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Dec. 3, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 3, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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This is the amnesty outreaching.
Well, it seems okay.
Everything seems fine.
I was expecting it to be all out of whack and everything seems to be okay.
So uh, well, no, I've been away for five days, folks, and sometimes you get back in the saddle, and the horse uh doesn't behave the same.
And just wanted to make sure everything was okay before launching in.
We're great to be back.
Happy to be here, L Rushbow.
And the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, and is always the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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So I went to the family, went to Cape Girardeau for uh Thanksgiving, and actually had a delightful, wonderful, it was just a fabulous time.
It was it was it could not have been better.
And then uh then Catherine and I decamped and we left the friendly confines of the continental United States.
And I have been literally purposefully out of touch.
And in fact, I chose a place with rotten internet so that I could not spend a lot of time doing what I normally do.
I mean, I tried because I'm habitually addicted to being online now and then, but the speeds were so slow.
So literally, I didn't until we got back into the country yesterday, I didn't uh start getting into what had happened since I was gone.
I didn't have it.
Well, yeah, I I relaxed.
I mean, for me, uh well, it was it was guilt-lidden.
I mean, I get guilty when I relax.
I get guilty when I'm not paying attention, but I still I fought it, and I and I I didn't start getting into things until last night.
And so I I guess I had no idea what happened on television.
I was uh, well, I don't know that I could ever be low information, even in a vegetative state.
I think I would know more than your average low information person out there.
But anyway, uh I I started paying attention things just yet.
No news, no nothing, folks.
And it's it's an amazing thing, transformative thing that happens to you when you do that.
It totally, and I've I've I've had this, I've I've done this before, and I've mentioned this before.
It has a totally transformative effect on your attitude and on just things in general.
When you are not part of the daily, you know, my buddy Andy McCarthy, I did read one thing.
He posted a column at National Review online on Saturday morning, and I accidentally ran into it.
I didn't intend to go there.
I accidentally ran into it, and he wrote a piece, and it was right on the heat.
You know, I I speak often about the daily media narrative.
The daily media bubble that just sucks us all in, and it just vacuums us all in and and and makes us part of whatever the daily media narrative is.
That's what's so great about escaping it, is that you you you you have no outside influences on on things that you think matter or uh are important or what have you.
And Andy's piece had a different way of of characterizing and describing the daily media narrative.
He said, his politics today has become a soap opera.
It's nothing but one suspenseful moment to the next, and every day we have a cliffhanger.
He said the problem is it isn't a soap opera.
The problem is it's real.
The problem is it matters, but all the characters are like soap opera characters, and we are we are uh ginned up into feeling suspenseful about outcomes of people and things and so forth that um quite manipulative and so forth.
I mean, I don't have the piece right in front of me because I didn't have the ability to print anything while I was gone.
And uh I got it in my computer, but I don't use the computer.
That's amazing.
I am Mr. High Tech, and I'm still using paper.
It's the only way to do it, believe me, as I execute the uh program each and every day.
So I don't have Andy's peace in front of me, but it was really, really uh a great perspective on all this.
And it is, it it it it they everything's constructed as one suspenseful moment to the next, and everybody's always on the edge of their chair to find out what's gonna happen.
Uh And except that it's it's it this is the way the media presents things, and it's it's it's not substantive, it's not real, and it's designed to appeal to uh basically low information people.
And of course, all the characters play ball that way.
All the people in Washington, they know what's going on, and they they comport themselves accordingly.
It's a long way around saying I didn't know, I had no clue what was being discussed on TV, what was important, what was happening with any single issue until last night.
And nothing had changed.
It was all the same stuff as it was when I left at the top of the list, Obamacare and the Obamacare website, and ancillary, the Republican Party, the GOP, Chris Christie.
I told you people, I told you he's going to be seeking the Democrat Party.
Did you he refused?
He just became the president of the Republican Governor's Association.
Do you know what the number one role and job of the president or the hen honcho, I don't know what the title is, of the Republican governor's administration is, is to get other Republicans elected.
And then Governor Christie said, I don't know that I could support a Republican against Governor Cuomo in New York.
Yeah, he said that.
I have it right here.
And in fact, it yeah, Fred Dicker had it.
You know, Fred.
You've been reading Fred since uh 1930 in the New York Post.
He's got a piece bizarre behavior could be risk to Christy Whitehouse run.
Governor Chris Christie's bizarre behavior refusing to say that he'll support a possible Republican challenger to Governor Kumo next year.
That's the way the uh uh Reverend uh Dax pronounces it uh Kumo.
Governor Christie's bizarre behavior refusing to say that he'll support a possible GOP challenger to Governor Cuomo next year, could derail his chances to become president, state and national GOP insiders have told the New York Post, Christie already has a problem with many Republicans refusing to forgive him because of his embrace of Obama and his socially liberal policies.
This from a nationally prominent GOP operative could be anybody.
But this bizarre behavior in suggesting that he will not help a Republican defeat a Democrat governor and a Cuomo, no less, could finish off his chances of becoming his party's nominee for president in 2016, the operative continued.
Now, I didn't know this was going on.
I didn't know this till last night.
Cuomo claimed last week that Christie, the new head of the Republican Governors Association, an organization whose purpose is uh to elect GOP governors, had quickly called him to say the Post was wrong in reporting that Christie was ready to back Westchester County executive Rob Astorino should he become the Republican nominee.
I spoke to Governor Christie this morning, and he told me the exact opposite, Cuomo contended.
But Christie spokesman Colin Reed refused to confirm Cuomo's clip.
So it's the fact that there is even a mystery here as to what Christie will do in supporting a Republican candidate against Governor Cuomo.
And I've been I've been lightheartedly with jocularity, suggesting to people, you know, tweaking them that I think Governor Christie will get the Democrat nomination for president if he wants to be president and so forth.
And it's a surprisingly little reaction to that.
I I mean I I thought there'd be tons of outrage, and how dare you and how you why are you insulting a great not any reaction whatsoever.
It hadn't been any.
I was kind of surprised by it.
And now this.
So we shall see.
I also, I also didn't learn until today that even while I was gone, I seem to be in the top three discussion topics on cable news from Friday all through the weekend.
A about my uh comments on the Pope.
Uh drive by has tried to make a huge deal out of that.
And uh it's funny, we've got soundbite roster for that.
And and then um other comments that I have made about Obamacare and the website were discussed elsewhere.
So the first 15 sound bites here or me.
First 14.
Well, uh it may be the case.
It may be accurate to say that I was one of the few um brave enough to comment on the on the Pope.
It it comments are made by people uh uh in the media in the drive-by's.
It's be interesting to see if other Republicans join them.
Then I find out that Eric Cantor, who's number two in the House leadership on the Republican side, gave an interview to the Richmond Times dispatch.
This is I've read this in a in a great piece by Daniel Horowitz at redstate.com.
And the title of his piece, so we've we've you all know the drill.
We've talked about this too.
He said the Republican Party is becoming an echo of the Democrat Party.
It's a it's a uh and and we need to be an alternative.
And this is all about how Cantor apparently is assuring everybody we're gonna get amnesty done, and we're gonna get immigration done, and we're gonna get the Dream Act, or we're gonna get the kids of illegals legalized, we're gonna get that done, we gotta get that done.
And I'm reading this, and I said, really, why is there a Republican Party if it's just gonna echo?
That was in the Richmond Times dispatch.
And then all these uh then the the health care stack uh is just it this thing is folks.
I think it's worse.
I think this the website, the whole thing, Obama, I think it's worse than anything anybody's willing to admit.
And I will explain as the program unfolds.
In fact, last week I mentioned to you in my my hobby tech blogs that I read, and I was it's sort of disheartening.
These are young people write these blogs, and they can't blame them.
That's how they've been raised, it's how they've been educated.
Government's great.
Whatever government does, it's fabulous.
Government is the final authority.
Government just is.
I mean, it's there, and it is the wonderful thing, and whatever happens there is never questioned.
And it it is glaring, glaring illustration of of how education's been corrupted.
And the there was a long piece at one of these tech blogs, long piece at a very highbrow tech blog on every failing aspect of Obamacare, and the guy that wrote it finally admitted that it was designed to fail.
I said, Whoa, this is progress.
So I felt I felt a little bit optimistic about that.
I mean, I'm just sharing with you the uh my my re-emergence into the into the labyrinth, if you will, here after some days away.
These are all the things that uh popped up and hit me, which we're going to get into in detail as the program unfolds before your very eyes and uh and ears today.
But I do think I think it's worse than than anybody.
Do you realize do you do you you really if you've signed up at Obamacare, you may not have.
That it may not have worked.
You have to call your insurance company to find out if they have a record of you signing up.
It's just it is just, and and there's Obama and his people out talking about that they got this thing fixed now, that it's running with the vigor and the speed of the vitality of the private sector.
Wait a minute.
That's absolutely asinine.
If it's running as great as the private sector would do it, why did you stop it and take it away from there?
I think it's fascinating to hear these people measure their own failing website and try to convince everybody how good it is now that it would be just the same as if it was In the private sector, which tells me that they have not succeeded in turning everybody off to the uh to the private sector.
But yes, uh details on uh on that as well.
And then there's Jeff Bezos.
Jeff Bezos shows up on 60 minutes, and Charlie Rose has no idea what to do because the guy is talking about that's a good- I hope the Pope wasn't watching because Jeff Bezos was just, I mean, full bore into unfettered total capitalism, so much so that if you wipe out your competition, it doesn't matter who they are, too bad.
Tough toenails, the world's a tough place.
Amazon is not killing the book publishing in this rear, whatever.
The future is changing it.
We're just don't blame us.
And then he talked about these drones that in four or five years ago be just popping over to your house.
Can you imagine?
I'll take it.
Can you imagine here in low information villa?
It's if you're average trailer park and they order, you know, it's a six-pack of condoms from Amazon, and a drone is going to deliver them, and they see these things flying over, and the guy inside the trailer goes, grabs his shotgun, starts taking target practice, shooting the drones down.
This is, I mean, I'm fascinated by high tech, as you well know, but this.
Whoa, it was amazing.
But wait till you hear Bezos.
I mean, Charlie Rose doesn't know what hit him.
He's got a guy talking, and he's assumed to be this vast leftist, but he is talking about unfettered capitalism like Charlie Rose has never heard it.
I think it's kind of it's a bit perverse.
We may soon live in a world where we can choose from a million products to be dropped at our front doors on a miniature drone, but we're not going to be able to choose the doctor we want to see.
We're not going to be able to choose the health policies that suit our needs or our wants.
But we're going to be inundated.
Whatever else we want, a drone is going to deliver it.
The private sector is going to have these miniature drones dropping whatever we want right at our front doors.
Anyway, I've got I've got Andy McCarthy's piece up now.
It's a couple of excerpts, and I'll share it with you because it's really good.
And I got to take a break here.
By the way, all these sound bites about me and the Pope and healthcare and so forth.
Well, we're loaded today, folks.
That's the bottom line.
And my challenge here is going to be sounding organized and cogent, because that could be hopscotching all over the place.
So sit tight, hang in there, be tough, be back right after this, and continue with all the rest of today's exciting excursion into broadcast excellence.
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Now here's Andy McCarthy's piece.
It's called Politics is not a soap opera.
And just a couple of excerpts here.
Because I thought it was it, it's one of these things.
I'm I've I've been constantly struggling for a way to explain what I mean when I say all of us inside the media bubble or the daily media narrative.
Is that the problem is that politics is not a soap opera.
The problem with the soap opera is that modern American politics is that politics is not soap opera.
The object of a soap opera is entertainment through a daily hokey maintenance of suspense.
I.e.
crisis.
Democrat Party.
Every day, new crisis.
This necessarily requires the viewers' suspension of disbelief.
Particularly when it comes to the lead characters, depending on what improbable twists and turns the plot must take to meet the demands of day-in, day-out drama.
The stars of the show slip seamlessly from villains to heroes role, from incorrigible vice to transcendent virtue.
Soap fans buy in because they know it isn't real.
It is to the contrary their escape from reality.
Well, politics is our reality.
It only seems like soap opera because of the way it's covered.
Right into your living room, day in and day out.
Celebrity journalists present the adventures of their fellow dramatic persona, celebrity politicians.
The journalists portray politics moreover as suspense.
The Daily Horse Race, how's Obama doing?
Not whether Obamacare's decent, not whether it's harmful, not whether it's constitutional, but is Obama going to be helped or goes Obama going to be hurt?
The journalists portray politics moreover as suspense, not just such suspense as the news of the day may warrant by dint of its relative seriousness.
An earthquake, the outbreak of a war, the specter of millions losing health insurance plans they were promised they could keep.
The continuing suspense lies in the practice of politics.
A little more than 15 minutes ago, there were only three major networks and a handful of prominent national newspapers.
The focus of this limited news media universe was the events.
But not anymore.
With a plethora of news sources, with limitless space and hours of airtime to fill events are now more like episodes of a long-running drama.
Politics is the glue that holds the plot together.
No longer is the story that millions of people are losing health insurance and Obama guaranteed they'd be able to keep.
For the mainstream press, it's about how cleverly Obama can rationalize his lies, how adroitly he can revise what he's previously said, how deftly he can turn the page, shifting the audience's attention to the next episode, maybe immigration, maybe Iran, maybe the debt ceiling.
First rule of the soap opera is drama equals conflict.
And that explains why Obama and his media constantly play it up.
We gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
And we're back on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Andy McCarthy is really right.
If I might add to his point here, it's almost as if the news, especially that coming from the regime from the White House.
It's it's it's just seen as entertainment for the media and the elites.
This is one of the things that it's been the one of these lingering things in my not the subconscious, but it's been that I haven't able to put words to it.
But they're they're entertained by all of this.
They're not.
They have no appreciation whatsoever that what this administration does actually affects people in their real lives.
A soap opera doesn't.
You turn it on, you turn it off, you might live vicariously through it, but the show ends at some point, but it's never real.
But this is, and yet it's not covered that way.
And it's it's the drive-bys are entertained.
They love Clinton, they love Obama, especially when they smoke us, when they smoke conservatives.
It's a game.
It's a it it's uh it's the way they keep themselves entertained and jazzed.
And you hear them say they love it, it's no different than when you hear somebody talk about how they love their favorite television show.
And you you can see that the way the media cover Obama, particularly Obama, but it was bad for Clinton, too.
But this is unlike anything I've ever seen in the media in my lifetime.
Uh applaud Obama's clever plot twists.
Uh the plot devices that Obama uses, the continuing suspense, the drama.
Hell, they even attach drama to the next press conference.
They they attach drama to everything.
Everybody on the on the edges of their seats, and they're so caught up in it, the drive backs, because they agree with it, by the way, that they are not aware that what Obama actually does affects people in their real lives.
And those real lives are hurting.
Those real lives are being adversely affected in profound ways.
And they are unaware or uncaring of about it.
It's not part of the equation.
And we're seeing this in spades in the way Obamacare is covered.
It's covered so will the website get fixed in time.
Will the White House be able to fix this website and keep the audience tuned in?
Will the White House be able to get it working to 80%?
All of this, if you if you put the daily news narrative, and if you just imagine that you're watching a soap opera, it changes your perspective on it entirely.
I thought it was a good piece.
Again, it's called politics is not a soap opera, but it was Saturday.
National Review Online.
Better play this sound by grab number 31 before Governor Christie hops the state plane and uh comes out here and tries to find our studio.
Fred Dicker, the New York Post did write that Christie is ambivalent about supporting a Republican, Republican gubernatorial nominee to oppose New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
And the story in the New York Post says that there's a consultant, an operative that's quoted saying that Christie is uh is really damaging his chances to be the Republican presidential nominee.
So yesterday in Trenton, Governor Christie L the Presser, during the QE, uh QA, he said this about those reports that he is supporting Westchester, New York County executive Rob Astorino for governor of New York.
Mr. Astorino hasn't told me or anybody else he's running for governor.
I'm not supporting somebody who doesn't say they're won't say whether they're running or not.
So I think there's some kind of much ado about nothing.
When we have a Republican nominee for governor of New York, um, then I'll support the Republican nominee for Governor of New York.
Okay, so that's cleared up.
Governor Christie says when we have a Republican nominee, then he will support that nominee.
Jeff Bees.
Well, I know it's it's somewhat interesting and it has to be cleared up, but I'm I'm I just look it.
Time will take care of this, and all will be revealed in due course, and you all will see.
We'll just these things are not one-offs, the hugging of Obama and uh and all that.
Well, I know the news concern right now.
In fact, I was sitting here, I've got all my TV monitors on, but I don't have the audio on because uh I don't want to listen to it, be honest with you.
I really don't want to listen to it.
But I've got the closed captioning on, so I'm reading that oh, sorry, pounding the table, not good here.
I'll watch that, folks.
Then Obama's announcing brand new benefits with Obamacare today, and he's gonna be really stoking it and firing it up, and it's the same thing.
So the news treatment of this announcer in the White House that Obama's gonna be out there with this new offensive on Obamacare, the news concern of the moment is will Obama be able to fool the public again, even after having been caught so many times, stay tuned for Fox News special report tonight at six, or whatever the show is.
Will Obama fool the public again?
Will he be able to make it work this time?
And it is.
It's just it's fascinating to look at it in in that perspective.
Anyway, Jeff Bezos, he's on 60 Minutes with uh Charlie Rose on Sunday night.
And let's go to the soundbice.
This is uh pretty good.
Charlie Rose says, look, every time a new Amazon center goes up, Jeff, publishers and traditional retailers shudder.
They get scared, Jeff.
A lot of small book Publishers and other smaller companies worry that the power of Amazon gives them no chance.
You're coming in here and you're selling things that's practically no profit margin, Jeff.
You're practically giving things away at cost.
How in the world can these people keep up with you, Jeff?
It just isn't fair.
It's not right.
You gotta earn your keep in this world.
When you invent something new, if customers come to the party, it's disruptive to the old way.
Yeah, but I mean, there are areas where your power is so great.
And your margin you're prepared to make it so thin that you can drive people out of business, and you have that kind of strength.
And people worried is Amazon ruthless in their pursuit of market share.
The internet is disrupting every media industry, Charlie.
You know, people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy.
Amazon is not happening to book selling.
The future is happening to book selling.
I'll tell you, folks, I know Bezos donates to leftist causes.
This is one of these curious things that doesn't really make a whole lot of sense just on the surface.
You dig deep, you find out why it does it.
But this is unfettered capitalism.
This guy is a primo competitor, and he and they do sell things with so very little margin.
In fact, it's it's been something very curious on Wall Street.
You know, Amazon doesn't report great earnings.
They don't have any great earnings.
They've got market share, they've got a a massive sales volume, but their profits minuscule because their margins are so small.
They're just going on the volume basis, and their stock has been skyrocketing, and a lot of people have assumed this is the brilliance of this guy.
A lot of people have assumed that Bezos is a great humanitarian, that he is a great, he cares about the poor and the little guy.
Look at the prices he charges.
Well, he's practically giving this stuff away.
And look at some of these other retailers and they're charging everybody an eye and a nose and everything else, and good old Jeff, and he's been characterized as a compassionate, feeling, understanding guy who's practically giving everything away.
Walmart does the same thing, but they're evil, but that's because Walmart donates to conservative causes or did.
Uh but Bezos, he lives in Seattle, he's bald, he looks as good as a lib, but it fits the bill.
Slow popper again.
And but the truth is this guy's fruitless.
This guy doesn't care if every competitor goes out of business.
That in fact is the name of the game.
And then watch what happens to his margins when he ends up the only place that you can go to get whatever it is you want.
And then those margins are gonna skyrocket.
And this is what his investors know.
But when he when he says, you gotta earn your keep in this world.
Oh man, at Think Progress, they ought to be trying to excommunicate this guy.
At the Center for American Protestant, at the at the White House, every left-wing liberal establishment, those words, you gotta earn your keep in this world.
When you invent something new, customers come to the party, it's gonna disrupt the old way.
Yeah, yeah, but you went in a mum and pops in a billion, Jeff.
It's not my problem.
They can't compete to bad.
And then they weren't through.
Charlie and Jeff Bezos just one more sound bite here, folks.
Let me show you something.
Oh man.
Oh my God.
This is these are octocopters.
Yeah.
These are uh effectively drones, but there's no reason that they can't be used as delivery vehicles.
I know this looks like science fiction.
It's not.
Wow.
These are electric motors, so this is all electric.
It's very green, it's better than driving trucks around.
Uh, he's back now in favor with the left.
After just illustrating he's ruthless and bloodthirsty and careless, has no concern about his competitors.
Now he's worried about the environment.
Yes.
So he's back in good graces.
He's got these mini drones.
Have you seen one?
Have you seen a picture of what?
Well, they're about five or six inches square, and they they they're they've got little platforms on them and uh grips on the bottom or a package of a s of certain weight could be held, and it's gonna fly to your house.
If if you live within ten miles of a distribution center Amazon, it'll fly to your house.
But you know, where's it going to land?
It's going to land on your roof, is it going to land your sidewalk, it's going to land your driveway, backyard.
How many of them literally are going to get shot down?
Do you understand?
There are going to be people who have no idea, no matter what, no matter how widely broadcast the news of these things is, there are going to be people who have no clue, and they're going to look up and they're going to see swarms of these things.
And it it's going to be that's gonna be hilarious.
Um one thing I think we all have to keep in mind here, that these drones may ever uh actually never be used because of this thing called lawyers.
We'll just have to wait and see.
I gotta take a break.
I just saw the clock.
Clocks at a in a different place today, so I may be a little late.
If I have to be kept in line time-wise, just do it.
Let me tell you why that Christie story um hit people, folks.
It's because he did not support Cuccinelli in Virginia.
Remember, can Ken Cuccinelli, the uh conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate Virginia, asked Christie to come in, and he wouldn't go.
And so Fred Dicker has this story that he's not going to support a Republican against Cuomo.
And it it had believability because of the uh because of the past.
Uh let's let's go to the phones.
I'm gonna get a phone call in here in the first hour, and we'll start in Bishop, California, with Wesley.
Wesley, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing today?
I'm great, thank you, sir.
Good, good.
I just want to say it's a real honor for me to be able to be on your show today.
It's always kind of in my dream.
I'm fully aware of that.
Thanks.
Thanks, sir.
Thank you very much.
I'm 17 years old.
And I've been taking your guys' uh Hillsdale economics course that you've been advertising on your own.
Wait a second.
Wait, wait, did you are 17?
Yes, sir, I'm 17.
That's cool.
You could you know, I did you you sound older than that, so that's why I sound surprised.
It's just that that's cool.
I'm that's great news.
Yes, thank you, sir.
Um I was saying I'm homeschooled, and I'm taking your Hillsdale economics course on your website, and I'm really enjoying it.
So I just want to say thank you guys for advertising that.
And I just wanted to mention, I want to share with you something that I learned in our last lesson.
Um, lecture six, Dr. Wolfram was talking about uh the pencil industry and he told this story.
It said the story goes like this.
Once upon a time in the government, someone was charged in making sure that everybody had enough pencils.
And so he was put up on Capitol Hill, and it said, All right, you're in charge of the.
Wait, wait, wait, just hold on hold on just a second.
Everybody had enough what?
Pencils.
Pencils, okay.
Yes, is it an interesting story, but just bear with me for a sec.
Anyway, so this person was up on Capitol Hill, and he was told, all right, you need to find out every business in the United States and how many pencils they need, and you have to keep them supplied with pencils every single day of the year, and you have to find out that they have the right amount of pencils, and you also have to allocate resources to give everybody these pencils.
And that person couldn't do it for a single day, because obviously there's however many million people in the United States, and he couldn't even possibly go around to find out how many businesses need pencils, how many people need pencils, and uh make sure there's enough pencils and not a short of pencils.
And he tied that into the um Obamacare, how they're trying to go to a central planner.
Oh, it's not gonna work because there's a huge lack of information of who needs health care, why they need health care, that there's enough resources of health care.
Okay, Wesley, let me let me stop you there because I've got a limited amount of time to respond, and you've you've got it, you've got a great thing going here.
First off, folks, he took the Hillsdale College on demand online course, Economics 101, which is free, signed up one lecture a week.
There were ten of them.
He's describing one of the lectures given by Professor Wolfram.
Professor Wolfram was illustrating how it would be impossible for the federal government to guarantee that everybody in the country who used pencils, had them when they needed them in the correct amount every day.
It was simply too massive a project.
You couldn't collect all the data, you couldn't coordinate it.
It was it was an impossible project.
Now, what what's the the point here that that Wesley is making or is going to make, I'm sure, that I had to take over here as the highly trained specialist because the link to time is not very much, is that A, the government will never be able to replace the private sector because it cannot do what the private sector does, because the private sector works on supply and demand, not central planning based on past reports of what people had, used, want, and need.
The second thing, if they can't provide everybody as simple with everybody as simple a little item as a pencil, how in the world are they going to provide them health care that works for everybody?
And Wesley, Professor Wolfroom is exactly right.
But here's the problem.
Obamacare is not designed to make health care cheaper, more affordable, uh, more available.
Obamacare is designed for one reason, and that is to give the government control over people's health care.
Whether they end up getting it or not, it's the idea that the government now controls people's health because that will allow them to control virtually every other aspect of their lives, pure and simple.
It isn't designed to work because your prop said, it can't.
It never works, folks.
Liberalism never works.
It doesn't work for blacks, it doesn't work for whites, doesn't work for it doesn't work for the poor.
It doesn't work for anybody.
Socialism, liberalism, commun, Obamaism.
It never will work.
The thing is, it really isn't designed to.
Not with these people.
Gotta take a break.
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