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Feb. 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is uh a little under the weather today, so this is your undocumented anger man sitting in, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Uh Rush uh Rush woke up uh he went to bed early last night.
He had like fever and chills and uh all that uh kind of rotten stuff, uh and he felt bad when he woke up uh this morning, but he will be back tomorrow at uh twelve midday eastern for the real deal on the Rush Limbaugh show.
In the meantime, this is Mark Stein sitting in from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, and uh we're not in the best of shape.
I had to go to the uh doctor this morning, and I was uh moaning in the first hour about sitting around the waiting room for an hour and uh not actually getting to see the doctor.
So I filled in all the HIPAA paperwork, and uh uh uh by the way, if you're listening in cities where you still have doctors uh within a few blocks of you, uh this is becoming a normal experience in rural America as the states devolved.
There's fewer and fewer doctors uh uh in the sense of which we used to use the word doctor, a guy who had his uh his uh little doctor's office on Main Street and hung a shingle out.
They're all consolidating.
Uh we're becoming one party states in the medical system.
Uh Vermont basically has the Fletcher Allen hospital, and everybody is either directly employed by Fletcher Allen or is affiliated by them, and in New Hampshire, across the Connecticut River, we have uh Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital, and everyone is either directly employed by Dartmouth Hitchcock or is a uh uh a sort of franchisee of them, uh, in the way that Kentucky Fried Chicken or Subway are.
And so what that means is that in in uh in either state, uh you can see someone locally who can give you an aspirin, but if you want anything more than an aspirin, you've got to drive hours and hours to the one big centralized uh uh one party state medical system that these the that the our states are devolving into.
But don't worry, because Obamacare is here and will and will make everything well.
They've released a new enroll America video, uh your government has, the United States government has, and this is what it's come down to, to try and persuade people, the young Invincibles, they call them, uh the young healthy people who are supposed to sign up for expensive health care plans to subsidize all the people who've got actual medical needs that require treatment, uh, to get the young and there's of course there's no need for a young invincible to sign up because he can stay on his parents' health insurance until he's twenty-six.
On your twenty-seventh birthday, uh you have to move out of your parents' health insurance agency and go out into the big wide world of on your own.
But uh until your twenty-seventh birthday, you can stay on your parents' health care plan.
Because in America today, a twenty-six-year-old is a child, a child.
That's what uh earlier, less developed societies would have call early middle age.
Uh if you look at the life expectancy in Afghanistan, in fact it's on the brink of old age, but in America a twenty-six year old is a child.
Uh so he why would he sign up?
Why would he sign up for health care insurance?
He has no need to.
He's on his parents till his twenty-seventh birthday.
So they've released this new enroll America video uh in which domestic pets sing to you to try and get you to sign up.
I'm just uh I've just been looking at it.
There's a c they've got a cat, they've got uh I think it's a parakeet or a cockatoo.
I can't remember.
It's either a parakeet or a cockatoo.
They've got a uh cat, a uh parakeet, uh a dog, they've got a singing pug, a rapping pug.
Because when your healthcare system is completely dysfunctional, when you've got a healthcare website whose enrollment errors can't be corrected, the smart guy, the smart guy, instead of thinking about how to uh, you know, create a healthcare website that would enable people to uh ma enable the uh people who run the website to correct basic errors.
No, the smart guy, the smart guy thinks I know I know the thing that will fix this health care system is a rapping pug. 'Cause nobody's had a rapping pug before.
They had that uh I think the nearest was that uh gay lemur in um in Madagascar.
Uh did you see that film?
The uh the big uh I think it was the big Disney animated movie with the gay lima who sang uh I like to move it, move it, I like to move it, move it.
Well, if it's good enough for the movie Madagascar, we can't get a gay lima.
His agent sa wanted too much, but we've got a rapping pug to sell Obamacare.
And the rapping pug wraps uh so listen to me, a talking pug, you see, if you get health insurance, preventive care is now free.
And so if you were thinking, if you've been spending the last four months thinking about signing up for Obamacare, uh and you heard all these things about, oh yeah, there's long day you can keep trying at healthcare.gov and you can't get through, and then when you get through, they've got plans with like uh these ridiculous uh nine thousand dollar deductibles and it's twelve hundred dollars a month.
Uh and uh they've hired all these convicted felons to run the website who are ac and it's com it's got all these security breaches, uh so they these convicted felons will be able to access all your private data and steal your identity.
You're you what could possibly make you change your mind and enroll?
Well, obviously a rapping pug.
So they've now got this ad with a rapping pugs, oh listen to me, you're talking pug, you see.
And the rapping pug and the kitten, the cute cuddly kitten, and the parakeet or the cockatoo, whichever it is, and uh I think there's a buddy rabbit in there.
There's a pr I was thinking I was talking about Princess Fluffybuddy last hour, the f Princess Fluffyboddies of the Democrat Party.
Well, they've actually got Princess Fluffybunny now, and Princess Fluffybunny is there to tell you know the message I took away from that when you see all these domestic animals telling you to go and sign up for Obamacare.
I was thinking, what a great health care system my pet has.
You know, my pet doesn't go to the doctor and sit around for an hour and then not get seen by the doctor.
My pet doesn't have to fill in stupid HIPAA forms, 20 minutes of paperwork.
My pet doesn't have to answer questions uh about whether he wears a seatbelt or smokes or has sexual relations with bisexual men.
My pet doesn't have to uh worry about s sitting on uh going online with healthcare.gov.
The message of this, this latest enrollment ad is that your pet has a better health care system than you do.
You would be better off.
You should be set instead of taking the rapping pug's advice to go and enroll on Obamacare, you should say, hey rapping pug, stop rapping for a moment and tell me who your vet is, and ask if he can get me in in the next two weeks.
Because the way things are going here now, uh these guy, these domestic animals on this enroll America video, this cute little rapping pug, the uh cat, the fluffy cat, the fluffy bunny, uh the parakeet, the goldfish, the goldfish, a goldfish, a thing you used to get at a circus in a bag.
This goldfish now has been hired by Obamacare swimming round the bowl to tell you to uh to go and enroll with America.
Uh uh go to uh healthcare.gov and enroll.
The pets, the average the the the s the health system, the average domestic animal has in the United States will be more timely, more efficient, more affordable uh than what Obamacare is uh is doing to uh America.
We talked yesterday about healthcare.gov, talked earlier about healthcare.gov can't handle appeal of enrollment errors.
Rush mentioned yesterday that uh eighty-five percent of people before Obamacare were entirely happy with their health care thing.
I mean, people moaned about it, people complain about it, it's like this, that, and the other.
The healthcare plan's not ideal, you can't take it across state lines.
The the problem was that there was uh there were tens of millions of people who were uninsured.
Those tens of millions of people are still uninsured.
The only difference is that chaos has been caused to all the 85% of the population, actually closer to 90, I would say, uh, I think Rush was actually lowballing that number, who were content, uh reasonably content with the present medical system.
It it worked for them.
And um and the and the and the reason is that it was never about that.
You could fix that problem very easily.
If you wanted to construct you could do, in fact, actually, that's what a lot of continental European countries have.
They have a private health care System for those who can afford it, and then they have a uh a less lavish and uh desirable health care, public health care system for those who can't afford to insure themselves.
We've wound up with the w worst of both worlds.
And uh just to connect it to something that's happening in Massachusetts right now, a year after the uh school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, uh galvanize the anti-gun crowd.
So now they're talking about uh uh Massachusetts already has the strongest, strictest gun control laws in the country, but they felt they could do even more in the wake of Newtown, Massachusetts and new Newtown, Connecticut.
So they're now proposing that anyone par wanting to buy a hunting rifle or a shotgun, uh police chiefs should have the right to deny gun purchases to people who've been arrested but not convicted of a crime.
In other words, you know, no one has taken dragged them into a court of law and convicted them for a crime and made them pay the penalty.
So it's enough to be arrested.
It's enough to be arrested for a crime, and that will be enough for you to lose your Second Amendment rights in Massachusetts.
And I'll come I'll come back to that in gun terms in a moment.
But it's connected to health care in this sense, in that in that liberals liberal policy making is a shell game.
It's a shell game.
So you take the you you take the pee of whatever the problem is, uh a shooting at a schoolhouse, or um or or the fact that there are tens of millions of people who are uninsured and have no provision for health care in this country.
And then you put the pee under one of the cups, and the cup the l the liberal policy making uh division picks up will do nothing for the little shriveled pea of uninsured people.
Uh instead it will just wreck everything for everybody else.
You will never, no matter how they play the game, you will never find the liberal policy cup that the shriveled P of the of the problem that it's meant to address is under.
Liberal policy making is a shell game.
Uh it was never about uninsur uh uh insuring the uninsured in this country.
It was never about that.
It was about governmentalizing one-sixth of the economy, bringing uh uh every aspect of life, because if basically if if you nationalize uh somebody's hernia or somebody's bladder, what don't they control of your life?
It was about bringing every aspect of life under centralized government control.
It was not about, it was never about uh fixing the problems of a tiny minority of the population that had no health insurance.
Similarly with this thing in Massachusetts, it's about control.
Gun control is not about guns, it's about control.
It's absolutely outrageous in a free society that someone who has been arrested for which which can be defined a million different ways, you can be uh pulled over for nothing because uh some some cop is passing and he's bored and decides to find a pretext to pull you over, as happened to my uh uh assistant uh in this fine organization by by some idiot cop in a uh New Hampshire small town.
He decided to breach her Fourth Amendment rights, and I believe I think it's Article 19 of the New Hampshire Constitution and detain her illegally and uh we we've spent a year fighting that case, fighting that case.
But that's a very good example.
If there's laws against everything here, you can be arrested for everything, but you are not a criminal unless you've been convicted of that crime, unless you've been convicted of that crime.
Unless uh a judge or a jury has said guilty.
And now we are proposing, now in Massachusetts, they're proposing that your Second Amendment rights do not exist.
Simply I mean, apart from anything else, it would mean in small towns a cop with a grudge could just pick some guy up for nothing, and that guy would never be able to get a gun.
It's about gun control is about uh control, not about guns.
And government health care is not about health care, it's about government.
Uh it's it's the old liberal policy-making shell game.
It never addresses the shriveled little P of a problem it purports to address.
Mark Stein in for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush, uh just looking at that rapping pug again, uh try to sell uh Obamacare uh as part of the latest enroll America video.
I think they should have gone for a rapping chihuahua.
Uh no, actually a Chihuahua doing a boss and over, I think.
That would have been a more subtle pitch to get to to to use the animal, uh the cute animal video to get people to sign.
That's what they're reduced to, by the way.
They used to they're they're reduced to a cat video now.
They're hoping their cat video goes viral.
It's like a cat video that if you click on it, uh it takes your social security number and signs you up for Obamacare.
Let's go to RJ in Modesto, California.
RJ, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us today.
Oh, thanks, Mark.
Hey, um you're doing an excellent job as a bank up backup anchor man, by the way.
Thanks, and I'm uh I'm uh it's a bit of a fly by the C to your pan show uh to this morning, but uh we're we're doing we're doing our best while Russia's recovering.
Well, anyway, I want to comment on John Boehner of the what you were talking about earlier.
Um John Boehner basically needs not that I think he's a good um leader in Congress, which I I actually think he's not, because he's not very articulate and not much of a leader, but with that said, I think he needs to learn to pick his spot because we do not have the presidency at this time.
We will never have the media, and he does need to pick his spots and know um which battles he has a chance and which battles he has no chance of winning.
Okay, well let I I take your point.
You know, it's divided government, uh the Senate is Democrat, the White House is Democrat, uh he he d is not master of all these surveys.
What battles has he picked then?
What battles is he picking, RJ?
Well, one good battle he picked was Obamacare.
He fought against Obamacare and No, no, what no, in fairness, what changed Obamacare was the fact that uh as a practical matter, it was a disaster upon its launch.
That's what if you go back, for example, a year, even Mitt Mitt Romney, because of his own problems in uh Massachusetts, wasn't willing to actually wage war totally on Obamacare, and Boehner didn't either.
What changed was when the thing launched in October and it was a fiasco and it was so big a fiasco that even John Boehner, although he hadn't he he hadn't picked that particular fight, he decided to weigh in on it, RJ.
He did vote against it though.
He did vote against it.
And the the vote is everything.
I mean he did not vote yay on uh for Obamacare, even though I I agree with you, he the the leadership is weak.
Uh if Obama hadn't brought in uh some of his um whatever you want to call moderate democrats and turned them at the last moment, it wouldn't have gone through.
So well, no, here here's here's uh the problem I have with that.
What is opposition for?
You know, he's he's basically the equivalent of uh the leader of her majesty's loyal opposition in a parliamentary system.
And uh and the purpose of opposition is to be articulating an argument, making the case relentlessly when you can, uh relentlessly, making the case so that come election day, come election day, or come the start of the election campaign, you don't have to start making the argument during the election campaign.
You've already won the argument.
You've already laid the groundwork for victory.
What is John Boehner doing for that?
You you just you just said what isn't happening in in because of his limitations.
When you said articulating, that's what we don't have.
We haven't had it since Gingrich, and before that we didn't have it since Reagan.
No, and it's not a good reason the Republican Party uh has a very uh poor bench when it comes to leaders that can articulate an idea and be resolute when it comes to the media and the opposition and eventually win the day.
Uh that that is few and far between, and we need one more than we've ever needed one right now.
That's their they're good they're good points, uh RJ, but the the media situation, all uh conservative parties everywhere face to some degree.
Um the conservative government in Canada faces that from the CBC and the Globe and Mail.
Uh the Government of Australia faces that from the ABC, the ABC m you know makes uh makes uh uh CNN uh look like Rush, if you've uh if you've listened uh to Australian radio down there, Australian state radio.
Uh every every conservative government has that situation.
But you don't waste you don't waste your time like this.
The two this is what's so frustrating.
The 2010 election victory was completely squandered, completely squandered.
Uh it was a great it was a great historic landmark victory.
You have to be making the case.
And uh or at least you have to not get in the way.
Uh just to go back to this immigration thing.
Right now, uh when Obama is reeling uh and is flopped out, uh John Boehner jumps in and starts talking about comprehensive immigration reform.
Even when he's winning, he gives the victory away.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush is a little under the weather today, but he will be back uh you will be back tomorrow.
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And don't forget, if you decide to b buy some uh club Gitmo gear uh that uh and you and you enter your zip code correctly, it can be very efficiently and swiftly corrected, unlike if you enter your details at healthcare.gov uh where the uh official Obamacare navigators have no means of accessing the computer record to correct any incorrect policy, prices or anything else to do with healthcare.gov.
That's the latest genius revelation on the insanity of attempting to governmentalize one sixth of the U.S. economy.
Basically the equivalent of f uh swallowing another G7, basically the equivalent of uh attempting uh to swallow uh the entire economy of France whole, uh which not even the uh the French have uh attempted to do.
Mrs. Clinton, by the way, uh uh uh designated president in waiting.
Uh Hillary Rodham Clinton is helping initiate a public service campaign encouraging Hispanic families to read, sing and talk more to their young children, so they're better prepared for school.
And also they need um they need to they need uh to be uh told uh to uh to read, sing and talk more to their young children.
About a quarter of all babies and toddlers in the US are Hispanic, but these kids are half as likely to have family members read to them and a third less likely to have songs sung to them than white non-Latino children.
You know, I bet those numbers are much worse, by the way, for children of the Taliban, because the Taliban um banned music in Afghanistan.
So if there are any Taliban children uh that Mrs. Clinton wants to reach out to in the United States, uh it's even worse for them.
They have zero percent sing to their children.
They don't do there's no Taliban version of Incy Wincy Spider or Ro Row the Boat.
No such thing for Taliban children.
So they're at an even bigger disadvantage.
So Mrs. Clinton is now launching a campaign to I can't I d sometime I don't know how newsreaders can read this stuff out with a straight face.
Mrs. Clinton is now launching a campaign to encourage Hispanic uh children to uh sing uh Hispanic parents to sing to their children.
By the way, uh well Mike Mike wants to know in what language.
Uh well, if you saw Mike, you you saw this at the Super Bowl in the uh the big ad from Coca-Cola, in which there was a multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful.
Uh I don't know whether you I don't know whether you saw this ad.
They basically they started off with, oh beautiful for spacious guys, and then they segued into Spanish, and then a bunch of uh other languages until they came back, I think, to the Sea to Shining Sea.
And uh it it was it's very interesting to me.
Again, the Republicans uh on the John Boehner principle of not wanting to pick a fight you Can't win.
All cooed, uh, with the exception of Alan West.
Alan West didn't like it at all, but Lisa Murkowski from Alaska thought it was all heartwarming and all the rest of it.
In other words, people singing America the Beautiful in foreign languages.
Um and actually that uh that brings us back to that Hillary Clinton uh that Hillary Clinton uh story.
Because if you think uh that when you that that people want to sing America the beautiful in other languages, that's that's that's not the case.
If you want to sing America the beautiful, it's a song in English.
Just look at it the other way.
The French national anthem, La Marseillaise.
Uh has to go again um uh de la patrie, le jeu de gloire d'arrive.
If you were to sing uh Come on, a children of a country, the day of glory is here the the French would club you to club you to a pulp.
If you said that at a big French sporting fixture in the heart of Paris, uh the biggest sporting fixture of the year, the French would beat you to a pulp for that.
Because uh to sing La Marseillaise to be a Frenchman means to sing La Marseillaise in French.
Uh and the idea that somehow uh singing America the beautiful in the in every tongue known to the Tower of Babel uh makes America more American is nuts nuts.
And and even squishy uh jelly-spined Republicans like Lisa Makowski shouldn't be uh going along with it.
Uh and I say this uh by the way, as a Canadian, and in particular someone who l who's d uh uh who lived in the province of Quebec for a long time, which is a French speaking province in an English speaking country.
If you have two languages, it's very difficult to have a common culture.
Belgium, uh Belgium uh barely functions at the moment.
It ha it went a year and a half without a national government.
Actually, when I say it barely functions, uh oddly enough, having no national government for a year and a half didn't make the slightest bit of difference.
Um but because there's uh there's uh French speakers and there's Flemish speakers, and near the train shall meet.
Uh it's uh uh yes, they sing oh HR, dealing with the issues that people want to hear about, asks, do they sing O Canada in French?
Uh indeed they do.
Um and uh there's some little thing, there's something called the Vice Regal I can't remember where it was I heard this.
Uh it was like the weirdest thing ever, the Vice Regal Salute, which is I think the first half of God Save the Queen and the back end of O Canada, alternately sung in English and French lines.
Uh and it all depends on whether you start off with the English lyric or the French lyric.
So what the Super Bowl, the stupid Coke commercial of America the Beautiful, is what a performance of O Canada is like uh on any Canadian occasion, uh federal occasion, where the Governor General or the Prime Minister is present and you have to sing it in both English and French.
And I say that.
I I I say that loving French Canadians, loving Quebecers, it's very difficult to have a coherent society with two separate languages.
Why a country that was unilingual unilingual would voluntarily pretend to be bilingual is entirely uh um a mystery to me.
I go into in in Northern New Hampshire, insofar as there is a second language, and in fact is French from uh descendants of mill workers who uh who came down to work in uh from Quebec to work in the mills.
There's no Hispanics, there's seven Hispanics in the whole of New Hampshire.
But when you go into Lowe's, the big uh hardware thing, uh they've got all these signs up in English and Spanish.
The idea of a country volunteering artificially to become a bilingual society is nuts.
You can't share anything.
You can't even share the same jokes.
Do you remember when uh who's the fellow who who uh is Conan O'Brien who is com in Triumph the Insult Dog?
Is that the guy?
Conan O'Brien is Triumph the Insult Doc.
He sent he sent Triumph the Insult Dog up to um up to uh Quebec City and Triumph the Insult Dog went up to random Quebecers and asked if they could direct him to the Rue des Pussies.
And because they're French speakers, they didn't understand that Triumph the Insult Dog was insulting them.
Because they speak French.
So they don't know Rue des Pussies is a devastating witticism in English, because it isn't in French.
Uh so then when they find out they've been insulted, then they raise questions in Parliament about it and becomes a big old hoo-ha.
And that gets to the point.
You can't even share jokes when you're bilingual.
Because you go, uh, who was that lady I saw you with last night?
And the guy looks blank because he doesn't speak English.
Uh so why any country would voluntarily uh promote multilingualism as some kind of virtue?
I thought that America the beautiful uh commercial from Coke was ridiculous.
Forty years ago, Coke wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
And now, even in its domestic market, even in its domestic market, uh it doesn't understand that you can't have perfect harmony when you're all singing uh a whole different bewildering bunch of languages.
And and and that's the point.
We're not talking here about uh anything unusual.
As I said, the French would club you to a pulp if you did that to the la Lamasse uh to Lamasse.
Uh Mark Stein in for uh rush, uh speaking of which you can't celebrate America, but students and parents at a Colorado high school are outraged after administrators turned down their request for a spirit week day honoring America because it might offend non-Americans.
So they didn't want this is the reality of America the beautiful sung in a multitude of tongues.
Uh this is this is what it's like down at the other end of the thing.
At Fort Collins High School, they proposed having a a day to celebrate the United States during next week's winter spirit week.
They pitched Merrica Monday and invited their classmates to dress in patriotic colors.
The proposal was promptly shot down by administrators who said they didn't want to be exclusive to any other country and it might offend non-Americans.
Fort Pollins High School in Colorado.
Uh the country is decaying basically into uh gate three hundred and seventy-four at LAX.
It's no more or less than the bunch of people who happen to be st uh happen to be standing in it.
And you cannot, and in that in in in the long run, there's no point worrying about what language they're gonna be singing America the Beautiful in, because they ain't gonna be singing America the Beautiful at all.
Mark Stein for us will take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Let us go to Steve in in Denver.
Uh Steve in Denver.
This is where I demonstrate my mastery of American sports as an fully assimilated foreigner by saying, Hey, how about them bronco?
Oh.
Wait a minute, what's that?
They they lost?
Are you sure about that?
Okay, never mind.
We're we're hurting here in Denver from uh from that from the bronco busting.
Okay, let's Steve, what's on your mind today?
You know, Mark, I wanted to bring up a point that uh I haven't heard anyone address to this date um in the media or anywhere.
Uh, you know, if they're trying to put some of the burden of uh, you know, Obamacare on the young people tainted the system, but you can stay on your parents' plan and you can ride under their wing until you're 26.
I just want to address the group of people like myself that lost their parents at a very young age, didn't inherit any money.
Um so if I want to be a good American and and and do what I must and follow a law that's forced on me, why do I get penalized age 20 through 26?
Uh, you know, if I don't have any parents' plan that I can hide under.
It's a major expense for people age twenty to twenty-six.
What if you can't hide under your parents' plan?
Well, absolutely, you're you're right.
But Steve, the the answer to your question is why do you have to pay for this?
Because this is because I mean it's it's it's being forced on uh on a on a large number of people and no one has addressed that segment yet.
No one you know, you're you're literally gonna be penalized more if you have to pay for it.
Yet one kid can fly it under mommy and daddy until twenty-six, yet the other kid's got to go out there and work, uh get his job and then pay.
I mean, so we're penalizing people now who don't have any parents.
No, and and you're being and you're you're being penalized because you are the price that has to be paid for liberalism.
Uh everybody votes for liberalism because they think it's pain-free, and it isn't.
There's a real price that for for doing what Obamacare does, there's a real price to be paid, and you are the guy who is gonna have to pay for it.
And as you say, you're twenty-three years Are you in good health, Steve?
Well, no, I'm I'm I'm I'm past the age of of the of the twenty to twenty-six.
I'm just saying that I I lost my parents at a young age.
Yeah, no, no, no.
That's but that's the why, you know, uh the other people in the same boat as me right now that are, say, you know, twenty-four, twenty-five years old.
Right, right.
Uh fully healthy, uh, but don't have any parents, don't have a mom and dad.
And it's entirely rational if you're twenty-four-twenty-five and you're in good health, it's entirely rational not to have health insurance, particularly now that Obamacare says uh pre-existing conditions don't matter.
So if you happen to be reshingling the roof and you fall off and break your back, uh it doesn't matter.
Uh you're still gonna be you're still gonna be able to get an insurance policy when you need it.
But but this generation, the people who are the Obama generation, the hope generation, the people who thought they were voting for hope, uh realize instead they're voting for financially ruinous health insurance policies they don't really need, because people who are young and healthy have to pick up the tab for all these people with pre-existing conditions, uh, who are elderly, who are sick, who have very expensive needs.
And that's bas the the the simple answer to your question, Steve, is because the young are the designated fall guys for Obama.
They fell for the the hope and change stick, and they're gonna be stuck with the price tab uh for it, Steve.
That's th there's no great secret about it uh if you if you looked at the uh ruthless arithmetic of Obamacare.
The only reason they didn't believe it is because he was going around doing all this uh if you like your health care you can s if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor, all this kind of stuff.
Uh but the f the f uh and because like all liberals, they thought liberalism for them would be pain free, Steve, and it's not.
It's not pain free if you're young and you're trying to uh start a home, uh uh b buy a home and uh raise a family, to to have to pay a significant amount of your salary for a level of health insurance you don't need is completely nuts.
Uh but Steve, you're right, uh that if they're in your situation and they don't have parents' plans they can get on, then they are then they are setting up they're being set up to be history's fall guys for the big Obamacare project, Steve.
It's uh it's a raw deal for guys that are already probably it's hard enough going through that period of life without your parents, and uh now to know that you gotta suffer an extra burden of paying for people that can slide in under their parents' plan, uh I just don't think that that's we're just one more of the million glitches that are coming out through this thing and and one more of the forgotten few that are that are being asked to uh step up and and pay extra, it's ridiculous and it's unacceptable.
Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
Thanks thanks a lot, Stephen.
And uh the it's about uh there are equality before the law issues.
People are people say, well, why is the Obamacare law three thousand pages long?
And the reason it's thousands of pages long is because it's not a law in the sense that it applies to three hundred million people equally.
It applies to you differently according to what privileged groups you belong to.
And if you are like Steve, you know, uh Obamacare gets a great cheer.
When Obama goes around saying, if you're twenty-six, you can stay on your parents' insurance plan.
They g they all get a great cheer.
If you're in Steve's situation, and your parents die young, and you can't go on that plan.
He's got no provision for that, because the whole point of lawmaking in America now is to move people into different identity groups uh and impose a kind of hierarchy of status on them, like a kind of caste system.
If you belong to certain privileged groups, you uh get access to this, and if you don't uh you don't.
And if you fall through the cracks like Steve, if your parents die young, tough.
Tough.
Obamacare says you gotta do this.
I mean, the the only virtue to it uh is that for the moment uh the young invincibles or whatever they are just uh don't seem to be willing to pony up for this thing, and that's and that's an entirely rational decision to make.
Mark Stein for Rush will take more of your calls straight ahead, straight ahead.
The Detroit Free Press uh reports uh that the Obama administration is considering mandating technology that will enable cars to talk to each other, that will transmit the vehicle's position,
heading, speed, uh, and other data, and probably including whether you're listening to the Rush Limbaugh show, uh they'll they'll uh they'll Uh be able to the car your car will be able to rat you out to the passing NSA vehicle or whatever in the uh adjoining lane.
It sort of oddly reminds me of uh do you remember that Herbie the Volkswagen remake they made a few years ago?
Herbie Rides Again or whatever it was called with Lindsay Lohan in it, and there's a scene where Herbie is on a date with another car and they're side by side in the parking lot and they start singing Hello by Lionel Ritchie to each other.
Hello, is it me you're searching for?
And uh for some reason the idea of uh cars being able to sing hello by Lionel Ritchie to each other is now apparently being considered seriously uh by the Obama administration.
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