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Feb. 5, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 5, 2014, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Yes, Rush is uh unwell today, taking taking a rare sick day.
He doesn't take them very often, uh, but he was laid low by a fever and he's shaking it off, and he will be here tomorrow for the real deal.
Authentic all-American excellence in broadcasting.
Uh in the meantime, this is Mark Stein here live from uh iStation E.I.B. in far northern New Hampshire.
If uh if you're fleeing the country, do swing by and say hello.
You can't miss us.
Big sign on the highway saying uh last rush guest host before the border.
And we always we always do like uh like to like to see you.
HR is uh running things out of New York today, and so it goes from New Hampshire to New York, and then over to California and up to the satellite and out to the world.
And uh it's always great honor to for a foreigner to sit behind the golden EIB microphone, and it's one of the the the great blessings of my life in America that I get uh get to do this.
I was thinking uh do I have anything to plug at the moment?
Because it always helps to have something to plug.
If you haven't got something to plug, uh your career must be in real trouble.
And I was looking at my live engagement schedule, and uh I've got a gig in Ottawa and uh a tour of Australia coming up.
So if you fancy making the convenient seventeen hour drive up to Ottawa uh to see me, I'll be there on March the first.
It's like Justin Bieber when Justin Bieber uh with his mile high marijuana cloud uh private jet with the stewardess locked in the cockpit with the two pilots who have got their oxygen masks on to avoid getting the marijuana up their nose and failing the drug test.
Like uh Justin Bieber is about to be expelled from the the country, and I'm worried because the United States government doesn't deport very many of us aliens that they'll want to make it a twofa and get rid of two Canadians for the price of one.
So if you're driving up to Toronto uh to see Justin Bieber in concert at Maple Leaf Gardens, swing up to Ottawa uh and I'll be there uh doing a big uh confab of Canadian conservatives in March.
Actually, I mean that semi-seriously, because the fascinating thing about you may not have noticed this, but conservatives in uh Canada, Australia, and uh New Zealand are in power.
They ha those countries have conservative governments.
Uh David Cameron, who's a total squish, uh but he is at least nominally conservative, uh he's in power in the United Kingdom.
Uh Obama leads the most left-wing government uh of any developed nation.
It's an it's uh actually a remarkable thing.
It's a remarkable thing that you've got a guy who couldn't get elected.
The president here couldn't get elected in Canada, he couldn't get elected in Australia, he couldn't get elected in New Zealand.
But he's left-wing enough to get elected in the United States of America, which is a quite remarkable thing.
So as I said, uh I'll be up in Ottawa at a big gathering of Canadian conservatives and uh and and any Republican operatives, uh he he he tries to say with a straight face, planning the uh twenty sixteen campaign.
Uh if you want to if you want to know what it's like to be on the Whitig side, you might want to swing through Ottawa and see what's like that.
And then I said I'm gonna be touring it Australia.
And I believe that's a convenient uh sixteen hour flight from Seattle.
So it'll be well worth it if you if you want to see me live, come see me in Melbourne.
It's convenient uh just uh thirty-three hour round trip flight from uh from Seattle.
Uh you'll it'll be well worth uh well worth the money.
But that's the that's the point here.
Uh these uh there's something has gone wrong.
Something has gone wrong in uh with the in the US political system.
Uh when you have a guy who is he's not a centrist opportunist like uh Bill Clinton was.
He's someone who has an avowedly leftist view of the world, and yet he has twice been elected by the people of the United States.
And if nothing else, that doesn't say much for the way the Republican Party uh is is uh doing things uh at uh at the moment.
Uh I mentioned, by the way, that garlic uh uh garlic uh has been b picking has been banned during the winter Olympics.
Residents in several parts of Chechnya and Ingoshicha have been banned from picking wild garlic during the winter Olympics, reports the BBC.
Uh uh th this news was broken by the jihadist website, Kavkaz Center, uh which is one of these uh jihadist websites in the Caucasus.
If you're in the Boston area, this is probably the sort of thing that the Sarneev brothers were reading uh just before they blew up the Boston Marathon.
Uh but Kavkav Center says the ban will be imposed by Russian security forces.
The infidels and apostates have not explained in what way picking wild garlic in the forests could endanger the Olympics.
Uh that's it's well Mike thinks it's for the uh for any vampire, it's for the Transylvanian team, isn't it?
It would affect their performance if people Yeah, the old the old Transylvanian bobsled team at the winter Olympics.
It's the uh that's the thing.
It's the old Transylvanian ski jumper.
He just comes flying down, the Transylvanian ski jumper.
He's he's there in his body hutting lycra, but with the big black vampiric cape, and he comes going down the ski jump off the thing, and there's some guy holding a bit of garlic, holding a clove of garlic up, and he just nosedives into uh into the snow.
So uh taking precautions to not affect the performance of the Transylvania bobsled team, the uh yeah, oh yeah, or the Transylvanian two-man luge.
You know, I always like the Transylvanian two-man luge.
The two-man luge is very difficult because you have to the guy on top has to sort of arch his back, so it doesn't look like he's too friendly to to the uh to the uh lower guy in the two-man luge.
And if you've if you've got some guy waving uh garlic around at the Transylvanian two man luge team, uh then he could just collapse down on top of the other guy, and it wouldn't look at all appropriate on the two-man luge.
Uh or maybe it's yeah, yeah, I think yeah, they've got their their uh their two-man luge bobsled is actually coffin-shaped.
That is uh that's true, and it's a very makes a very impressive sight as it's as it's uh as it's going down.
By the way, the um the the uh the uh Transylvanian team always does well in the ice dancing because the uh the vampire guy on the Transylvanian ice dancing team, always male guy, always looks like he's dressed for it.
He he dresses for ice dancing in real life anyway, so it's uh it always works out for him.
Anyway, that's the uh the by the way, just go back to Joshua.
Joshua was saying, ah, Romney, Obama, there's no difference.
You know what the difference is?
You know what the difference is?
Like, you know, whatever you say about Mitt, and people had the Mitt Mitt saved the Salt Lake City Olympics.
Mitt made uh that was going down uh uh as a a bigger hole than the way these Olympics uh in Russia are looking at the moment.
Uh and Mitt made them profitable.
Mitt made money off sports that people don't even like.
I mean, and say what you like about the guy.
I mean, he curling, curling.
Nobody in America watches curling.
In Canada, there's a curling channel uh on your on your cable package.
And it's not elite, it's basic cable.
It's like Channel 7, the curling channel.
I did play by play curling once.
I covered for a friend and had to do play-by-play curling uh years ago, and so I know a little bit about the stones and brooms and all the rest of it.
Uh no Americans interested in curling, yet uh Mitt Romney made turned a profit on curling.
He turned a profit on curling.
And he he uh he had uh that's right, he had shower curtains in the Salt Lake things.
But he that's that's the thing.
Mitt Romney turned that, turned that winter Olympics uh around.
He made it watchable.
There were some disgraceful things.
I feel was that the uh the French judge who marked down the Canadians uh in the uh in the ice dancing.
Uh absolutely deplorable.
Somebody had fixed the judging and the uh the French judge mysteriously marked down the Canadian team and gave it to the Russians.
I think it's that that French judge went on to serve uh on the uh on the Security Council of the United Nations during the vote for the Iraq war about three weeks later, I think it was.
But that is Mitt's great achievement.
Whatever you say about Mitt, he's not like Obama's never created a dime of wealth in his life.
He's never done anything.
Uh most of these Democrats have never done anything.
John Kerry was a uh sleeping partner in a donut stand in Boston for two weeks.
Most of these guys have never earned any wealth.
Mitt Romney turned around that winter Olympics.
If Mitt Romney had been running these winter Olympics, and by the way, here's how basic things are.
Louisa Baybakova, who is a staffer at the Olympic Village.
She goes, attention, dear colleagues.
Due to an extreme shortage of pillows for athletes who unexpectedly arrive to Olympic village in the mountains, there will be a transfer of pillows from all apartments to the storehouse on second February twenty fourteen.
Please be understanding.
We have to help the athletes out of this bind.
So the s the caterers and the janitors at the uh winter Olympics are having to give up their pillows for the athletes athletes who, as uh Louisa Bayer Bybakova uh uh touchingly puts it, quote, unexpectedly arrived to Olympic village in the mountains, unquote.
Who could have seen it coming?
Out of the blue, suddenly all these athletes show up in the Olympic village expecting pillows.
Because there's nothing you like more when you've got like the two man luge uh coming the following day than to be sleeping on a hard bed without a pillow.
So they've the the caterers and uh the cleaners have had to give up their pillows for the athletes who all unexpectedly arrived in the Olympic village.
That's the same word they use for the uh if you notice if you think applying unexpectedly to the winter Olympics is ridiculous.
That's the same word that the media apply to any bad news for Obama.
Jobs uh uh the un the economy unexpectedly took a sluggish turn in the third quarter of twenty thirteen.
Uh housing sales unexpectedly dipped in the fourth quarter of twenty thirteen.
So so the winter Olympics are just basically using the same excuses as the uh mainstream media uses to cover for Obama.
Uh but it's getting it's uh it's getting worse and worse and the solution as we discussed in the first hour to these problems is more paperwork, more paperwork.
Climate hubs in New Hampshire, a regional climate hub, a federal regional climate hub in New Hampshire to advise farmers on local climate risks.
What it all boils down to is paperwork.
Paperwork, paperwork is nothing this country is drowning in paperwork.
This country's got paperwork for everything you've got to fill in thirty seven page forms.
You need government approval to do uh one in three jobs uh in this country uh and and that's all it's coming down to paperwork paperwork paperwork paperwork and that's all that will be left in the Republic of paperwork.
1 eight hundred two eight two eight eight two Markstein for Rush will take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Let's go to Roslyn in uh Poe Quaid uh New York which I I gather is uh in the environment of uh of Poughkeepsie uh uh Rosalind is that correct?
It's in Dutchess County, and we're snowbound today, and you are the wittiest, most entertaining talk show host ever.
I'm enjoying my...
Well, I don't...
You have Roslyn, by the way, which is with an L-Y-N, is one of my favorite names.
Oh, that's great.
Is it on Rush's top ten list of favorite ladies'names?
I don't think so.
Oh, right, right.
No, it's...
I don't make that list.
It's...
Rush's top ten list of ladies'names is apparently sealed and on a need-to-know basis, right?
I can't tell you whether they're I used to I used to date a Roslyn uh when I was uh uh I think around uh eighteen or nineteen I've I should probably shouldn't get into that in case it turns out you're the but I'm sorry about that I'm calling about um this Obamacare push towards part-time uh employment and so that the slackers can pursue their pie in the sky.
Right.
And more to the point is that they're paying less into Social Security and I'm sure everybody knows that you have to work forty quarters and after what amounts to ten years you get social security benefits and the the less money you pay in the better your rate of return is.
Right.
So what's going to happen with this if we have all these part time workers the poor slub American citizen that works a lower income middle class lifestyle has to pay into social security and will get for forty years of work modestly more than these part time workers.
And not only that but you're also saying this will of course necessitate bringing in more foreign workers to fill in the gap.
Right.
And we have a immigrant advantage.
Immigrants typically pay less than to s Social Security, work fewer years because we allow forty, fifty and sixty year olds to come to the United States.
Well, and you and you also allow chain migration, which means that once one one person is here, they can bring in a whole bunch of elderly relatives as as well, which doesn't do anything for improving the viability of Social Security.
You're you're right, I you're right on this, Rosalind, but but you know somebody said in I think in the first hour that people are living paycheck to paycheck.
And that's true.
If you look at uh what would happen if everybody lost their job today and they uh had to start with nothing tomorrow, uh people have only got like uh three, four, five, six thousand dollars in their bank account.
So they got they've they've got uh enough to get them for a few weeks.
And I think in that kind of world people are not actually people are not thinking about uh what's going to happen to Social Security down the road, except insofar that they assume uh government i if if you were in a situation where uh where uh social security was not enough to enable you to live the way you wanted to live then government will simply uh wave its magic wand and improve it.
And I don't I just don't I don't think that people are actually thinking that far down the road about what things are as you say the basic injustice that the harder you work because people always say about social security it's like I paid it in so I want to get it.
And they don't and they don't understand that the harder you work and the more you work and the more you pay in the less you get.
And so the the system comes with inequality built into it like that, Rosalyn.
I'm lose I can't I can't hear you Mark.
Oh okay.
We got it we uh we've got a bit of a problem in the in the lines between I think there's snow on the line between my order and North New Hampshire.
Thanks thanks for your call uh Rosalie great to talk to you.
Let's go to uh Elena in uh in Washington.
I think is that Washington DC or Washington State.
Hi good to good to speak with you, Elena.
What's on the Yeah you know I was uh I called in uh counter some points made by I think it was the first caller of the day who says that's um universal health care in America was inevitable regardless of who was in power.
I think that was the gist of it.
Yeah.
Um I just I don't even know if that guy I mean he sounds like he's informed but nothing he said was true.
I mean every thing speaks to the contrary.
Mitt Romney running against Obama said repeatedly on record that he would repeal it and that he was not for nationalized health care.
There was only roughly estimated thirty million people that were uninsured and as it turns out most of those people are the young healthy ones that are not signing up for Obamacare now or people that would have qualified for Medicaid anyways.
I mean his opinions don't bear out any fact all the Republicans in the House and Senate voted against it.
I mean half the nation were divided on that there's no way that this would have came if it wasn't done in backroom deals and through sequestration.
The guy just doesn't know what he's talking about.
Yeah and and and as you say the th th you're right that to to look at these thirty million, thirty million uninsured people always assume that these are frail sick people who are somehow being denied health coverage.
As you say they're often healthy young people and it's a fairly rational decision to make if you're like twenty three, twenty four or they're the people of the welfare state that all have cell phones, all have big flat screen TVs and that would default on any bill they got anyways regardless of if it's health care or otherwise they can't there's a the there's another group Elena too that's in here there and that is people who are extremely wealthy.
But they're wealthy enough to be if they have an accident to be able to afford to uh just uh go to the hospital and write a check and that is a rational decision too.
That's what Rush did when he had his heart problems in uh in Hawaii a couple of years ago.
He got there and they wanted to see his uh his health insurance card and instead he got out of his check book uh and said how much is it gonna be and actually that's very liberating in the in the bureaucracy clogged world of American health care I'm I'm in a bad mood about this Elena because I went to the doctor yesterday but I would like to be treated in a supposedly private healthcare system as a private client again.
It's getting more and more the case with this sort of pseudo-insurance operated by the government, where insurers are basically sock puppets for government, that you're getting treated not as private clients, but as somehow petitioners for government largesse.
And it's entirely rational for people earning $200,000 a year or up to decide if they need a hernia operation that they'd like to get out their checkbook and pay for it that way, Elena.
there are that 30 million group is flexible and it's not made up of poor people hey real quick before I forget I was listening the day that you guest host and you talked about roundabouts and the de-evolution of society I laughed so hard.
That was one of the funniest funniest comments you've ever made you very yeah it's the the the roundabout is the hallmark of American decline.
Do you know something I should I shouldn't uh I I I shouldn't say this to you later.
Than thanks for your call we got a hard break coming up but I will say this my favorite roundabouts they've got some roundabout mini roundabouts in certain towns in New Hampshire now that don't get it go anywhere and that's a meta for America for America too.
Roundabouts with no exit roundabouts where there is nowhere to get off you just go round and round and round.
So I do remember that the roundabout as a metaphor of American decline.
Thank you for your call Elena lots more still to come on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey great to be with you Rush is a little under the weather but we will pass on your good wishes to him and he will be back tomorrow.
I was talking I was talking earlier uh saying that these they've identified where you un uh insured people are you know like the undocumented the undocumented they've got an amnesty for but there's no amnesty for you uninsured guys.
You got until uh you you got until the end of March to get with the program.
Uh but otherwise they're coming for you and they've narrowed you down, you uninsured people and they've discovered that more than half of you live in just one hundred and eight counties of the more than three thousand counties in the United States of America and they are I I suggested rather flippantly that it was uh boom it could all be over like just like that.
Obama knows where you are and boom a couple of drones that would solve the problem.
Jesse Ventura says that he is now off the grid in Mexico.
He's al he's been kind of psychologically off the grid.
Former Minnesota governor and wrestler uh Jesse Ventira says he's gone off the grid in Mexico to avoid dronings drones knowing where he is.
I don't understand why going to Mexico would make it harder to drone you they've got drones along the Mexican border.
They got drones along the Canadian border uh just far just a stone's throw from me at Derby Line, Vermont and Stanstead, Quebec, where the Haskell Opera House you just you you you on the uh on that little building on the uh Vermont Quebec line uh where the opera house is half in Canada and half in the United States and the town library is half in Canada and half in the United States.
They've got drones hovering over the nonfiction shelves to see whether the Canadians are accidentally stepping over onto the American side.
So so Jesse Van Gira is going to have to keep moving.
It's not going to be good enough to go to just to go to Mexico.
But he's now doing a show off the grid like this.
I've got half my neighbors are like uh are like this.
They're like they won't have phones listed in the phone book.
Uh they they won't be on the electric grid.
They got their own generators or anything.
One of my neighbors is like this he just lives in like a cabin in the woods always lived like this no phone line no electric thing no doesn't want to be in any of the documents.
So the government can't find him his kid goes to the school and he's he's late he's the nobody can pick him up for an hour after school so he goes to the library and he goes on the computer and he finds this thing called Google Earth and next thing you know you realize he's got a camera hovering over my neighbor's house that can be seen from outer sp the government can watch him from outer space.
And like many of my neighbors he's got like a uh he's got a more firepower than the Belgian army in his basement, uh, and it availeth him naught because the drones are watching, the drones are watching.
So it's like you can be in, you can be living your uninsured lifestyle in your compound.
Uh, but they they're out there, they're watching you.
They know which of these 108 counties you're in, and they are gonna get you.
More Americans, for the the highest number ever of Americans, young Americans up to the age of 30, are now living with their parents.
Uh the story in Bloomberg, uh, going on 30, living with mom and dad.
It's not just I thought with Obama when he we were talking about that earlier, he said you're 26, you can stay on your parents' health insurance, and uh parents are thinking, well, gosh, it's only a couple more months more uh till Junior is 27, and then he'll move out of our insurance agency and he'll finally be a man and stand on his own to feet.
No, there were no jobs.
He's got a worthless degree in colonial and transgender studies, and he's got a quarter million dollars in debt for that worthless degree piled up, so he's thirty years old and he's still living at home.
Uh there was a court case about this in Italy.
Uh same thing in Italy.
Uh uh a lady who had been uh young lady of well, I say young, she's actually middle aged, she was like thirty-three, and she'd been working on her college thesis for twelve years, and her father had enough and decided to stop paying for her.
And an Italian court ruled he had to keep on paying the poor guy's sixty-seven, she's thirty-three.
The Italian court ruled he had to go on, carry on paying, paying for her.
And uh I don't know, he she's never gonna move out.
And I don't know what the sixty-seven-year-old guy can do about it except move in with his 93-year-old parents or whatever.
But uh higher numbers of uh of adults in their late twenties uh m living at home than ever before.
More 27-year-olds live with their parents than with roommates, according to the headline of a piece in Slate.
Uh where this is this is what happens again.
This is the other thing that happens when you create a dependency culture.
Uh nobody ever grows up.
Everybody's a child forever.
We are in the the there was a famous uh early Benny Hill sketch.
I like to cite scholarly authorities when I'm making a profound point.
Uh, there is a famous Betty Hill sketch from about 1962 where he's playing a sort of biker, and he's talking about the problems that him and his bird are having getting a council flat to move into.
And the BBC interviewer says, uh, well, have you considered moving back with in with your parents?
And he goes, uh yeah, but they've moved back in with theirs.
And that's that's the world Obaba is creating now.
30-year-olds living with mom and dad.
A 30-year-old used to be someone who had a home of their own, had a family of their own, had kids of their own.
Now a 30-year-old is basically uh just the guy, what is 12th grade, you're 18.
So uh twelve yeah, he's basically just a grade 24-year-old schoolboy uh living at home with his uh with his mom and dad.
But don't worry, Obama is working on this.
As you know, he's had a lot of problems with his healthcare system and uh the website and everything.
But he released that video yesterday, I mentioned it, in which he had the rapping pug and the cat and the the uh cockatoo and the goldfish and all these other and the fluffy bunny and all these other domestic animals urging their urging America's pet owners to enroll for Obamacare.
And I I made the point that I thought it would actually, in the long run, it would actually probably be better to enroll down at your your dogs or cats local vet because you're gonna be getting more timely and more efficient medical treatment there.
So that video hasn't quite gone viral.
It hasn't quite turned into an internet.
People didn't believe me, uh, but they went out and they discovered that this video with the rapping pug that you paid for, the American taxpayers paid for someone in the bowels of the American federal bureaucracy to come up with the genius idea of getting a rapping pug dog to sell Obamacare to the masses.
Uh there's now there's now a new video out.
Uh uh organizing for action has put out a uh new commercial urging Congress to raise the national minimum wage for millions of low paid Americans, and it shows a low paid American and she's like sipping a uh a coffee cup on her way to work.
And the problem here is that the picture of the low paid American they're using is actually a woman strap hanging on the London tube.
Uh where I think it actually identifies.
This is a story in the Daily Telegraph.
I think it actually Yeah, the Obama the the this Obama for America example of a low-paid American who needs her minimum wage uh raised is actually a commuter on the London tube line uh from New Cross uh to Newcross and Surrey Keys.
That's the uh if I remember my London Underground, that's the southern end of the East London line.
Uh I used to date a chick at the Northern End, who was a nurse at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel in the sort of Jack the Ripper country.
Uh so it's good to have a hospital nearby when you've got a guy slashing and murdering prostitutes in the slums of the East End.
But anyway, that's where the East London Line starts and it ends with uh it ends around uh uh Newcross and Surrey Keys, which used to be called Surrey Docks, but then it got gentrified, so they changed the name to Surrey Keys.
So the only example of a low-paid American who needs her her uh uh uh her minimum wage raised is in fact a strap-hanging commuter on the East London line of the London tube going to work.
And it's very it's fascinating uh because the one thing we're told that Obama is good at is he's cool.
He understands the zeitgeist.
He's not like square guys like Mitt Romney.
Mitt Romney, uh Paul Ryan was mocking the music that Mitt had on his iPod.
No celebrities want to be mixed up with uh Republicans.
They've the the they get no endorsements, they get uh Pat Boone, they get one of the Oak Ridge boys.
That's the only appeal they have to pop culture.
Uh but Obama is different because he hangs with Beyonce and Jay-Z, the coolest people on the planet, uh a part of Obama, which is why he understands social media and pop culture and all the other things, and in fact, he's just like rubbish at it.
He puts out the world's worst cat video to sell Obamacare, and now he's put up a strap-hanging London commuter as an example of how oppressed Americans need to have their minimum wage raised.
That's uh the latest ad from organizing for action.
Uh so if you if you want your uh if if you want an example of a hardworking American, you have to go and find a strap-hanging commuter on the East London line of the London Underground.
Mark Stein in for Rush will take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for us, let's go to Jesse in Miami.
Jesse, great to have to have you with us on the show.
Why, thanks, Mark.
So you take a look at the master plan, I guess.
What is the president's checklist to fundamentally change and transform America?
And I think when I listen to all that you say and I try to put myself in those shoes and figure out what does he really want to do and how's he doing it, I think the checklist begins to emerge.
And you see, first of all, take over a big chunk of the American economy through stimulus and through uh taking over health care.
And I think our chaos in the rollout of Obamacare certainly actually perhaps was intended, not just accidental or they didn't see it coming.
And out of that chaos will become perhaps demands for single care, which is perhaps where they wanted to go in the first place.
And then the starting point, of course, is with the population.
The American people are fundamentally kind, caring, uh generous people.
And so when you tell them, my gosh, 30 million people are uninsured.
Well, actually he doesn't say they're uninsured, he says they have no health care, which is quite different from being uninsured, but now we don't know the difference between those two.
Um kind caring Americans say, oh my gosh, we must do something about that.
So that's another item on the checklist, and there you get Obamacare rolling out.
Um then, of course, in order to get people all together you to support and to perpetuate uh this new order, uh you've got to get as many of them as dependent as possible.
And so you see this this burst in in welfare and in food stamps and all those the everything else on that list.
And and finally, um if you're really going to cement the glue of of keeping people in line, you're going to stoke a little class warfare, or in fact a lot of class warfare.
And you're going to perpetuate the notion that the richer rich, the poor are poor because the richer rich.
So I see an emerging checklist.
And um I'm wondering about your take on all that.
I think you're I think you're right, Jesse, that there is a view that Obamacare was never going to be the final answer, that it's an interim stage to a single payer government health care system, the biggest the biggest on the planet.
And and Obama has been, you know, relatively explicit about that.
He said that's what he favors, but that he can't do it all at once.
Other Democrats have said that that this is a necessary feint to get there.
Yeah, you have it's like a lot of things that's like college uh loans.
It's like the housing industry, it's like the banking industry.
You have the dead husk of a private sector, but with uh uh a government hand stuffed up it, operating it, moving it around, you know, like your local bank.
The banks are all the same in this country.
They they can compete on checkbook colour, and that's it.
Otherwise they're just enforcing banking regulations.
They're de facto nationalized.
And uh same thing with housing and all kinds of other things, uh college loans.
What they were trying to do here, I think, is to c create a sort of uh uh uh uh again, a husk of the private sector uh that would give uh provide a veneer of private sector health care, but that would move them towards single payer.
That you're right in that.
Where I think you're wrong uh is that I don't think that the chaos of uh the the website rollout was intentional.
I think Obama would have liked that to be efficient, so that all people complained about was that they were losing their health care plans and had to move on to the government plans.
But he would have liked to, I think in his an ideal world, he would not have created a totally incompetent flop website, because that gets to issues of competence with Obama.
And frankly, you know, uh you don't want to get too mired in left-wing conspiracy uh thinking where you think, ha ha Obama deliberately created the world's worst website in order to drive us all here there away.
I think he wanted that website to work.
It's not like Mel Brooks and the producers where they wanted to create the your you know, the all-time great Broadway flop of websites.
Uh because if if government had tried to do that, it would have accidentally turned out to be the biggest best website in the world, and they would have been in that uh whatever the great line from uh the uh the film the producers is, where did we go right?
I think I think what they did here, they do want to move to single payer, but it was not Obama's intention to have four months of disaster and bad news and bad press.
But again, that works.
Ultimately that works to his advantage because when people are saying, Oh, this is terrible, we need something else, which way are they gonna jump?
Are they gonna jump back to genuinely private health care with a a small public uh system for those who can't afford it or are too sick or have failed to make provision?
Or are they gonna say, Oh no, this is all too scary.
We need big nanny government to come and look after us, because Obama's bet that the American people are no different uh from Swedes or Greeks or Italians.
They want the apron strings of being nanny government, and that test for Americans is coming as Obamacare collapses and takes everything down with it.
Mark Stein for Rush will close things out in a moment.
Mark Stein in ForRush, a Las Vegas man is accused of killing another man in a fist fight after arguing with him about jukebox music at a bar.
Uh police arrested Luis Miguel Shavarin, 31, after the fight happened around 4 AM Monday at the loose caboose on West Flamingo Road in Las Vegas.
Uh I'm I often get asked on this show, when are people gonna get riled?
When are people gonna see what's happening to the country?
When are people gonna see what's happened to their health care, when to their jobs, to their opportunities, uh and and at that point uh all hell will break loose and s we will have a civil war.
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
This is this is the way it is.
This Las Vegas story.
When civil war breaks out, it will be over a song on a jukebox.
In Thailand, they have had people killed for some reason when a guy goes uh into a karaoke bar and sings My Way.
And now the end is near.
And that's how they that's how it breaks out.
That's how it's gonna happen here.
Civil war over songs played on the jukebox at the loose caboose.
Thanks, uh thanks for sticking with me.
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