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Dec. 24, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 24, 2013, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Thank you, EIB Network, Rush Limbaugh.
Merry Christmas to you all.
It is Eric Erickson in Atlanta.
The phone number to the Rush Limbaugh program, 1-800-282-2882.
You can email me, Eric, at redstate.com, and you can get on Twitter and Facebook at EW Erickson and follow along.
I have, speaking of Twitter and Facebook, I've been admonished in text message from a friend of mine and throughout Twitter.
They say Mr. Snerdley and I are wrong.
In the last hour, NBC, they're going to start this new Bible series called AD based on the History Channel Bible series.
And Mr. Snerdley and I were speculating on the role Miley Cyrus might take in this, the Virgin Mary or something.
Apparently, it is the consensus, Mr. Sterdley, that we're wrong, that she will be the dancing, twerking stepdaughter of Herod calling for John the Baptist's head.
That will be the role she's cast in.
Just so every, well, you know, yes, you learn something every day.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program, folks.
The Associated Press has conducted a poll.
What are the top stories of 2013?
The top story?
The healthcare site glitch.
Now, this is the way, of course, it always is, that the big news at the end of the year always jades people's expectations, and that's the story they put as the top story.
But let's work our way through this list.
Mr. Sterley, to his credit, pointed this one out to me.
The healthcare overhaul takes the number one story.
Number two is the Boston Marathon bombing.
Number three, the Vatican changeover.
Four, the divided Congress.
Five, NSA spying, then gay marriage, then Nelson Mandela, then the Philippines typhoon, then Syria, and some missing women found, the Ariel Castro story.
Now, this is the Associated Press list of what the top stories are in 2013.
Those, my friends, the ones these journalists and folks believe should be the stories that get covered.
This is 144 ballots cast.
I have no idea.
Oh, yes, yes.
A poll of U.S. editors and news directors, 144 U.S. editors and news directors.
In other words, this is a poll of liberals.
And even the liberals believe that the disastrous healthcare overhaul is the number one story.
Even the liberals believe that.
By the way, they've been doing this poll since 1936.
So what is a top story?
What's not listed?
I mean, just to give it to you again, real quick, healthcare overhaul, Boston bombing, Vatican changeover, divided Congress, NSA spying, gay marriage, Nelson Mandela, the Philippines Typhoon, Syria, missing women found.
That's it.
Let me give you a hint.
This comes from the Huffington Post, a website, by the way, that is still not making money.
I've got that in the stack of stuff somewhere.
The Huffington Post, it's not making any money.
AOL, yes, here we go.
AOL banks on Huffington Post to turn profitable next year.
Maybe.
So the Huffington Post, let me read you this story.
An overwhelming majority of voters are opposed to cutting off extended jobless benefits for the unemployed.
Voters in the four-district survey by a liberal group for a liberal organization, a liberal polling firm, PPP, the Democratic polling firm, done it for a liberal group, shows that voters are outraged.
And the Huffington Post does this story.
Now, of course, it's the Huffington Post.
They would do a big story on a liberal poll for a liberal organization that says unemployment benefits.
Notice in this list of top stories for 2013, the economy.
The economy is not listed.
The economy is not there.
No one wants to know about the economy.
The editors and news directors, they're done.
They've moved on from the economy.
It was a story.
Remember, it was dramatically improving.
Now, to be sure, the latest growth numbers show the economy is growing again, but let's be honest here.
Wall Street is growing.
Wall Street grows when Republicans or Democrats alike are in Washington.
Wall Street always grows.
I mean, nowadays, you've got Wall Street breastfeeding from Washington, basically.
Pulling, drawing from Washington, D.C., drawing our tax dollars, our carve-outs.
Doesn't matter whether it's the Democrats or Republicans in charge.
Wall Street plays the system.
But the little guy, the Main Street, the entrepreneur, they're not benefiting from this growing economy, more or less.
And now you've got Republicans and Democrats together in Washington wanting to increase the sales tax on the internet.
Now they're carving out an exemption for small businesses who conduct out-of-state sales, which is just an admission that this is a problematic law that will cause problems for businesses and drive up costs, which is why they're exempting little businesses and they're putting a cap to ensure that the little business can never become a big business.
That's what Washington does.
Doesn't matter who's in charge.
They're always about ensuring that the little guy can never actually compete with the big guy.
They have an unlevel playing field and people who profit by the unlevel playing field give money to Democrats and Republicans alike to keep the playing field level.
But the economy, the economy is a huge story.
So many people still unemployed.
So many people sitting out.
So many people unable to get a job.
So many people dependent on family at Christmastime.
They can't make ends meet.
They can't buy presents.
They are depressed.
They are dejected.
They are angry.
And the 144 U.S. editors and news directors have decided it's not a top story for 2013.
What this goes to show you is that it is old news, is that we've been in Obama's economy for so long where no one can get ahead except for the super wealthy, that it isn't a new story.
It's old news now.
We live in an age where getting ahead is not about your ability.
It's not about your work.
It's not about your effort.
It's about who you know.
It's about are you in the right class of people to get ahead.
The president and the Democrats, they are marching out.
This is a wonderful distraction.
Much like the president, yesterday he signs up for Obamacare.
And the White House is very honest.
The White House is very upfront.
This is a symbolic effort.
The president's not actually going to get Obamacare.
Obamacare is terrible compared to what he and most other Americans could probably get were it not for his law.
He, of course, will still be able to get great insurance.
Going around the country campaign, I want you to have the insurance that I'm going to get.
If we were really getting the insurance that he's getting, if we were really getting that insurance, he would be perfectly happy to ditch his insurance plan and go on Obama.
No, no, no, no.
He signed up for the bronze plan, by the way.
He didn't sign up for the silver plan.
He's got kids.
He didn't sign up for the silver plan.
He signed up for the bronze plan, the low-level, the cheap plan.
And it's only symbolic.
He's not actually going to get this insurance.
He's not going to be served by his local doctor.
He's not going to feel the effects that you feel.
And that is the thing about Washington.
If you go back to 1994, now I know for a lot of people, particularly in the media, history began in either 2008 or the year 2000.
Many of the people who cover politics now, history began for them.
They got involved.
The lights came on in Bush versus Gore.
Those Republicans who stole the election, they've been believing that ever since.
Never mind, Bush actually won the Electoral College.
He didn't need to steal it.
He won Florida by 500 some odd votes.
Got elected under the laws, under the Constitution, that they've held on to this, and history began for them at that moment.
They can't conceive of a day before November 1st, 2000.
But go back, if you can, to 1994.
The Republicans campaigned in 1994 with a contract for America, a contract with America, Newt Gingrich.
The Republicans, they rallied around this.
Now, this wasn't the reason they got elected.
Contrary to some popular culture, they didn't come up with their contract with America until October or so, after Labor Day.
It was just, this is what we're going to do, so they could claim the mandate when the election came.
The wave was coming.
No one knew how big the wave was, but we knew the Democrats were in a world of hurt in 1994.
It was the year I actually got involved in politics, actually, 94.
One of the things that the Republicans did is they said they would make the laws apply to themselves because Congress under the Democrats has routinely in the past written wonderful laws and then carved exceptions for themselves as an admission that the law is actually terrible, so Congress doesn't have to follow it.
Everybody else does, but the Godchildren of Congress do not.
And that's what they tried to do with Obamacare.
Chuck Grassley, the Republican senator, though, was very smart, and he put in a clause that said that they too, everyone in government, had to adhere to Obamacare.
And the Democrats have been working ever since to try to weasel their way out of that.
The economy is terrible for many, many, many people.
But the Democrats have done a very good job carving exceptions up for themselves and picking their winners, picking their friends, picking their donors to benefit from the economy.
So much so that the Associated Press doesn't even think it's a big story this year.
So much so because the Associated Press, we've been living under it for so long, it's just accepted.
It's not new news.
It's not something new.
It's just something we exist with.
It's something we deal with.
We know the middle class can't get ahead under Barack Obama.
So he goes out with this Obamacare story that he's signing up as a distraction.
He's going out with this inequality message as a distraction.
He wants people to see that he cares when he actually doesn't care.
He actually doesn't want to live under the system that he himself has created, whether it's economically or with health insurance.
He doesn't want to live under this.
He doesn't really care about inequality.
It's just a way to distract people from the misery.
It's just a way to distract people from the fact that only Barack Obama's friends get ahead.
Only people who have the money to hire the lobbyists get ahead.
Only the people who go to Washington and hobnob with Republicans and Democrats alike in Washington are able to carve out exceptions for themselves in the tax code and in the law and in the regulatory scheme to get themselves ahead.
The little guy on Main Street, forget him.
The doctor in the rural hospital, forget him.
The doctor in the suburban hospital, the suburban middle class folks, forget them.
They aren't the preferred constituency.
In Barack Obama's America, they aren't the winners.
In Barack Obama's America, only his friends and donors are the winners.
That's why the economy is not a story, because it doesn't affect Barack Obama's winners.
It just affects every other American.
We'll be right back.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
The phone number, 1-800-282-2882.
How about we take some phone calls this Christmas Eve?
Let's go to Doug from Raleigh, North Carolina.
Doug, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Eric.
Happy holidays.
Yeah, Merry Christmas to you.
Yeah, Merry Christmas.
That's where we're at right now.
I'm on an interstate, and usually people drive rather audaciously and not too, you know, courteously.
But I just want to say that it's amazing how courteous everybody is.
It's like I'm no longer on a busy interstate.
It's really nice.
Oh, it's because you're in North Carolina and people are nice there.
I'm sorry, what did you say, sir?
I said you're in North Carolina.
People are nice there, usually.
Oh, yeah, you're right.
Except in Durham.
I was going to tell you, in my opinion, since I've been a private care physician for 30-some years, why I thought that we are on an inevitable course with Obamacare.
But before I say that, can I just make a comment, please?
Make a comment.
Have you noticed how, since Barack Obama's been president, there's a renewed interest in what the majority of Americans want?
Yes, yes, supposedly so.
Unless your majority says something that's not politically correct, then they have to be burned at the stake.
Were we always concerned with what the majority wanted?
I mean, after the elections, it should be the laws and the Constitution and the courts.
It shouldn't be polling all the time about what the majority wants and then making executive decisions, right?
Yes, because everyone should live and die by polls, I guess.
Yeah, yeah.
That aggravates me, particularly in the media culture where everything's got to be dependent on polling.
In any event, Doug, so you're a doctor.
What's your specialty?
Primary care.
Oh, excellent.
Excellent.
So how is Obamacare affecting you?
Okay, well, we don't have it yet.
I call it Obama scare because we really don't know what Obamacare is.
But chances are, unless everybody follows South Carolina and outlaws it, that we'll have it.
And when we do have it, I believe if you'll just follow me for a quick second here, I'll try to go through this real quick.
The process I've seen here, first of all, I don't do much with insurance.
I'm a primary care provider, but I tailor my medical practice to people who pay me cash.
Ah.
They pay $100 and they get whatever they need, five minutes or 50 minutes.
So you are what's called the future.
I'm a minority, aren't I?
Yes, for now.
For now.
Okay, so here's what's going to happen, in my opinion.
What I've seen in the last five years is the hospitals in the Raleigh area have bought out 90% of the private practitioners, whether it's urgent care, primary, say, internal medicine, family practice, or something like a specialty like surgery or whatever, you know, cardiology, so forth, gastroenterology.
So the three large entities in this area advertise now that they all have at least 700 doctors interdigitated throughout the triangle.
That's what it's called around here, triangle area, you know?
So the greater metropolitan area.
So that leaves maybe 20% of doctors who are still independent.
Right.
Obamacare basically is going to tell those people what to do because the ones that are affiliated with the hospital will have to jump through the hoops of Obamacare because the hospitals tell them how to run their business.
Right.
And plus, they went to the hospital so that they could use the hospital's resources to maneuver their way through this so-called increasingly complex area of providing medicine with more and more regulations and restrictions and so forth and so on.
So what will happen down the road is those people will have to see Obamacare and those of us that are not affiliated with hospitals, why we can decide on our own.
Yeah, you know, I'm hearing this trend from more and more people.
My doctor, a great guy, I call him the only man I let Cavity search me outside the TSA.
He tells me all the time the amount of bureaucracy he has to go through with Medicare, Medicaid patients in his practice is it's almost not worth it with the amount of money they're being paid.
And so many doctors are being lured into these hospital situations where the hospital will pay them a large salary, but they no longer have to worry about dealing with insurance on their own.
They have a hospital bureaucracy to deal with all this.
Well, I think what we're going to see is exactly what you're doing: there's going to be multi-classes, primarily two.
There's going to be the hospital system, some of which will opt out of Obamacare.
Some already have, along with the doctors who join them.
Some who are inside Obamacare, who have to deal with that system, and then guys like you who are becoming increasingly a cash-based business, where people are coming to you that are willing to write the check or pay you the cash money, as we say in the South, and let you perform the service without any of the insurance overhead.
I personally see that as the wave of the future.
Yes, and that's the purpose of my call, Eric.
I'll tell you what.
I thought I would bring something up and educate you and give you some objective findings after 35 years of working 80-hour weeks.
And here it is, you've already figured out on your own.
Well, Doug, I mean, I can see it coming.
Look, Merry Christmas to you.
Thanks very much for the phone call, Doug.
I see this happening.
And this is why I said in the beginning of this hour, that Obama talks a good game when it comes to inequality.
But what his system is doing, what Obamacare is doing, is creating a very unequal system.
Those of us who have jobs and access to good doctors who are willing to do it, we're going to start paying cash.
I mean, I've got a great relationship with my doctor already.
A wonderful, wonderful guy individually.
He's a very good doctor.
I had, believe it or not, three weeks ago now, I had to have my gallbladder removed very quickly, very quickly.
But it was having a relationship with my doctor where he's a friend, not just an abstract person I go to when I have a problem, have a relationship with him.
He was able to get me to a surgeon who I go to church with who was able to get me in five days after we realized there was a problem.
It was really quick.
That's going to stop for very many people.
Those who are on Obamacare are not going to have a good time.
They're not going to have the American system of medicine that we're used to in the past.
Now, keep in mind, there are Democrats out there right now whose heads just exploded when I said we're not going to have the American medical system we've had in the past because they are so into the politics of it.
They have conflated and confused health care with insurance.
They're not the same thing.
Certainly they play into each other, but they're not the same thing.
But because they have conflated insurance and health care, they are screwing up the health care system where now only those of us with means are going to have access to the doctors to be able to get it and be seen quickly.
More inequality in Barack Obama's America, but that is by design.
Eric Erickson here, in for Rush Limbaugh.
Welcome back.
1-800-282-2882.
That's the number.
You can get me on Twitter and Facebook at EW Erickson.
I've had a number of people email and tweet and put on Facebook, congratulations, that I'm crazier and more rabid, they think, than Mr. Limbaugh, these liberals.
You know, I learned from the best.
I've been a rush listener forever.
Just delighted and honor.
This is the greatest Christmas present.
I've been in search of an Xbox One, but this is actually the best Christmas present I can have.
Thank you to the EIB Network for letting me do this.
You know, I want to go back to the phones right now.
I want to go to Jack, who's a trucker near Cleveland.
Jack, welcome to the EIB Network.
How are you?
Hi, Mr. Erickson.
Thanks for letting me on.
I appreciate it.
Absolutely.
Merry Christmas.
I'm enjoying your show.
And I listened to you and that doctor feller earlier.
And I know what that's like because I get a DOT physically.
You know, I'm a truck driver.
Ah, yes.
And the doctor said to me, he said, you know, well, he checked my eyes.
He turned the lights on.
He's moving that light back and forth.
And he said, follow that light.
And with the light side, he said, let's go ahead and check you're over 55 at the time or whatever.
And he said, well, I should check the yearly for your thing.
Yes.
We don't need to go there.
I don't need that done.
And I said, I'll put it to you straight, Don.
He was determined to want to do that test, and the lights are on my face.
Well, he's a government doctor, of course, Bohica.
And I said to him, the only man that's ever been in my mouth is my dentist, and that's about the only orifice anybody's going to get in if they're a dentist.
And I said, nothing else is going to happen here.
All right.
All right.
Jack, we better move on.
Can I ask you a question?
That's why I'm calling up.
Yes, certainly.
So, well, you and that doctor were talking, and that kind of put me off my original question, but there's two orders that I don't really know well.
Fascism and dictators.
Can you tell me, like, if we have a dictator, would he be a fascist?
You want to be a Democrat, right?
Well, not Democratic.
Yes, okay.
If we were a dictator, he could do as he wanted.
He could dictate without depending on Congress.
He could, if you will, hypothetically, if we had a dictator, he could make changes to laws without having to go before a legislative body.
He could just do it on a whim, on his own initiative, if we had a dictator.
He could do that.
Now, some dictators have legislatures to give them cover whereby the legislatures, all of his own party, pass the legislation he wishes them to pass so it has the air of democratic legitimacy.
And then he goes on and issues dictates to change the law as he wishes, hiding behind the law.
But that's that, Jack, is if we had a dictator.
Now, fascism, of course, is when the interests of government and corporations bend towards one.
All of the country worked for the same goal through corporations and through government.
And if we had fascism in this country, you would see, for example, the government incentivizing the use of green power and propping up green energy companies and then punishing coal companies so that we would be going towards the green energy companies and have no choice, but the government doing it and giving benefits.
That's if we had fascism in America.
So I hope that explains.
Jack has gone away in Cleveland driving his truck.
I hope that explains that I'm not saying we have fascism.
I'm not saying we have a dictator.
I'm just saying if we had it, that's what it would look like in this country.
Now, I have to make a point on something I said a few minutes ago, that we are in a situation where Russia, again, Russia's right.
This is by design.
The situation we're in is by design.
It was designed to fail.
Obama here, let's be very honest.
If we will, in a moment of candor, Obamacare was designed to have these problems.
It was designed to fail.
It was designed, as Doug and I discussed at the bottom of the hour, the doctor from Raleigh, North Carolina, we're setting up a system where you're going to have a separate system.
People who can pay cash will go to one doctor.
People who are on Obamacare will go to another doctor.
People who have insurance but don't want to pay cash, they can go to a third system of doctors and hospitals that will take insurance but have opted out of Obamacare.
So the poor will go one place, the middle class another place, the rich will go to another place.
We will have even greater inequality in the system.
It is by design because they want to break the present system.
I mean, everything Republicans said would happen is happening.
Everything Republicans who could just look objectively at the law, who know economics, who have read Milton Freeman, who have read Adam Smith, who have read Hayek, they understood what would happen.
As George Will has said several times, the columnist, formerly the ABC, now he's at Fox with me, that the only way Obamacare works is if people behave irrationally.
Let's not kid ourselves.
The Democrats knew what would happen.
They want the system broken.
They want the system bankrupt because, as Barack Obama himself said, we've got to do universal health care in incremental steps.
And again, the Democrats have confused health care and health insurance.
They treat them the same, the way they talk, the way they say things, the way they do things.
They treat insurance and health care as the exact same thing when they're not.
They want the system broken because they want the government to take it all over completely.
They're not happy with Obamacare.
The Democrats did it as a compromise, knowing the system would get out of whack quickly.
And so then they could come back and say, well, I guess we've got to go to single-payer health care now.
No.
This is the brilliance of what has actually happened.
I'm not saying it's good, but it is a brilliant thing for people opposed to government expansion.
It has collapsed far quicker than anyone expected.
Costs are getting out of whack far quicker than anyone expected.
The Democrats, I think they knew that over time, healthcare companies would transition people into Obamacare.
I don't think they realized that it would happen overnight.
Five million Americans suddenly losing their health care insurance.
A friend of mine texted me during the show that his in-laws have gotten their notice.
Their health care insurance is canceled.
The Obamacare guy tells him that you're lucky you could sign up for Obamacare today.
They're not lucky.
They were fine with what they had, and now they can't have it because of Barack Obama.
It is by design.
I don't think the Democrats realized it would happen so quickly, but I think the Democrats realized it would happen.
I think they hoped there wouldn't be a massive shock to the system.
But there has now been a shock to the system.
And people are upset about it.
Republicans are going to be able to harness this.
But of course, first, we're going to have to go through these bloody Republican primaries.
First, we're going to have to see if the Tea Party guys can beat off some of the establishment guys.
The establishment guys are looking at this debt ceiling fight and they're already coming up with ways to avoid fighting on repeal again.
They're already coming up with other clever ways to get out from under it.
You see, here's the dirty little secret: there are actually some Republicans who are okay with Obamacare.
Now, they can't say it publicly in the same way the Democrats can't say they knew that the system was designed to implode.
They can't say that publicly.
These Republicans can't say they're fine with it.
They just want to be the ones in charge of it.
They want technocratic fixes.
The system is so convoluted, it can't be fixed.
The only way to fix Obamacare is to repeal it and come up with something else.
There are plans out there that would do this.
Tom Price, a congressman from Georgia, has a plan that would do it.
There are others out there who have plans, but people are avoiding the conversation because they're afraid of the voters.
They want to wait until the elections are over.
They want to wait until they can't be held accountable in the elections to be able to say, all right, let's just fix this thing.
Let's not try to get rid of it.
Same thing's going to happen with immigration.
You mark my words.
We're going to get through the primary season.
They're going to say, okay, time for amnesty.
Can't be held accountable for another two years.
They'll forget by then.
That's the thing with the Democrats.
They're hoping you forget Barack Obama's remarks from 2008.
They're hoping you forget single payer.
They're hoping you forget all the calls for universal health care.
It's what they've always wanted.
They've built the system to self-destruct to be able to get it.
But the problem for them is that the system is self-destructing far quicker than they expected.
They couldn't control the timing of the detonation.
They couldn't control when it collapsed in on itself.
And it's happening so quickly, and so many people are so shocked, and the outrage is so much that now they're scrambling.
Now they're having to extend deadlines without congressional authority.
Now they're having to make changes and line up businesses to do their bidding in ways that businesses didn't necessarily want to do.
Now they're bypassing democratic processes.
But again, again, I'm not saying we have fascism.
I'm not saying we have a dictatorship in this country.
I'm just saying what's going on right now looks kind of like what would be happening if we did have fascism and a dictatorship.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
Eric Erickson in for Rush Limbaugh.
This Christmas Eve, back to the phones we go to Adam calling from Toledo, Ohio.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Adam, welcome to the program.
Hey, Eric, Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas to you.
Basically, my question to you was: you know, I'm 27 years old, nearly 28.
I am fortunate enough to have a full-time job working 48 hours a week, sometimes a little more.
You are fortunate in Obama's economy.
You know, I'm pretty much asking how Obamacare is going to affect me if I'm fortunate enough to buy my own health care at this moment.
Well, it's probably going to make it more expensive for you than it otherwise would be.
There are some variables there depending on the state you live in and the amount of income you make.
But if you get married, are you married?
No, no.
Okay, when you get married, if you get married, it will be more expensive for you if you get married because there is a marriage penalty in Obamacare.
Leave it to the Democrats to disincentivize getting married unless you're gay and live in Utah.
They will drive up your prices.
And that's primarily that's it.
Here's the other thing, though.
Over time, I believe, just looking at the way the system is designed, assuming they keep propping it up in some way, shape, or form, that you're going to have a harder time getting into your doctor.
You're going to have a harder time getting medical ease provided, that the government's going to be able to control the medicines you use.
You're going to be deprived of some access to doctors you may want to go to, some access to hospitals you want to go to.
All of these things are conceivable under Obamacare.
Does the amount of money that I make influence that a lot?
Oh, yes.
Depending on the state you live in, and in a number of states, and this depends on whether you have a state exchange or a federal exchange and whatnot, but the more money you make, the higher the cost of your health care is going to be.
You're not going to get government subsidies for it.
It's not that other people's health care is less expensive than yours.
It's just they get a subsidy and you don't the more money you make.
Wow, that sucks.
Yeah, oh, very much the look.
This is a system where here, in Georgia, now, back when Obamacare was broken, the Kaiser Foundation put up a website where you could go in and see what you're going to make.
And I ran the numbers on myself, and I put in that I made $4,500, and it said my health care plan would be $10,500 a year, even though I made $4,500 now.
I will tell you that in reality, here's the funniest part.
I had a caller to my own show, Russia Station affiliate WSB out of Atlanta, had a caller call in who he couldn't get on the website.
So he went to DeFax, the family and child services place.
They filled out his health care enrollment for him.
And they told him that if he made above something like $10,500, $10,750 a year, that his insurance rates would go up dramatically.
So he needed to keep staying part-time through a temp agency, making that amount of money, or his insurance rates would go up because Georgia has a federal exchange, not a state exchange.
That's terrible.
Oh, it is.
It is.
Look, Obamacare, Democratic policy in general.
Look, let's just say, Democrats disincentivize work.
I mean, when you know that you can work really, really hard and the government's going to take it away from you because the government wants to give it to someone else, then what incentive do you really have to go get a really good job?
What incentive do you have to inspire?
What incentive do you have to go out there and be the best you can be?
I don't know.
Adam, what do you do for a living?
I drive a forklift.
A forklift?
Oh, okay.
So is it for a corporation or for just a contract company?
Well, it's a smaller business.
Okay.
Recently laid off a bunch of people, so we're right around that.
Well, see, you're lucky.
Now, this is another way that some people are being disincentivized with Obamacare by Obamacare is people are getting pushed off to part-time work because of it.
Because, you know, if you work less than 40 hours, in some cases, your employer doesn't have to provide you insurance.
So people are getting hurt because of it.
They really are.
And the Democrats are turning a blind eye to it.
They're saying more people will be helped.
Thus far, we know that many more people have lost their insurance than have gotten insurance through Obamacare.
Adam, look, have a Merry Christmas to you.
Thanks very much for calling into the EIB network.
Let's go next to Dan calling from Hanover Park, Illinois.
Dan, how are you?
I'm good.
Thank you.
Merry Christmas to you.
Merry Christmas to you.
I noticed that the Kermit Gosnell trial is also not in that AP story.
Oh, that's a good catch.
Yes, that is a good.
I'm surprised that Wendy Davis' filibuster down in Texas wasn't one of the top stories the way the media fell over.
But you're absolutely right.
That certainly should have been on their list, of course.
Man, Dan, that is such a good point.
I'm disappointed in myself now for not catching that one.
Yes, but you know, that was just a local crime story, according to the Washington Post.
It wasn't a big national story, according to.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
Well, just like this typhoon in the Philippines they mentioned, but none of the ice storms have been happening around here.
Well, yeah.
Not the extensive snow cover that's fallen across the country either.
Well, that's not snow on the ground.
It's global warming on the ground.
Get with the lingo.
Global warming.
Yes, global warming ever.
By the way, there's a story out that they found lakes in Greenland under the ice, and they're shocked.
Now, I don't know about you.
Now, I've never been ice fishing, Dan, but I've seen movies.
I've seen, what is it, Grumpy Old Men, where they go out and they cut a hole in the ice, and guess what?
There's water underneath the ice.
But the news stories seem to be shocked that there is water underneath the ice, just another sign of global warming.
You cannot make up with the media.
There is a story out in the stack of stuff that we are under, the United States, more of the United States is covered in snowfall right now than at any time in the past decade.
We have the ice caps in the Arctic have expanded to 50% of what they were last year.
And the news stories are that there's global warming.
Now, the other day, when I got back to Atlanta, I had a storm come through, and it was in the late high 70s.
And now today, all morning long, it's been in the 30s.
And during that day, they were, oh, it's global warming.
It's global warming.
It's warmed up.
Now it's cold again.
And they were, well, we can't let these one-time winter events say anything about global warming.
Climate change is more complicated than that.
These people are just making it up on the fly to get government grants.
We'll be right back.
So I mentioned in the first hour, Planned Parenthood has out their 12 Days of Christmas song.
And they've rewritten the song.
I've never cared for the Partridge and the Pear Tree song.
It's just, it takes forever to get through that song.
Obviously, kids love it, but I stopped liking it when I was in middle school and had to sing it in the choir.
And I grew up in Dubai.
And we actually, even in Dubai, of all places, at an American school, we sang Christmas songs.
And even ones that mentioned like Silent Night and Jesus and Wiseman, we sang 12 Days of Christmas, and you just, the song never ends.
So Planned Parenthood has rewritten it.
And it's all about contraception, birth control pills, and dams and diaphragms and you name it.
I wonder if when Planned Parenthood sends out Christmas cards, if instead of the baby on the front with the parents in the manger, if they send out one that has King Herod's smiling face on the front of it.
That'd be much more appropriate, keeping with the story of what happened way back when.
Oh, Planned Parenthood.
Okay.
There is a PR nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue.
At least according to the Politico, it's a PR nightmare.
But is it really a PR nightmare or is it just a disaster of policymaking?
We should explore this when we come back and continue to take your phone calls.
And in some states, I learned this yesterday.
Did you know in some states, if you try to leave the states, pack up and move because of their taxation burdens, they tax you for daring to leave the state?
A buddy of mine had this happen.
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