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Feb. 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, Rush is a little under the weather today.
He uh he he felt lousy yesterday afternoon, had a fever, had the chills, had all that stuff, and uh took to his bed early and wasn't feeling any better this morning.
So he is not here today, but he will be back tomorrow uh for full strength, authentic all American excellence in broadcasting.
In the meantime, this is Mark Stein sitting in and happy to be here.
Honor to be here from Ice Station EIB in uh far northern New Hampshire.
If uh if you're uh heading this way, if you're fleeing the country, uh do swing by and uh drop in, because we always love to see you.
You can't uh miss us.
There's a they got a big sign up on the highway saying uh last rush guest host before the border.
So always happy to see you.
And uh I have been talking I was I was talking in the first hour about this um ridiculous sign I was looking at in waiting to be seen by a doctor for an hour in the doctor's waiting room.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, achieves the impossible.
And I was uh talking about what it means to be reduced to a republic of hope under a president of hope and a governing party of hope, which is what has happened uh to the United States over the last five years.
Hope isn't enough, hope won't cut it.
Hope is for losers, hope is passive.
Hope is lying on the floor listening to your hair grow and hoping that something is gonna happen.
In the end you have to get off the floor and you have to make it happen, and that's what we've been talking about on on the shore today on the show today.
By the way, I did uh I had no idea how many uh Rush listeners were also Lindsay Lohan fans, uh, because I've I received a lot of comments that I got the name wrong of the Herbie the Volkswagen movie in which uh Miss Lohan starred.
Uh it was not Herbie Rides Again, it was Herbie Fully Loaded.
That's the one I was talking about, where Herbie is on a date with a Ford probe or whatever it is, and don't please if it's not a Ford probe, but if it's a Toyota Corolla or a Honda Civic, there's no need to bombard me with email.
I don't pretend to be a scholar of Lindsay Lohan's Irv.
But her Herbie is making out with the Ford probe as Lionel Richie sings, Hello, is it me uh looking for and and uh that is in fact Herbie fully loaded.
Herbie Rides Again.
I had no idea.
H.R. just told me his grandfather is appears in Herbie Rides Again.
Uh that's th that's well he plays a lawyer in Herbie Rides Again.
That's from the original Golden Age series of Herbie the Volkswagen movies.
You know, the ones that they're like up there in the Hollywood Golden Age with uh Casablanca and Gone with the Wind and Gold Diggers of Nine Th nineteen thirty-five and Herbie Rides Again.
Uh from that period, after it was the basically the period between sort of Mary Poppins and the Jungle Book and The Little Mermaid, when for twenty years uh Herbie the Volkswagen was the only thing keeping the Disney Corporation afloat.
They had nothing going for them except Herbie the Volkswagen.
And uh HR HR was who who was in Herbie Rides Again?
Helen Hayes was in Herbie Wow, that is next you'll be telling me Lawrence Olivier did the voice of Herbie the Volkswagen in Herbie Rides Again.
That is a that's that is a Herbie Rides Again.
It's a classic.
They're doing, by the way, I believe on Turner Classic Movies tonight, they're doing a whole Herbie marathon.
It's starting at eight and it goes all the way through till five in the morning, so you won't want to miss that.
So that's Herbie Rides Again.
Uh I should have mentioned by the uh talking about O Canada because uh b because HR couldn't imagine what it was like to live in a country in which the national anthem has lyrics in both English and French.
The French uh lyrics of O Canada, uh O Canada, Ter de Nose predates, actually predates the English lyric to O Canada.
So O Canada is in fact uh originally a French song that the English uh Canadians just culturally appropriated.
Uh there was a poll a few years ago in which they they uh they polled Americans and uh seventy-two percent of Amer I forget the exact numbers, but this is the upshot of the poll.
Something like seventy-two percent of Americans knew the first line of the Star Spangled Banner, which is HR, first line of the Star Spangled Banner.
Oh, I'm reassured.
Ose can you see?
That's right.
Uh first line of the Star Spangled Banner.
Seventy two percent of Americans knew the first line of the Star Spangled uh banner, but only forty three percent of Canadians knew the first line of O Canada, uh, which is pretty dismal when you consider that the first line of O Canada is in fact O Canada.
But that was this poll.
That was the poll that showed how much more uh Americans were attracted to uh the uh Star Spangled banner than Canadians apparently are to oh Canada.
Uh but it the French lyric was the original lyric.
And when I was protesting that when I was protesting that Coke commercial in which everyone sang America the Beautiful in different languages, uh a a master of tweets called Black Jack Charles uh has just tweeted uh hey, and then he uses a synonym for the uh posterior.
We welcome multiculturalism, got it.
Shut the and then he uses a synonym for the activity of fornication up.
And I was roaring my head off this this guy Black Jack Charles demonstrating his mastery of he's he's singing the praises of a multilingual commercial uh by using four-letter words.
Uh look, I'm not opposed to other cultures and other languages.
I speak more languages than Barack Obama, which actually isn't that difficult because he only speaks one.
And then he goes to Vienna and says he and and stands up and regrets that he doesn't speak any Austrian.
And then he tells people this is a guy with the world's most he's got a million dollars of education from his uh original college in wherever it was Los Angeles, and then he goes to Columbia, and then he goes to Harvard Law School, and he's had a million dollars of education, and he can't ask somebody in France where the toilet is.
Uh so don't tell me about multiculturalism.
Uh I I'm I speak more languages than the supposedly uh multicultural citizen of the world president who went and uh told all those people uh at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin that he was a citizen of the world.
I speak more languages than him.
And you guys have no idea, uh, because I've lived in multicultural societies.
I've lived in bilingual societies.
Uh you guys have no idea what you're in for.
You don't understand.
You don't understand.
Uh and it's ridiculous having to spl explain this uh to to talk about being multilingual and bilingual to a guy called Black Jack Charles who can only grunt in four-letter words, a guy who isn't even lingual, uh you have no idea.
Those of us who have lived in those kinds of societies, uh, of how precious uh a societal glue is, what holds you together, uh, and how easy it is to actually dissolve that without even knowing it.
And it's not a small thing when a unilingual society for no good reason decides to become a bilingual society.
It's not something that anyone should do lightly.
Uh it's a it's a question of uh embracing an entirely unnecessary balkanization.
And these things happened for historic reasons.
There's a French speaking province in an English speaking country up north, uh, because the French uh were defeated uh at the Battle of Montreal, and a continent changed hands.
Uh at that surrender at the French were defeated at the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City, and when they ran down the French flag in the city of Montreal, uh and they ran up the Union Jack, a continent changed hands.
And because of that, uh you're stuck with certain historical consequences, like a French province in an otherwise English speaking country, and you live with it the best you can.
But the idea that the that that you'd em willingly embrace that fate, that you'd volunteer for that fate, uh is is insane.
It's absolutely insane.
And that gets to this that that brings us to John Boehner, the guy who won't pick fights he can't win, and instead likes to pick fights uh that uh America loses, is now talking about comprehensive uh immigration reform uh and and getting uh, you know, and getting a bill done this year.
And by the way, comprehensive immigration reform, comprehensive anything reform, comprehensive health care reform, compreh with the minute it's what got the word comprehensive in uh you should you you you you should basically take that thing take it out to the shooting range and riddle it full of bullets till it looks like a Swiss cheese because no respectable law is comprehensive that's why none of the laws are comprehensible uh comprehensive is a synonym for incomprehensible leads to multi thousand page bills uh that that wily democrats
and their allies in the hyper regulatory state will be able to drive a truck through and so now we're being told now we're being told that if uh Republicans signal their willingness uh to uh to go for a comprehensive immigration reform bill Democrats may concede on the issue of citizenship for most illegal immigrants and will accept a less generous bill that will pass Congress with Republican support.
So in other words if Democrats if your standard is citizenship for everyone immediately a clear pathway to citizenship for everyone immediately or no immigration reform at all you are going to get no immigration reform at all a representative Luis Gutierrez an Illinois Democrat who's been fighting for a broad immigration bill for years said on Friday as he briefed reporters.
So he's now hinted in recent months that a solution shorter citizenship may be necessary.
You know this is all rubbish and the d the Republicans are being set up as usual to play the suckers to be the saps of the game.
For a start nobody gets citizenship immediately the minute you if you get a green card the clock starts ticking and five years after a green card you can apply for citizenship.
That's how it works.
So the idea that these guys would get uh green card or some form of legal uh presence in the United States on a Monday and be applying for citizenship on Tuesday is ridiculous.
There's no such provision in United States law.
They would have to undergo the same five-year thing that everybody else who emigrates legally to this country goes to.
Now, the Republicans are proposing that somehow, are putting it about that somehow Democrats can in fact pull back and not offer a pathway to citizenship to illegal immigrants.
And that's absolutely ridiculous.
That will not withstand the first Democrat-appointed judge that it comes up against, or Republican, in fact, because it makes a nonsense of the law.
Once you've given somebody an amnesty and you've said they have some kind of legal presence in the United States, the idea that you can then artificially withhold citizenship from them is a complete non-starter.
It's never going to fly with any...
You can see it now.
You can see all these people.
Representative Gutierrez, Nancy Pelosi.
not who we are as Americans we don't say oh yes if you're a businessman from Germany and you come and live in uh New York City and uh open up a uh a big company in a you can become a you can become a U.S. citizen in five years but if you're some poor minimum wage seasonal agricultural worker who's uh who who's slaving away in the fields all day no you've you won't be allowed to get on a pathway to citizenship that won't that will be
won't survive its first contact uh with a U.S. judge so any time Republicans are talking about that as somehow some big concession from the Democrats that's no concession at all no concession at all it's complete nonsense from beginning to end.
But uh and if John Boehner has seriously picked that fight because he thinks the guy who won't fight uh who barely fights at all because he thinks that's a fight he can win.
He can somehow maneuver into Democrats conceding and giving up the pathway f to citizenship for the 30 million illegals or whatever it is that is not going to survive its first contact with a U.S. judge and once again the Republicans and more to the point their voters and their base are being suckered by this thing.
Mark Stein in for rush will take your call straight ahead America's number one radio show the Rush Limbaugh Show let's go to Eddie in uh Elko Nevada home of Harry Reid's federally subsidized cowboy poetry festival.
Eddie great to have you on the show with us.
Hey Mark thank you yeah the the cowboys are in full force out here it's kind of weird uh Every time you see them at the gas station, you're like, hey, are you here for the uh and they're like, yep.
So pretty interesting.
So the cow, the entire economy is now dependent on the federally funded cowboy poetry.
I like, oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam.
And the federal check comes in the mail.
It's who would ever thought the American cowboy would would be reduced to the federal doll.
What's what's on your mind, Eddie?
Well, uh when I was listening to you talk earlier in the show about this uh the premise of hope when you were looking at that poster and and uh you know I work for a uh uh delivery service uh and I deliver to a lot of rural areas and uh specific area that I deliver to is uh uh an Indian reservation and uh in my in my business uh having street signs,
street signs and uh a decent road are are very imperative because of the area that I'm at.
And um I was speaking with uh a few of the folks that in that area, and I was like, hey, you know, what would be great is if you guys had some sort of street signs because it's driving me absolutely nuts, no pun intended, that I can't find half of these packages the locations for the packages I have to deliver, and then they complain.
And it just kind of was an epiphany to me that uh the culture that's being created, because they literally said, Well, we're waiting for money from the government uh before we can get street signs.
And it just it just made me sick to my stomach, Mark that that that the the culture that the Democrats are creating, it's not a proactive one.
You know, hope, you know, there there's there's an opposite to everything.
Um and the opposite of hope is action, in my opinion.
I mean, it if I sit around and I hope that my welfare check comes in today, or I hope that my food stamps get deposited today, or I hope that uh the the uh front door gets fixed on my on my rental, uh my low income rental so that uh that the heat doesn't escape that I'm not paying for anyway.
Um to me that just means that you're sitting on your butt and you're not doing anything.
And just to kind of in a nutshell, uh just to say, I know there's a lot of liberals that listen to the Rush program, and uh I I can just say this wholeheartedly to the entire country, and I can't believe I'm speaking to the entire country, basically, get off your butt instead of collecting a check, a welfare check, waiting for something in the mail without earning it, wait for a pay stub, wait for I don't know, being approved for college and go earn it.
Go earn your money.
Work hard like the rest of us.
They get up off our butts every day at four o'clock in the morning and earn a living.
What are you waiting for?
Your your you put it very well, Eddie, when you say that hope is the opposite of action.
And uh it's true it w to go back to those uh towns in western Iraq I was uh driving through that I was talking about uh uh l a couple of hours ago.
If you if you go through in in Arab c Arab culture is very fatalistic.
People sit around saying, Well, if Allah wills it, you know, so if you to go back to the points you were making, why don't you why aren't there any street signs?
Well, if Allah wills it.
And once that kind of fatalism, that inactive fatalism uh takes hold here.
Uh Obama, in his first so-called State of the Union in January uh 2009, quoted a girl who'd written to him uh from some school in North Carolina saying they had peeling paint uh and the windows rattled because a train went by.
This is a school, this is in a town with able-bodied men with a high level of unemployment.
Uh and she's asking for some kind of federal grant system that will put a coat of paint on the walls of her school uh or or seal the windows.
Well, why can't the parents of the children in that school get together and repaint the rooms?
Why can't they get together and seal the windows?
Why does that require a commissar of education in Washington, D.C. Uh, who will who will arrange a federal painting program from Maine to Hawaii?
It's crazy.
It's crazy.
Even if you thought it was a good idea, it wouldn't work.
And the coup and the absolute coup de grass of that uh of that bit that Obama quoted uh was when he talked about this young this young girl's hopes, goes, all way all we want to, all we want to to do uh is uh get an education so we can go on and change the world.
Who the hell do you think you are talking about changing the world when you can't even get someone to paint your classroom?
Instead of changing the world, changing the nation, why not try changing no, or even changing the state or the county?
Why not just try changing things in your little broken down town?
Who would hire someone to change the world who can't even organize the painting, the the painting of a schoolhouse?
And Eddie in Elko Nevada is absolutely right, that that kind of passivity, uh that kind of fatalism, that kind of, you know, yes, we've got problems, but there's nothing that petitioning the benign King Barack in Barackingham Palace in Washington,
D.C. to set up a federal program that will uh that will lead to someone sending us a federal grant that will enable something uh for us in broken down Gulch Nevada to put up a street sign is absolutely crazy.
What Tocqueville loved about the United States was that small towns govern themselves.
That's why they didn't need George Thur the third.
George III was the Barack Obama of his day, the most enlightened ruler on the planet.
And uh nonetheless, people in self-governing townships in the uh in the eastern col in the eastern seaboard colonies of the United States decided they didn't need George the Third, because they could make it happen themselves.
And like he said, the opposite of hope is action.
Yes, Rush is uh not feeling too well today.
Uh he woke up uh feeling lousy.
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I mentioned uh that uh that school in Colorado that denied they they've got some lousy old school spirit week or something, and the uh and the kids wanted to have a celebrate America Day where everybody came to school in uh red, white, and blue clothing, and the school nicks that because it would be offensive to non-Americans.
At the at the other end of the spectrum, uh this uh new guy in uh in New York, who uh the the fellow who flopped out on the all the snow removal at the first big storm of his administration, this guy Mayor de Blasio, uh he's going to uh close schools, New York City schools for two Muslim holidays and the lunar new year.
What it what is the lunar?
That's when all the old what is what what's the difference between the lunar new year and the regular new year?
Uh is that the year when all the uh the werewolves get together and it's the have the big howling thing?
Uh the lunar new year and two Muslim holidays, anyway.
Uh Aid al-Fitta and Aid al-Ada, uh which are the two uh big uh Muslim holy days.
Uh and so they're gonna be the New York City schools are gonna be closed for Muslim holidays.
He's not gonna close it for the Hindu festival of Diwali.
Tough luck, Hindus.
Uh your lobby groups aren't as aggressive about these things as the uh Muslim uh uh groups, uh so that it's gonna be closed for Muslim holidays, but not for Hindu holidays.
Uh that's in in the New York City schools.
Uh and and the funniest thing, by the way, just to go back to this thing that Hillary Clinton is doing now, because nobody is learned, no matter how long Americans stay at school, because now we got it's like longer and longer and longer.
It takes six years or whatever to complete a bachelor's degree.
People are at school if you're uh people are at school until they're thirty.
Uh and no matter how uh long they're in school, they don't seem what with all the Muslim holidays, they're not learning as much as they are.
And that's why we've got to have this mandatory government uh preschool that uh Republicans across the country are as supportive of as Democrats which is astonishing really astonishing and why Hillary Clinton has started this outreach toward Hispanic families to encourage them to read,
sing and talk more to their young children uh because Hispanics are a third less likely to have songs sung to them than white non Latino children according to a report by the Robert McCormick Foundation.
I wonder what the the statistics are for singing to Muslim children in the New York City school.
Anyway what I like most about this Hillary Clinton story is that it's uh it's part of something called the too small to fail campaign which uh is started by the Bill Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation last year the too small to fail campaign.
So you have the next president of the United States the designated the officially designated president in waiting uh going around this is this by the way is a woman that uh the deputy ambassador in Libya couldn't get on the phone after his ambassador had been killed and he's frantically calling his boss the Secretary of State in Washington and she won't take his call.
It's the famous 3 AM call of her campaign commercial and she's not taking it.
But the but the woman who couldn't stop the ransacking on her watch the ransacking of American sovereign territory across North Africa and the Middle East is instead launching the too small to fail campaign in which she encourages uh Hispanic parents to sing songs to their children before they go to preschool.
That is in a microcosm what is everything that is wrong with our contemporary politics, that somehow we measure the colossi of the age, not on whether they can defend America's interests when an armed gang is perpetrating an act of war on U.S. sovereign territory in
Benghazi, but whether they can launch a programme to encourage parents to sing songs.
songs to three year olds that is that is what the next presiding genius of the United States government is talking up today as part of her latest project part of what she calls the too small to fail campaign.
I think we just have Hillary Clinton's campaign solution uh slogan Hillary Rodham Clinton 2016 too small to fail.
Let's go to Zach in Fort Bragg.
Zach, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show uh great to have you with us.
How are you doing?
This is Zach.
You got me all kinds of fired up.
I can't even lie to you.
But there's three topics I want to hit on in particular.
I'm an active-duty paratrooper stationed at Fort Bragg, and you were talking earlier about the Hulk.
Well, basically what that comes down to for me is, you know, you've got all kinds of flags flying over buildings that we built, you know what I'm saying, over there in Iraq and everything else.
And these men check by so much, so much.
And, you know, the American people just have hope.
And in my opinion, it's like your last caller said, it's lack of accuracy.
a action now this hope that everybody has it's more that it's just gonna go away in my opinion that everything that we've given will go away.
Right.
Just a bad thing just you know it just didn't happen.
No motivated motivated to want to be there.
And it's something I think we're pulling out and we want to be there.
We want to finish what we've started.
Right.
So many people have died so many people have given everything so that you know Americans can enjoy the freedoms at home.
So we don't have to worry about you know September 11th version two.
And America just hopes that all of that stuff will go away.
They can't accept reality they can't face reality.
No you're right Zach and you make a very good point.
I mean that is an absolutely piercing point about the insanity of what is happening in Iraq right now that in those towns those al-Qaeda flags that I I talked about as you say they're flying over buildings that you guys built.
Because because America didn't go in there just to, you know, turn the thing into a sheet of glass or or uh uh to f to flatten and kill everyone.
Uh you guys were in there uh rebuilding infrastructure, building school houses, all the rest of it.
And as you say, those buildings you built have now got al Qaeda flag.
So ba basically, in effect, Al Qaeda just outsourced its construction program uh to the U.S. military and to US taxpayers, Zach.
You're exactly right.
I mean, it it's just it's a shame.
You know, it's a shame that everybody just wants to act like you know it never happened.
And that's that's point number one.
Point number two is the health care, the uh Obamacare, if you will.
Now what has now happened with this is the health care system that I have to rely on.
The healthcare system where I've been waiting two years to get my knee looked at so I can do my job as an infantryman in the army.
I have been waiting for two years to get my knee fixed under this government health care.
Every time I'm told, oh, here's some motor and water, go away, it'll be okay.
So you so you're you're you're you're talking about the veterans administration here.
I'm talking about the active duty health care.
I'm I don't think.
Oh, right, right, right.
That's right, that's right.
Your active duty, yeah.
You're talking about active duty health care.
Listen to this.
Listen to this, America.
This is a guy who's put his life on the line for you, who's out there in Iraq.
He's not shuffling paperwork in the Bureau of Compliance.
And he comes back, he comes back and he's been on the front lines on the front lines.
He's the line of defense that that enables you to live your life and watch dancing with the stars.
Uh he's and he's told uh take two Motrin and call me in the morning, because he can't get in to see the active duty, active duty health care system run by the United States government.
You know what's so wrong about this.
I'm sorry for cutting you off.
But you know what's so wrong about this is I've got a job to do.
My job is to close with capture and destroy the enemy by means of force, fire, and maneuver.
That is my job.
I cannot maneuver because I'm injured.
Now that I am stuck on this government health care crab, I can no longer do my job because they won't see me.
I am hurt.
I cannot close with the capture, you know, I can't destroy the enemy because I am now hurt.
And and you you're you're you're right uh about you're right about that, Zach.
But the incredible thing here is you would think, right?
You would think that before they go on uh to try to provide health care for all these twenty-six-year-old college students and all the rest of it.
Uh that that when you when you're talking about America's fighting men, if you're gonna have uh a government provided health care system, uh particularly for the best funded military on the planet, why can't they take care of your health care and get you as you say, get you back out there doing what you've been trained to do, Zach?
They it's it's it's the government.
I work for it, and I can tell you that I mean I'm I'm not scared of my own government because I know what to do, but I'm scared of what the American people have voted to face.
They have vo voted to face this health care system that's nothing but a bureaucracy, and I go and see the medics, and the medics say, Oh, hey, here's some motor and water, we'll get you an appointment to see the actual doctor.
I've been waiting on that appointment now for two years.
I have not seen the actual doctor, I've not had my knee looked at, and I'm just waiting.
I'm waiting.
And now everybody else is going to have to wait.
All of America's gonna have to wait.
What's gonna happen is some kid with a broken leg or a messed up knee is going to go in, say, Oh, hey, I'm hurt.
And they're gonna be like, oh, here's some nutrient and water.
Yeah, that's right.
And take uh take two aspirin and call me in two years' time.
Uh Zach, I have to go to a commercial break, but thank you for your call.
And uh you're right to be angry about this.
Uh you're right to be angry about the waste of what was hard fought and hard won by you guys in Fallujah and the SUNY triangle a few years ago, and you're right to be angry uh uh about a military that accounts for uh forty-four percent of the planet's military spending,
and the United States government cannot even arrange a health care system uh that can that that that that can get you well and get you back out there doing what you're trained to do.
Thank you for your call, Zach.
Thank you for your service.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
The embattled IRS is giving employee bonuses for 2013 to its employees.
It was revealed today, according to a story in the Washington Times.
Because of the quote, need to boost employee morale.
Morale at the IRS is very low because it's been exposed as a stinkingly corrupt agency that actually ought to be abolished and replaced by something with far fewer powers, which they wouldn't be able to abuse to target the uh regime's political enemies.
But they're all a bit depressed by this negative publicity, Lois Lerner pleading the fifth and all the rest of it.
So they're now going to get these big employee bonuses for 2013, not for the excellent work they've done in cracking down on Tea Party groups, but in order to, quote, boost employee morale.
That's uh uh just in time for the 2014 election, so they'll be really gung-ho the next time some Tea Party group decides to submit a 501 C4 application.
Uh the uh a rotten, stinking corrupt agency that actually ought to be put out of business in a self-respecting society, instead is giving uh bonuses.
Actually, that's bonuses that you've paid for, by the way, because the IRS doesn't have any money except that which it gets from American taxpayers, and it's going to give them in uh to its employees in order to boost morale just in time to crack down on you losers in time for the 2014 election.
Uh Zach was talking about when when Zack was talking about his difficulties getting treatment when he's being told to take Motrin uh and water, and uh they would uh they he's been waiting two years to have his knees seen too.
And I thought he was VA uh rather than still active duty, because they're separate government systems.
Uh and one of the reasons for that is there's uh CNN has just reported that night according to an internal report, nineteen veterans diagnosed with cancer in twenty ten and twenty eleven died because the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to conduct medical screenings in a timely fashion.
You know, this is the existing government health care system uh before we've created the uh f fully implemented the new government health care system on top of this.
Uh a friend of mine was at the uh uh the veterans hospital recently, being also being treated for cancer.
And you begin to see how uh 19, which again may be a low-ball number, uh part of a larger group.
Oh, yes, indeed they are, of eighty-two veterans who have died or are dying because of the delays.
He went down to be treated for cancer in his VA hospital.
And the first uh session, uh he he said nothing, he left it to the experts.
Then he noticed they were performing the uh the chemo on the wrong part of his body.
So he raised a fuss about it.
Uh and so about three or four sessions in, you have to do a certain number of sessions, I think.
Uh uh not the not the chemo, the radiation.
You have to do a certain number of sessions for it to be effective.
So about five or six uh sessions in, they agree that they're radiating the wrong part of the body, and they put the radiating thing and f shine it on the right part of the body, and they give him the right they radiate the right part of the body for the remaining sessions, but they don't uh add on any extra sessions at the end to make up for all the ones he's missed.
So, in other words, they've given him a defective and likely ineffective uh form of radiation treatment.
And as we've seen, uh eighty-two veterans who have died or are dying because of delays at the Veterans Administration.
And worse than that, Zach says uh active duty guys can't be seen in a timely manner.
Uh that's what happens when you try to design a government health care system, even for quite limited groups.
Maybe if it worked with active duty, maybe if it worked with veterans, maybe then if you got that right, you'd try to do it for 300 million people.
Mark Stein Farush will close things out in a moment.
CNN reports that uh the a car that can understand your feelings will soon be able to use emotional data it detects from you to flag warning signs, sensors nested in the steering wheel uh will be able to improve your mood.
So if you're like driving along, listening to Rush's substitute guest host talking about how the IRS are going to get a ton of big bonuses this year, so they'll be able to be more energized to chess, and it's making you really, really, really, really, really, really angry.
Then the mood sensors will click in and it will tune into another station playing an instrumental, soft and easy, light favorite version of Windmills of Your Mind or something.
That's what they're planning to put in your car, folks.
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