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Dec. 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2013, Thursday, Hour #2
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Greetings my friends and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Well, we may as well stick with this silly budget stuff because there are a couple of points to be made about it, but it too is just part of the daily script of the daily media narrative that's coming out of Washington.
This government's going to run whether they get a budget done or not.
Everybody knows it.
The government isn't going to shut down.
They're in any mood to shut down the government.
If it does shut down, there's not any mood to reform it.
Not right now for a whole host of reasons.
I just saw a was watching CNN during the break.
That's how desperate things are for me today.
You want to know how bad things are?
We just got a delivery.
Try this.
We just got a delivery from, I'm not going to name the company because it's not a criticism of the company.
It's just they're expecting eight items and all eight were on the truck.
Driver said, I can't find one of them.
I know it's here.
I put it on.
I can't get it.
I'll come back later and finish the delivery.
But it's on the truck.
Why don't you just, well, I'll come back later after I've made a bunch of other deliveries and then that box will finally show up.
The last time I was told that the box had been delivered at the wrong address and it took three days to get it, just well, he came to the right door.
There's no question he came to the right door.
But, yeah, I know they're all here.
I just, I can't get to that eighth one.
There's too much trouble to get to the eighth one.
Here's seven of them.
I'll come back later.
Okay, fine.
I hope we're here.
So I'm watching Boehner.
And we had a call, this Lee from Queen says, how do you know they're shell-shocked?
Why can't it just be the Republicans don't disagree with anything that's going on?
And there is an element of that.
For example, let me pose to you a hypothetical.
But as part of the hypothetical, I want you to see if you can recall anything in reality that would help you answer the hypothetical.
Okay?
If the Republicans had the House as they do, and if the Republicans controlled the Senate, and if the Republicans had a president in the White House, would they repeal Obamacare?
You think so?
Okay, you tell me who.
You tell, this is what I don't see, Mr. Snerdley.
I don't see any unity even on that in the Republican Party.
I don't see anybody in the Republican even talking about it.
Ted Cruz, if he were president, maybe.
But look what happened when he talks about repealing Obamacare.
Look what his own party does to him.
Forget the Democrats.
Look what the consultants did to him.
And look what the Republican donors did to him.
And then when Amnesty comes up, look what Republicans did to him on Amnesty.
So you tell me, even if we're sitting here, we've got a socialist in the White House.
We've got his party running the Senate.
They've taken over the judiciary.
And we're making all these demands on the Republicans in the House to do something about it.
And my question is, if the Republicans owned everything, would they do anything about it?
As they are currently constituted.
Conservatives would, but would Republicans?
I don't name for me, since you think they'd repeal it.
Tell me who would lead.
Have to come.
Have to be a White House down.
Okay.
It has to be a top-down thing for the White House.
So it would depend.
So if we had elected Romney, would we repeal?
You think so?
He promised, okay.
Okay.
If Chris Christie somehow doesn't get the Democrat nomination and gets the Republican nomination, will we repeal Obamacare?
Okay, we won't, right?
Chris Christie, you don't think Chris Christie would lead an effort to repeal and get rid of Obamacare.
Well, but Chris Christie is going to have all the consultants behind him.
He's going to have all the big-time mainstream so-called Republican donors behind him.
I don't know who else, I can't even think of a Republican right now.
I'm drawing a blank.
I'm sure they're out there who are going to seek the presidential nomination.
I'm sure the Cruz might.
Mike Pence may be.
Governors, Scott Walker might, Palin might give it a go again.
I don't know.
But if you stop and if you think of it in those terms, what there's no consensus to repeal Obamacare, and yet we're sitting here demanding these guys do something on a budget.
It ain't going to happen.
I just was watching Boehner being interviewed.
It was at a press conference, and he got a question, I think it was a CNN info, babe.
And the question, I'm paraphrasing the question, are you finally going to urge your members to be more cooperative?
Or are you going to have, are they going to keep trying to advance the ideas of their supporters, meaning the voters?
Are your members actually going to be meaning more cooperative with who?
Obama, the Democrats.
So are you finally going to cooperate, Mr. Speaker?
Or are your members going to continue to follow their supporters, i.e. voters, and oppose this?
And that's when Boehner lashed out at all these conservative groups who don't know what they're talking about and haven't seen the budget deal.
And he said, you know, I came here.
My objective when I came here was to roll back the government and the size of this government, make it smaller and leaner and meaner and more efficient.
Now, does this get us there?
No.
But is it a step in the right direction?
Yeah.
Can we get everything we want?
No.
But the question is, what are they really fighting for?
Then you get down.
Okay, are they shell-shocked?
Are they frightened?
Are they worried about the media?
I think there is an element of that because look, I know human nature.
And just like we had a call from the woman that was out there in the hinterlands, this is probably two weeks ago now, who said that Obama's falling poll numbers, they're really not new.
People have felt this way for a long time.
They've just been afraid to say so because the people, nobody wants to be thought of as a racist, meaning average citizen out there, not somebody in politics.
And nobody wants, nobody, people don't like controversy rush.
They just don't, so they just go ahead, they say whatever is path least resistant.
So they will not say they disapprove of Obama to upholster, but now they feel comfortable doing it because they think everybody else is on the same page.
So now they're happy to join in with expressing their disapproval of Obama.
They've always felt it.
They've just been afraid to say so.
Well, I contend that there's an element of that within the Republican Party.
I say shell-shocked.
at post-traumatic stress disorder.
I do believe that there is an element of paralysis based on fear of the media.
And I frankly, I don't think there is any question about it.
And there are also Republicans who are perfectly content with the government as is and growing.
There are also some Republicans who relish the power that is available by being part of such a large, massive institution as the government.
There are a lot of people who see, I saw, there was a fascinating thing in the Washington Post recently.
It was on their website only because you couldn't do what this site did in a newspaper story.
But it was a story about super zip codes in America and where they are.
And for the purposes of this story in the Washington Post, a super zip code is defined as a combination of per capita wealth and education.
For example, you can find some zip codes around the country wealthy as hell, but the education is not as high as in other places.
It found out, I wish, darn it, I can't remember the number.
It's astounding.
Something like over half of the super zip codes are in Washington.
Meaning the wealthiest, average wealthiest, based on zip codes, the people live there and how much they make and their education level, the vast majority of the super zip codes in this country are in Washington, D.C. If you stop and think about it, it makes total sense.
That's where all the money goes.
That's where it is.
And when you are in Washington is when you have a chance to dip your fist into the pile and take out what you can, not by working for it necessarily, although there is that, don't misunderstand.
Trillions of dollars every year concentrated in that tiny geographic area.
It makes perfect sense that human beings would gravitate there trying to get their share.
And if, and make no mistake, everybody in life is pursuing money.
Left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money.
Everybody wants a raise.
Everybody wants to improve their standard of living.
Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
Everybody wants to be rich and they want to be powerful.
They want to be rich.
Collection of money is there.
Look at this, this Washington Post story, proved it.
Now, what does Washington produce?
Nothing.
So what are the people who are amassing money doing for it?
They're not producing anything except bigger government.
They're not producing a product.
Mr. Limbaugh, there are many brilliant terrors that come out of Washington like Medicaid.
That's my point.
They're not producing anything.
They're transferring money and taking their share in the process.
The vast majority of wealthy zip codes are in DC and the suburbs in Maryland and Virginia.
Everybody's there to get their share of the money.
There are not true believers trying to downsize the place.
Everybody moves there loves its size, loves all the money that's there to get their share of it.
You ought to see this illustrated on one of these interactive maps with these zip codes all lit up.
Have you seen a nighttime picture of the United States?
You can see where the population is.
East Coast, West Coast, all the coasts.
All the way down the East Coast, start in New York, Boston, come down all the way to Miami.
Nothing but solid lights.
If you look at a nighttime picture, United States.
In flyover country, okay, little speck there in Kansas City, little speck in St. Louis, little speck in Chicago, little speck, hardly can't see Nashville or Memphis or any of that.
Maybe a little bit of Denver.
Then you get to the left coast and from Seattle all the way down to San Diego, it's solid lights.
The brightest is now Washington, D.C. on that picture when the lights are represented by wealthy zip codes.
That's what this website shows.
The lights, the brightest light, the wealthiest place in this country is Washington, D.C.
And what is produced there?
What is made there?
Zip Zero Nada.
And so in the midst of all this, we're expecting massive numbers of people to go there and shrink the place.
Human nature is, I mean, look, folks, this is the gold rush.
This is the discovery of gold in California.
Everybody's moving there and they're trying to get their share of it.
Lobbying, influencing, consulting, running campaigns, working in the government for free health care, whatever it is.
And no, I'm not just talking to government employees.
I mean, they top out at what, the president, $400,000 a year, everybody else figure government average of $110,000.
It's not those people, although that's not bad, but we're talking real, the ancillary end of the millions, the multi-millions that make up these super zip codes.
It's where the money is.
Willie Sutton, why do you rob banks?
That's where the money is.
Why do you want to go into politics?
That's where the money is.
And then the people that go there who want to talk about reducing the size of the place, is it any wonder the long knives are out for them?
Isn't any wonder that the people live there try to take them out?
What do you mean, come here and limit the size of this place?
What do you mean come here and get the money out of here?
What do you mean come here and make sure the money never gets here by letting people keep what they earn?
Screw you, buddy, and they take them out.
It's money.
We sit here and the budget gets passed.
And lo and behold, lo and behold, a Republican budget cements the spending for Obamacare.
A Republican budget locks it in.
Proof is in reality.
It's the money.
Nobody there wants the pile to shrink.
Nobody there wants the influence and the power that can be accrued to shrink.
Be the same.
If somebody moved to Las Vegas, you know what?
We need to reduce the number of casinos here by 30%.
Bugsy Siegel would come back from the grave and personally grab a Thompson submachine gun and wipe them out.
I'll give you an illustration.
I should probably shouldn't do this, but I will.
By the way, I just sent the link for this DC super map illustration.
I was a super zip illustration I was talking about up to Coco at rushlimbaugh.com.
Coco will get that and he'll post that link and you'll be able to see it for yourself.
Now, if you just take wealthiest zip codes and forget the education level, remember it's those two things combined that equal a super zip code for the Washington Post calculation.
Jupiter Island, Florida, which is one county north of here, is always in the top two or three wealthiest zip codes in the country.
On this map, it's number 93.
Just to show you the difference, 93 out of 100 that they measure.
DC, when you see this, you will see what I'm talking about.
Would you like here are the top 15, and some of this is literally going to blow your mind: the largest clusters of elite zip codes, super zips, and their nearest major city or area.
And this is ranked by number of households and the average income and education.
Number one by far and away is Washington.
Number two is the east side of Manhattan.
Number three is San Jose, California.
That would be Silicon Valley.
Number four is Boston.
A lot of universities.
Number five is Oakland, California.
Not San Francisco.
Yes, Oakland.
Number seven is Newark.
Now, how many of you associate wealth and a high education combination with Newark?
Number six is Bridgeport, Connecticut.
That is where all of the New York CEOs live.
That and Greenwich.
Well, that's where their outside New York residences are.
Bridgeport is, it's not actual Bridgeport.
Remember, that is the city nearest where all these super zip codes are.
Chicago is number eight.
North of Los Angeles is number nine, which would be Malibu, Beverly Hills.
Long Island is number 10.
The west side of Manhattan is number 11.
Tranton, New Jersey is number 12.
Philadelphia is number 13.
San Diego is 14.
South of Los Angeles is 15.
And those areas, those are the nearest major city to the largest clusters of elite zip codes.
But really, all you need to know for this is that Washington, D.C. is number one and nothing is made there.
It's where every year how many trillions of dollars are printed and how many trillions are collected.
And you've got 535 people basically figuring out where it all goes.
Ladies and gentlemen, I must caution you here.
Do not get confused by what I'm saying.
I'm not indicting anything.
This is not an attack on the rich or any of this.
I'm just telling you where they're congregating and why.
Now, in addition, there's another aspect of this that we throw in.
Okay, so here you have the overall largest collection of combined wealth and education is in Washington, D.C.
Well, there's a bunch of crooks and criminals who are going to figure this out.
I'm going to go there and try to rip them off.
Everything balances out.
Nothing is a panacea.
I'm just, I'm expressing all this within the context of, I think everybody in that town has a vested interest in that town growing, not shrinking.
Everybody is there.
I mean, you've got your true ideologues.
You've got the liberal Democrats, and they want the place to get bigger because they want to control everybody, but they also want to get rich.
They're not paupers.
They like to make people think they don't care about money.
They like to make people think they only care about helping the poor at a disadvantage.
They're ripping them off like everybody else is.
Where's the money come from for that town?
Nothing is made there.
Every dollar in that town is first somebody else's.
That's what bugs me about it.
It's not Silicon Valley.
It's not Detroit where they're manufacturing things.
Every dollar in that town is either printed or taken from somebody before it gets there.
But most everybody in that town has a self-vested interest in that town growing, not shrinking.
And I think that includes a lot of people.
And so when somebody, politically, ideologically, shows up and wants to shrink the place, the long knives from everybody come out for them.
And they try to destroy them.
Do not, my only point here is do not think that ideological or political people are not interested in money.
They care about it as much, if not more than anybody else does.
It's their life.
Their power comes from spending it, buying people, supporting people, making people dependent on them, and then taking as much of it for themselves as they can get.
How in the world does it happen that a guy who's never made more than 80 grand a year after 10 years in Congress, a multi-millionaire on a salary of $150?
How does it happen?
Now, not everybody it happens to, but there's some that manage to pull that off and they never go to jail.
And they haven't joined a lobbying firm.
They end up with sweetheart real estate deals for people back home.
There's any number of things that happen.
But it's power.
There's so much power in all of that money.
And there supposedly is a political party that has made its voters think that its primary interest is in shrinking the place.
And it isn't.
And I think it's true of the so-called conservative media.
I mean, everybody in that town depends on that town thriving and growing in order for them to have something to do there and in order for them to have expanded financial opportunity there.
Media capitals are there, in addition to New York and the West Coast.
It's a, I don't know, it's just a basic.
I mean, as basic a human element, need, desire as anything else is, money.
And it's, folks, there's more there than anywhere else.
I mean, the printing presses are there, and the tax collection agency is there.
The thing about it is, I say, every dollar there is somebody else's first before it gets there.
That's what offends me.
I think it's a bunch of thieves, disguised as tax collectors.
And they are enriching themselves, and everybody is.
And they're, you know, three, four, five levels removed.
But everybody participating in the economy of the town is living off somebody else's work and money because it's tax revenue that's built the place and what's printed.
Well, tell me, what product is sold other than think tank papers or the government printing office?
I mean, take what product is sold there?
What products manufactured, marketed, and sold there other than the government itself and getting bigger?
The product that's marketed there is compassion.
The product and service marketed there is Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, and all the other things that the government is going to provide you.
The North Pole is there.
It doesn't matter if the ice is melting at the North Pole because it isn't there anymore.
It's in Washington.
Santa Claus and the Elves are in D.C. Pure and simple.
And the proof of the Republican budget has just locked in spending on Obamacare.
But wait, but wait, didn't they have 100 votes or so where they wanted to repeal it?
Yeah, but the votes didn't mean anything.
The vote that mattered, they locked in the spending for it.
Or they will this afternoon when they actually make it official.
Okay, given all, let's go to the phones.
Let's see what's out there.
Brooklyn and Kevin, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Thank you for having me, Rush.
You bet, sir.
I have one question.
Don't you think that the future of our country is our young people, the young people that live in our country?
Well, but it always is.
Then why are they killing us?
Who is killing you?
What way?
You talking about in the womb?
No, I'm talking about the government and taxes.
And not only taxes, but expenditure as well.
Oh.
Well, see, I'll tell you exactly what he's talking about.
You don't mean kill, literally, because you're still alive.
What you mean is they're taking away all financial opportunity from you.
Yes, 100%.
Yep.
Taxes and such and the debt is guaranteed you're never going to have a rising standard of living.
You're always going to be taxed to support the irresponsible debt and spending that's come before you.
That's what you mean, right?
Yes, 100%.
And you know what?
Let me give you an example.
I graduated with my finance degree and decided not to go into that profession.
I opened my own business at 19 years old.
And, you know, today I make a decent living.
Well, it looks like a decent living on paper.
It shows that I make an income of $180,000 a year.
Wait, is that gross?
Wait, wait, wait.
Is that gross or net?
That's gross.
Okay.
Okay.
But once you put into the fact that I'm a single young person here in New York City, which is one of the highest tax places in the country, I'm getting taxed 48%.
Oh, it's going to be more.
You're going to be over 50 time de Blasio gets finished.
Oh, 100%.
And Obama gets finished.
But wait, that's not where it ends.
My insurance, since I'm young and healthy, was $382.
Oh, yeah, they're soaking you.
They are soaking.
Supposed to pay for grandma, grandpa, and your cousins, grandmas and grandma.
Oh, of course.
And now my insurance premium just went up to $941 a month.
It went from mostly $4,000 a year to almost $11,000 a year.
Okay.
Are you going to pay it or are you going to pay the penalty for a while?
Well, I have no choice.
You know, I really need, you know, it's always good to have health insurance.
God forbid I get hit by a car.
The person's uninsured.
How am I going to insure myself?
Well, no, you do have a choice.
For a while, for a few years, a few short years, you can choose to pay a penalty, which you'll end up, even at the highest calculated formula, less than your $11,000 a year.
And you can pay that penalty, it's going to gradually grow to where it is higher than a premium, but you could pay just the penalty.
And then if some catastrophe happens, hightail it to the emergency room.
Right, but if I'm paying the penalty, I'm not covered.
Well, but you could go.
I'm going to be fit with the bill.
If you get hit by a car, it's a pre-existing condition.
You could get the insurance after the accident.
That's true.
That's just another way for them to fund everything.
Right.
I'm just being facetious there, but that's one of the things that's trying to sell it that way.
No, I hear you.
No, no, Kevin.
I'm dead serious.
I hear everything you're saying.
And you are exactly right.
They do tell you when you graduated, high school, you're the future.
And your financial future has been spent.
They have already spent the taxes and then some that they would have collected from you for your entire life's earnings.
And it still isn't enough.
They're going to collect even more from you.
And there's one other thing that people don't realize.
You know, this whole thing with the Affordable Health Care Act that they say, oh, the companies that have 50 or more employees, they're going to have to cover their insurance.
Yeah.
I only have seven employees.
But by law, since I'm giving myself health insurance from my business, I have to offer the insurance to my employees.
And if they take that offer, I have to pay half of their insurance premium.
What I didn't have to pay for my employees at one point now, I'm gonna have to pay on average $350 a month per employee so what are you what are you gonna do you're gonna fight?
You have to fire some of them?
Well, I'm going to have to lay some off.
And the funny thing is, last year I was looking at employing more people.
And they stopped me last year, too, because every employee that I employ, I have to pay employment tax.
Literally, I get fined.
I get taxed for employing somebody.
Unemployment tax, extra Social Security that I have to pay for.
And then they wonder, why are these people doing so bad?
Why are these businesses failing?
You know what?
You keep taking the resources away from us, and we're not going to go anywhere.
We're not going to be able to grow.
We're not going to be able to employ all of these people.
Exactly.
And it's getting worse and worse day by day.
And then it won't be long before they'll be telling you you're not paying your fair share, that you're part of the rich and that you're greedy and selfish and you're not paying your fair share.
Right, yeah.
You know what?
I'm part of the rich, making 80-something thousand after taxes.
But then wait, my property tax just went up to $13,000 a year in Brooklyn.
You know, and it's like I have nothing left.
I worked so hard and I can't get anywhere.
So what are you going to do?
I mean, let me, let me, before you answer this, let me set the table.
You sound like you are industrious, inventive, flexible, ambitious.
You have choices.
What are you going to do?
I really don't know.
That's the problem.
And I'm running out of time.
Is your business tied to Brooklyn?
Can it only be conducted there?
Well, my business isn't tied to Brooklyn, but I don't feel comfortable living anywhere else in the country.
I love the United States, don't get me wrong.
But having the ability to order a pie of pizza at 2 in the morning when you're hungry and you're working late.
See, they're counting on this, Kevin.
This is a limitation that you are self-imposing.
I mean, if you wanted to move to a no-income tax state, for example, you would be ahead of the game a little bit.
You wanted to move your business, but you like Brooklyn.
There's nothing wrong with that, but you're going to pay for it.
And DeBlasio not even inaugurated yet.
I hear you.
I feel for you.
It sounds a little strange to say.
My heart breaks because in the sense that you discussed, you are the future.
You are the kind of guy that's going to employ others and provide them a job and a standard of living.
Or at least you were.
But you've become a target.
You're an achiever.
You know how to have success.
You have become the target of this administration and of Washington.
And I do.
I feel extremely sad for you.
I work so hard and I can't keep any of it.
Yeah, I know.
I heard him say, I work so hard and I can't keep any of it.
And then, and then he gets blamed for being greedy by politicians.
Blame him for being greedy.
Need to spread the wealth around.
Kevin, you're not giving enough yet.
He'll get it.
Sit tight.
Mannheim Schimurova.
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year's Eve from all of us here at EIB Network to all of you, the Kevins of the world.
That call illustrates one of the many values at talk radio.
That guy is not a nameless person standing behind Obama applauding as Obama launches through his latest slate of lies about the greatness of Obamacare.
There's a guy, Kevin, affected deeply and profoundly by the policies of his government.
He's at his wit's end.
Jim Hoft, a gateway pundit, is losing the medical care and insurance that's kept him alive.
And he's asking, why is our government doing this to us?
Real life stories.
Now, people like Kevin, he's not alone.
He is one of millions.
And young people today, like Kevin, now know you're still out there, Kevin.
Let me tell you what you're actually going to end up doing.
You, if things do not change, are going to spend the rest of your life paying off the cost of the Democrat Party buying votes from everybody.
That is what they've done.
They have played Santa Claus with all of their voters.
They're giving their voters, promising their voters everything, but you're paying for it, Kevin.
They're not.
They're using your money.
Every dollar in that town of Washington, D.C. is somebody else's first before it gets there.
But it has not been willingly, willfully spent.
It has been taken from people before they've even ever seen it.
It's been deducted from their gross earnings.
They never even see it.
The town just takes it.
You're not buying anything for it.
You're paying for it.
And you're going to continue to pay the cost of the Democrats buying votes all of these years.
Tab, Salt Lake City, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Yes, exponential dittos from Salt Lake City Rush.
So glad I got in.
Thank you very much.
I wanted to tell you something that has not been advertised on any of the national news in regards to Obama love care, and that is the price increase on my medications.
I'm 52 and disabled.
I fell 20 feet from a tree.
I have no disc between my L34, a shattered foot into 62 pieces, a torn meniscus.
Anyway, my medications went up from, this is two months ago, my one prescription for pain medication went up from $250 to $1,200.
Oh, my God.
And when I talked to the pharmacist about this, I only get $710 being on disability.
Now, Tab, in the past couple days, there have been stories about the rising costs of prescriptions and how you're on your own.
Another benefit of Obamacare.
But there's a dual-edged sword to that, too.
You should have been paying for him yourself all along, but that's unfair to say at this stage.
Anyway, I have to take a break.
I'll expand on that before you people have a conniption shit and think that I don't get it.
No, no, I did not mean I think the poor guy Tab should be spending $1,200 for his medicine.
It's not what I meant.
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