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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 a little under the weather today.
So this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush woke up, he went to bed early last night.
He had like fever and chills and all that kind of rotten stuff.
And he felt bad when he woke up this morning.
But he will be back tomorrow at 12 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 we're not in the best of shape.
I had to go to the doctor this morning and I was moaning in the first hour about sitting around the waiting room for an hour and not actually getting to see the doctor.
So I filled in all the hippopa paperwork.
And by the way, if you're listening in cities where you still have doctors within a few blocks of you, this is becoming a normal experience in rural America as the states devolve.
There's fewer and fewer doctors in the sense of which we used to use the word doctor, a guy who had his little doctor's office on Main Street and hung a shingle out.
They're all consolidating.
We're becoming one-party states in the medical system.
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 Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital and everyone is either directly employed by Dartmouth Hitchcock or is a sort of franchisee of them in the way that Kentucky Fried Chicken or Subway are.
And so what that means is that in either state, 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 one-party state medical system that our states are devolving into.
But don't worry because Obamacare is here and will make everything well.
They've released a new Enroll America video.
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, 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, to get the younger.
And 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 26.
On your 27th birthday, you have to move out of your parents' health insurance agency and go out into the big, wide world on your own.
But until your 27th birthday, you can stay on your parents' health care plan.
Because in America today, a 26-year-old is a child, a child.
That's what earlier, less developed societies would call early middle age.
If you look at the life expectancy in Afghanistan, in fact, it's on the brink of old age.
But in America, a 26-year-old is a child.
So why would he sign up?
Why would he sign up for healthcare insurance?
He has no need to.
He's on his parents till his 27th birthday.
So they've released this new Enroll America video in which domestic pets sing to you to try and get you to sign up.
I've just been looking at it.
They've got a cat.
They've got a, 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 cat, a parakeet, 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 create a healthcare website that would enable people to enable the 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 healthcare system is a rapping pug.
Because nobody's had a rapping pug before.
They had that, I think the nearest was that gay lemur in Madagascar.
Did you see that film?
I think it was the big Disney animated movie with the gay lemur who sang, 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 lemur.
His agent wanted too much, but we've got a rapping pug to sell Obamacare.
And the rapping pug raps, 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, and you heard all these things about, oh, yeah, there's long, 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 these ridiculous $9,000 deductibles and it's $1,200 a month.
And they've hired all these convicted felons to run the website who are acts, and it's got all these security breaches.
So these convicted felons will be able to access all your private data and steal your identity.
What could possibly make you change your mind and enroll?
Obviously, a rapping pug.
So they've now got this ad with a rapping pug.
So 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 I think there's a bunny rabbit in there.
I was thinking, I was talking about Princess Fluffy Buddy last hour, the Princess Fluffy Buddies of the Democrat Party.
Well, they've actually got Princess Fluffy Bunny now.
And Princess Fluffy Bunny 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 healthcare 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 hipper forms, 20 minutes of paperwork.
My pet doesn't have to answer questions about whether he wears a seat belt or smokes or has sexual relations with bisexual men.
My pet doesn't have to worry about sitting on going online with healthcare.gov.
The message of this, this latest enrollment ad, is that your pet has a better healthcare 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, these domestic animals on this Enroll America video, this cute little rapping pug, the cat, the fluffy cat, the fluffy bunny, 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 around the bowl to tell you to go and enroll with America, go to healthcare.gov and enroll.
The pets, the average, The health system the average domestic animal has in the United States will be more timely, more efficient, more affordable than what Obamacare is doing to America.
We talked yesterday about healthcare.gov.
I talked earlier about healthcare.gov can't handle appeal of enrollment errors.
Rush mentioned yesterday that 85% of people before Obamacare were entirely happy with their healthcare system.
I mean, people moaned about it, people complained 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 problem was that 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.
I think Rush was actually lowballing that number, who were content, reasonably content with the present medical system.
It worked for them.
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 healthcare system for those who can't afford it, and then they have a less lavish and desirable healthcare, public health care system for those who can't afford to insure themselves.
We've wound up with the worst of both worlds.
And just to connect it to something that's happening in Massachusetts right now, a year after the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, galvanized the anti-gun crowd.
So now they're talking about 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 Newtown, Connecticut.
So they're now proposing that anyone wanting to buy a hunting rifle or a shotgun, 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 back to that in gun terms in a moment.
But it's connected to healthcare in this sense: in that liberal policymaking is a shell game.
It's a shell game.
So you take the P of whatever the problem is, a shooting at a schoolhouse, or the fact that there are tens of millions of people who are uninsured and have no provision for healthcare in this country.
And then you put the P under one of the cups.
And the cup the liberal policymaking division picks up will do nothing for the little shriveled P of uninsured people.
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 problem that it's meant to address is under.
Liberal policymaking is a shell game.
It was never about insuring the uninsured in this country.
It was never about that.
It was about governmentalizing one-sixth of the economy, bringing every aspect of life, because basically if you nationalize 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 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 some, which can be defined a million different ways, you can be pulled over for nothing because some cop is passing and he's bored and decides to find a pretext to pull you over, as happened to my assistant in this fine organization by some idiot cop in a 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 we've spent a year fighting that case, fighting that case.
But that's a very good example.
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 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.
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, it's about control, not about guns.
And government health care is not about health care, it's about government.
It's the old liberal policy-making shell game.
It never addresses the shriveled little pee of a problem it purports to address.
Mark Steinen for Rush, we'll take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush, just looking at that rapping pug again, trying to sell Obamacare as part of the latest Enroll America video.
I think they should have gone for a rapping chihuahua.
No, actually, a Chihuahua doing a boss and over, I think.
That would have been a more subtle pitch to get to use the animal, the cute animal video to get people to sign.
That's what they're reduced to, by the way.
They're reduced to a cat video now.
They're hoping their cat video goes viral.
It's like a cat video, but if you click on it, 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.
You're doing an excellent job as a backup anchorman, by the way.
Thanks, and it's a bit of a fly by the sea to your pants show this morning, but we're doing our best while Russia's recovering.
Well, anyway, I want to comment on John Boehner, what you were talking about earlier.
John Boehner basically needs, and not that I think he's a good leader in Congress, which 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 which battles he has a chance and which battles he has no chance of winning.
Okay, well, I take your point.
You know, it's divided government.
The Senate is Democrat.
The White House is Democrat.
He 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.
No, no, no, no, no.
In fairness, what changed Obamacare was the fact that as a practical matter, it was a disaster upon its launch.
That's what, if you go back, for example, a year, even Mitt Romney, because of his own problems in 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 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 vote is everything.
I mean, he did not vote yay for Obamacare, even though I agree with you.
The leadership is weak.
If Obama hadn't brought in some of his, whatever you want to call moderate Democrats and turn them at the last moment, it wouldn't have gone through.
Well, no, here's the problem I have with that.
What is opposition for?
You know, he's basically the equivalent of the leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition in a parliamentary system.
And the purpose of opposition is to be articulating an argument, making the case relentlessly when you can, 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 just said what isn't happening 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 the Republican Party has a very 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 that is few and far between, and we need one more than we've ever needed one right now.
They're good points, RJ.
But the media situation, all Conservative parties everywhere face to some degree.
The Conservative government in Canada faces that from the CBC and the Globe and Mail.
The government of Australia faces that from the ABC.
The ABC makes CNN look like Rush.
If you've listened to Australian radio down there, Australian state radio.
Every Conservative government has that situation.
But you don't waste your time like this.
This is what's so frustrating.
The 2010 election victory was completely squandered.
Completely squandered.
It was a great historic landmark victory.
You have to be making the case.
Or at least you have to not get in the way.
Just to go back to this immigration thing.
Right now, when Obama is reeling and is flopped out, 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.
He will be back tomorrow.
Don't forget, you can go to rushlimbore.com and you need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest hosts if you're a Rush 24-7 subscriber.
And don't forget, if you decide to buy some club Gitmo gear and you enter your zip code correctly, it can be very efficiently and swiftly corrected.
And like if you enter your details at healthcare.gov, where the 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 swallowing another G7, basically the equivalent of attempting to swallow the entire economy of France whole, which not even the French have attempted to do.
Mrs. Clinton, by the way, our designated president-in-waiting, 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 to be told to read, sing, and talk more to their young children.
About a quarter of all babies and toddlers in the U.S. 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 banned music in Afghanistan.
So if there are any Taliban children that Mrs. Clinton wants to reach out to in the United States, it's even worse for them.
They have 0% sing to their children.
They don't do, there's no Taliban version of Incy Wincy Spider or Row, Row, 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, sometimes, 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 children to sing, Hispanic parents to sing to their children.
By the way, well, Mike wants to know in what language.
Well, if you saw, Mike, you saw this at the Super Bowl in the big ad from Coca-Cola in which there was a multilingual rendition of America the Beautiful.
I don't know whether you saw this ad.
They basically, they started off with, oh, beautiful for spacious skies.
And then they segued into Spanish and then a bunch of other languages until they came back, I think, to the Sea to Shining Sea.
And it's very interesting to me.
Again, the Republicans, on the John Boehner principle of not wanting to pick a fight you can't win, all cooed, 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.
And actually, that brings us back to that Hillary Clinton, that Hillary Clinton story.
Because if you think that people want to sing America the Beautiful in other languages, 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, has a guy again allens enfant de la patris, le jeux de glire et d'arive.
If you were to sing, come on, children of our country, the day of glory is here.
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, the biggest sporting fixture of the year, the French would beat you to a pulp for that.
Because to sing La Marseillaise, to be a Frenchman means to sing La Marseillaise in French.
And the idea that somehow singing America the beautiful in every tongue known to the Tower of Babel makes America more American is nuts, nuts.
And even squishy, jelly-spined Republicans like Lisa Murkowski shouldn't be going along with it.
And I say this, by the way, as a Canadian, and in particular, someone 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 barely functions at the moment.
It went a year and a half without a national government.
Actually, when I say it barely functions, oddly enough, having no national government for a year and a half didn't make the slightest bit of difference.
But because there's French speakers and there's Flemish speakers, and there the train shall meet.
It's yes, they sing HR, dealing with the issues that people want to hear about, asks, do they sing O Canada in French?
Indeed, they do.
And there's some little thing, there's something called the Vice-Regal.
I can't remember where it was I heard this.
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.
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 on any Canadian occasion, a 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 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 would voluntarily pretend to be bilingual is entirely a mystery to me.
I go into, in northern New Hampshire, insofar as there is a second language, it in fact is French from descendants of mill workers who came down to work 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 hardware thing, 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 who's the fellow who is Conan O'Brien who has come in Triumph the Insult Dog?
Is that the guy?
Conan O'Brien is Triumph the Insult Dog.
He sent Triumph the Insult Dog up to up to 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.
So then when they find out that 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, who was that lady I saw you with last night?
And the guy looks blank because he doesn't speak English.
So why any country would voluntarily promote multilingualism as some kind of virtue?
I thought that America the Beautiful commercial from Koch was ridiculous.
40 years ago, Koch wanted to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony.
And now, even in its domestic market, even in its domestic market, it doesn't understand that you can't have perfect harmony when you're all singing a whole different bewildering bunch of languages.
And that's the point.
We're not talking here about anything unusual.
As I said, the French would club you to a pulp if you did that to La Masse.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
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 weekday honouring 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.
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 day to celebrate the United States during next week's Winter Spirit Week.
They pitched America 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 Collins High School in Colorado.
The country is decaying basically into gate 374 at LAX.
It's no more or less than the bunch of people who happen to be standing in it.
And you cannot, and in the long run, there's no point worrying about what language they're going to be singing America the Beautiful in because they ain't going to be singing America the Beautiful at all.
Mark Stein for us, we'll take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Let us go to Steve in Denver.
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 lost?
Are you sure about that?
Okay, never mind.
We're hurting here in Denver from the Bronco busting.
Okay, Steve, what's on your mind today?
You know, Mark, I wanted to bring up a point that I haven't heard anyone address to this date in the media or anywhere.
You know, if they're trying to put some of the burden of Obamacare on the young people, paying of 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.
So if I want to be a good American and do what I must and follow a law that's forced on me, why do I get penalized age 20 through 26, you know, if I don't have any parents' plan that I can hide under?
It's a major expense for people age 20 to 26.
What if you can't hide under your parents' plan?
Well, absolutely.
You're right.
But Steve, the answer to your question is, why do you have to pay for this?
Because this is, I mean, it's being forced on a large number of people, and no one has addressed that segment yet.
No one, you know, you're literally going to be penalized more if you have to pay for it.
Yet one kid can fly it under mommy and daddy until 26, yet the other kid's got to go out there and work, get his job, and then pay.
I mean, so we're penalizing people now who don't have any parents.
No, And you're being penalized because you are the price that has to be paid for liberalism.
Everybody votes for liberalism because they think it's pain-free, and it isn't.
There's a real price for doing what Obamacare does.
There's a real price to be paid, and you are the guy who is going to have to pay for it.
And as you say, you're 23 years old.
Are you in good health, Steve?
Well, no, I'm past the age of the 20 to 26.
I'm just saying that I lost my parents at a young age.
Yeah, no, no, no.
Why, you know, other people in the same boat as me right now that are, say, 24, 25 years old.
Fully healthy, but don't have any parents.
Don't have a mom and a dad.
And it's entirely rational, if you're 24, 25 and you're in good health.
It's entirely rational not to have health insurance, particularly now that Obamacare says pre-existing conditions don't matter.
So if you happen to be re-shingling the roof and you fall off and break your back, it doesn't matter.
You're still going to be able to get an insurance policy when you need it.
But this generation, the people who are the Obama generation, the hope generation, the people who thought they were voting for hope, 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 who are elderly, who are sick, who have very expensive needs.
And that's the simple answer to your question, Steve, is because the young are the designated fall guys for Obama.
They fell for the hope and change stick, and they're going to be stuck with the price tab for it, Steve.
There's no great secret about it if you looked at the ruthless arithmetic of Obamacare.
The only reason they didn't believe it is because he was going around doing all this, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, all this kind of stuff.
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 start a home, buy a home and raise a family, to have to pay a significant amount of your salary for a level of health insurance you don't need is completely nuts.
But Steve, you're right that if they're in your situation and they don't have parents' plans they can get on, then they are setting up, they're being set up to be history's fall guys for the big Obamacare project, Steve.
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 now to know that you've got to suffer an extra burden of paying for people that can slide in under their parents' plan, 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 one more of the forgotten few that are being asked to step up and pay extra.
It's ridiculous and it's unacceptable.
Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
Thanks a lot, Stephen.
And it's about there are equality before the law issues.
People say, well, why is the Obamacare law 3,000 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 300 million people equally.
It applies to you differently according to what privileged groups you belong to.
And if you are like Steve, you know, Obamacare gets a great chair.
When Obama goes around saying, if you're 26, you can send your parents' insurance plan.
They all get a great chair.
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 and impose a kind of hierarchy of status on them, like a kind of caste system.
If you belong to certain privileged groups, you get access to this, and if you don't, you don't.
And if you fall through the cracks like Steve, if your parents die young, tough, tough.
Obamacare says you've got to do this.
I mean, the only virtue to it is that for the moment, the young Invincibles or whatever they are just don't seem to be willing to pony up for this thing.
And that's an entirely rational decision to make.
Mark Stein for Rush.
We'll take more of your calls.
Straight ahead.
Straight ahead.
The Detroit Free Press reports 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, and other data, probably including whether you're listening to the Rush Limbaugh show.
They'll be able to, your car will be able to ratch you out to the passing NSA vehicle or whatever in the adjoining lane.
It sort of oddly reminds me of, 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 for some reason, the idea of cars being able to sing hello by Lionel Ritchie to each other is now apparently being considered seriously by the Obama administration.
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