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Feb. 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 17, 2014, Monday, Hour #3
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And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, with half my brain tied behind my back.
Just to make it fair.
Here in the midst of the fastest three hours in media, telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282882 and the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
You know, speaking of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims.
Over at Amazon, there are currently 2,600 reviews of Rush Revere and The Brave Pilgrims.
And it has a collective rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars.
Now, I don't study these things a lot, but I have to tell you, I don't think I've ever seen such a high review ranking for any book at Amazon.
4.8 out of 5 with 2600 reviews.
It's 2,277 out of 2,600 reviewers gave it five out of five stars.
And that's right, the audio books unabridged.
It's the whole thing.
It is every word.
The audio version of Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and the audio version of Rush Revere and the First Patriots, which again is for sale on March the 11th.
We made it available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes, Books a Million and Everywhere out there a couple of Fridays ago.
And uh, but I just, you know, I had to make mention of these reviews because you people are doing that, and I just need to thank you again.
And another thing, these kids that call here, I had some snarky email saying, where's your agent finding these child actors?
Because they sound so good.
They're not actors, those are real kids, those are real readers.
They just snurdily answers the phone, they get through here.
Don't act so surprised that a child of parents that listen to this program would be so well spoken and polite and mannerly.
I I think it's great.
And that last uh caller from Smith and Illinois that called here, the 10-year-old, bam, hi, John, how are you?
He's right in there.
And, you know, I some people think the parents put them up to it.
They're sitting out there.
Maybe, I don't know, but that young man was saying what he really thought.
He wasn't saying because he was coached or written out for him.
It's great, folks.
It's the um the feedback and the reaction that we're getting.
You can see some of it, because it gets posted at the adventures of Rush Revere Portal at 2 if by T.com.
And again, this the second book in the series, and there always was going to be a second book.
I just want to cannibalize the first one.
Uh, so we've got the second one in the series, and it comes out on March the 11th, Rush Revere and the First Patriots, and this one.
We got some good stuff in this.
We got a uh a young student who attempts to undermine some other students.
It's just perfect.
We have uh a conversation between Rush Revere and King George.
And let me just let you into something on this now.
It, you know, these books are not political, they're not overtly, I mean, they're just true to American history.
And that's their mission, that's their purpose, is to simply teach the truth of American history in a very proud, uplifting, positive, honest manner.
That's what's going on here.
Specifically to counter what has become the way American history is taught in the public schools.
It's taught that people should feel guilty about this country, that it's imperfect, that it's not exceptional and all that.
And I just think that's horrible.
So these books have a mission to counter that with just the truth.
And they're not overtly political.
However, I mean, we do teach.
It's American history.
And so the conversation Between Rush Revere and the King is a way, this is for you parents, it is a way of explaining tyranny and socialism in a way that kids 10 to 13 will read about and say, oh my God, that's horrible.
But there's no mention of Republican Democrat, liberal conservative, or any of that.
There's no preaching.
It's just honest, straightforward.
And that conversation is not a long, it's not a whole chapter, for example, but it's it's a it's a it's a seminal moment in the in the book.
And I loved doing it.
I loved crafting that.
Because it's crucial in terms of the mission.
But there's all kinds.
We meet Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, uh, Samuel Adams, uh, and and a number of other uh major, major figures in American history in Rush Revere and the first Patriots.
Now, folks, Chuck Barkley of the NBA and TNT was granted an interview with the one.
Chuck Barkley interviewed Obama.
It was last night.
Part, I guess it was the NBA All-Star Weekend.
Is that what was going on?
Yeah, NBA All-Star Games last night.
And and prior to, it's like before the Super Bowl.
Whatever network televising a Super Bowl does an interview with the president.
So TNT does the NBA, so they sent Chuck Barkley in there.
He's the closest thing they've got to a journalist.
No, he's not.
They don't have anybody close to being a journalist.
Anyway, they sent Chuck over there.
Because Obama loves the hoops.
And they sent Milk Dud head in there.
And asked him a couple of questions.
And one of the things that Chuck Barkley, his friends call him Chuck.
Chuck used to like me until Obama became president.
Then it changed.
Anyway, Chuck said to Obama, what do you think of the term Obamacare?
I like it.
I don't mind.
And I tell you, five years from now, when everybody's saying, man, I'm sure glad we got health care.
There are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't call it Obamacare anymore because they don't want me to get the credit.
We'd like to encourage more young people to sign up.
Partly because since they're healthier, their premiums are actually generally going to be fairly cheap.
They can find good options for less than their cable bill, less than their cell phone bill.
That's bullshit.
It's just part of growing up, is making sure that you're taking care of your body, taking care of your health.
It's just part of growing up.
Signing up for Obamacare is part of growing up.
Your premiums are going to be cheaper.
Your premiums are going to be through the roof.
Everybody's premiums are going to be through the roof.
And we want to encourage more young people to sign up, partly because since they're healthier, their premiums are going to generally be cheap.
Wrong.
Oh.
You young people, the reason he wants you to sign up is they're overcharging you for two reasons.
A, they think you're working and can afford it.
B, you are healthy, and you're not going to be making any claims.
So you're going to be spending, I don't know, just pick a number for the sake of discussion here.
You're going to be spending 12,000 a year on health care, but you're not going to be making any claims.
You're not going to cost them any money.
But they want your 12 grand and everybody else in your age group's 12 grand so that they can fund health care for Nano and Grandpa.
And Aunt Eustace.
That's what you're your suckers.
The cheapest way, I'm going to tell you what, I'm going to be honest, you young people, the best way for you to go is to go the penalty route.
Pay the fine.
What would you rather do?
Pay $10,000 for health insurance that you don't even want and don't need.
Or pay a fine of about 1,200 bucks and still be legal.
You could you get away with paying the fine for two or three years.
Eventually the fine's going to be more expensive than the policy.
And that's all by design, too.
They want people roped in thinking this is going to be cheaper, and then after you're in and there's nothing else for you to do but go to the government to get your health care, then you get whacked with big premiums.
But this is absurd to say that your premiums are cheaper because you're younger.
You people are paying the freight.
You people, you young people, you're the guinea pigs.
I'm telling you, pay the fine.
I don't care that that's out there.
Do a headline.
Limbaugh encourages millennials to pay fine rather than buy Obama.
Sure.
Next two or three years it makes all the economic sense in the world.
Well, what if they get sick?
Emergency room.
They're not going to get sick.
They're young people.
The odds are, you know, roll the dice.
It's all rolling the dice anyway.
That's all insurance is.
You're betting you're not going to get sick.
And actually, you're betting you are going to get sick.
The insurance company's betting you're not.
And not only your premium going to skyrocket, you young people, your co-pays and your deductibles are going to be through the roof.
You're going to be paying in my arbitrary number 10 grand for your premium per year, and then your deductible is going to be three times what it is now.
And it's all being done because they don't think you're going to be a net cost because you are healthy, so you're not going to be making any claims.
Now the auto insurance people look at you just the opposite.
The auto insurance people charge you through the roof because they know you're going to wreck the car.
Young people do.
It's part of growing up, as Obama says here.
Wrecking the family car is part of growing up.
The insurance companies know it, your parents know it.
That's why your insurance rates are through the roof.
But with Obamacare, it's just the opposite.
You're not going to wreck the car.
You're not going to get sick.
The actuarial tables tell them that.
So you're not going to be making any.
That's outrageous to tell these people their premiums are going to be cheap because they're healthy.
Their premiums are higher than anybody else's because they're healthy.
But then there's other things.
There's other diamonds in the roof here.
I don't mind Chuck that they call it Obamacare.
I tell you, five years from now, when everybody's saying, man, I'm sure glad we got health care.
Let me tell you, you folks something.
Before we did this, 85% of the population had health care.
85%.
We did all of this.
We totally turned upside down the American health care system because 15% of the people didn't have insurance.
And Obamacare came along and said we're going to insure everybody.
And that's why this is now a total disaster.
Five years from now, there isn't any guarantee everybody's going to have insurance.
There isn't any guarantee.
This is five years, and nobody wants to think about it.
It's so scary what five years from now could be.
But anyway, he's planning.
See, this is proof to me he doesn't care about all of the minutia that's going on now.
All these little problems here with the website, the big problems to everybody else.
But all this, he doesn't care because five years from now, ten years from now, when we have socialized medicine, then everybody's going to be running around thinking, thank God, we've got socialized medicine.
That's what he means.
Five years from now, when everybody say, man, I'm sure glad we got health care.
He may as well admit that this is a mess and it's going to stay amiss for a long time.
And you know, it's just part of growing up, making sure you get Obamacare.
Just part of growing up.
That's the way you youngsters need to look at it.
Having Obamacare just like growing up, just like getting your first car.
Getting Obamacare is just like growing up.
It's one of those things that when you grow up, you have to do.
You have to get Obamacare.
So then Chuck Said to Obama, Michael Sand came out this week.
I saw the first lady called his decision courageous.
What do you think about that?
You think about what the NBA was before African Americans were allowed to play on an equal footing.
You know, you think about some of the stories that even folks like Oscar Robertson tell uh what they went through.
You know, you you think about what Jackie Robinson ended up meaning, not just to baseball, but to the entire society.
I wouldn't be sitting here if it weren't for him.
I think America's stronger where everybody is being treated with respect and dignity.
Did he did he did he make that about himself?
Did I just hear him make that up?
Without Jackie Robinson, he wouldn't be.
So Michael Sam is Jackie Robinson.
Or is Oscar Robertson Jackie Robertson?
There's Obama, Jackie Robinson.
They're all Jackie Robinson.
Thank you.
I thought the I uh yeah, we can't treat conservatives with respect and dignity.
They don't deserve it.
Everybody knows that.
Sick the IRS on the Tea Party and conservatives, sick the IRS on them and whatever other agency we need to sick on them.
I saw the first lady called his sister courageous.
What do you think about that?
I thought he was asking what he thought of the first lady's decision, but no.
Anyway, let's uh take another time out here, folks.
We'll come back and continue grabbing your phone calls and making them part of the mix here.
Are we in there?
Okay, fine.
I didn't hear the 10-second warning.
Okay, here we are back, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I just wondered Obama said when talking to Milk Dudhead, he said that everybody five years from now, if we thanking God or whatever we got, everybody's got a health.
What do he says I'll tell you five years from now when everybody's saying, man, I'm sure glad we got health care.
The CBO, the Congressional Budget Office said a couple of weeks ago that ten years from now, there will still be 30 million people without health insurance.
Which is the same number of people that have not got insurance now, today.
Ten years from now, there's still going to be 30 million people without health insurance.
And by the way, the CBO's projections are always a bit too rosy.
That 30 million that won't have it probably is 35 or 40 million.
What what what just what an absolute crock this is.
Here's Roger in uh Fallbrook, California.
Great that you waited, Roger.
Thanks for your patience.
Well, thank you, Rush.
Um, concerning Obama's reluctance or willingness actually to change the laws as he has done with health care, and the Republicans are saying that they don't have standing to take him to court over that matter.
And there was a precedent.
I've been around following politics for more than half a century.
There was a an occasion in the Nixon administration when the Congress sent Nixon a spending bill.
And I don't remember what the particulars about it was, but Nixon said that's too much money.
I don't want to spend all that money.
And the Democrats said, Oh, yes, you do.
That's what we allocated, and they took him to court.
And they got a court decision saying, President, you have to spend the money that Congress allocated.
You do not have the right to change what they said.
Now, if that precedent exists, maybe you can get your staff to I don't remember that specifically, but your overall point is Congress can insert themselves here any time they want.
Yeah, but there is a court precedent, I think, that they could use.
Well, that's even better.
But I've this this standing business.
I was watching a discussion on Fox this morning of this, and some learned um commentator was talking about how average citizens will never be granted standing to sue a president.
This guy was talking about citizen, not not the Congress or not parties.
Uh he was talking about the context of a grieved citizens who have been damaged by virtue of Obama's willy-nilly application of laws.
They don't have standing.
The Supreme Court has said individual citizens will never have standing sue the president.
That's all people would be doing.
But he the the notion of congress can step in any time they want and assert themselves.
Well, there's another precedent that's even more dangerous.
And I don't know whether you want to go this far back, but in the 17th century, Charles I tried to rule without Parliament.
And it led to the Civil War, the English Civil War.
Not saying that's what's in our prospect, but it's scary.
Well you're you're you're thinking that if this keeps going, there might be popular uprising.
Well, there's somebody's got to protest.
Somebody's got to do it.
I know, but the point is everybody's running around asking who's going to.
There hadn't been anybody do it yet.
That's true.
Everybody's expecting somebody else to do it, or the Republicans to do it, or Congress to do it, Supreme Court to do it, somebody that's literally got a chance of stopping it.
The average citizen doesn't think he's got a prayer of stopping any of this stuff.
That's why there are political parties to represent him or her.
There used to be anyway.
Well, anyway, I tried to get through on open line Friday.
I couldn't, but uh I wanted to make that point.
Well, I'm glad you.
I don't remember.
I'm going to find out what uh Congress Nixon said, well, I'm not spending all that money.
Oh, yes, you are.
I'm gonna I'll find that.
I appreciate the call.
Roger, thank you much.
We'll be back, my friends, right after this.
Ha.
How are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbo, the EIB network.
You know, there is a popular uprising going on in Venezuela.
I haven't talked about that, but the people of Venezuela are finally fed up with it.
Hugo Chavez has assumed room temperature many, many moons ago, and one of his acolytes is in there, and just, if possible, made it even worse.
And the people of Venezuela have had enough of their lives nationalized.
They've had enough of the country nationalized, they've had enough of this socialism stuff, and they're rising up against it now.
Now, our last caller, Roger, I'm not had to do this quick, so I need uh uh an allowance here of perhaps not finding what it was he was talking about.
But I think what he was talking about was impoundment.
Impoundment is an act by a president of not spending money that has been appropriated by the Congress.
The power of impoundment was available to all presidents up to and including Nixon, and was regarded as a power inherent to the office.
The uh Congressional Budget and impoundment control act in 1974 was passed in response to perceived abuse of the power by Nixon.
It all makes sense, right, knowing the history.
Title 10 of the Act and its uh interpretation under uh the case train versus City of New York, essentially ended or removed the power.
Uh president's ability to reject congressionally approved spending thus became severely inhibited.
So again, I could be wrong.
I don't want to sit here and say that the caller was wrong, but it it might not have been a lawsuit that ended impoundment, but rather a piece of legislation.
Regardless, it was based on the Supreme Court's interpretation of a previous lawsuit, train versus City of New York.
But in it, look, in a nutshell, the change in the law prevents a president from cutting things from the budget without the House's permission and the Senate.
So it's kind of like not being able to use a line item veto.
The president was able to impound money rather than spend it.
Now he can't.
Congress has a A way around it based on Supreme Court uh precedent.
Now, Venezuela is on the brink of a revolution against the socialist government.
I don't know.
I don't you ever think you would see the day when you envied a South American country for its politics?
Did you ever?
I I can't.
It is cold, but for crying out loud, I mean it's a decent question.
Anyway, let's say back to Oh, no, before we get back to the phones, UAW, I mentioned this at the top of the program, and I got details of this.
Just 87 votes at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee separated the UAW, United Auto Workers Union, from what would have been its first successful organization of workers at a foreign automaker in the South.
Now, in brief, the United Auto Workers had everything stacked in their favor.
Volkswagen allowed the union reps to push for unionization right on the floor of the plant.
The UAW spent 1.7 million dollars trying to unionize this VW plant, but they still lost 53 to 47%.
So naturally, the United Auto Workers are now going to claim interference so they can take this to the uh NLRB, which is Obama stacked and backed.
They don't ever accept defeat, folks.
We lose an election and we say, okay, uh, you won.
You want your judges, go name them.
You you want to pack the courts, go do it.
You won, we lost.
They never accept defeat.
The uh particularly on a vote, I guarantee you, the unions are just like the rest of the left.
They will never accept defeat, and they know that the NLRB will do whatever the unions want here.
But the only person that really interfered was Obama.
He announced right before the day of the vote that he wanted VW unionize, which that was unprecedented too.
So Obama the day before the vote goes out and talks about how important it is and the and the workers shut him down.
And you have to wonder what would have happened if they probably would have gone down and defeat anyway, but if Obama hadn't said anything, would it have been closer?
I don't care.
The fact is Obama went out there, he announced right before the day of the vote that he wanted VW to unionize, and the workers at the VW plant in Tennessee said.
And they sent the union packing 53 to 47.
Now, the the the AP, when I printed this out, the page was wet from tears.
I think AP made sure that their tears ended up on everybody's paper that printed this.
Look at this headline.
UAW falls 87 votes short of major victory in South.
Now, if you're a low information voter reading Yahoo News, and you see that headline, UAW, 87 votes short, major victory.
Oh, wow.
There's no I mean major victory, UAW.
The unions and and their media minions are trying to make this sound like a squeaker.
That headline, 87 votes short.
It was 53 to 47.
It was a six-point spread.
After the last election, Obama and his media minions claimed that 53% is an overwhelming mandate when he gets 53%.
When Obama gets 53%, it's a landslide.
It's an overwhelming mandate.
When the workers vote by 53% to send him and his unions packing, it's a squeaker.
Now we have some audio sound bites here.
We have uh the son Fox and friends this morning, Steve Deucey interviewed Volkswagen team member Mike Jarvis, and they were talking about the uh Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen employees voting not to unionize.
And Deucey said, had the United Auto Workers come in and unionized your shop, what kind of pay cut would you guys have taken?
I would have took about a $3 an hour pay cut at where I'm at in the game right now.
I mean, why do we work?
We work to make a living to provide for our families.
And I want to go to work and progress and make more and help my company be profitable.
I don't want to go to work and make less and cost my company more money to produce a product.
By the way, the product that we produce is an award-winning product.
Ten awards.
Holy cow, when's the last time you heard an employee talk about his desire for his company to do well?
I mean no, that's it's I take that's the wrong question to ask, because it actually happens a lot.
But you don't hear it in the auto industry.
In the auto industry, you normally hear what the bunch of cheating rhyme lying robbers management is, and how we gotta stick it to them.
And here's this guy.
I don't want the union in here.
I want to go to work.
Meaning, I don't want to go on strike every six months.
I want to work.
I want to make more, I want to help my company be profitable.
And wait till Richard Trumpke hears about that.
Those are fighting words to the AFL CIO.
A company making a profit.
That's capitalism.
We can't have that.
So then Deucey said, you've been in three different unions.
You don't like them.
Why?
Chattanooga is full of unions.
They've been around all my work and career.
But unfortunately, unions have buddy buddy plans.
They have backroom deals.
You've got to be in the no to progress with them.
I actually got a phone call last night from an unknown union member that uh I didn't like his tone.
He wouldn't give me his name or number, and I didn't like what he said to me.
I'll keep that private right now.
It was about my stance against the union.
What that means is that a thug called this guy up and threatened him.
He got an intimidating call from a union thug.
And it still didn't intimidate him.
And Obama, the day before the vote asking for this unionized plant, for this plant to be unionized.
Didn't work.
I don't care how they spin this.
This is not close.
It's 53 to 40 seven.
It's not close, and there's nothing positive about this.
And this guy's attitude, you've got to love it.
His name is Mike Jarvis.
I want my company to be profitable.
You just, you just in essence, this guy is saying, if we unionize, that's the end of my company.
That's what he's saying.
If we unionize, there goes profit, there goes this, there goes that.
Here goes my job.
If we unionize, it's going to cost me $3 an hour.
Why would that be?
Dues, maybe?
Quick time out.
Don't go away.
You really should read some of the reviews of Rush Revere and the uh and the Brave Pilgrims on Amazon.
They're just astounding.
4.8 out of five stars with 2600, 2700 reviews, and it's and the reviews just over the top.
It really is gratifying.
By the way, there's another AP story or headline on this UAW vote.
Headline after UAW defeat.
Can GOP fulfill promise of jobs?
Now you put that one on Yahoo news, where the low information crowd gathers.
So the union is defeated at Volkswagen, Chattanooga.
And now it's up to the Republicans to create jobs.
Oh no.
So the union was voted out.
Oh my oh no.
Oh God, now it's the Republicans' fault.
And hey, can the Republicans make up for these job losses?
Wouldn't it's just absurd.
And one other thing.
Didn't Obama say that he wouldn't let his son Trayvon Martin play football in the NFL.
But that so why is he all supportive of Michael Sam playing in the NFL?
Well, Sam comes out, he announces that he is gay, loves men, and is going to play in the NFL.
And all of us, don't, run on.
That's what we need.
More of that.
But he wouldn't let his own son play in the NFL.
What does that say?
Ron in Columbus, Ohio.
Hey, great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Um, you know, the first time around it said that Hillary uh had the uh nomination stole or Barack Obama stole it from Hillary.
Right.
I'm saying I'm saying the next time around, it's an Obama that's gonna steal it again, but it's gonna be Michelle.
Oh, wouldn't that be delicious?
And and the they'll I mean, supposedly the polls show Michelle higher in the polls than than uh Hillary and then yeah, then the Obamas will use the excuse that they need to have be in office longer because they need to uh re uh take care of more of their uh things that they want to do.
Well, I I can hear that.
I can hear I can I can hear you know we just I can't leave this country potentially in the hands of the Republicans, I just can't.
And so either I'm staying or Michelle's running.
You take your pick.
Right.
And Michelle runs.
Now, any first lady is is gonna have higher approval numbers than any politician right now.
I I don't know.
Now that maybe the the Obamas would read a lot into that or no, but wouldn't that be great, Michelle decides to run?
Obama said he's staying in Washington, he's not leaving town.
Wouldn't that be great if Michelle decides to run against Hillary in 20?
Oh, we'd have Operation Chaos 2.
I'll tell you something else about Michelle Obama.
She has not failed her husband, as Hillary has admitted she failed hers.
Hillary said that Bill did what he because she wasn't doing a good job as a wife.
Michelle's not done that.
Michelle's not failed her husband.
So you never know, folks.
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