'm studying for a final exam.
I have to write a thesis.
As a doctoral candidate would.
I just want to go to the doctor.
And that's not what Obamacare is about.
It's not about you going to the doctor.
It's about them telling you what's good for you and what isn't, and not letting you do what you want to do if they don't approve of it in any walk of life.
But folks, it's just it's too big, it's too unwieldy, it's too unenforceable.
Even with all the jackbooted thugs the world has had in history, they can't enforce this.
There are too many people who are going to say, hell with this.
Private organizations of doctors and patients are going to spring up under cover.
Black market.
People who can afford it are going to pay a doctor X amount per year.
The doctor's going to have an office that nobody knows where it is except the patients.
The patients are going to get treated.
Obamacare is not going to be a factor.
They have the freedom, financial ability to do it.
Things like that, though.
The states are going to be asked to bail them out.
And in that reality lies the hope of ridding this monstrosity from our culture.
The federal government at some point saying, we can't do this.
We can't implement it.
Now they may never admit that.
Then they may continue to try against all the odds.
The evidence is they will.
But this is bigger than anything they've ever tackled.
And by the way, what have they ever fixed that they've taken on?
And it's by the way, I don't mean to insult them personally.
This is too big.
The federal government cannot fix poverty.
People in poverty get themselves out of it.
People without jobs find jobs.
Government can't do this.
Was never intended to do this.
Thank you.
And the sooner we can disabuse as many people as possible, that the government is their answer, and instead let them know that they are the answer.
Better off we're going to be.
This is what the Republican Party ought to be doing.
rather than trying to emulate the Democrat Party in a nicer way, whatever that would be.
Let me take a brief obscene profit timeout.
We'll do that.
We will continue in mere moments after this.
Don't go away.
Let me give you an example.
Let me give you an example of that which I was just discussing.
I have here a piece in Time Magazine, the latest issue.
It's by Joe Klein.
Big time liberal Democrat acolyte thinks Obama is the greatest human being who's ever lived.
Title of his piece, headline, Obamacare Incompetence.
Here's Joe Klein.
Let me try to understand this.
The key incentive for small business to support Obamacare was that they would be able to shop for the best deals in healthcare superstores called these exchanges.
The administration has had three years to set up these exchanges.
It's failed to do so.
This is a really bad sign.
Now there will be those who argue it's not the administration's fault.
It's the fault of the 33 states that have refused to set up their own exchanges, but that's nonsense.
Where was the contingency planning?
There certainly are models, after all, federal government's own health benefits plan, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And certainly the Republicans who have stood in the way of these exchanges.
Their own idea, by the way, was born in the Conservative Heritage Foundation, deserve a great deal of the credit for the debacle.
But we are now seeing weekly examples of this administration's inability to govern.
It's exactly my point.
Every day there's a new headline on a new surprise about a new cost, a new obstacle that nobody knew was there, although they did know, they just didn't report.
But that's what Klein's talking about.
Every now, every week now, examples of this regime's inability to govern.
Just a few weeks ago, Klein says, I reported on the failure of the Department of Defense and the VA to come up with a unified electronic health care record system.
There's also been the studied inattention to the myriad of ineffective job training programs scattered through the bureaucracy.
There have been the oblique and belated efforts to reform Head Start.
Yeah, the president's faced terrible economic crisis.
He's done well to limit the damage, blah, blah.
But as a Democrat, as somebody who believes in activist government, he has a vested interest in seeing that federal programs actually work efficiently.
And I don't see much evidence that this is anywhere near the top of his priorities.
One thing is clear, Obamacare will fail if he doesn't start paying more attention to the details of its implementation.
Mr. Klein, if I may, I know you don't care much for me.
But let me you you should remember when we met in New Hampshire in 1992, I think, and you warned me about the Republicans back then.
You told me back then, Mr. Klein, they were destroying conservatism.
I just I want you to know I remember that.
But I I Mr. Klein, he doesn't care is the answer.
The president doesn't care.
I'll expand on it if you want.
Okay, we are back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I I want to I I want to expand on this Joe Klein uh story for a second.
He's written here in Time Magazine that Obama has dropped the ball on implementation of Obamacare, and he's it's it Obama incompetence.
And he writes here, Obamacare will fail if he doesn't start paying more attention to the details of implementation.
Sooner or later the Democrats may come to understand that making it run efficiently is the prerequisite for maintaining power.
Now I'm here to tell you this cannot be run efficiently.
It's too big, it's too unwieldy.
It would be like one person trying to run the Pentagon, if I can bring back that analogy.
Can't happen.
Too big, too much, not possible for one person to be in charge of all the different committees, be up to speed.
It just, it's, it's, it's too unwieldy.
It cannot be run efficiently.
But I want to say again to Mr. Klein, you know, as I say, he doesn't care much for me.
But I remember I went to Manchester, New Hampshire, and I think it was 1992.
It was it was uh it was February, I remember that.
It was early on in this program's life, and the occasion was Ronald Reagan's birthday, and there was a big dinner, and it was, yeah, it was at 92 because it was part of the uh New Hampshire primary.
I remember Pat Buchanan knocking on my door in my hotel room when I had Bill Bennett in there.
And I opened the door and Buchanan saw Bennett.
There was eye contact, and then Pat said to come back later.
That was that was, you know, Bush was president.
But the thing I remember, I'm getting off tangents here.
The next day, this is Saturday night.
I remember I made a speech, talked about how much I loved Reagan.
And I never I was just working for a baseball team when Reagan was present for the most part.
Second term I was doing show like this in Sacramento, but did my tribute to Reagan.
Who else Jack Kemp?
I mean, it was everybody in the Republican Party was at this thing.
And the press was covering it accordingly.
Naki Loeb from the Manchester Union Leader was there.
Ed Rollins was the MC of the event.
The next day at the airport, Joe Klein in his trench coat came up to me, and he was in a hurry.
I think it was the airport.
He is on out of town or moving on to the next thing.
And he said, Rush, rush, these guys, you gotta you you gotta open your eyes, these guys.
And he was talking about the Bushies.
These guys are destroying conservatism.
And then he was off.
And I'm just telling you this, because he'll hear about it.
I just want him to know that I remember it.
And and Mr. Klein, I'm I'm responding here to your piece.
I'm sincere as I can be.
And I don't say this in a partisan critical way.
This is as objective as I can get.
Barack Obama doesn't care about the implementation of Obamacare.
Barack Obama doesn't know what's in it.
What Barack Obama does is keep score, and he got national health care.
And it's for other people to deal with.
He's playing golf.
Maybe I shouldn't say that because that's going to be interpreted as being provocative.
And I'm not trying to be provocative here.
I'm really trying to get Klein to consider Obama doesn't care about this.
Obamacare will fail if he doesn't start paying more attention to the details of him.
The details of anything bore him.
The details.
Mr. Klein, why was he constantly saying while campaigning, if you like your doctor, you get to keep your doctor.
Your insurance premiums are coming down, $2,500.
None of that was true.
Now, did he know it wasn't true?
Or did he really believe those things were going to happen?
I think the answer is open.
He's a theoretician.
He's got chip on his shoulder.
He thinks he's got all the answers.
He and his buddies at the faculty lounge.
They probably think the insurance company is a focus of evil in the modern world.
And if they're put in charge, they can bring the cost down.
Because they're fairer and nicer.
And they care more about the little guy.
Whatever it is they tell themselves.
I don't think Obama's even read the law, Mr. Klein.
I don't think he knows what's in it.
I don't think he cares what's in it.
What he cares about is the notch in the belt.
He got national health care.
First president in history.
Democrat's been trying for 50 years.
At the Obama, the future Obama library and institute for social justice, whatever they call it, there aren't going to be any testimonials to the details of Obamacare in any of the displays.
Just going to be a plaque.
Obama, first president to get national health care.
Because there isn't going to be any praise to sing about this.
Mr. Klein, all Obama cares or knows about is that he successfully moved one-seventh of the U.S. economy to government control.
And in his world, that equals compassion, power, and success.
The details of this, that's so beneath him.
He doesn't have time.
It's for other people to work that out.
In fact, I would venture to say it if if somebody told him there was an implementation problem, he said, we'll fix it and move on to whatever else interests him that day or that moment.
But I'm dead serious, Mr. Klein, when I tell you he doesn't care.
It's too beneath him.
Implementation.
That's what laborers do.
The elite don't implement things.
And I'm not trying to be provocative.
I'm just trying to think of ways to actually penetrate the protective boundaries that Mr. Klein has set up to protect him from conservatism.
Trying to penetrate him.
But if you perceive Obamacare's implementation as a problem, asking him to fix it is not the way to go.
If you really want Obamacare to work, you're going to have to go to the States and beg them to fix this.
Because they will tell you at the States they can't deal with it.
They'll tell you at the States there isn't any money for it.
Everybody, federal government, they'll tell, well, I don't know where we're gonna get the money for this.
There isn't any money for it.
There's like there's no money for anything else.
What do you mean it's been authorized?
That's one thing.
There isn't any money.
Does anybody realize that we don't have any money?
We're spending two and a half trillion a year more than we're taking in.
Or one trillion, one and a half trillion more a year that we're taking in.
We had a 17 trillion national debt.
We don't have any money.
We don't have money for this concert for the sequester with uh with Timberland.
We don't have any money for this.
We don't have 200 million dollars to give to the Brotherhood in Egypt.
We don't have it.
We do not have the money.
We don't have any money.
So this Obamacare doesn't have any money, the states don't have any money, there's no money to implement it, there's nobody that knows what to do to implement it.
And the guy whose name is on the bill doesn't care.
That's not what he's gonna be remembered for.
He's gonna be remembered for transferring one-seventh of the economy to the government and being the first president to get it, FDR couldn't do it.
Woodrow Wilson couldn't do it.
JFK didn't get it done.
Clinton didn't get it done.
I did.
Another brief time out, ladies and gentlemen, as we continue here on the EIB network.
Don't go away.
I got a lot of emails today from uh people.
Rush, why are you calling everybody Bible thumpers?
I'm not calling everybody Bible thumpers.
I'm just talking about those that are.
Well, uh uh Charles Crowdhammer was on Fox last night, and he said that Bill O'Reilly was perfectly correct in calling people that object to gay marriage because of their biblical beliefs, Bible thumpers.
So if if uh Dr. Crowdhammer says he said that O'Reilly said the right thing.
So Bible thumpers is now the stamp of approval.
It's the way to characterize those people who are opposing gay marriage or any social issue because of their religious beliefs.
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Now look what I've done.
I fully intended to do those two stories.
Slackers at work are happier, and people that never apologize are happier.
And I've got them.
I fully intended to get to them.
But I got off on the health care example about how I think it's unworkable and is gonna implode.
And then I saw the Joe Klein story, and one thing led to another, and now I really don't have the time I would like to devote to.
So guess what?
I'm gonna do them both tomorrow.
And I'm gonna make sure that it doesn't matter cleaning crew throws them away.
I have them in special file folders now on the computer.
So I promise you, first hour tomorrow.
In the meantime, let me go to Joe in Plainsville, Connecticut.
Thanks so much for waiting.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush, good afternoon.
Thank you very much for taking my call.
You better um I want to circle back to the point that you made um when you first started your show about individuals who are basically on government programs who are then passing um how to stay on those programs along to their children.
Um I've been laid off twice since 2009.
Umce from a longtime position and then once from a failed uh business venture.
But being so I am on uh unemployment, however, I'm not on any other programs.
Right.
But the the thought of even my kids knowing, like they know that daddy's home, you know, but they don't know that I'm getting subsidies from the government.
And and even when I file, like the last thing I want them to know.
How old are your children?
Um my son is eleven and my daughter is seven.
Are they you think they're starting to wonder?
How how long have you been unemployed?
Um a little over a year.
Uh I had to we we sold our business uh in March of last year.
What do you think they're telling themselves to explain the fact that you're home?
I I don't think that they quite understand it.
But but the idea of passing on that information to them, I'll also tell you, Rush, I'm also disabled.
I'm legally blind, which means I don't drive.
Well I can't drive.
Um people may ask you a question about that.
You're you're blind?
Do people ever say just focus?
You know, because I'm deaf, and people get mad at me for that.
They say if you just listen closer, you could hear me.
You really can't tell that I have a disability other than I wear a like a cosmetic cap.
I only see out of one eye.
But it also precludes me from doing a lot of different types of jobs, which makes job searching easier.
Well, I look at you know what?
I I I admire you.
I understand.
You're you're you're you you you don't want your kids to um understand the whole unemployment compensation.
I I get that.
They may be well I'm not gonna I'm not gonna guess what your what your kids know.
But I understand exactly you don't want them to have that kind of influence, which I admire.
Um look, I'm glad you held on the telephone.
I appreciate it, I really do.
And uh no, I'm not kidding you.
Uh hearing is the one disability where it's your fault.
I can tell people 15 times I'm deaf.
Doesn't matter, it's my fault for not paying closer attention.
Or I'm totally ignoring them, or I'm not trying hard enough.
And there's nothing I can do about it.
But hearing is the one disability where it's your fault.
They never tell a blind, just focus.
And never tell the guy who limps, just stop limping.
And I'm not gonna apologize for not getting to the story about people who never apologize being happier.
It just didn't happen today.
Deal with it.
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