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February 5, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #2

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	Yes, America's anchor man is uh is uh is a wee bit feverish, feverish.
	Uh he had uh uh his temperature uh think at the time he went to bed last night, Russia's temperature was uh one hundred and two degrees.
	And uh doctors do not recommend when you've got a temperature of one hundred and two degrees that you should go on air and discuss Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Barack Obama.
	So Rush is taking it easy today.
	He will return defevered uh and uh ready for three hours of excellence in broadcasting behind the Golden EIB microphone uh tomorrow starting live at twelve Eastern.
	But in the meantime, this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in and happy to be here.
	Uh just another hard working Canadian uh making his way in the United States.
	I was gonna say, like my fellow Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber.
	But uh Justin Bieber uh was uh f flew from Waterloo, Ontario to Teterborough, New Jersey.
	That's where the uh private pla that's a little airport where the private planes come in for uh New York City, and he flew down from Waterloo, Ontario on Friday night, uh and he and his dad and their entourage were uh doing so much marijuana that the pilots were forced to wear oxygen masks in order to keep from getting contact highs and possibly losing their licenses because of failed drug
	tests.
	In addition, uh young Justin and his father, Mr. Bieber, were a quote extremely abusive to a flight attendant as their private jet flew down from Waterloo to Teterborough, uh, forcing her to take refuge in the cockpit, according to an official report obtained exclusively by NBC News' investigation unit.
	This is uh the uh mainstream media investigation unit.
	They uh they got no time to investigate Benghazi, they got no time to investigate IRS corruption, uh they got no time for any of that, but they have got time to investigate Justin Bieber, uh who's uh who was smoking so much marijuana with his dad,
	uh that the uh and being so abusive to uh the trolley dolly, or the flight attendant, as we're now obliged to say, that she was forced to take refuge in the cockpit uh where the pilot and co-pilot were wearing oxygen masks in order to uh prevent themselves from inhaling any of Justin's uh marijuana smoke and uh succumbing to passive marijuana uh and losing their licenses because of failed drug tests.
	It's it's fascinating to me, this Justin Bieber.
	If anybody else did uh done this, uh Canadians know this.
	If you've got like a marijuana conviction from nineteen fifty-seven, uh you can be and you attempt to you're in Montreal and you attempt to go shopping in Plattsburgh, New York, you you'll be turned back at the border because of your marijuana uh conviction from decades ago.
	Uh and it looks to me like at some point uh some point, uh if not to make an in total mockery of the um US drug laws, and I know that uh Obama has said that he's all in favor of decriminalizing marijuana and all the rest of it, but the DEA surrounded this guy's plane because some criminal act uh was going on in his Gulf Stream 4, and at some point they are gonna have to uh I think uh uh deny this guy entry.
	Ban him for life from America.
	You will have to, if you're a Justin Bieber fan, you will have to drive up to uh Toronto or Vancouver to see the guy in concert.
	So uh that's bad news for the other Canadian teen heartthrob uh aside from me, Justin Bieber evidently has some real problems going on.
	The stress the stress of uh having to fly down from Canada to perform gigs in a in a country without Canadian style health care is uh is obviously getting to poor poor little Justin Bieber.
	We were talking in the first hour about uh th where this Obamacare thing is leading and um the uh the th the impact it's having on jobs, the impact it's having on on work.
	Douglas Elmendorf, who's the director of the CBO.
	Now I got you no use for the CBO, but they're not They're they're a nonpartisan body and they issue these reports and everyone takes these reports seriously until the next report a couple of months later when they revise the numbers generally in an even more depressing direction.
	But uh but but uh uh Director Elmendorf, who is the head of the CBO, uh has now confirmed that uh the CBO believes the health care law discourages people from working.
	By providing heavily subsidized health insurance to people with very low income, and then withdrawing those subsidies as income rises, the act creates a disincentive for people to work relative to what would have been the case in the absence of that act.
	That's what Douglas Elmendorf has just told the House Budget Committee this morning.
	Uh by providing a subsidy, these people are better off, but they do have less of an incentive to work.
	And uh the New York Times and the Democrats are spinning this now as good news.
	It's good news as some kind of uh opening up of the possibilities of life in America.
	It's not, it's actually widening the disparities.
	This is what we were talking about with Joshua.
	Joshua said, Well, it doesn't matter who he was doing this plague on both your houses routine.
	Doesn't matter who you like, they're all politicians.
	They just want to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
	Actually they don't.
	Actually they don't.
	Uh if you go and look uh the th social mobility uh and prosperity are more closely tied with certain cultures than with others.
	It's true if you want to go and live in certain forms of primitive tribal societies, uh the big head guy of the tribe wants to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
	Uh and it's true that if you want to live in certain kinds of socialist societies, uh they just want to keep everyone depressed except for the little group of people at the top who are getting all the benefits.
	But uh Anglo-American capitalism is a form of uh social organization that has enriched more people and enabled them to live more rewarding lives than anywhere on the planet.
	If you go and look at the uh top uh the top twenty of most economically free countries, the United States has fallen to number twelve in this.
	It's fallen consistently uh through the Obama era uh as America gets less economically free.
	Uh because everything j everything is just tied up in paperwork here because and they and their solution to that is to create more paperwork, like these stupid climate hubs we were talking about in the first hour, more departments of paperwork, bureaus of permits, agencies of compliance.
	That's all that's what that's all it is now.
	Federal paperwork alone, federal regulation consumes ten percent of GDP.
	That's all it that's all it is now.
	So we're sinking further and f and then of course, uh as Obamacare uh uh presents other obstacles to economic growth.
	If you uh have uh uh if you've got 49 employees and you hire a 50th, you suddenly change the obligations that you have with regard to your employees.
	So you can't just hire someone because they're great at their job and pay them to do that job.
	In America, you've got to do all this other stuff too.
	So we're slipping out.
	We're slipping out, we've fallen out of the top ten of the most economically free societies on earth.
	Uh but most of the other ones on that list uh boil down to two categories.
	Uh either Northern European, uh like Scandinavia, or uh their current or former realms of the British Crown, their places like uh Singapore, Australia, uh Mauritius uh oddly enough, which is uh which has been ramping up the economic freedom in recent years.
	And so it's not true to say that the political class wants to keep the rich rich and the poor poor.
	Historically, there has always been uh there have always been escalators between the two groups.
	Uh and and that's the point.
	People come to America because you can get on the escalator, because you can get on the escalator.
	So you can be poor and then you can be middle class and then you can be rich.
	And even if you don't make it all the way to super duper mega rich, even if you don't have a beach house at Malibu, you can improve your life through work, through efforts.
	And what's happened is that escalator has broken down.
	And every and and when Obama talks about inequality, uh, which it's nothing to do with inequality, which he has made worse, and which the Affordable Care Act makes worse.
	Uh Obama doesn't care about that.
	He's in the 40-car motorcade.
	He vacations at Martha's Vineyard.
	What What the hell does he know about how ordinary Americans live their life?
	He's never lived in that America.
	He didn't live in it in Hawaii.
	He didn't live in it in that elite little university neighborhood in Chicago, and he certainly doesn't live in it when he's in the middle of the 40-car motor gate.
	And the point is that out there in middle class America, middle class America is dying.
	We are turning into a Latin American society with a rich rich at the top and a poor and a big big poor poor at the bottom.
	And increasingly fewer ways to get between the big group of poor people at the bottom and the tiny little elite group of politicians and their crony capitalist buddies at the top.
	And what he keeps doing rusts up the escalator even more.
	The escalator between poor and rich, rich and poor.
	It's always been, and it's like up and down.
	It's like uh uh it's like shoots and ladders, you know, people are rich, uh, and then uh they build up a great business and then the grandson squanders it and they go slide back to being poor.
	The the rich and the poor are not fixed categories until now.
	Now uh now there's uh a shrinking middle class, there's less economic mobility, and if you've got a kid, or if you've got a grandkid, uh ask them, take tell them to take a good look at the way you live, at the at the size of your house, at your car, uh at the things you have in your home.
	They're not gonna be they're not gonna be living in that world.
	Uh they're gonna have a smaller car, or maybe a bus ticket.
	Uh, and they're not gonna have uh a nice house like you.
	They're not gonna have a uh three-bedroom home and a nice piece of land.
	Uh, they're gonna be living in an apartment.
	Uh because what uh what Obama is doing and what the CBO now confirms is we're incentivizing, we're incentivizing a world without work, a world in which uh instead of working hard and bettering yourself and enjoying the rewards that come with hard work and the sense of fulfillment, we are now incentivizing people to stay permanently mired uh in a dependency class.
	And that's what Director Elmendorf of the CBO just confirmed to Congress this morning.
	1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein and Farush will take your calls straight ahead.
	Hey, Mark Stein and Farush.
	Let us go to Tommy in Kodak, Tennessee.
	Uh great to have you with us on the on the show, uh, Tommy.
	Do you live in Kodak?
	Yes, I do.
	I'd I'd never heard of I'd never heard of uh Kodak, so I looked it up in the break and um I I saw that it was uh named in 1892 when the local postmaster uh sought the permission of George Eastman of Eastman Kodak Photography to name the town Kodak after his photographic uh equipment.
	So your your your village preserves the name of uh of George Eastman's great Kodak photography invention.
	Is that correct, George?
	Yes, beautiful country, and I thank you for taking my call.
	My my pleasure.
	Uh what's what's on your mind today?
	This is something that I have been screaming about for quite some time.
	That I understand there are people, no doubt, that need government subsidies as far as welfare, food stamps, unemployment benefits, and so forth.
	The elderly, the handicapped, that sort of thing.
	But there is an insurmountable of people that are in the system, number one, that are in the system fraudulently.
	Right.
	And they are making a living off of getting these benefits.
	And it is something that I would term as the institutionalization of the American people.
	You take people uh young men that grew up essentially in Vietnam, people that have been in prison for years, they know nothing else, don't want to know anything Else and couldn't function outside of that.
	They have in effect been institutionalized.
	The same thing I feel is happening with people that have been on unemployment for an insurmountable amount of time.
	They have adjusted their lifestyle to their income that they get on the first and the fifteenth of the month.
	They crane their necks like little birds to get their biweekly feeding because they have adjusted their lifestyle to where they don't feel they need to go to work and bless their hearts.
	Now we're going to give them free health care and perpetuate that fraud.
	We have to pay for it.
	They have, in effect, been institutionalized by the government that they rely solely and make a living solely off of the benefits that they get from the government.
	I can assure you that, and it may happen at some point, that if I find myself without a job, if there is not an employment opportunity for me in the area that I live in, if I can't create an opportunity for myself, then I will move to an area that I can have an opportunity.
	Because right now, as it sits, I was informed in October, November, that my insurance, health insurance is going up $300 a month.
	Right.
	Right.
	My health insurance is.
	This administration is impeding me and threatening my pursuit of happiness.
	After years of struggling, me and my wife have started to see somewhat of a light at the end of the tunnel.
	And in one fell swoop, this administration has essentially snuffed that out.
	No, and you're and you're back to square one.
	You're right to look at it.
	You're right to look at it that way, Tommy, that when you talk about these people being institutionalized, you're right.
	The 50 million people on food stamps...
	Which is an incredible thing.
	That's uh, as I mentioned when I was here a few weeks ago, that's basically the population of Rutherford B. Hayes's America, the president that Obama was mocking uh a year or two back, President Hayes, the entire population of his United States, the equivalent of the population of Canada and the population of Australia on food stamps, living on food stamps.
	And as you say, when you get used to that, when you get used to unemployment benefits, when you get used to a food stamp world, everything adjusts to the rules of dependency, uh, so that uh supermarkets in towns uh on the food stamp day make sure they have all their stuff coming in the day before because that's when they sell the meat in the 48 hours when the food stamps come in.
	That's when they sell all the big products.
	That's when they do more business.
	They do business on those two days of the month and the the other 28 days are flat.
	The entire economy shifts to respond to the incentives the government has given it.
	And so, as you say, these people are essentially living in a world regulated by dependency.
	And if you're used to unemployment, if you get used to unemployment, and you discover that, well, yeah, you know, the the jobs that are out there aren't great jobs.
	And I can live a kind of me and my family can live a kind of forty-five thousand a year lifestyle without having to get a forty-five thousand a year job.
	If you know this government program and that government program, and you put them all together, and as you say, there's a ton of fraud in the system and nobody checks uh and and uh there are in fact no uh no real safeguards on the abuse of the system.
	And so people discover that in fact there's a guy next door, he gets up in the morning and he goes off and he does backbreaking work all day long, and then he comes home and he's exhausted, and uh and he's and even if he could afford the same kind of TV you've got, he's too wiped out to watch it.
	So he goes to bed early, and then he gets up in the morning and he goes off to do uh that work again.
	And you figured out that you can in fact uh live as well as he does without having to get up in the morning and go to work.
	And this is the great evil of welfare, the great evil of welfare.
	Everyone talks, and this is where conservatives sometimes go wrong.
	Conservatives talk about it as a waste of money.
	And it is, it is an absolute waste of money.
	And that these systems developed because in post-World War II prosperity, uh the the growing middle classes of Western nations thought they could uh th they were wealthy enough to throw money uh at the dependency class to buy themselves a bit apiece.
	You know, in other words, we'll set up welfare programs, because otherwise these guys are going to be holding up gas stations or whatever, holding up liquor stores.
	So we'll throw money at the problem, and we won't have to think about it.
	And now they're not so so poor.
	And now we c now not so rich, and the post-war prosperity is over, and uh India and China and Brazil and all kinds of other places have gotten the capitalist thing worked out, and they're competing, so we don't have the money to throw at the problem anymore.
	But the greatest evil of this is not that it is a waste of people.
	It is a waste of money, it's that it's a waste of people.
	It's a waste of human lives.
	Because human dignity and human value is explicitly connected to leading a rewarding life and providing for your family uh and struggling and working and being able to feed and clothe and house your family.
	And it's not the same when government says you don't have to worry about that.
	You can sit around all day watching TV, and it makes no difference.
	What they're incentivizing, they're di what they're doing is devaluing their basic human capital uh of their own societies.
	And there will be a high price to pay uh for what they have done to the m the the vast amount of human wreckage piled up around as a result of these policies.
	Yes, Rush is out sick today, doesn't take many he doesn't take many sick days.
	It's not like the uh Long Island Railroad round here, uh but he is uh genuinely genuinely sick today.
	He has uh alarming uh temperature readings, uh but he will be back fighting fit uh to tackle all that is going on in this great land uh live tomorrow on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Don't forget, you can go to Rush Limbaugh.com and uh if you're a rush twenty-four-seven subscriber, uh then you can get Rush in any shape or form you want, and you need not be discombobulated by any sinister foreign guest hosts.
	So have you been following this uh this stuff of the winter Olympics, because not unrelated to what we're talking about uh where America is headed.
	I'm I'm a great but one of the things I I uh I liked about America when I first uh came here, and when I first bought my home in New Hampshire, one of the things that appealed to me about New Hampshire was the social mix.
	And it was the great it was the great thing that I had always been told and always heard about America, that all kinds of people lived in the same town and they all went to school together.
	And it was not the same as it was in, say, a class-bound society uh such as the United Kingdom, where the Marquis's son goes to Eton or Harrow and uh and the uh glue sniffing punk uh from the public housing estate in the council flat, he he goes to St. Bede's secondary modern for young psychopaths, and they never meet and they never mix.
	And uh the great thing about when you looked at American towns in the nineteenth century uh was that the f the the factory boss lived in the same town as the factory workers.
	Uh they were all there together.
	There was a great social mix.
	And I love that about New Hampshire when I first came to uh New Hampshire because uh and I was I I went to the the uh uh real estate uh people and the realtor took me around showing me properties that it was it was just like delightful.
	You'd see like a beautifully restored 1770s cape that some shishy little couple had lovingly faithfully restored to pristine condition, and then uh across the road from it, right in the middle of the view would be a rusting double wide with an above-the-ground swimming pool and a satellite dish bigger than the trailer, and it was like the social m it was like the social mix of small New Hampshire town life really appealed to me.
	And that has now that is dying in America.
	Uh and I mentioned earlier that that uh if you look at the world that Obama moves in, the world that Obama swims in, the world that most of these elite people uh uh are in, they never have to and this is what makes the tragedy of Danielle, the the lady visiting the oncologist and discovering that uh despite the promises Obamacare doesn't cover uh what she was told it was c would cover,
	is that Obama has actually no idea how she lives or her world.
	They have no they they never see the consequences of liberal policies.
	Ex they do not have to live with the consequences of liberal policies, uh except once in a while when Obama's motorcade drives through and it's a 40-car motorcade and it's got tinted windows, and he's, you know, probably taking a call from Beyoncé anyway, so he's not even looking out the window.
	They never have to see the consequences of liberal policies.
	And even when they do, when they complain about it like Danielle, they want you as victims.
	Victims are great.
	Victims need government.
	So if everything's lousy for you, you cling ever tighter uh to nurse Obama's apron strings because she's got some little government program that um uh will ameliorate the total rotten worthlessness of your existence.
	Uh and and uh and and that's that makes him feel good.
	Paternalism makes a guy feel good.
	Uh it makes them all feel good when they're sitting around the dinner table and they're uh all he he's at a dinner table uh like who is it, the editor of Vogue who threw a big fundraising dinner for him uh up on uh Park Avenue or the Upper East Side in New York or wherever it was, and they're all sitting around all congratulating themselves.
	They're all more compassionate because they treat you as victims, sick dogs, lame dogs, uh, that they can they can do they can care about long distance.
	They don't have to have you in the neighborhood or whatever, and the doorman would shoe you away if you tried to get too near.
	But uh just having you out there at a distance and knowing that they've helped contribute some program that'll do something to make your rotten, stinking, worthless, no account existence just a little bit more bearable is a great pleasure to them.
	Great pleasure to them.
	Uh and that by the way, that totally negates the entire point of the American Revolution, because the American Revolution was about guys saying, Hey, we don't need you.
	You're a great king, but we don't need a king, so screw off out of here.
	And uh and instead you've now replaced it with actually a system that is worse than uh the king.
	Uh because as I usually say, round about November, if uh George the Third was uh running as a presidential candidate, he'd be the small government guy in this election when when it when it's a choice between uh Romney, uh Obama and George the Third, George the Third is the small government guy.
	But just to look at where this is taking us, where this is taking us as we slip down the ranks of economically free nations.
	Uh if you've been following these um uh the the winter Olympics in the town of uh Sochi on the Black Sea, uh sports writers uh all now flying in and they're discovering that in in Putin's Russia uh uh expecting things to be ready in time for the most w what is supposedly the most expensive winter Olympics in history.
	The Guardian's Moscow bureau chief, Sean Walker, reported that when he tried to check into his room at midday Tuesday, he was told by a receptionist, your room is still under construction.
	I always love it, by the way.
	I always love it when the hotel clerk tells you that.
	Uh three hours later, Walker reported the same receptionist offered him a different room with no heating, a single bed, and permeated with the stink of industrial glue.
	Uh Stacy St. Clair reports, My hotel has no water.
	If restored, the front desk says, do not use on your face because it contains something very dangerous, unquote.
	Canadian sports columnist Bruce Arthur wrote, almost every room is missing something.
	Light bulbs, TVs, lamps, chairs, curtains, heat hot water.
	Shower curtains are a valuable piece of the black market here.
	Kevin Bishop, the BBC's Moscow bureau chief, tweeted that the reception area of his hotel didn't have its floor laid, but it did have a picture of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
	Uh It is uh I saw a uh I saw a uh a sign uh on some website the other day, uh Attention Olympic Snow.
	They've post they evidently have the measure of all these sleazy BBC uh and Guardian sports journalists, because they put a big sign out saying attention Olympic snow, rules for using area of Olympic snow, no dirty shoes allowed, no rubbish allowed on the snow surface or near it.
	And then uh the third one is if you need to do a job near or on the snow surface area, please clean up thoroughly after yourself and remove dirty snow with shovel.
	This is the winter Olympics where in fact uh they're going to be doing the ski jump, the sc they're gonna come down the ski jump and land in a giant pile of left-wing journalist fecal matter, apparently.
	That's what the Russians don't want, so they've said if if you need to do a job near or on the snow surface area, please remove dirty snow with shovel.
	They have the measure of these judges.
	Now, at a certain level, I'd like to think this is just pooted messing with the Western media.
	But you know, you know the way Putin is.
	If you if you saw that video of Putin singing I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill to Goldie Horn, don't ask me why, it's a long story, but apparently Goldie Horn and a lot of other zealist celebrities were flowed over to Russia so Putin could sing I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill to them.
	Uh you'll know that he would have, if he could have, he would have wanted to impress these guys.
	But this is this is the kind of uh deformed capitalism uh that uh Putin and his gang have embraced.
	Where a lot of guys, a lot a few guys get enormously rich, wealthier than anybody has ever been ever.
	There are there are uh I saw a fascinating statistic a couple of years ago.
	There are now more butlers in London uh than there were a hundred years ago at the height of the Victorian era in the eighteen nineties.
	There are more butlers in London now, but they're not working for Dukes and Viscounts and so forth.
	They're working for Russian oligarchs who are like the richest guys on the planet.
	Because they cream off everything.
	Uh when you when you when you got a contract, when you put in a beard, when uh when you uh agree to perform, they cream everything off.
	All the way down the side.
	It's like a big giant keystone pipeline full of holes all along the way, as everybody's getting their cut.
	And so when it gets to the actual resort hotel uh next to the Olympics uh ski area, there's no floor where the floor should be, there's no shower curtain, uh they're just finishing off the room, the rooms the rooms aren't ready and all because it's because it's rotten and corrupt and only a few benefit.
	And that's and that's the world we're building here.
	Uh not to the same degree, not yet, but if you look at the cronyism in Obamacare, Obamacare can find money.
	It can't find a it can't arrange things so this lady Danielle, quoted in the LA Times, can get to a her oncologist and find that her oncologist is part of the Obamacare plan, but it can send millions of dollars and millions and millions of millions to favored cronies like Acorn for Obamacare outreach.
	And it's exactly the same thing.
	Uh not as many whole when when you start in the Kremlin and you go all the way out to the Black Sea where the uh Olympics are taking place, it's a very long pipeline, and all the holes in the pipe where all the people on the take are sluicing their little share out of the pipeline so that by the whatever money is allocated just a dribble ends up in the resort.
	That's how it is with Obamacare.
	Obamacare has money for Obama's cronies.
	Uh it has uh favors for favored identity groups for people who have the presidents here, but out on the sharp end at the end of the pipeline, there's just uh uh m fewer fewer doctors, fewer hospitals, a worse plan, higher deductibles, higher copies, because uh uh it's the it's basically the same principle.
	The cronies sluice all the stuff uh out of the system.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, we'll take more your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, uh hoping I don't get a twofer in the deportation orders with my compatriot and fellow teen idol Justin Bieber.
	We will bring you we will bring you breaking news on the Bieber marijuana front as it happens.
	Uh also we'll be following news from the winter Olympics, including a strange story that they banned picking wild garlic uh during the winter Olympics.
	I don't know what uh that I don't think they need halitosis to add to all the other odors they've got uh causing problems there.
	Let us go uh to Steve in Charlotte, North Carolina.
	Steve, you're live on the Rush Limbo show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Mark, thanks a lot for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	I spent about seven days in September absolutely furious that our president did not know a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that would turn out to really affect me.
	I'm a let me explain.
	I'm a retire a sixty-year-old retiree from IBM who had a child turned twenty-three in September of two thousand thirteen.
	Right.
	And so in May, I got a letter from IBM that says um you have a child's gonna turn twenty-three in the next ninety days.
	Umless they're disabled, they'll be terminated from um our uh health care plan of which he was on his whole life.
	Um and I've got this from May, and it says here, if your dependent does not qualify as an eligible dependent, his or her coverage will end according to plan guidelines at the end of September.
	Right.
	So the next day I got this in May.
	The next day I went to in May, I went to healthcare.gov, and I have this printout from May 19th, and it says young adult coverage under the Affordable Care Act.
	If your plan covers children, you can now add or keep your children on your health care policy until they turn twenty-six.
	Right.
	So this was a Sunday, so I I waited till Monday and I called um my health care policy, my IBM group, and um and they uh I came away from that call not thinking that it was a big deal because it might be for a few months he's not covered, and then so I'd have to do something.
	But then starting January first.
	And then on his birthday, I didn't get anything else, and on his birthday, I called back in September, hadn't gotten another thing, and they said, you know, and I explained my son is a graduate student, he's my dependent everywhere the work can be defined, and they just said, sorry, you're out of luck.
	He's off at the end of September.
	Right.
	So then I did a little looking.
	You can Google this.
	President Obama made a speech on June twenty-eighth of twenty twelve, after the Supreme Court reaffirmed the Affordable Care Act.
	And in that speech, he said exactly that, what I just said.
	He said, All the kids under 26 can stay in their parents' health care plan.
	So um And he and he got a cheer when he did that.
	And he got it because it's like the if you like your plan, you can keep your plan.
	If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
	Uh if you like your your kid, Steve, you can keep your kid.
	Now that it's that speech was June twenty eighth, twenty twelve, so this is September twenty thirteen.
	I said to myself, well, um maybe something changed, and um we were watching and I had at the time I had five days to get my son on a policy before October 1st uh would kick in um so he would have coverage.
	Uh so we we took care of that.
	But um on September 24th, 2013, a little bit after 510 PM Eastern time, live on CNN, he said the same thing again.
	Right I couldn't believe it.
	I um what I would learn is that uh that he didn't know what I would learn is a provision was written into the Affordable Care Act to allow the private sector to not have to ensure the twenty-three, twenty-four, and twenty-five-year-olds of retirees in our country.
	Exactly.
	And you're if you're a retiree from the federal government, you could have a twenty-five-year-old.
	The twenty-five-year-old doesn't even have to be your dependent, and your twenty-five-year-old could be married and could still be on your family policy.
	Yeah, and there's a reason for that, Steve, which is that uh Obama values federal employees more than he values you.
	And that's why the bill uh is three thousand pages long, because it's not a law in which uh you as an American citizen are bound by the same laws as the other three hundred million citizens.
	It's a hierarchy of privilege in which certain groups are privileged over other groups.
	In this case, the children of federal employees are are more valued than the children of private sector employees.
	And the key word that Steve used there is eligible.
	Eligible.
	Obama never uses that word.
	He never says, if you've got an eligible child, uh he'll be allowed to stay on your health care plan.
	If you've got an eligible doctor, you'll be allowed to keep your doctor.
	If you've got an eligible plan, you'll be able to keep your plan.
	But it's all about that word, eligible.
	Eligible, eligible.
	And he and his vast uh Kathleen Sibelius bureaucracy has a big ranking hit parade of who's eligible and who's not.
	And that is the great injustice.
	At the heart of Obamacare's, it makes a mockery of equality before the law.
	Mark's time for Rush, more to come.
	Hey, Caramba!
	Uh yeah, I love that word, eligible, eligible.
	The word Obama never uses.
	If you uh if your eligible plan, if you like your eligible plan, you can keep it.
	If you if you like your eligible child, uh he'll be able to stay on your health insurance.
	It's all about the eligibility, and government gets to decide.
	They say that 23-year-old is eligible and this 23-year-old is not eligible.
	And as we see in California, where people have been told one thing and discovering that their doctor's been told another thing, and he ain't gonna do anything until they pay up front on the cost of the operation or whatever, uh it's uh it's all arbitrary.
	I'm thinking, by the way, I'm thinking of running for president on the ineligible party ticket.
	I think uh in an age when uh your access to this stuff depends on government saying you're eligible but you're not eligible, and we'll decide who's eligible, then the then free men need to stand up and say, proclaim loud and clear, I am ineligible,

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