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June 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 19, 2013, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yeah, you're watching a little bit of Obama in a speech at the Brandenburg Gate.
200,000 people showed up in Obama's speech in 2008.
6,000 a day.
Fox has a side-by-side comparison to the crowd size.
That's not 6,000 people there today.
What are they telling us?
There's no way that's 6,000.
That's not even a minor league hockey game crowd.
There are these 6,000 people there.
Anyway, I didn't hear it, but supposedly the end of Obama's speech today at the Brandenburg Gate kind of no-pizzazz.
And Chris Matthews, the sycophantic thrill up the leg Obamaite, said that it was because the sun, the setting sun, was obscuring Obama's prompter.
And he wasn't able to see the words on the prompter.
And without the prompter, he doesn't know what he's saying, apparently.
Well, what else is there to conclude?
Well, we know the real reason he's on prompter.
They got to make sure he doesn't drift offward and reveal what's really in his mind.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, EIB Network, Limbaugh Institute, Advanced Conservative Studies.
You may have heard me mention.
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Over 10,000 white crosses, the names of American young people, in an unreal, perfect geometric order.
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New Jersey lawmakers have approved a bill that would allow those in the country illegally.
This is an AP story.
New Jersey lawmakers have approved a bill that would allow those in the country illegally to qualify for in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities.
Dozens of students or students, as some people say, dozens of students and supporters clapped when the measure was passed on Monday.
If it becomes law, it would take effect for the fall semester.
So compare and contrast here.
The New Jersey legislation wants to start using taxpayers' dollars to subsidize college tuition for students who are in the country illegally.
By the way, I've heard people say, Rush, you know, you need to stop using that word illegal.
It just, it's too stigmatizing.
And it's one of the reasons why Hispanics don't like Republicans.
Because they're always talking about illegals.
What would be a substitute?
Undocumented undocumented.
They don't like aliens either because that connotes big-eyed monsters from Mars.
Undocumented wannabe citizens.
Undocumented.
But they said they don't like this illegals.
You guys keep talking about illegals.
And we're, see, the problem, if you can't do that, we're losing a language.
But at any rate, what's happening here is that the state of New Jersey is going to start using taxpayer dollars to subsidize college tuition for students who are in the country ill alienately.
Ill alienately.
And meanwhile, a judge in New Hampshire says that it is unconstitutional to let a private organization give scholarships to schools, but he's going to let it continue as long as the money doesn't go to any religious schools.
Isn't that discrimination based on religion?
Besides, we're still supposed to believe a judge won't be found to give these newly legalized ill aliens government benefits and such other perks.
So while all the gang of eight stuff is going on, the states are doing their own things to advance the cause.
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Undocumented Democrats, I think, is what we need to call them.
Undocumented Democrats.
Because that's what we're talking about.
Brief time out.
We'll be back and continue after this.
Okay, we're back.
We move on, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
You want to know how taxes are raised in a surreptitious way?
I doubt that if somebody came out and said we need to raise income taxes, it would get much support right now.
Everybody's overtaxed.
Just had an income tax rate increase thanks to Obamacare's, or no, Obama ending the Bush tax rates.
The House of Representatives is scheduled to consider on Tuesday a bipartisan bill to add new seasonal flu vaccines to the IRS definition of taxable vaccines.
The Senate has already reached an agreement to vote on its version of the bill without further debate if the House passes an identical version.
Now, if all of this happens, all new flu vaccines would become subject to the 75 cents per dose vaccine tax and also become eligible to be included in the vaccine injury compensation program.
A summary of the bill provided by the House Republican Conference explains this.
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Program is a federal program designed for trial lawyers as a no-fault alternative to traditional tort law for resolving vaccine injury claims arising from covered vaccines.
The program is funded through a 75 cent excise tax on each dose of specified vaccines.
Now, there's already one of these vaccine injury compensation programs.
This would just be added to it.
The current balance in the vaccine injury compensation program as of May was about $3.4 billion.
The fund has paid out only $2.7 billion since it was established in 1988 for cases involving all vaccines.
About 17% of those cases involved a flu vaccine.
So at that payout rate, the $3.4 billion balance could last another 25 years with no new revenue.
It isn't needed.
We have plenty of money in this fund to cover whatever the hell we're covering here.
However, in response to initial reports on the legislation in April, Julia Lawless, the GOP press secretary, the U.S. Senate Finance Committee issued a statement saying, first off, the Joint Committee on Taxation is clear that this bill is not a tax increase.
Right.
It's not a tax increase.
Just we're going to increase the tax by 75%, the fee or the what have you.
Obamacare, listen to this.
I have mentioned several times my belief that the bureaucracy involved in Obamacare is unsupportable.
I believe that the system is incapable of doing what it is supposed to do.
I think it's too massive.
It's unmanageable.
It's unfundable.
There's not going to be one person who knows what to do.
There isn't going to be a final authority with the answers to whatever questions that come up.
This thing is going to be an absolute disaster.
Much like I think the Gang 8 bill is a disaster on substance.
This Obamacare bill cannot possibly function.
It's just too unwieldy.
It's too big.
It's too massive.
Its tentacles just go into too many hidden crevices in our society and culture.
And I don't know how this thing is ultimately going to be run.
And I think that may be by design.
I think the whole bit of confusion and the chaos and just the panic that is sure to be part of this is going to lead people to ask for something simpler.
And the something simpler is going to be something that sounds simpler, like, well, how about we just do single payer?
How about the government just run it?
You know, early conservative thinkers knew exactly what was going to happen as government grew.
They knew Edmund Burke, Tocqueville, they all spelled it out.
The bigger government gets, the more efficient government gets.
The only place you can go for remedy is government.
There isn't a private sector place to go to administer this mess, to fix it, to clean it up.
You have to go back to government to ask them to fix what's wrong in the first place.
And the process, government grows and grows and grows and becomes unaccountable, unmanageable, unaffordable.
And that's exactly what this is.
Now, here are the details.
This is a column in the Wall Street Journal by Holman Jenkins.
Very simple.
There's plenty of research data on this.
Healthy adults spend an average of $854 a year on health care.
And most of those are young adults because young people are the healthiest.
Average healthy people today spend on average $854 a year.
Obamacare is going to mandate that they buy insurance policies expected to cost roughly $5,800.
These people are going to figure out pretty quickly that they are not paying for their health care.
They are subsidizing all kinds of health care for all kinds of other people.
You go into a store, you want to buy an iPhone.
The iPhone costs $200 with a two-year contract, and you pay it.
Then you find out that next year the iPhone is going to cost $1,500.
Nothing changes.
Your service stays the same.
Your contract stays the same.
The phone hasn't changed.
But all of a sudden, the phone's going to cost $1,500.
And the reason given, well, not everybody can afford a phone.
And so we're charging you an additional $1,300 so other people can have a phone.
Well, why should I pay for other people to have a phone?
Well, because it's an emergency device.
Everybody needs a telephone.
In the case of healthcare, it's a right.
In the case of healthcare, it's a right.
So basically what's going to happen here is that people, believe me, they are aware of what they're spending on health care.
And when they are told that their costs are going to go up, what, $10, $854 to $5,800.
I mean, that's serious.
mandated.
That's what all the IRS agents are for is to make sure that that's either paid or the fine is.
Now, the fine is going to be cheaper than that for a while.
Young, healthy adults spend an average of $854 a year on health care.
Obamacare is going to require them to buy policies expected to cost $5,800.
Why would they sign up for Obamacare?
The penalties are going to be much cheaper.
So, why would people, you've got people just saying, no, I'm not going to do it.
And come catch me.
I'm not doing it.
You can't find me with the NSA.
Well, you can't find me here.
No, I just got an email.
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Here's Mark passing through the little bighorn.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Great to be here, Rush.
I cannot believe I'm actually getting to speak to the man himself.
I am a gratified student of the Linball Institute, and I want to thank you for inspiring me.
Thank you.
Making me think more critically.
Thank you very much, sir.
Appreciate that.
I've always believed that the simplest answers in life are probably the best.
And I've never heard anyone on either side of the aisle propose something similar to what we had at Ellis Island in the last turn of the last century.
I mean, if it worked then, and if we do look back on history and say that it did work, and it did, well, it was more or less efficient, did what it was supposed to do, why are we not doing something similar possibly in a joint venture with the Mexican government or local government where they have screening facilities, free screening facilities south of the border.
And then we, as they come across, we screen them again and find out what their, what their goals are.
You want to be a full-fledged American citizen?
That's great.
We'd love to have you.
You're going to learn to speak English and you're going to take the test.
If you want to be a migrant worker and you want to come back every six months, we'll give you the workers' visa.
You're asking questions that make too much sense.
Exactly.
They don't have any relationship to the legislation pending.
No, and you know, when I, it's not being proposed because they don't care as long as they vote for them and keep them in office and calm them into believing they actually do care.
And now, I wish there was, if there ever were proposed, I believe I could hear the words coming out of the politicians.
Let me tell you.
No, no, no, we can't do that.
I want to tell you something.
I have, you know me.
I have said countless times that the Democrats want these people, they're voters, that that's a permanent underclass.
And I've, you know, I've been struggling to tell you, is there any other reason I'm missing?
Is there some other inexplicable or unknown, unforeseen reason why the Democrats don't want any real change to this system other than legalization?
They don't want any changes on the border.
They don't want any added measures on legalization.
They just, what you propose is actually quite sensible.
Okay, we acknowledge that people are going to come here from Mexico.
So we set up places where people in Mexico go if they want to come to the United States.
And we interview them like we did at Ellis Island.
Hey, why are you here?
What do you want to do?
What are your objectives?
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
We check their health.
We find out if any of them are sick and might be transporting a disease or whatever.
And then we make a judgment based on policy guidelines at the moment.
Instead, we're talking about fences and border, keep them out, deal with the 11 million are here.
Every 20 or 30 years, we grant amnesty and wait for the next big batch to accumulate and grant some more amnesty.
I have realize how, Sadly, how partisan it sounds to say the Democrats simply look at these people as a bunch of future voters, but they do.
Of course they do.
They do.
There's no question that they do.
And it can be explained as logically as anything else can.
The Democrats need a lot of poor people dependent on government.
That's just undeniable.
That's the Democrat constituency.
And as pre-Obama, as people improved themselves financially and climbed ladders of success, they became less and less dependent on government, which made them less and less dependent on Democrats.
And so those people might have stopped voting Democrats, stopped being Democrat.
They need to be replaced if the Democrats are to win elections.
So that's what this is.
It's patently obvious.
Now, to some people, that sounds so cynical and so partisan, and Democrats couldn't possibly do it.
But they do.
So then when you ask a sensible question like this and balance it against what's actually happening, I don't have an answer for you.
It makes, if we're serious about immigration, it makes perfect sense.
Because we don't want to shut it down.
We don't want to make the country impenetrable in this way.
We want to welcome people who are going to enhance this nation.
It's, I don't have, I don't have the answer for you other than to say that both political parties do have political objectives here that really don't have anything to do with immigration.
Well, am I still on?
Well, can you say what?
I'm sorry, am I still on?
You're still on, but I'm sure after I've, you don't have anything else to say, do you?
You couldn't possibly after I've.
Well, all I had to say was when I hear them talk about securing the border, I don't know what that means.
I have no idea what they're talking when they talk.
We need a more secure border.
I don't have any input from them other than that, we need a secure border.
We need a secure border.
Tell me what that means, because if you're building a fence, you know what that means.
You know what when people talk about securing the border, don't we?
You know what that means.
It means making sure that people aren't able to illegally cross it.
They're going to, though.
You had a wall in Berlin with farmed guards, people trying to, they risked their lives for fence.
That was to keep people in.
They still try to get from Kit to Freedom.
If you've got a fence with no armed security, they're going to cross the fence.
It's just a fence.
They're doing it every day with the fence that already exists.
How big of a fence do you want to build?
It's never going to work.
Well, let me tell you something.
Since you bring up the fence, the fence has already been authorized.
Money has been allocated for the fence.
It just hasn't been built.
And I think it was either Senator Sessions or Senator Cruz, might have been Senator Paul, one of them submitted an amendment to do what was already authorized.
And the amendment was voted down.
But the money for the fence has already been authored.
Some, I forget how many miles of fence have been authorized, but very small percentage of the fence authorized has been built.
So somebody submitted an amendment to finish what's already been signed into law.
And that amendment failed.
And so the conclusion, they're not serious about this fence business.
They just did that for political reasons.
It's look, one thing I wanted to ask Senator Cruz, and I didn't have time, and I should have written it down.
We're in this position because we never say no to a Democrat initiative.
The Democrats want national health care.
We don't say no and oppose it.
We have to have an alternative.
So they're always setting the agenda.
And by virtue of that, it's always us who seem to be contrarian.
We never, well, not never, but seldom do you hear of Republican initiatives.
And when they do exist, they're always characterized as reactionary things.
But I don't understand just because the Democrats want this, why do we have to have a version of it?
The Democrats want amnesty.
Why can't we just say no and fight them on that?
Why do we have to, oh, you want amnesty?
Okay, well, we don't really like the way you're going to do it.
Here, let's try it our way.
Now, in this case, well, we need outreach to the Hispanics because they don't like us.
Okay, fine.
But, and Rushman Kiss can't say no because the Hispanics will never like us.
I mean, they already dislike us, didn't they?
They'll hate us.
So the Democrats want national health care.
Why don't we just say no?
That's the wrong thing to do.
What, what?
But we don't say no.
Well, I take that back.
With Hillary Care, we did say no.
And look at, we won.
We did say no.
So we can do it and succeed.
But in way too many instances, I don't care what it is.
The Democrats decide they want something.
And I guarantee you, what has got the Republicans caught in the trap is this whole notion of what people are going to think of them.
They are so browbeaten by that, and they so believe that Democrats are so loved and Democrat policies are so loved that when the Democrats support something, the Republicans better appear to be.
That's what all this talk of bipartisanship is, is Republicans agreeing with Democrats.
It just ticks me off.
The whole thing just ticks me off when I stop and think about it.
I got to take a break here.
I'm going to get really, really obscenely ticked off, and that wouldn't be good.
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Okay, now, folks, Obama.
Oh, first, I want to answer the question about we.
Why don't we say no?
Because you know what I really got to do?
We have to define who the we is.
So when I say the Democrats propose something, why don't we say no?
Well, what I'm talking about is the Republicans.
But the problem with that is that there is a ruling class in Washington that is made up of people of both parties.
And they don't really think of themselves as Republicans or Democrats.
They're identified that way for political purposes.
But Washington is its own universe.
So it's true that the Democrats want 46 million undocumented Democrats to come into the country.
46 million foreigners, illegal immigrants, whatever.
Washington wants that.
The Democrats want that.
So when the Democrats want it, Washington wants it.
And some Republicans, this is where we get hung up on the why don't we say no?
Because there are people among the we, Republicans, who support big government.
Oh, yeah.
Why do you think Tea Party candidates are opposed by the Republicans?
The Republicans, you go back to the Christine O'Donnell-Sharon Angle, you know, those races, whatever they were, 2010, midterms of 20, whatever, forget the years, doesn't matter.
The reason the Republicans really were worried about Christine O'Donnell and Sharon Angle is they really thought they wouldn't have a chance to win.
The Republicans wanted, you could hear them say they wanted to control the chairmanships in the Senate.
They wanted to get the chairmanships back.
They wanted there are Republicans that want to be in charge of the money, too.
There are Republicans who want the power of controlling the money.
And that's what winning elections in Washington means.
It's not about, to a lot of Republicans, it isn't about conservatism or liberalism or Democrats or Republicans.
It's about having the money or not having the money, having the power over the money, having the power to spend it for whatever things that they're trying to buy.
So there are a lot of Republicans who are also part of the we.
Democrats propose something.
There are some of the we who agree with it.
So Washington wants illegal immigration.
That means the Democrats want it, and some Republicans too.
Washington wants a powerful IRS.
Washington wants Obamacare.
Washington wants 46 million foreigners.
And there are a number of Republicans, you know and I know that get saddled into the have-to-be categorized as in the we and that's the problem.
When I say why don't we say no, I'm making a felonious, not felonious, fallacious assumption that all Republicans oppose this, and they don't.
And that ticks me off even more.
But I've got to hear a little bit of Obama in Berlin today at the Brandenburg Gate, audio soundbite number six.
This, he said, the most important issue facing the people of the planet.
With a global middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now be an effort of all nations, not just some.
For the grim alternative affects all nations.
More severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise.
This is the future we must avert.
This is the global threat of our time.
And for the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late.
That is our job.
That is our task.
And we cannot do it.
We cannot control the climate.
We cannot affect it.
We can't fix it.
We can't stop it.
We can't make it happen.
We can't do anything.
The way to translate this is: you need to stand aside and let governments grow and grow and grow.
That's what that means.
We all must come together and then stand aside and let us who run governments grow them even bigger.
That's all this global warming climate change crap is about.
You can't stop a hurricane.
You can't stop a coastline or whether it's sinking or rising sea levels.
You can't stop any of it.
You can't cause it.
You can't limit it in any way.
Absolute crock.
That's it, folks.
We are a wrap for today.
Hope you have a wonderful rest of the day.
We'll be back in 21 hours, revved up and ready to go.
Do it all over again here at the EIB Network.
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