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Jan. 23, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 23, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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You know, I really don't believe the way this Justin Bieber stuff is being covered.
I really don't believe it.
And I have some things I want to say to put that in perspective here in just a second.
I got to get back to our caller, Jim in Central Illinois, but first I need to explain Safari push notifications.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Okay, here's what you need.
You have to be running OS 10.9 Mavericks on your Apple Macintosh computer.
It can't be Lion or Mountain Lion.
It's got to be uh 10.9.
OS 10.0, right on the verse 10.9.1 is the latest.
That's called Mavericks.
That's what they've named the operating system.
And it's new to Mavericks.
It's push notifications with their web browser, Safari.
And not every website offers push notifications, but Apple has made it available.
We have just activated them.
Now the way you sign up, you have to quit the browser and relaunch it and then go to RushLimbaugh.com.
And when you relaunch Rush Limbaugh.com, up at the top of the page, you'll get an alert or dialogue box asking you if you want to sign up.
There's no place on the site that you go.
You have to generate this by launching the browser and the website.
And then you click on you want the notifications, or you don't.
And then you'll get them on your Macintosh screen as we send them out.
Now I made the mistake earlier we can send these notifications out whenever I say something noteworthy.
That would mean we would notify you on every segment.
And we're not going to do that.
We're not going to overdo this.
Push notifications can become very irritating after a while, and people many times just turn them off because they become something you have to deal with and you want to get them off the screen.
So we're not going to overdo it, but we're replacing the middleman here.
Like Obama could sign up for push notifications at Rush Limbaugh.com and not have to depend on media matters to find out what I said.
Now our first push notification, Coco just sent it out about an hour ago.
And it was the segment in which I talked about Obama blaming me and Fox News for why the Republican base doesn't like him or his policies.
So they established that segment on the website, created a link to it, send out a notification for it.
And if you're at the computer, you get the notification.
If you want to, you click on it and it takes you there.
But you have to be running the latest Mac OS, which is 10.9 Mavericks.
And then you have to run the browser, quit it, and start it over again, and at the top of the page, you'll be given the option to sign up for them or not.
And then even after you've signed up for them, if you want to turn them off later, you can do that in the system preferences.
You're not locked into them after you sign up for them.
You can turn them off.
And you'll know if any other website is offering them every time you log on to a website.
If the website is offering push notifications, you'll get the same request or offer box, dialog box at the top, when you log into it, when you run that site, and you accept or say sorry, don't want the notifications, and it goes away, and you don't hear from it again.
You get one time.
Now you can go into system prefs later and manually turn them on if you decide you want them, but I'm not going to get into those instructions.
This is just the simple way.
Now, the beauty of it for us is that it is an instantaneous way of sending out a notification of something that we think noteworthy on the program.
Now, obviously, we think everything here is noteworthy.
So we're not going to notify you on everything I say.
Obviously.
But we'll do the highlights, and it's we're going to have fun with it, see how it goes, play with it.
We can do anything we want with these.
The push notification can we can take you anywhere.
Uh our site, or we can give you a link to something else.
So we're just going to have fun with it.
I'm I'm excited about it because it's just another way.
We've got Rush in a hurry, which is one of the greatest free offerings anywhere.
It's an email blast of the contents of the program before the website is fully updated.
And you just sign up for it at Rush Limbaugh.com and we email it to you, and it comes about 30 minutes after the program.
Podcasts.
You know, I have to laugh.
All these guys are talking about their podcasts and how they're setting trends on their we were among the first to ever get into the podcast business.
In fact, Steve Jobs, the Apple guy screwed up and actually had my name on the list of podcasts that were originally offered in iTunes.
I'm saying they screwed up.
They didn't.
They did it on purpose.
The Apple people actually being great.
I love them.
I just think it's having fun time with all this stuff that they're doing.
Anyway, uh it's just another way for us to maintain personal direct contact with you, the audience, by sending you out a push notification of something.
You might not be listening.
You might be busy working, but you'll get the notification on your computer that something just happened here, and you can click on it and see what you missed.
It's uh fascinating.
Now I want to go back to uh Jim in Central Illinois, and I really apologize.
I took your call, but I didn't have enough time, and I'm sorry about that.
I'm glad you were able to hold on.
That's fine.
I'm I'm still here.
All right.
Well, here you go.
Why don't you start all over?
Okay, I will.
I called and uh uh just make some uh inquiry.
I wanted to ask you a question later, but first the um it was it was obvious, I think it's probably obvious to a lot of people that uh have have worked in industry or just have life experiences that they they garner the truth.
Obamacare was set up to fail.
It was set up that way, and there's a lot of ways you can know that it was set up.
First of all, um I I use a cost I use the term cost driver.
There may be other terms you may have used uh terms like that, or I I I've never heard you use it, but perhaps you did.
Uh what makes something cost what it costs?
Does insurance drive the cost of medical benefits, or do medical benefits drive the cost of insurance?
Well, it's pretty obvious.
If you if you if you're not gonna be able to do it.
No, it's not no no, wait, wait, wait.
Jim, Jim, it's not obvious to most people.
What is the cost driver there?
Well, the cost driver is the medical benefits.
The medical the medical medical care for people came into existence prior to insurance being available.
Medical bills have always been around since medical the medical industry or the the uh industry grew.
Now all of a sudden people said I can I can offer you a plan to pay for your medical benefits, and I gotta have a lot of people so that I can get the cost down as low as I can get it.
But it was always the medical industry that drove the cost.
And when Obama's people say, hey, we're gonna bend the cost curve.
It was obvious they can't bend that cost curve without taking over the medical industry.
Exactly.
Bingo.
It's pretty obvious to a lot of people, I'm sure.
Now, why more people haven't said that, I don't know.
It hasn't occurred to Jim, seriously.
Well, when I I guarantee you that, and God bless people, when when bending the cost curve down is language that they think is insider, inside baseball specific to an industry.
They now it it makes perfect sense.
If you stop and think about it, we're gonna bend the cost curve down.
But people don't know where they are on the cost curve.
What cost curve are you talking about?
All they care about is what their bill is.
Yeah.
Well, I uh I understand I've had to I've I've worked with a product in the business that I was in.
I mean, I've worked for a large company, but uh I had to do a lot of this kind of stuff.
I've done cost reduction efforts on stuff and well, let's stay focused on your theory that it was designed to.
There's another one.
There was no way they could bend the cost curve down.
There was no way because of what it what the driver is.
But also, in order to get the medical well, it it has nothing to do.
Obamacare has nothing to do with medical.
Uh either procedures or costs or anything else.
In order to control that, they truly have to have control of physicians, hospitals, anything else.
And they they don't touch it unless they are.
Wait a minute.
Now a lot of people think they're trying.
Well, they aren't trying, and I know they're putting pressure on some people.
I've had my personal physician, I just changed the phone.
That's you're darn right.
They're putting they're pressuring doctors, they're pressuring hospitals, hospital associations.
They're doing everything they can to get themselves involved in who gets treat treated and who doesn't, and what that's gonna cost.
And it's and it's and it's illegal for them to do that.
And some people, some of the doctors and whatnot will bend to that pressure, and some of them won't.
Yeah, but wait a minute.
For the low information voter, though, it's not illegal.
They think Obama's rescuing them.
They think the doctors and hospitals are ripping them off.
And so here comes Obama, and he's promising $2,500 premium reductions.
He said you can keep your doctor in your plan if you like it, and we're gonna get even with these people, we're gonna make sure you can afford this, we're gonna have affordable care like affordable housing.
What the hell is you ever stopping?
What is affordable housing?
It's what you can afford as far as I'm concerned.
No, it's housing that you can't afford, by definition.
That's the point of it.
Yeah, okay, the way they use it, yes.
I agree.
Yeah, but what they mean is they're gonna make it affordable for you, but that by definition, affordable housing is something you can't afford that they're still gonna let you have.
It's all a game with them, a semantic game.
It's it's pretty sick and demanded, actually.
But now I want you to stay focused on what they're doing that's designed to fail.
Well, uh the whole idea, in order for them to have any effect on giving people medical insurance, meant that they had to have control of the industry, whether they have lowered the costs or not.
They don't have insurance companies in the government, nor should they.
But so the the one up with enough of these uh insurance companies to go along, bend over and say, okay, we'll do this.
They had to.
That's free enterprise.
They and they they broke the rule right there.
And and there's no possible way that they could do any of this, and that's how you know it was meant to fail.
Well, not only but but the failure, you say that they they don't want to control, they can't take over the insurance industry.
They can eliminate it and they can take it over just like they did GM.
Right, can take it over, they can eliminate it, they can replace it with themselves, which is what single single payer is.
That's what they're gonna do.
Which is why there's no back end that works on this stupid website.
If you want evidence that it's meant to fail, nobody.
Nobody builds a website where the back end doesn't work, and these people spent three years on a website and the back end doesn't work.
Now, what again, folks, what that means.
Imagine going to Amazon and you fill out stuff in your shopping cart and you click buy or whatever complete order and nothing happens.
The back end, what's in your shopping cart, what you want to buy, never gets to fulfillment.
So you never have it sent to you.
And you're not even charged for it because it never leaves your shopping.
That's what's happened here.
The back end isn't finished.
And now they're running around, people say, Oh, you know, this could be the end of this.
Well, this is a debacle.
I mean, they've got until March to get the back end fixing.
I mean, this this is three years to build a website, and they don't finish the website on the back end.
I mean, another way of visualizing this for the low information voter.
Imagine you go in the McDonald's and you order chicken McNuggets and they tell you okay, and two hours later you're still standing there, and you don't have chicken McNuggets.
Because whoever took your order never turned it in because there wasn't anybody to turn it into.
There wasn't anybody in the kitchen, or they didn't have McNuggets.
And your only recourse then is to call 911.
Okay, uh the Justin Bieber thing.
Okay, so what happened?
He's driving drunk with uh what uh marijuana uh cocaine or some such thing?
I mean, it's all over the news.
Justin Bieber isn't even headlined a drudge, save me.
What is he, 19?
20 years old?
You would think this guy has sick the IRS on people.
You would think that Justin Bieber has been running the economy into the ground, has he?
He has not.
Did Justin Bieber commit fraud to seize one sixth of the U.S. economy as a guy taken over the health care industry?
Justin Bieber lie to you about being able to keep your doctor and your insurance plan?
Did Justin Bieber promise you that your insurance premium would come down $2,500?
Did Justin Bieber take doctors away from kid cancer patients?
Has Justin Bieber made basic health care unaffordable?
Has Justin Bieber ignored millions of Americans because they're no longer in the job market because of Justin Bieber's policies?
He didn't even run his car off the road and and and let his uh his girlfriend not wife drown.
As far as I know, everybody survived the car crash.
Can't say that about some others that have been in politics.
I don't think did Justin Bieber leave an embassy totally unprotected, under attack by Al Qaeda?
No, he didn't.
But the coverage we're getting on Justin Bieber suggests that he is a very powerful, very important human being who is really screwing things up for us.
Did Justin Bieber the reason the captain and Teneal are getting divorced?
No.
Did you know that?
Do you believe that the captain and Tonneil are 73 and 71 years old, respectively, or the other way around?
I wonder how much muskrat love has been going on there.
Stunning, folks.
Stunning.
Justin Bieber, all over the news.
He hasn't done anything to anybody.
Here's Sophie in Roanoke Virginia.
Oh, we have a 10-year-old, another another child on the phone here.
This is Sophie in uh in Roanoke, Virginia.
Hi, Sophie.
I'm glad you called.
Hi, Rosh.
Um, I just wanted to talk to you about your book.
I read it, and it was really good.
Well, I appreciate that.
That's that's that's you know, I just this is the biggest thrill for me to hear from people that the book was written for to hear how much you like it.
I tell I can't you you can't tell you how happy you were making me.
Well, um, I've heard that everybody's gonna ask me if you're gonna write another one, and um someone told me that you are, and I thought I know what it would be about.
Okay, so you are asked if I'm gonna write another one, and somebody told you that I am going to write another one, so you want to guess what it's about, is that right?
Yeah, I think I know it's about.
Because in the end of the book, you said that you were going to Liberty's hometown and time.
Uh, yeah.
And um Liberty is supposed to be Paul's horse.
So I thought that you were gonna go to when he wrote on Liberty to the um stuff to warn all the people.
So you think you think that the next book, Paul Revere, is going to ride liberty to warn all the people.
That's just amazing.
That's actually not a bad idea.
Paul Revere on a smart aleck talking horse refusing the ride because they'd rather have apples.
Sophie, that is an interesting idea.
I can't commit.
You know, I'm I'm bound by a non-disclosure agreement and secrecy and prompt.
I've told Liberty and Rush Revere that I will not divulge anything they have planned in the future until they announce it.
And uh I it won't be long before they they tell me what they're gonna do next, and when that happens, I'll pass it on to you.
All right.
And I'll tell them that idea, too.
I mean, because you know that's a great idea.
They can go back anywhere in American history they want.
And if they want to, Liberty can go to Paul Revere and say, hey, ride me.
Not a bad, that is very smart.
That that is, see, that is an engaged reader at 10 years old, already plotting future books.
It's this kind of stuff, folks, that gives all of us faith and uh and confidence in the future.
Sophie, hang on.
Do not hang up because I want to send you a Ted T. Bear that's dressed up like Rush Revere, actually, and an audio copy, an audio version of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Mr. Snerdley will pick the phone right up here in just a second, and we will be back.
You see this?
Aetna insurance could be forced out of Obamacare, according to their CEO.
Uh Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, told CNBC on Wednesday that Obamacare is this Wednesday or Thursday.
Wow, is that unreal?
Okay.
So the CEO of Aetna told CNBC yesterday that Obamacare has failed to attract the uninsured.
Is that not a surprise?
It's failed to attract the uninsured, and he offered a scenario in which his insurance company could be forced to pull out of the program.
Or increase their premiums by double digits.
It's due to the the the pool of people who are signing up for Obamacare being mostly the elderly and the sick.
Aetna has already dropped out of several state exchanges.
The CEO, Mr. Bertolini, also said that Obamacare has only shifted people who already had insurance onto the exchanges where they can get a subsidy, raising the costs to everybody else.
Anthony noted that only 11% of those who have signed up for Obamacare were actually uninsured.
Only 11% were uninsured.
So it isn't making much of a dent in the uninsured population.
Now remember, the reason these insurance, and say what you want about them.
I mean, it's easy to dump on them.
I did.
And I st you know, I still.
See, here's the scenario for me.
You've got Barack Obama in the White House in the Democrat Party, and we know who they are.
We know that they have a grudge, a big grudge against capitalist entities.
We know by listening to him talk that he doesn't like insurance companies, that he thinks insurance companies are ripping people off.
He thinks every company rips people off.
So here comes Barack Obama, and he's going to take over health care.
And it seems to me that if I ran an insurance company, I would be able, because I know who these people are, I would know that what the ultimate end game here is the elimination of my company.
I would have known that that's what Obama's intention is, to take over what I'm doing, to replace me.
He doesn't like me.
So what did Obama do?
He comes along, and in order to get their support, in order to get public support, he promises them all these brand new customers.
Obamacare is gonna make you rich because it's gonna bring all these uninsured into the system.
And it doesn't matter that they can't pay for it.
It will be paid for by others.
And all of this is going to reduce the deficit somehow magically.
So the insurance companies, maybe even realizing long term that they were FINE, said, well, short term, we better take advantage of this as best we can.
And we got all these millions of new customers.
They were looking at thirty-what's the number of uninsured?
30 million?
40 million?
Brand new customers.
What Mr. Bertolini is saying here is there aren't any new customers.
The reason we signed up for this ain't happening.
The promise of all of these new customers buying health insurance is not occurring because the uninsured aren't signing up.
So it isn't making much of a dent in the uninsured population, which was the reason they did it.
And Bertolini said that Obamacare needs to be simpler and it needs to offer more choices, but in reality it's moving in the opposite direction.
And so here's here's this guy from Etna say, you know what?
Without expanding our customer base, without the uninsured showing up and signing up, we may not be able to stay in business.
Hello, Obamacare.
Can the regime put Bertolini in jail?
What for you mean for?
Well, uh, I imagine if they could, if if Bertolini did a video that ticked off Arabs in the Middle East, maybe they could put him in jail.
But I don't think he's done.
You mean put him in jail for speaking out like this?
Well, I mean, he is he is taking a pretty big risk here.
He's out there saying, you know, we got duped.
I mean, we were told we're gonna have all these new customers if we went along with Obama and Obamacare, but uh there aren't any.
We just got people transferring, people already covered, transferring out of us into the exchanges.
So we're losing twice.
We're losing customers, and we're not getting any new ones.
And, you know, I know, I know there's a portion that want to go yang yang, and we knew it as why didn't you know?
I it's I I just I'd literally look it.
I don't say this trying to sound like I'm smarter than anybody else.
I'm just being dead serious.
These insurance people got hoodwinked, and I don't understand how they did.
These are smart people.
Why did they not get what was happening here?
I guess you know what it is?
I know what it is the lure of being close to power, being associated with the president of the United States in a plan to fix health care.
It's gotta be a big upper.
You look at it that.
Well, it might be some fear too.
I mean, it's some on the part of some of them.
Well, you know, the bankers and and the subprime mortgage, you better make these loans available or else there could have been some fear.
But I think in this case, uh the lure of being so close to power.
Oh, just it's seductive as it can be.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, we have to do something about the EPA.
Uh our old buddy Jim Pethacucus.
Oh, by the way, I should say that our old buddy Jim Pethacukis heard about that Wall Street analyst saying that the real unemployment number is 37%.
And Petha Kuka says this guy is full of it.
No way, no how.
Said the guy doesn't offer any data, is just crazy.
There's no way the labor market's that bad.
He doesn't offer an alternative to what it might be, other than U6, which is around 11.5%, as opposed to 6.7.
But our old buddy Pethacukis said that that Wall Street guy said 37% of employment is full of it.
Don't believe it.
Just saying.
Pethacook is also posted this.
John Beale, a former senior advisor and official at the EPA.
Uh Environmental Protection Agency, a phony CIA agent, by the way, was sentenced last month to 32 months in prison for bilking his employer out of nearly $900,000 in unearned pay and bonuses.
Deposition transcript released yesterday.
By the House Oversight Government Reform Committee shows that John Beal was a man of big dreams at the EPA, too.
And there's a uh post here of Beale talking about a major project he wanted to work on.
And basically, this guy Beal wanted to modify the DNA of the capitalist system while being at the EPA.
There were several phases of this project as we had outlined it.
There's an enormous body of literature on the subject, sometimes referred to as sustainability literature, sometimes green economics, it's called.
And so phase one of the project was for me to become very familiar and transversant with Phase two would have been out and interviewing academic experts, business experts, people in other countries that are doing things in phase three would have been coming up with specific proposals that could have been proposed either legislatively or things which could have been done administratively,
i.e., executive orders, or just regulations to modify the DNA of the capitalist system.
He wrote, it's not a God-given system that was created once and never changes.
It changes all the time.
This what the upshot here is that this guy at the at the EPA was assigned a way to undermine capitalism.
Not legislatively, not with the vote of the people's representatives, but simply administrative with just another issuance of regulations.
In other words, the EPA is or was probably is strategizing on how to undermine the capitalist system.
And if any of you are out there saying, gosh, I wonder if Obama know about this.
And we're back.
By the way, uh, as relates our old buddy Jim Pethicoukas, the Wall Street guy said that they're 37% not working.
He didn't say the unemployment rate is 37%.
You may think this is splitting hairs, but he said 37% are not working.
He's talking about all the people that don't work, period, including the unemployed, including those who can't work, including the retired, including those on welfare.
Says his point was of a hundred percent of the population adult, 37% are not working.
Okay, here it is.
Mayo clinic study.
Science doesn't lie.
Modern mothers are lazier.
Energy expenditures decrease by 9 to 21 hours a week.
Obesity is rising.
Study recently done at the Mayo Clinic in part to see if energy expenditures have decreased over the past 45 years, and whether this decrease in activity could partially explain the dramatic increase in obesity and the attendant medical maladies over the same period.
Employed mothers of little ones.
Mothers decreased their physical activity by nine hours.
Unemployed moms dropped a whole 20 hours per week in physical activity.
Unemployed moms of older kids vegg out 21 hours a week.
And they say this is new That mothers in old day America, like 30 years ago, they weren't lazy slobs like this.
But mothers are getting lazier and fatter because they're exercising less.
It's right here at the Mayo Clinic.
It's not me.
Breaking news from Fox.
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