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Feb. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 5, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, uh Rush is uh still a little bit uh a little bit under the weather.
The last I heard he had a uh fever, he was running a fever of uh 102 degrees, which is uh which is no condition uh in which to do a radio show with millions and millions of listeners.
So he's uh he's itching to get back uh behind the golden EIB microphone, but uh but this morning uh d 102 isn't really the best conditions to do it in, so he's taken another twenty-four hours and all being well, he will be here behind the golden EIB microphone live for tomorrow's show.
Uh 102 degrees.
I mentioned yesterday uh that I had my kid in in the studio with me because he'd stayed home from school uh because he had a fever.
His fever was only I think it was 101.2 degrees.
So he was he was uh basically a degree less uh than Rush.
So uh so my kid could have done the show.
And uh since since yesterday, my assistant uh here at Ice Station EIB in in far northern New Hampshire, uh Tiffany, she has succumbed to the fever, and uh and uh the guest hostess, who's guest hostessing for Tiffany today, is starting to come down with it too.
So Ice Station EIB is as disease-riddled as the other uh outposts of uh EIB today, but we will try to put together a show for you uh over the next three hours, and uh you are a big part of that, and all you have to do to be part of that is called 1800-282-2882.
It's uh it's Snow Mageddon, or whatever they call it.
Now, Snow Mageddon comes along every 48 hours, but I gather uh a hundred million people are affected by various uh meteorological things going on at the moment.
It's uh it's all part of the big climate change.
Snow in uh northern New Hampshire in February.
Who would have thought it?
But that's that just shows that the climate change is rampaging out of control.
It is in fact uh uh National Weather Persons Day today, uh, apparently.
February the fifth, every February the fifth is National Weather Persons Day.
So they're celebrating it with uh with with snowbound 100 million Americans snowbound.
Uh according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Weather Persons holiday began in 1744 to commemorate the birth of John Jeffries, uh one of America's first weather observers.
That doesn't make any sense at all.
They didn't have National Weather Persons Day in 1744.
It was uh that was uh George the Third.
That was the uh not George, who was it before George the Third?
Whichever one of them it was, it would have been uh it would have been Colonial Weather Persons Day.
Anyway, national weather, happy National Weather Persons Day, wherever you are celebrating it today.
I love that.
The uh the weather uh do you remember the weather persons uh Mike?
They're that big hit with uh it's raining persons, Hallelujah.
I love that song, one of the big hits big hits from uh the eighties.
Fabula, fabulous song.
Um but uh we wish Rush well, a hundred and two degrees, and we hope it is coming down faster than the snow here at Ice Station EIB, and he will return.
He will return uh tomorrow, all being well.
Uh well before we leave the uh matter of climate change, because we're all worried about the climate change these days, aren't we?
I can barely sleep over it.
That's because I'm being sued over it.
Uh but uh we're all worried about the climate change.
And I see that Associated Press, the Associated Press is reporting that uh that the Obama administration is right on top of this.
You may have heard it in his State of the Union thing.
He did a big thing on climate change, and and he's followed through.
He doesn't just uh talk the talk, he walks the walk.
Aiming to help rural communities deal with climate change, the Obama administration is creating seven regional climate hubs that will serve as clearing houses for information and outreach about extreme weather across the U.S. uh that's that's that's right.
It's like it's like NSA climate hubs, HR.
Yeah, you uh you just you think you see some climate going on.
Don't be afraid to speak up About it and call your regional climate hub.
They're in Ames, Iowa.
That's right.
At the climate at the climate change hub in Abes, Iowa, uh, which is also oddly enough, ground zero for Hillary Clinton's presidential ambition.
So conveniently they're very uh the the uh right next together.
Durham, New Hampshire.
I can't believe that.
How did we end up with uh one of the seven regional climate hubs?
Is it is it all Yeah, yeah.
They're launching the climate hub, the climate hub in Durham, New Hampshire, one of seven regional climate hubs.
Fort Collins, Colorado, which we mentioned yesterday, because Fort Collins High School won't permit you to celebrate America in the Fort Collins school system, but they do have a climate hub.
So they've got their priorities right.
Ford Collins, Colorado, Raleigh, North Carolina uh North Carolina, El Reno, Oklahoma, uh, where else?
Oregon, New Mexico, and then there's three subhubs.
I mean, this is degrading if you're if you're in one of these states that's just has to make do with the lousy climate subhub, but they've got uh climate subhubs in Horton, Michigan, Davis, California, and Rio Piedras in Puerto Rico.
So even the territories uh are getting hubs uh or subhubs.
There may be even be a sub-sub hub uh over in Guam.
We don't know.
We'll we'll try and uh bring you up to speed on that.
Uh these hubs, these climate hubs that are opening today, will assess local climate risks.
They come under the Department of Agriculture.
They will uh f help farmers and rural communities fight climate change uh by assessing, helping them to assess local climate risks, such as drought and wildfire.
So f once these things are up and running, if like this morning you wake up and you look out the window and the and the snow coming down everywhere, in previously you would just have had to uh go to weather.com and find out what the weather was, the National Meteorological Service or whatever.
Now you can also call your local climate hub and see how it fits into the big climate picture.
So basically it's another department of paperwork because the Republic of Paperwork can always use another department of paperwork, Bureau of Paperwork, Agency of Paperwork.
These climate hubs will be shuffling whole new levels of federal paperwork between each other uh as uh in their efforts to battle climate change.
So you'll be able to call 1800 climate hub and order up uh exclusive pamphlets and leaflets produced at your expense uh from the latest Bureau of Paperwork that has been created by the Republic of Paperwork.
The new climate hub, it's coming to Durham, New Hampshire.
Uh and uh we will we will bring you up to speed as uh Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
I believe he's announcing the new climate hubs today at the White House, and uh we may well cover that press cover uh uh press conference live uh while we uh all go out to uh frolic and gamble in the climate while Tom Vilsack is launching his climate hub.
Uh the other big news today, and you gotta feel this is a bit of misdirection going on here.
Uh the Congressional Budget Office did what is really a fairly devastating report on the impact of Obamacare.
And as a result, uh the uh uh White House uh has frantically been trying to change the subject.
So that's why they're gonna be talking about climate hubs.
Uh but there is really not a lot of good news in that uh congressional budget office report.
The the most basic one is this.
Uh Rush talked about this on Monday.
I talked about this yesterday, but it can't be said often enough.
The problem in America, uh the the thing that people say about American health care, the thing that Obama said about American health care, when he talked about it in September 2009, he said uh we needed Obamacare because, quote, there are now more than 30 million American citizens who cannot get coverage, unquote.
That's President Obama saying we need Obamacare because there's 30 million Americans who have no health insurance.
So how many people will have no health insurance 15 years after the passing of Obamacare in 2024, 30 plus million.
That's the official statistic from the Congressional Budget Office.
So Obamacare, which was created to end the great evil, the wickedness, uh, the moral stain on this society of thirty million people without health insurance.
Ten years after the implementation of Obamacare, there will be thirty million plus Americans who still have no health insurance.
This th this is uh fascinating because uh this is the same reason that uh other Western nations introduced socialized health care in the years after the Second World War, because there were uh people who had no made no provision for health care and couldn't afford it.
And so they introduced uh they they made changes to the law and they introduced systems that provided health care for those people.
This is the most expensive health care reform in the history of the planet.
It cost two trillion dollars to date.
And it doesn't alter the number of uninsured people in America by one.
Thirty million people in two thousand and nine, when Obama was saying this is uh great uh moral uh stain on our society, we must do something about it as compassionate caring people, and in ten years' time, twenty fourteen, there will still be thirty million.
And it gets to the heart of uh liberalism.
Liberalism is not about actually solving the problem.
Liberalism is about making the preening liberal feel good about himself.
Uh that's why Obama was boasting at the State of the Union.
Hey, you may have heard we're doing something about the problems in health care.
It doesn't actually do if you're out there on the receiving end, it doesn't do anything, but hey, makes me feel good about myself, makes Nancy Pelosi feel pretty good about myself herself.
We when we sit around at uh dinner parties, we can all feel good about ourselves because we supported Obamacare.
In the real world, uh the Los Angeles Times reports uh Obamacare enrollees hit snags at doctor's offices.
I love that.
Hit snags at doctors' offices.
Uh the system works great.
All it's like uh the what I was telling you yesterday when I got had my health care problems, went to the doctor, everything worked fine, I aced the HIPAA paperwork test, did the the paperwork, I was better than ever.
Filling in all the forms, it was great, it went so smoothly.
The only bit that didn't work uh was actually seeing a guy in a white coat with a stethoscope.
It's the same thing here, same thing here.
These people, after after overcoming website glitches and long waits to get Obamacare, some patients are now running into frustrating new roadblocks at the doctor's office.
How about that?
How about that?
It's like there's the roadblocks at the website glitches, there's the uh roadblocks uh when you get your policy and it comes in the mail and it's they've charged you the wrong amount, it's not the policy you want.
Now there's frustrating new roadblocks at the doctor's office.
Uh and they quote some of these patients here.
Danielle Nelson said Anthem Blue Cross promised half a dozen times that her oncologists would be covered under her new policy.
She was diagnosed last year with non-Hodgkins lymphoma and discovered a suspicious lump near her jaw in early January.
But when she went to her oncologist's office, she promptly encountered a bright orange sign saying that covered California plans are not accepted.
I'm a complete fan of the Affordable Care Act, but now I can't sleep at night, Nelson said.
I can't imagine this is how President Obama wanted it to happen.
Well, Danielle, why don't you try imagining that this is exactly how President Obama wanted it to happen?
Uh you were a fan of the Affordable Care Act.
You're an Obama supporter, you're an Obamacare supporter.
Uh and you yet you cannot imagine that the chaos that your health care is now in is not what President Obama wanted to happen.
What you should try imagining is is that uh Obama doesn't care about you.
Uh Obama is about government.
Obama is about government control.
Obama is about a world where there's a a comfortable, prosperous, elite and a big mass dysfunctional swamp of people below them.
Uh in a democratic society, people get the government they deserve.
Uh, and this is the government that you and millions of other uh Obama supporters voted for, and if you paid attention, you'd have known what you were voting for.
As we were talking about yesterday, everybody thinks you can have pain free liberalism.
There is no such thing.
Obama, in his stupid little uh video he released yesterday, the one with the rapping pug singing, well now, because uh Obakare is free, there's no such thing as free health care.
Someone somewhere has to pick up the tab for it.
And everybody thinking that somehow the uh the great King Barack could wave his scepter and free health care would descend upon his grateful subjects uh uh in in an informed democratic society.
If you are stupid enough to vote for that delusion, uh then don't be surprised when uh a richly deserved fate falls upon all your heads.
Uh it was it's perfectly obvious.
It was perfectly obvious to many of us who've been talking about this for years that Obamacare was going to be a disaster.
The only question was the scale of the disaster, and as we now see it is on a scale hitherto unknown uh to socialized healthcare systems around the world.
Mark Stein for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush Rush is a little under the weather, uh running a fever still, uh, but he is itching to get back, and he will be back tomorrow.
Uh I mentioned earlier this CBO report, uh, which is fantastic, says uh that aside from the fact that the number of i uh uninsured people will be exactly the same.
Exactly the same.
In other words, uh as I was talking about yesterday, uh liberal solutions to the problem never solve the problem.
They only uh distract you from the original problem by creating all kinds of new problems.
And among the new problems they've created is that the uh Affordable Care Act will reduce the number of full-time workers in the United States uh by two point five million people.
That's the bad news.
Or it is if you just uh r read it uh without reading it through the uh particularly perspective uh per perceptive eye uh of our elites.
The New York Times today, taking on from where Jay Carney left off in his press statement, says that in fact this isn't bad news.
This is great news that there are two that there are millions of Americans who have been uh forced to do full-time jobs with benefits all these years.
They have to get up in the morning, have a shower, put on a suit, go to work and do a full-time job.
And now they will be free at one stroke, they are liberated.
They will be liberated to explore their full human potential.
They'll have the choice, they'll have the this is the key word, choice.
They will have the choice to work less.
They will have the choice to do different kinds of jobs.
Instead of just having to do one lousy full-time job with health benefits, you'll now have the opportunity to do maybe uh three part-time jobs.
You'll be able to do a bit of uh uh seasonal fruit picking, you'll be able to uh do some maid service in a uh mid-market hotel chain.
Uh you'll be able to do the late shift at the local diner.
You will be lit the world it's a now a world of possibilities that has been opened up for you.
Uh as the New York Times reports in its editorial, uh the reduction of full-time works by two point five million is a good thing, a liberating result of the law.
It's liberating.
It's like women's lib.
It's like tearing your bra off and burning it.
Now you can toss the uh your full-time job on the fire with your burning bra.
The report estimated that thanks to an increase in in insurance coverage under the act and the availability of subsidies to help pay the premiums, many workers who felt obliged to stay in a job that provided health benefits would now be able to leave those jobs or choose to work fewer hours than they otherwise would have.
In other words, the report is about the choices workers can make when they are no longer tethered to an employer because of health benefits.
Choice, choice choice.
That's the word the New York Times uses.
That's the word Jay Carney uses.
That's the word the the Washington Post uses.
Choice choice.
I'm pro-choice, and I vote.
Uh I don't work, but I vote.
Uh, because I'm pro-choice and I've made choices about my life.
Just like being pro-choice, my body, my choice.
That's the great liberal manter.
Uh you you keep your rosaries off my ovaries and you keep your rosaries off my horny handed uh hands, and uh I it's my choice as to whether I want to get up in the morning and wash and go off and do a full-time job, but now I'm free.
I'm free to sit around the house all day writing that opera I've always wanted to write.
That is the liberating the great liberating consequence of the Affordable Care Act, uh that uh it's exactly the same as abortion.
Your full-time job has been aborted, and now you are free to choose what you want to do with your body.
This is how liberals are spinning the Congressional Budget Office report that the forty-hour work week, the full-time job, is going to become a thing of the past uh in Obama's uh uh America.
That you will have more you will be liberated by Obamacare.
Yes, Rush is uh still shaken off that high temperature he had a hundred and two degrees.
Whether or not global warming is real, it is uh it is real in Russia's pad.
A hundred and two degrees.
That was uh the the last thing uh I heard from him temperature wise, but he uh does hope to be back live uh at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network to do what only he can do uh on tomorrow's show.
We were talking about uh this uh devastating CBO report that basically says in ten ye ten years after Obamacare there'll be exactly the same number of uninsured in America.
There'll still be over thirty million uninsured, exactly the same as there was when Obama said it was a national scandal, and that's why we needed Obamacare.
Who are these uninsured?
I mean, they in in some circumstances they will be entirely different people.
Uh some they might be the same.
People always talk about the the thirty million uninsured as if they're the exact same people.
As if there's like some somewhere there's a guy who's if the once you become once you join the ranks of the uninsured, you're always uh uninsured.
It's the same way they talk about the minimum wage.
People don't talk about the minimum wage as if a guy does a minimum wage for job for six months and then he gets a better job.
They talk about it as if you get a minimum wage job when you're eighteen years old and you're still doing that minimum wage job when you retire.
And they talk that way about the uninsured too.
Like somewhere out there, there's a uh centenarian uh who's the uh who who's uh the last uh surviving uh uninsured uh senior from the Spanish American war, and he's just like still there with the same old uninsurance plan he's always had.
In fact, uh they always they they used to rotate before Obamacare and it may well be that the thirty million uninsured uh in ten years' time are an entirely different uninsured group of people.
But they're tracking you down.
You might think that you can get away with being uninsured.
You might think you're a healthy twenty-three-year-old, one of these young invincibles.
They're tracking you down.
Story in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Administration drills down to find the uninsured.
Uh and resistance is futile.
They know where you live.
They've gone county by county.
You've only got sixty days to get insurance, or you will be breaking the law.
And they say this is what's fascinating about this.
The Associated Press has done a study, and it has discovered that the uninsured aren't scattered around the country willy-nilly.
Half the uninsured live in just one hundred and sixteen of the nation's three thousand one hundred and forty-three counties.
Just uh half the uninsured live in just one hundred and sixteen counties.
Now, if you're one of these young uninsured, the the the ones they need to pay for all the people with the pre-existing conditions.
The study has also found that half the uninsured people aged nineteen to thirty-nine live in a hundred and eight counties.
Right?
So if you're one of those young people, if you're like twenty-three years old, you're in great health, and you say, I don't want to I don't want to s uh support all these geezers riddled with disease, uh Obamacare, I don't want to sign on, get one of those big expenses.
I don't need it.
Why should I pay for all these sick old geezers?
They know where you are.
You're in one of those one hundred and eight counties.
There's three thousand one hundred and forty-three counties, uh, But the young uninsured are just in one hundred and eight of them.
Now you could you could try and escape to one of those other three thousand, what is it, one hundred and thirty-five counties that the young uninsured are not in.
But don't.
They know where you are.
They've got drones 30,000 feet in the air.
They're tracking the uninsured.
They're tracking you as you move around.
So you can do your best.
You're probably all going now to some Waco like compound where all you young uninsured people can live your uninsured lifestyle in your compound.
But they know where it is.
And Obama can take you out with just a couple of drone strikes.
You'll never see it coming.
It'll be like a slightly larger than usual Afghan wedding.
The drone strike will just find where you are in your compound of the uninsured in one of these one hundred and eight counties.
And he will drone you because you have not yet signed up with less than sixty days to go.
You have not yet decided to do your bit and sign up for Obamacare.
Don't try and flee to one of these three thousand one hundred and thirty-five counties that the young uninsured aren't in.
He's tracking you, he's tracking you everywhere.
The NSA knows every little tweet and twerk you're sending.
The IRS, the IRS is tracking you.
They can track your movements, they can track the checks you.
When you go to the doctor and you say, hey, I'd like a flu shot, and you write a check for it.
The IRS knows that.
Don't try, it's no point trying to go to these three thousand one hundred and thirty-five loyal American counties where everyone is in full compliance.
You people there in your one hundred and eight di uh secessionist counties in your compounds, training, training for the great unin civil war between the insured and the uninsured.
He knows where you are, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, and he can drone you any moment it takes his fancy.
Resistance is futile.
They know where you live, they are gonna be coming after you.
The Obamacare SWAT team, the affordable you probably didn't know that.
It's on page three thousand and four hundred and thirty-nine.
The Department of Health and Human Services Affordable Care Act SWAT team will be surrounding your compound, and they will get you.
So the San Francisco Chronicle doing its bit.
Fall into line.
Do as you're told.
That's the American way.
Be in full compliance with the Bureau of Obamacare compliance.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, uh more people are hailing the news that full-time work will be a thing of the past in America.
With the expansion of insurance coverage, reports the New York Times, uh, more people will choose not to work.
Fantastic, because that's what this that's why we need, by the way, people say, why do we need all this immigration amnesty for these undocumented Americans?
Because the more Americans who exercise their their right to choose not to work, the more we will need to import ever larger numbers of third world low skilled peasantry to do all the work that Americans choose not to do now that they're getting all this great health care from Obama.
The report, quote, rightfully says that people shouldn't have joblock, says Senator Harry Reed of Nevada, the Democratic leader.
Joblock.
That's what he calls it, where you have a full-time job that you do Monday to Friday, every week, every month for years on end.
Like his, in fact.
Uh he has job lock, because he likes it.
But most of you probably don't like those full-time jobs, and now in the uh coming Obamacare economy, you won't be trapped in those full-time jobs.
You'll be able to break free of the chains of career, uh, and you will be able to, you will be able to live a simpler life where you get to uh spend more time with your children, as Hillary Clinton uh with her plan yesterday to encourage the the too small to fail plan by which he hopes to encourage Hispanic uh parents to sing to their children.
They sing less to their children uh than uh non Hispanic parents, apparently, uh and uh non Hispanic parents are singing Incy Wincy Spider to their children, and now Hillary Clinton has launched a program to encourage Hispanic parents to sing La Cucaracha to their children.
Uh it's very important.
And you will have more time to sing to your child under Obamacare.
You won't want to have to get up every morning, put on a tie, put on a clean shirt, pretend to that you're interested in being your executive vice president of human relations.
Now you can just stay home and sing to your kid all day.
The kid will want to go off to school after you've been singing for him for the first three or four years.
The kid will be itching to get into kindergarten.
And this is what Harry Reid says the Affordable Care Act can do for you.
We live in a country where we should be free agents, he says.
People can do what they isn't this fantastic.
This is by the way, I like the cut of Harry Reed's gym.
This is exactly why I came to America.
Uh he says, we live in a country where we should be free agents.
People can do what they want, and all they need to do what they want is the government passing a big law telling them what they have to do.
So once you get an enlightened uh leadership, like ha men like Harry Reed and Barack Obama, who pass a big three thousand page law telling you exactly how to live your life, then you will be free, as Harry Reid says, to do what you want, to do what you want.
It's it's all about choice.
This is the new word.
This is the new one.
They're all using it now.
Who's this guy?
Furman.
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Jason Furman.
He got the menu, he got the memo too.
This is not businesses cutting back on jobs.
This is people having new choices.
New choices.
Furman also argued that uh allowing workers greater flexibility would create more dynamism.
Do you know this is the way these guys sit around talking like this all day long.
Workers greater flex allowing workers greater flexibility would create more dynamism in the marketplace.
That's true.
And allowing workers greater dynamism will also create more flexibility in the marketplace.
It's like mad libs.
You can shuffle these words around any way that you want.
Uh workers felt will feel free to change jobs or start their own businesses, or just sit around on the dole all week.
Uh, according to uh Gene Sperling, uh, who is the uh top economic policy advisor, uh, it will free up parents to spend more time doing homework with their kids.
When you're through singing like cucaracha to them, then you'll be able to sit down and do AP physics with them as well.
All thanks to Obamacare.
Obamacare, it does nothing for the uninsured.
Forget the uninsured.
Nuts to them, it doesn't matter.
But it does liberate you to sing more to your child, to do homework with your child, to start your own business.
It's uh it's the world's first health care bill that does absolutely nothing for health care but impacts every other single feature of your life.
That's the ingenuity of Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
You will be free, as Harry Reed says, to do what you want to do.
And if you don't want to do what you want to do, then the government is going to help you to make you do it.
That's the American way.
Mark Stein for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Let's go to Joshua in Atlanta, Georgia, uh land of the racist snow from last week's uh Snow Mageddon.
Uh Joshua, great to have you with us on the show today.
What's on your mind?
Well, thank you very much.
Uh uh want to make a comment about earlier.
Well, my big thing is governor's gonna be government.
Regardless of who's in office, Republican, Democrats, it's all about keeping the rich rich in the poor poor.
Um it doesn't really matter who's in office as far as that's concerned, because they'd want to establish uh uh a major difference in Claire's.
But with Obamacare, my my big issue is everybody's looking at it as if this was affordable.
This was going to happen whether Mitt Romney was in office, Obama, whoever.
This plan is just a bigger version of what Mitt Romney was already doing.
And if Mitt Romney wasn't going to uh issue it to the entire nation if he was elected, then let's just simply stay say stating that the people he feels as though the people of Massachusetts were better than the rest of us Americans.
I pay my taxes like everybody else.
And so I I feel as though my my voice is if they want to sit back and say, okay, Obama cares this, Obama cares that, then the people should be allowed to vote whether i i is um apply to everyone else.
Not a lot of people.
Well, well, the people the people did vote on it last uh November and uh in effect have uh voted to ratify it.
Mitt's point, just to be fair to Mitt, and I don't like what the system they've got in Massachusetts, it's been a a boon to Southern New Hampshire doctors who are taking patients now who can't see doctors in Massachusetts.
But Mitt's point, and it's not to be dismissed uh entirely, Joshua, is that there are fifty states, and the whole point about this country is it's not a centralized country under a national government, and fifty states are entitled to have fifty different systems of health care, and may the best man win.
And he's got a point there.
The the difference between Massachusetts is Massachusetts is some nickel and dime crazy health care system.
When you're doing it for three hundred million people, you're inviting disaster on a scale unknown.
No one has ever tried to devise a health, a centralized health care system for three hundred million people in a first world country, and the reason for that is if you try to do it, it's not likely to be a first world country by the time you're through with it, Joshua.
So just doing it at the national level like Obama means it's gonna be a bigger mess than doing it at the state level like Romney, Joshua.
This health care plan, the Affordable Health Care Act, regardless of what nickname it has was going to come.
It it does it didn't matter whether it was this president.
Don't give me the don't give me this, don't give me this fatalism, Joshua.
Nobody does it this way.
There's not a single country in the most most uh continental countries in Europe have a private health care system that's private and a public health care system that's public for people who can't afford the private one.
This country now has some weird push me pull you uh mutation of a pseudo-private with all the inconveniences of the private system, all the burdensome paperwork, all the hoops you have to jump through, all the insurance agents telling you, no, no, no, that doctor's not in the network, and you can't go and you can't have that treatment, and you got this deductible when you go to the pharmacy to buy a bottle of pills.
It's got all the disadvantages of a private system with all the inefficiencies of a government system.
That's uniquely American, Joshua.
Nobody's ever done that before.
So don't say that was coming.
That was an inspired act of genius creation by Obama, Joshua.
That uh our our entire system is set up so that way it's really, really, really easy.
You can get all the government help if you want to, uh if you make less than twenty thousand dollars a year.
But if you make more than forty-five, if you make more than forty, then you're you're destined to live that line.
If you live if you may say, take myself for a system.
Uh I I make a decent amount of money, but I'm I'm on the line to where if I want to move forward and keep my stage up, if I don't want to work overtime, then I'm going to struggle.
Right.
The majority of Americans are sitting back in the pot where we're working from check to check.
We we don't have an abundance of money.
So get you get used get but get used to it, Joshua, because your point, by the way, uh I I'll I'll give I'll go part of the way with you.
The the the the political s the political establishment in this country is too content with a world in which there's no economic mobility.
As you said, there's rich and there's poor.
And America now has less the point about America, the reason America exists, is because if if you were a peasant in fourteenth century Europe, your descendants were going to be peasants in fifteenth century Europe and sixteenth century Europe and seventeenth century Europe, and they'd be peasants today.
And what America did was it said, if you get off the boat and you work hard, you needn't be a peasant.
And your son can have a nice living and his grandson can go to college and become an Obamacare doctor.
And that economic now America has less economic mobility uh than other uh first world developed nations, which is disgraceful, and which is something that uh people should be ashamed about.
It's not about inequality, as Obama says.
It's about whether there's uh it and it's not about a rich and poor, as you say, uh as you say.
It's about whether there is still uh an escalator between being poor and being rich, or whether Obama has chopped off, cut off, uh, and smashed up the escalator halfway up.
So if you're poor, you're gonna stay poor, and if you're rich, you're always gonna be rich.
More to come.
Thanks, Joshua.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
If you're wondering why Rush isn't here, he's still trying to uh shake off that fever he came down with uh late on Monday.
But he promises he will return for full strength for Fendic, all American excellence in broadcasting.
Uh that will be live tomorrow.
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