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Oct. 24, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
So great to have you here.
The excitement is building.
Lots of things happening.
We're heading into the um well, we're on the outer edges of it.
But the holidays are right around the corner.
Favorite time of year.
And next Tuesday, a new chapter in EIB and TIBT begins.
Great to have you here, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
Let me I want to I want to make a point here that I made in the last 20 seconds of the last hour.
Just spent a little bit more time on it.
We had the the guy called from North Carolina who talked about all the problems, the glitches there.
Now, folks, New York, and I mentioned it before, New York's got its own website that's not part of Obamacare's healthcare.gov.
A lot of states do.
30 some odd states did not sign up for Obamacare or for exchanges and so forth.
And there are there are states out there that are not having any troubles whatsoever on their websites for people to get health insurance.
The thing remarkable about those states is nobody signing up.
New York state, nobody has gone to that website to sign up.
I guess we don't even know if that website works technically.
So my point is that whenever you hear reports of glitches in the media outside of healthcare.gov, I think what's going on, I think there's a massive effort going on to mask or to obscure the fact that people aren't enrolling in this.
They're not enrolling in government run health care one degree or another.
They're just not doing it.
And the point is, even when websites work, people aren't going.
They're not interested.
Now, I've heard the number that Obamacare needs seven million enrollees in order for it to work financially.
I that makes no sense to me, but I'll just go with what they say.
They say they need seven million young, healthy people signing up who are not going to be using their health insurance because they're healthy.
They need those people signing up and paying the freight in order to cover the cost for the elderly and the poor and you know whoever else.
And they're not signing up no matter where.
At HealthThare Got Dove, they can't sign up because the website's a disaster.
In other states, they're just not signing up.
In fact, the regime, the Obama regime is telling Blue Cross and others not to tell the public how many people have signed up for Obamacare.
They have issued strong requests, i.e.
demands to clam up about the number of enrollees.
That's why Sibelius is not forthcoming with the number.
They're not telling you because nobody is signing up.
This is a failure and a disaster, no matter how you slice it.
After five years of Obama portraying this as utopia and panacea, I'm sure that they expected a stampede of eager.
I know how these people think.
They were expecting a stampede of eager Americans.
All right.
Health care, 2500 cheaper.
I get to keep my doctor, get to keep my plan, health care free, what they thought there was going to be a stampede to sign up.
And even with that, they didn't design a welfare uh website that can handle even a hundred people at a time.
But beyond that, they have no real connection with the American people.
I am convinced that despite what you think of Obama, I don't think Obama has a person-to-person connection with people.
I think people love him because of his race and feel sorry for him.
Object of sympathy.
I think people feel he's a victim.
He portrays himself as a victim of America.
He gets sympathy that way.
I think he gets plenty of loyalty from Democrat to Democrat, liberal to liberal, people loyal to the cause.
I don't think, and I'm probably a lone actor here.
I don't think that Obama really has a personal connection with the people that voted for him.
When he goes out to these public appearances of his, they have to assemble groups of people.
And then they have to they have to uh assemble the people standing behind him.
I don't think that when it's announced Obama's going anywhere that these places are overwhelmed with more people than the room can hold to get in and they want to get close and they want to touch and they want to get autographed.
I don't think any of that ex I think we're being fed so many myths about Obama's popularity.
We know the approval rating is well below 50%.
I just yeah, I I describe it well, the way I describe it sounds like I'm bragging, so I won't do it.
So I hope you know what I mean.
I just it's like a television anchor.
I'll do it this way.
I was on the same plane with Ed Bradley and Peter Jennings in Houston, coming back to New York from the Republican convention.
Baggage claim.
We're all there, and everybody recognized Jennings and Ed Bradley.
Nobody went up and talked to them.
They knew who they were.
Might have liked them, might have res.
But those guys, they didn't really have a connection with the audience.
They were faces that were recognizable, and they might have been trusted.
But nobody felt like going up to Peter Jennings and hi, how are you, care?
Because Peter Jennings never gave anything of himself the newscast.
He's reading the news.
Ed Bradley Ditto.
There was uh the same with Obama.
There's really not a connection.
I don't know how else to describe this.
And that's what I mean.
They expected because of that there'd be this massive stampede of loyalty and devotion to not only Obama but health care and making it work for Obama, and there isn't any of that.
But the real point here is that even in states where there aren't any website problems, there aren't any enrollees.
I mean, in New York State, zero.
And that is big because if nobody signs up, then it doesn't exist anyway.
And if they can't if if if just the the the supposed brilliance and goodness and attractiveness of the law is not going to attract people, then they're going to have to be forced.
Uh coerced into signing up and going.
Look, even healthcare.gov, there are not swarms of people trying.
It didn't take very many people to expose this website as an absolute bomb.
So I guess what I'm saying is don't fall for the notion that we're dealing with this universally popular, personally popular guy to whom people are devoted as in a Pied Piper.
It isn't that way.
And this is demonstrating it.
I'll tell you, this whole Obamacare thing, that's all on him, it's all on government, it's all I mean it it this is this is uh Democrat liberal nightmare that's happening right in front of everybody's face, and they're trying to cover that up as many ways as they can.
Blaming contractors, blaming Republicans, but blaming the shutdown.
But they're the ones who sold it.
They're the ones that touted it.
They're the ones who said that it was the greatest thing ever.
They called it revolutionary, they called it advanced, they called it whatever superlatives they used.
And it's none of those.
They own this, much as they would like to pawn it off.
That's my point in the first hour.
You know, Obama, they design a system that's supposed to fail so they get the single payer.
But in designing the failure, you have to design it so that the reason it fails is everybody but you.
The government can't be seen as the reason it failed.
You've got to blame insurance companies.
You got to blame the Republicans.
You've got to see to it that the doctors and the hospitals, the pharmacists get blamed, insurance companies.
But guess what?
Government.
Everybody's talking about, or everybody's at least asking.
Maybe this is too big for the government to do.
Now next Tuesday, I I I have to struggle not to talk about this every day.
I know that that would be counterproductive if I did.
And I I never want to get to the point where you say, come on, Rush, get off of it, move on to something else.
That that's that would be bad.
That's why I don't repeat a lot of points that I make.
That's why I don't push my own stuff all the time, because I don't I just don't want you reacting.
I mean, this is a program about the issues in the country and so forth.
But next Tuesday, October the 29th, my first book since 1993, 20 years, will be released.
Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
If you haven't heard me talk about this, very briefly, all these years I've had people suggest I do another book, and I said, I've done one.
I did two.
I don't want to do another one like that yet.
Vince Flynn was really encouraging me to come up with something new to just didn't get the uh the fire of desire.
And then Catherine said, you know what, you're always talking about the education system and how much you're worried about the distortions in American history they're being taught.
Why don't you write a book for kids about the country and its pounding?
And that gave me pause.
Yeah, now that could be a challenge.
That could be that's something I haven't done.
Write a book for an audience of 10 to 13 year olds that actually is intended for everybody.
And so that's what happened.
And what we've done, we've taken taken the iconic figure from two of my tea, my old buddy Rush Revere.
We've made him a substitute teacher at a middle school anywhere USA.
We've given him a talking horse named Liberty.
Liberty, the talking horse, can time travel anywhere in American history.
And so this first book or this book is about the pilgrims and their and they're everything about them.
Written to counter what's being taught about the pilgrims today in the multicultural curriculum.
Now, when I say it's written for 10 to 13-year-olds, what it is, I mean, that's the target audience, but it's intended for families, homeschoolers.
It's it's intended for anybody, because the and everybody, because the point is to teach the truth about the history of this country, because it's great.
It's miraculous, it's really special.
United States is a blessed, special place in the world.
And it's worth being proud of, not ashamed of.
It doesn't need to have its history revised or rewritten.
Hmm.
I mean, the story of the pilgrims and Christopher Columbus is that white settlers brought racism and sexism and bigotry and syphilis and all kinds of horrible things, and they came here and they took and they plundered and they robbed and they stole from the Native Americans, and then they created a country that was unjust and immoral and unfair for the white majority, And everybody else took it on the chin, and that's what's being taught.
It's what's being taught to kids these days.
And it isn't true.
So Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
I mean, Rush Revere has an iPhone.
Rush Revere takes his iPhone back to Holland, back to England on the Mayflower, back to the Plymouth settlement, and Rush Revere uses the video feature, and then is able to bring it back and beam it to his class where he's a substitute teacher.
He can take a couple of students with him on these time travels.
I don't want to give too much away.
But the structure is that when you allow your character to time travel with a talking horse, believe me, everything's possible.
And that makes it so much fun.
And it's all oriented toward teaching the truth.
And not just the truth factually, but the truth morally.
But it doesn't preach.
And it doesn't pound.
And there aren't any pointed fingers, anything like that.
It's just it was it was a real uh fun, fun project.
And pre-orders have been up for about a month and or maybe a little longer September sometime.
And the the pre-orders uh went through the roof.
It's hardcover, but it's a real book.
It's it's not a pamphlet or a little tiny children's book.
It's a real book, 2141 pages.
Um it's got illustrations, galore in it.
Gotta have pictures.
Um and it is available as an e-book as well.
And I, L. Rushbow did the audio reading.
And it's not a bridge, it's the whole thing.
And that all hits on October 29th at all your favorite booksellers, Amazon and Barnes and Noble and uh the iTunes bookstore and uh independent booksellers and everywhere.
And we're just we're just excited as we can be about it.
And I I I could tell you about this every day, and I haven't, for actually two reasons.
The more I talk about it, the more I'm gonna give it away.
And I don't want to do that.
Uh and I also don't want to have you, as I said, come on, rush, stick to the issues.
You know, I don't I don't want it to become uh what some of you think is my way too often repeated golf stories, about which I haven't had one in six weeks, or maybe two months now.
So anyway, that's five days from now.
That's October 29th.
Well, yeah, yeah, Snerdley keeps reminding me that the but I I'm not really sure that the retail price is ever fully charged anywhere, but the pre-order price is like 1199, and the um retail price is around 19 or so.
So there probably is some financial advantage to pre-ordering the thing.
But yeah, of course I know we're only about a month away from Black Friday.
Uh no, it's too big for a stocking.
Well, you'd have to get a big stocking, but don't say it could fit in a stocking.
That makes it sounds sound like it's like one of those books with two words a page, you know, like Jim Wright used to write.
No, no, no.
It's a it's a it's a it's a it's a real book.
Anyway, uh it's just we're really excited about I can't I I I people know why you've done this before.
I know, but I haven't done this.
I've not I have not tried to actually target, I have talked about it all the time.
You we do on this program.
We lament education, what's happening.
So this is a stab at it.
You know, this is my version of what else can I do?
I gotta take a break.
I just saw the clock.
Be right back.
Time now to return to the funds to Warrensburg, Missouri.
This is Gary.
Gary, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
I believe you made a statement earlier that said that the only way they could collect the fine was by tax returns.
Uh no, no.
What what it's the joint tax committee, they summarized Obamacare, and they point out that the only legal way that a fine or penalty or tax can be collected from somebody who doesn't buy insurance is if they are owed a refund from the IRS on their tax return.
Right.
Well, I think you're wrong.
And the reason I say that is here you have a Congress that that broke the law by the 28th Amendment which states that they should pass no laws that they won't be uh on the people that they won't do themselves.
And here they'll exempt themselves from Obamacare.
So what makes people think that they won't just go into the checking accounts anyway and just take the money?
Well, now that's an entirely different thing.
I I don't disagree with you that we have a Obama just broke the law yesterday by granting six weeks more time to sign up for Obamacare.
He can't do that.
Unless nobody stops him.
I mean, people are going to do criminal things.
Even the law says you can't rob a bank, people are gonna do it.
And especially if you let them and if you don't try to catch them and hold them accountable, and nobody does with Obama.
So I know what you're saying.
Okay, the law says that the IRS cannot collect a fine or penalty from you unless you are owed a refund, and they can take it out of that.
If you're not owed a refund, they can't fine you or or penalize your tax you.
And old Gary here is saying that's not gonna stop them.
If they know if they're gonna find you to go put a lead on your bank account and get it.
But Gary DeLaw says they can't.
When's that stopped them?
Is Gary's point.
I'm not arguing.
I'm just telling you what Obamacare says.
And we'll be back.
How are you?
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh and the excellence in broadcasting network.
Uh damn it, there was something on the tip of my tongue here that I wanted to get it.
And it will it'll it'll come to me and just oh, it's a Jay Carney bite, but I don't have the uh do you have do you have sound bite uh what is it, number 19?
I just got this, and uh apparently it's a press briefing today.
Carney asked uh why they didn't do more testing of uh because the the the witnesses said that there was no they got all these different contractors, and they all say, hey, we did our part.
My my my my part was working fine.
And somebody said, Yeah, but we didn't do any inter uh departmental testing.
There was no beta testing to see if all these systems worked with each other.
That's the latest attempt to explain this away.
So Kearney is asked about why didn't you do any of that?
What the president believes is that the website should have been better functioning on October 1st.
What you're asking me and what again, these questions stem from the general direction of people who wanted to either eliminate Obamacare or delay it so that they could eliminate it later, gets to the other heart of the matter, which is how much longer do you ask Americans with pre-existing conditions to go without health insurance?
How much longer do you ask the single mom with breast cancer?
How much longer do you ask her to go without health insurance?
To go without coverage.
And the answer is, you know, the time is now.
Okay, so what he said was a limbaugh theorem.
Well, the president believes the website should have been up and running.
Duh.
Yeah, he was in California when he found it.
Why didn't it run?
I thought it'd be up and running.
I want that running.
Who's who's who's in charge here?
Who's responsible?
Who won that running?
Unbelievable.
And then Carney says, we didn't test it, we didn't take time to make sure it's because there are women with breast cancer out there.
And they need health insurance.
Uh Jay, they can't get it.
Doesn't matter.
They need hope.
And the government website is hope.
Um folks, we're we're we're really dealing with a level of incompetence that I don't think anybody associates with Obama and and this administration.
That's the one thing they maybe they're ideologues, maybe they're political status, socialism.
I mean, the drill on Obama was brilliant, smart, smarter than anybody ever.
I mean, uh unifier all the incompetent never ever crosses anybody's mind.
I'm telling you, in addition to the ideological direct, in addition to the chip on his shoulder and the victim and the not liking the country and all that kind of thing, we also are dealing with patent incompetence.
From Sibelius to Carney, there's nobody in this administration who has ever lived in what you and I know to be the real world.
They're academics or journalists.
They live and work in enclaves where everybody is all alike, thinks alike, lives alike, earns about the same amount of money.
They just, and as such, they tell each other they're brilliant and smart, and they have no idea what they're doing.
They don't have the slightest idea.
I mean, that that answer.
Why didn't you test the website?
Why didn't you there are women with breast cancer?
That's nothing more than a focus grouped answer to try to relate politically to other victims out there to get their support.
Don't deal with the substance, don't acknowledge that the thing is an absolute disaster.
Just once again, express your solidarity with women with breast cancer because everybody knows Republicans hates them and blah, blah, blah, blah.
It's just going to deny their competence politically.
I mean, they're experts at destroying people.
They're experts at lying about people and trashing people.
They're great at that.
But I'm talking about actual real world experience, living life.
They go to each other's houses and barbecues.
Look, it matters.
They all make the same amount of money.
They all have the same education.
They all live in the same enclaves, live in the same divisions, same type of houses, same everything.
They hang around with each other.
Ums.
Uh kids go to the same schools.
Uh they have the same heroes, same idols.
Uh it it's and it's all insulated.
They they live in a in a fiefdom that does not relate to anything else outside it.
So anyway, folks, there's uh there are other things in the news that have nothing to do with this, but they do in uh in unrelated ways.
Weekly Standard has a story today.
New research from the Republicans on the Senate budget committee shows that over the last five years, the United States has spent about $3.7 trillion on welfare.
That last five years, there are 80, 80 different means-tested poverty and welfare programs.
49.2% of the people in this country now receive some kind of government benefit.
49% is known as the tipping point, too.
So...
And if Obamacare gets fully implemented, we're gonna have tipped way beyond the tipping point of 49%, which is why Obamacare is so vital to the Democrat Party future.
You know, I I remember in the 90s, there used to be a statistic, and I cited it often when talking about the failure of the welfare state since the Great Society was birthed in 1964, and the numbers basically were that in from 1964 to say 1995,
that'll do it, over five trillion dollars had been transferred from producers to welfare recipients.
That's and and the statistic was was used to illustrate that it didn't matter because the percentages of people in poverty hadn't changed.
The percentage of people below the poverty line in 1964 was identical to what it was in 1995 and 97 and 98.
It's around 14%.
Despite all of that money, it didn't reduce poverty.
Now this number is staggering.
3.7 trillion on welfare in in the last five years in the Obama administration.
3.7 trillion on welfare.
Now 90 million Americans aren't working, they're all eating, they've got cell phones, they've got flat screens and automobiles, and some of them have air conditioning.
Yesterday we had the news that there are 15% of young people, 16 to 24, not in school and not working.
This is not a foundation on which a great country builds a future.
It just isn't.
This is what troubles all of us.
We are opposed to welfare because it destroys people.
It robs them of their own humanity.
It robs them of their dignity.
Not the people who really need it, but at 3.7, there are 90 90 million Americans that do not need welfare.
We have an economy, if you get people like this out of it, we have an economy that can provide a standard of living for a great percentage of that 90 million not working, that is a better and higher standard of living than they are getting on welfare.
That's what's been remarkable.
Exceptional, if you will, about this country, that it has had such a booming economy, such a robust entrepreneurial free market spirit economy, that it has been able to produce a standard of living the world has never seen.
And it sustained that.
And the and the rule was that every generation's standard of living would increase.
And that's been arrested now with the Obama administration.
Folks, you're you're not you're not going to have a growing economy with 3.7 trillion dollars spent on welfare in five years.
Five years from 64 to 95, 5 trillion.
This is just unbelievable.
And by the way, the 3.7 trillion is not even the entire amount spent on federal poverty support.
The states contribute more than 200 billion every year to the federal amount, primarily in the form of low-income health care.
And then the census 49% of Americans get government benefits.
This is the Democrat Party at work.
This is exactly what they intend the country to look like.
Democrat Party is the author.
Democrat Party loves this.
The Democrat Party wants a welfare state.
They want an expanding welfare role.
3.7 trillion.
And we don't have the money.
Add that to the mix.
We don't have the money.
The people who are getting the money have no legitimate claim to it.
We don't have the money to be dulling out in ways that are not productive on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, however, it's a different story.
Unemployment is set to hit 6.9% this year and fall to 6.8% next year, far below the 12% reported by the Eurozone at large.
This according to the German economy ministry's autumn forecast.
The German forecast said that their economy would add 235,000 jobs this year, another 180,000 jobs next year.
These are record numbers of jobs for Germany.
Germany is producing a record number of jobs.
Look what happens.
It's safe to say that Merkel is a thorough through and through conservative, but she's not a commie babe.
I'm proud of this, and I've got German and Dutch heritage here.
You know the Obama regime, do you know they're they're they're bugging Angela Merck's phone calls?
I hope to hell they're listening to what she's talking about.
Germany, massive record job creation.
America, a trail of tears.
Countries all over the world are trending now back toward the right, toward conservatism.
Brief time out.
Time's just going by here too fast, folks.
I have to stop myself and interrupt myself.
Uh at at you know those times it's ready to explode here.
It's very frustrating.
You know what I'm talking about.
Uh folks, there's a let's see, one, two, there's there are two great stories here that right up my alley.
Both qualify for a feminist update.
And in the next hour, when we get into your phone calls, start getting back into uh soundbite roster with healthcare and so forth, I've got to do these.
First stories in ABC News about a blogger named Gavin McKinnis who lashed out at a Miami University law professor on a Huffing and Puffington Post live discussion, said feminism has made women less happy.
And he got into huge trouble.
Feminism's made women less happy, made everybody less happy.
And a woman who thinks that steakhouses are examples of the culture of male dominant consumption of meat and women.
Steakhouse is a bad thing for our culture because of how it demeans women and meat.
And all of that and more is coming right up.
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