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April 4, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 4, 2013, Thursday, Hour #3
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Hi, folks.
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Washington Examiner has a story today.
Here's the headline.
Tens of thousands Obamacare navigators to be hired.
What is an Obamacare navigator?
Let me tell you what the story says.
Tens of thousands of healthcare professionals, union workers, community activists hired as navigators to help you choose Obamacare options.
This all starts October 1st.
They are going to be paid $20 an hour or more, according to new regulations that were issued yesterday.
The 63-page rule covering navigators, drawn up by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, also said that the government will provide free translators for those not fluent in English, no matter what their native language is.
The proposed requirements would also include such entities as individuals, provide consumers with information and assistance in the consumer's preferred language at no cost to the consumer, blah, blah.
But anyway, what this means is that Obamacare, the government, is going to hire tens of thousands of community activists who may well be paid nearly $50 an hour if you read further down the story.
You know what they're going to be doing?
Registering people to vote.
That's what they're going to be doing under the guise of walking you through, navigating you through the labyrinth of how to sign up for Obamacare.
And the assumption, the correct assumption is that you are going to be totally lost.
You aren't going to know what to, and you will.
There's a 61-page application form just to get enrolled at one of these state exchanges.
61 pages.
There's a form that looks like a tax form that you have to fill out.
So what the regime has done has announced they're going to hire a bunch of people called navigators, and they're going to go out and meet you.
They're going to go door to door.
They're going to call you.
They're going to get a hold of you via email or whatever.
And they're going to offer assistance to you in navigating Obamacare.
They're going to walk you through how to sign up and how to use it and what they really are going to do.
What this really is, is a voter registration program.
It's voter registration outreach.
These navigators will go out and they're going to tell all of these people that they register to vote.
They're going to give them some help with Obamacare paperwork and they're going to smear Republicans.
And it's all going to be paid for by peaceful, never angry, always helpful, dutifully quiet, play-by-the-rules taxpayers.
You and I are paying for this.
You think Obama's going to use his own money?
You think Obama's going to use organizing for America money for this?
No way, Jose.
Taxpayer money is going to be used because this is a program designed to help people with Obamacare, to help you navigate all of the complexities.
See, if people are going to be hired and they're going to run out, they're going to meet you, get hold of you, whatever mailing list they can find that you're on, and then they're going to try to get you to register as Democrats.
I mean, it doesn't say that.
I just know what this is.
I should specify.
The way it's presented is a very compassionate public service program brought to you by your caring Obama administration to help you deal with the complexities of signing up for and using Obamacare.
But I know flat out, full well, what's going to happen here.
This is a voter registration drive, pure and simple.
And if you're already registered, no problem.
They're going to make sure you vote Democrat.
These little navigators are going to be telling people how hard it was to get this done because the Republicans don't really like any of this.
The Republicans would like to shut this down.
The Republicans don't care if you get health care or not.
But your president loves you.
Your president cares about you.
Your president wants you to get health care.
You're entitled to it.
That's what this is.
I have no doubt.
Let's see what the Republicans do, if anything, once they figure this out.
Let's take a brief timeout, my friends, as Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network roll on.
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Fort Walton Beach, Florida, as we go now back to the Fons and Paul.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Yeah, and a very great pleasure to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you for having me on.
Thank you.
My pleasure.
The gang of eight U.S. senators who've been drafting the latest immigration reform bill behind closed doors for the last few months finished their PR visit to the Mexican border last week and have now revealed that they intend to actually put the document in the docket probably beginning early next week.
Senator Sessions of Alabama says he has inside information that Majority Leader Reed will address this secretly drafted bill as the virtual first order of business and hope to have it done in the first week, or failing that, certainly within three weeks.
And in the words of Lindsey Graham, the reason they didn't release the bill earlier so that the constituents could hear about it during the current recess, Lindsey Graham said, We didn't want to hang it out there for two weeks to get shot at.
So obviously, based on Senator Graham's comments, we're not going to be happy with the contents.
Yet, why do the Democrats want to ram this thing through?
And why are the Rhino camp followers supporting this effort?
Well, one only needs to look at the previous or current incarnation of so-called immigration reform, which we call amnesty, which was passed in 1986.
The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 had a number of significant accomplishments, none of them good, but the greatest accomplishment was that it turned California into the left coast.
Before this bill was passed in 1986, California had been in the Republican camp for almost half a century.
It was the basis for Ronald Reagan's power.
Of course, he was a two-term governor.
He carried it during both of his landslides.
And even the elder Bush carried it in 88.
And yet, within a few years after the passage of the so-called Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986, most of the illegal immigrants who were in California, and there were millions of them, were naturalized and became voters.
Okay, so let me ask you a question.
Sure.
Why, given what you know, and then this is not, by the way, what he said here, folks, about California is not arguable.
California used to be a Republican stronghold.
It was.
And if we do amnesty, we are turning this country into California.
There's no two ways about that.
My question to you, Paul: I mean, I know you're a concerned citizen.
You obviously are a voter.
You've thought about it.
You call them rhinos, but they're still Republicans.
What in the world do you think is the reason Republicans, knowing what you know, are so eager to sign on to this and turn the country into California?
Do you think they know that's what they're doing or do they not?
No, Republicans are not in favor of this bill.
The ranking and file are 80, 20, or 90.
No, but the gang of eight Republicans, the McCain's, Now, by the way, I spoke to Marco Rubio today about this off the air.
He called a little bit before 11 o'clock.
He is insistent that this thing, and he's in the Gang 8, he's insistent this thing not be ram rotted through, that there be hearings.
He's very much aware of the Democrat effort to battering ram this thing through.
And, you know, if Leahy is sending, he sent Leahy, a Judiciary Committee Chairman, a letter saying, I want some hearings.
And Leahy wrote back, well, we may do one.
And Marco Rubio is not satisfied with that.
Well, he shouldn't be.
There should be complete hearings, normal deliberative order that should go on for months.
The 1986 bill took almost five years to pass, and yet these guys want to ram it through in five days if we're to believe what they're doing.
That's what I'm asking you.
Why are there Republicans in this Gang 8 that want this to happen?
What is your theory about why the Republicans, and there are some who want this ram through, are desirous of this?
Okay, the only Republicans who want this thing rammed through are the people that we call the Rhinos, Republicans in name only.
But we need to go beyond the term rhino.
Anyone who supports this amnesty bill, which is going to be nothing but a, it's going to do to the entire country what the previous amnesty bill or the existing one did to California.
It's going to turn the country into the left country, just as the previous amnesty bill turned California into the left coast.
Right.
I know.
My question is.
Well, that's okay.
Well, let me give you the answer.
We should stop calling them rhinos and start calling them DMARs, D-M-A-Rs.
That is Democrats masquerading as Republicans, because really you cannot objectively look at the accomplishments, all negative, from the existing law and make any claim, any objective claim to subscribe to Republican principles.
You do not believe that it's possible or likely that McCain or any of these other Republicans actually think that this is a way to transfer Hispanic votes to Republicans by being for this.
That study shows exactly the opposite, and you've covered it on the show.
The real solution, okay, there's general agreement that before any immigration reform bill can work and stop illegal immigration, the border fence must be completed.
That was in the Republican platform in 2012.
And however, there's a, and people who don't think that that would work need only look at Israel.
Israel has built a fence along their border with Egypt in the last year and a half that has completely stopped illegal immigration.
To quote the words of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu, it has reduced immigration, illegal immigration from Egypt to nil.
Okay, that's the answer to the immigration problem.
Finish the dang thing.
Well, I hate to tell you, but there's no such thing anymore as illegal immigration.
It's been removed from the AP style book.
And so they're not even in the popular media now, the media source that most Americans end up seeing one way or the other, they're not going to be called that anymore.
Well, we still control the House.
We've got to stop this.
Anyone who loves liberty.
I hate to tell you from what I have heard, and I've seen it, the House has an immigration bill.
And it apparently, just from what I've heard, I actually shouldn't say this with any certitude.
It's just what I've read in a couple of places.
It doesn't differ that much from the Senate bill.
Well, it's going to be the end of the Republic if they pass this thing.
I mean, it will take two, three, four election cycles for it to happen.
But the Democrats will become the overwhelming majority party.
Liberalism will take over the entire country.
The Republican Party will be a rump organization, nothing but a debating society.
Well, but the Hispanics will love them.
Well, yeah, but okay, we need to make a choice.
Stand up and fight or lay down and die.
Make your decision.
Whoa.
Whoa.
That's Paul in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
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Do you believe that I had this story in the stack yesterday, and I didn't get to it.
Washington Post had a story that Obama wants to reignite the subprime mortgage program.
I kid you not, the regime, according to the Washington Post, is engaged in an effort to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit.
It's the subprime mortgage, it's because the economy is recovering.
It's because the housing market is rebounding.
I mean, that's what they say.
And so Obama wants to make, again, home loans available to people who really are at great risk for not being able to pay the mortgage.
It's an effort that regime officials say will help power the economic recovery.
I'm telling you, you're hearing right.
According to the Washington Post, the regime wants to make available home mortgages to people who can't afford them again in order to help power the economic recovery.
Now, we got some unemployment numbers today, and the new applications for unemployment compensation skyrocketed.
They exceeded all the expectations.
It was like 385,000.
Now, for me, I am beyond the week-to-week reports now.
They don't matter anymore.
335,350,000, 385,000, whatever.
All I know is that this economy is not producing jobs.
It certainly isn't producing careers.
I don't know what economic recovery people see out there.
I wish there were one.
Don't misunderstand.
God, how I wish there was one.
But there isn't.
Would somebody explain to me how making available mortgage money to people that can't pay it back powers anything?
Okay, give it a shot.
Tell me.
What?
Really?
So it empowers the community which has been feeling neglected by Obama, did you say?
So the low-income, incapable of affording a mortgage community, which feels abandoned by Obama because they thought his reelection and election or re-election, his presidency meant economic prosperity for them.
He's now paying attention to them.
And so even when they can't afford a house, he's going to be seen as the guy making it possible for them to have one.
That's your theory.
Recycle the whole thing designed for Obama to score points in a rotten economy.
He's making it possible for people to move out of the shelters and into their own home.
I see.
The community, right, right.
The community.
Whatever the hell, community.
Right.
And of course, by the way, the Washington Post reports this is the greatest thing.
No red flags at all here.
And nobody alarmed at all.
They do say, skeptics say this could open the door to risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.
But then they go on to impugn the skeptics.
President Obama's economic advisors and outside experts, which come from across the political spectrum, don't you know, say that the nation's much-celebrated housing rebound is leaving too many people behind.
Snerdley, you're right on the money.
We got a boom going.
We got the housing market coming back, but the poor are once again left out.
And we got to get them involved.
We got to make them feel like they're part of it.
We've got to get the community into this recovery.
That's right.
It's stash time.
It says time to get into Obama's stash.
Because too many people are being left behind, including young people looking to buy their first homes and individuals with credit records weakened by the recession.
Not weakened by their own activity.
No, no, no, no, no.
Weakened by the recession.
In response, regime officials say that they're working to get banks to lend to a wider range of borrowers by taking advantage of taxpayer-backed programs, meaning you and I are going to subsidize this.
FHA loans are going to be expanded to handle this.
Federal Housing Administration, so we taxpayers, we don't have any money.
Folks, the country doesn't have any money.
There is no money for this.
But once again, the long arm of government is reaching out to bankers and pointing a finger at them and saying, here's what you're going to do.
What happens if the bankers don't want to cooperate?
Probably will be given a ticket to Cyprus.
That'd be my guess.
Housing officials are urging the Justice Department to provide assurance to banks, which have become increasingly cautious here, that they're not going to face legal or financial recriminations if they make loans to risky borrowers who meet government standards but then later default.
Can I translate that for you?
Housing officials are urging the Justice Department to tell the banks: don't worry, we will not prosecute you.
We will not fine you if you make these loans to people who can't pay them back.
We know we're asking you to make loans to people who might default, and we are assuring you that you will not face financial recriminations if you do it.
Well, by implication, if they don't do it, they might face recrimination.
It is an unstated call it a threat.
I wouldn't, on this program, I wouldn't characterize it that way.
That's what it is, but it's a little promise, a little assurance.
If you do what we want you to do, we're going to indemnify you.
If you don't, we may not indemnify you for whatever else we find you guilty of down the road.
It's unbelievable.
Literally no punishment for bad loans.
The only punishment will be for not making bad loans.
That's what this means.
That's what all that translates down to.
They're telling the banks, we're not going to punish you if these people default, but we might if you don't make the loan in the first place.
But what are the banks are not going to sit there and eat this just like they didn't the last time?
Unbelievable.
Dan in Erie, Pennsylvania.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
It's an honor speaking to you.
Thank you, sir.
My pleasure.
I just wanted to speak on the subject of apologizing being a sign of weakness.
Now, I don't know how these people become scientists, but it astounds me that they're actually called scientists.
I think they should be called pseudo-scientists because I don't think they've actually done any studies to come up with this determination.
Well, I think you're right.
I mean, the definition of who is a scientist in this country is now so broad that it can include people that aren't.
You just got to have a fax machine and a logo.
Yes, it is.
I know, from my experience, I have three boys, and my wife and I are rearing them to try to be decent citizens.
And from my experience, I found the exact opposite to be true.
It takes much more strength and courage for them to come to the person they've done wrong and face them and apologize to them face to face.
It's a very easy thing to refuse to face that person, to refuse to apologize to that person.
And that's an easy person's way out of doing something, you know, just to not accept the responsibility of doing somebody wrong and to not face them.
It takes so much more strength.
I think a majority of the people in this audience agree with your hands down.
Yes, that's from my experience.
I think anybody who would face the truth about any situation they've been in, when they've wronged somebody, it's an easy thing to refuse to apologize and to ignore the problem.
It's a very difficult thing to put yourself in front of that person, look them in the eye, and apologize to them.
So it takes much more strength to do actually a scientist.
Do you engage in Bible thumping?
I absolutely do.
I love Jesus Christ.
He's my Savior, and I'm not ashamed to say it.
All right.
All right.
Well, I appreciate the call.
Thanks much.
That's Dan and Erie, and we'll be back.
Don't go away.
Here's Alex from Wilmington, Indiana.
Says here, you are 13 years old.
Is that right?
Yes, sir, I am.
Well, happy to have you on the program today, Alex.
Thank you very much.
I'm glad to be here.
Earlier, well, I do a speech and debate club, and earlier I heard you talking a bit briefly about global warming, and you said that liberals do not have the evidence that man-made global warming is a hoax.
And I just wanted to say, at 13 years of age, I have done a speech on this, and it was really easy for me to find this evidence, really easy.
And I believe the reason that the liberals do not have the evidence is because they do not want the evidence.
They don't want to hear that it is wrong.
The other day, for an example, we were at a health food store, and this lady told this other guy, she said, I don't get it.
It's so cold, but it's global warming.
And at the end of the conversation, they had both convinced each other that indeed global warming was still real.
So let me, hold on.
Hold just a second.
Alex, you're at the health food store, and it's cold out there, and it's March.
You were there in March.
It's cold, and two people in there are surprised that it's cold because it's global warming outside.
Exactly.
And they still concluded, well, we're still in global warming?
Yes.
But they were shocked.
This is hilarious.
You know, Alex, there are none so blind as those who will not see.
And that's what you're running up against.
Where did you find this evidence?
How hard was it for you to research?
It wasn't that hard to research it.
There's pretty much a lot of evidence that you can find.
I personally just went to the local library and looked up books.
That's what I did.
You went to the library?
Yeah.
You didn't use a computer?
No, I didn't.
Well, yeah, my mom got me one article from the computer.
Yeah.
Wow, so you've, I'm surprised you find evidence of this at a library.
That's that's that's heartening.
Why did you want to?
What made you doubt the people who believe that there's global warming?
Well, I, over the radio, we listen to different things.
I've heard lots of evidence that man-made global warming is a hoax.
And since I'm doing speeches, I just thought, very interesting topic.
I want to learn more about this.
I guess I've just always doubted that.
There's so much evidence that global warming is not man-made.
You know what?
I'm going to, Alex, if you will permit, if your parents will let me, I'd like to send you an iPad.
Because if there's anybody, if there's anybody who would put one of those things to good use, that would be you.
And it's light, it's portable, you can take it anywhere you want to go.
I'm going to put you on hold, and you tell Mr. Snerdley if your parents will permit us to give you one of these.
And then if so, he'll take your address and we'll send it out and you'll have it pretty soon, okay?
Okay.
All right.
Thanks much, Alex.
That's Alex in Wilmington, Indiana.
We'll be back.
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Okay, so Alex's parents said yes.
So we're going to send him an iPad.
I guarantee you, there are people who heard that call that want to find out where that library is that he found evidence of a hoax of global warming so that they can tell the authorities about it.
What an articulate 13-year-old.
Really, really amazing.
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