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April 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 11, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Well, well, well, well, well.
Found out something here about Sylvia Burwell that's going to fascinate you folks.
It is Friday.
This is Rush Limbaugh and live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Live Friday.
Open Live Friday and our 24th annual curathon for leukemia and lymphoma and the blood cancers.
24 years.
24 years of this audience blowing everybody away.
It really is shocking.
No, it's not shocking.
It's just, it's so pleasantly truthful.
24 years and you're still here, folks.
24 years and you're still giving and you're still donating what you can.
We've got an increased number of donors this year as well.
It's all good.
The number to donate is 877-379-8888.
You go to rushlimbaugh.com as well.
PayPal is part of the donation equation this year as well.
We make it easy.
And again, it doesn't take a lot from everybody.
A little from a lot of people accomplishes the objective and the goal.
And it's such a worthy cause.
And there's so much progress being made.
And in the final hour of the program today, I want to detail for you some of the progress, some of the things that have been happening, progress details learned about some of these blood cancers and how the big theme today that we've wanted to impart, because I want to make sure that every one of you know that you are not donating in a vacuum.
Every one of you, when you go to rushlimbaugh.com or use PayPal or call 877-379-8888.
You've heard this phrase make a difference.
You are.
You are enabling people to go beyond surviving a diagnosis of one of these diseases and enabling them to actually live.
There's a difference in surviving and living.
And more and more people diagnosed are actually living.
They are going through a normal daily routine while getting treatment rather than just surviving.
It is, as they say, a beautiful thing.
And it's an amazing once a year, not even full three hours a year.
And it's phenomenal.
And everybody involved has such gratitude for you.
I don't want to overdo that because I spent a lot of time the first hour.
And I don't want to take away from the sincerity of it.
I just, I struggle for ways to say it.
I don't know how to say it any other way than I have.
I just, I can't tell you the warm glow and the awe, I guess, that I experience when so many of you participate and come through the way you do.
It's awe-inspiring.
Again, it's 877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com.
NBC News.
Let's go back to October 2nd, 2013.
A single person shut down the entire U.S. government for the first time in 17 years.
Not a congressman, but an unelected woman named Sylvia Burwell.
Sylvia Burwell, who was named today to replace Kathleen Sebelius as the new Health and Human Services Secretary, is the person who ordered the World War II memorial barricaded during the government shutdown last year and was responsible for an event there being canceled.
Sylvia Burwell.
And of course, just like with the naming of Colbert to go to the Letterman Show, everybody is falling all over themselves to what a wonderful woman this Burwell woman is.
She's so attractive and so young and she's so smart and she's just the best.
Well, if that's it, why wasn't she there before Sebelius?
Now, Chatsworth Osborne Jr., who runs a website called The Daily Caller, Tucker Carlson.
Chatsworth Osborne Jr. is our affectionate pet name from the Dobie Gillis show from way, way back.
Chatsworth says that the reason she was chosen is because the president, the Democrats, hope that sending a young, attractive nominee up to a Republican-led Senate confirmation committee will result in her being mistreated and treated with sexism and bigotry.
And they hope that the Republicans act this way.
Now, I'll tell you what also this is.
This is a preemptive action, too, to guarantee she sails through.
Because somebody told Chatsworth, or maybe Chatsworth figured it out on his own, but regardless, it is the strategy.
I'm sure it's the strategery.
And by announcing the strategy, it's like you telling somebody, I know how you're going to act.
I know what you're going to do.
And so to prove you're wrong, they don't do it.
Well, here you go.
They nominate this woman.
And we know you Republicans.
You're going to mistreat her.
You're going to treat her with sexism.
And it's going to be a war on women.
And so the Republicans, oh, yeah, we'll show you.
And they don't even oppose.
And let her sail through.
And in that way, the regime gets exactly what they want.
Now, there's no way she's not going to be confirmed because she's already gone through a confirmation process for OMB, right?
It was Office of Management Budget.
So there's no way she's not going to be confirmed.
So I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans, this token questions, token.
And you never know.
She can be very smart and take a token innocent question, act profoundly offended by it, maybe storm off and walk out, all to create the picture that she's being mistreated.
I'm just, I'm just, nothing would surprise me.
But this is an NBC piece from 2013, October.
Sylvia Burwell was the woman who shut down the World War II memorial, barricaded it during the government shutdown last year.
But remember, the barricades were removed for one group to have an event there.
It was an immigration, say what it is.
It was an illegal immigration rally.
But there were some World War II vets who had saved money for eight.
They're nearing the end of their lives.
It was a once-in-a-lifetime visit to their memorial.
And this is the woman who shut it down.
Sylvia Burwell.
Now, I mentioned earlier Jeff Sessions, the great senator from Alabama.
Jeff Sessions said yesterday that Americans need to stand up to a deliberate plan by the President of the United States to collapse the nation's law enforcement system regarding illegal immigration.
I want you to hear this.
We have two sound bites.
This was on the Senate floor yesterday.
Our law enforcement system is in a state of collapse.
It's a deliberate plan by the President of the United States, and it's wrong.
And people need to be aware of it and need to stand up to it.
And I think the American people are beginning to do so.
So you come into the country illegally, and the Attorney General of the United States declares that these individuals have a civil right to amnesty.
How can this possibly be?
The chief law enforcement officer in America?
It's a great question.
How can it be?
We've got a law.
You can't come here unless you follow the law and various rules.
And they come anyway, and they're here illegally.
And the Attorney General says, well, they have a civil right to be here.
Everybody has a civil right to be here.
Sessions is dead serious.
He says that this is a purposeful.
Now, by the way, it's not that this hasn't been said before.
It has.
I, others, have without any, I haven't held back at all.
There's a number of things that this regime is doing purposefully, destroying the economy, destroying the healthcare system.
I think a lot of it is on purpose.
That's why I said before he was immaculated.
I hope he fails.
But this is a United States Senator saying it on the floor of the Senate that what we have here is the purposeful collapse of the American law enforcement system, i.e. the rule of law is purposely being assaulted and being allowed to collapse.
When a United States senator says it on the floor of the Senate, that's impact.
So you come to the country illegally and the Attorney General says that you have civil right to amnesty.
How can this possibly be?
It can possibly be when the following circumstances exist.
The Democratic Party needs a current, consistent underclass.
So an inflow of poor, uneducated people is exactly what they need to feed into their base.
When you are trying to dissolve the whole notion of the rule of law, you are dissolving the glue that holds an orderly society together.
Why would they want to do that, Rush?
The chaos allows them to assume even more control to restore order, folks, and control.
Lack of liberty and freedom is what this is all about.
One more sessions sound bite here.
Vice President Biden recently said, quote, you know, 11 million people live in the shadows.
I believe they're already American citizens.
11 million undocumented aliens are already Americans.
Goodness, a Vice President of the United States would make such a statement?
It's stunning beyond belief.
No, it's not stunning.
It's who they are.
It's who the Democrats are.
As far as they're concerned, they are citizens.
They're here.
We're not going to send them back.
They're here.
It's, folks, it's just, it's another assault, a continuing and unending assault on that which has held the country together, the traditions, the institutions that have defined our greatness.
It's a serious problem.
Now, one more thing that I need to impart to you.
This is from the Washington Post, by the way.
And if this story is accurate, somewhere down the road, you should not count on a tax return.
A refund.
Few weeks ago, with no notice, the government intercepted Mary Grice's tax refunds from both the IRS and the state of Maryland.
She had no idea that Uncle Sam had seized her money until some days later when she got a letter saying that her refund had been absconded by the government to satisfy an old debt to the government that somebody in her family had not paid.
When Grice, Mary Grice, was four years old, she's black, by the way, back in 1960, her father died, leaving her mother with five children to raise.
Until the kids turned 18, Sadie Grace got survivor benefits from Social Security to help feed and clothe kids.
Now, Social Security says that it overpaid somebody in that family.
It doesn't know who it overpaid.
There are five people involved.
But it happened, they know, in 1977.
After 37 years of silence, of not saying anything about it, four years after Sadie Grace died, the government's coming after her daughter.
Now, why the feds chose to take Mary's money rather than her surviving siblings is a mystery.
Across the nation, hundreds of thousands of taxpayers who are expecting refunds this month are instead getting letters like the one she got, informing them that because of a debt they never knew about, often a debt incurred by their parents, the government has confiscated their check.
And the Washington Post writes about this as though it's just, well, ho-hum.
Yeah, it just makes perfect sense.
Next up, next story.
No outrage.
In fact, there's even this paragraph.
The Treasury Department has intercepted nearly $2 billion in tax refunds already this year.
$2 billion that citizens thought they were going to get.
The government has intercepted.
And then there's this paragraph.
No one seems eager to take credit for reopening all these long-closed cases.
A Social Security spokeswoman says the agency didn't seek the change.
Ask Treasury.
Treasury says it wasn't us.
Tri-Congress.
Congressional staffers say the request probably came from the bureaucracy.
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows where the idea came from.
Nobody knows who's actually doing this.
Lois Lerner.
I mean, these are Democrats, too, that money is being taken from.
Well, that could be her.
So how many times have we said, folks, if they get in a financial crunch, they've got to go to people who have money to get money.
It's why your pension isn't safe.
And now they're just taking your tax refund.
If they find a debt anywhere in your family that hasn't been paid for who knows how many years, it just could take.
And then after they take the money, send you a letter saying, we did it.
And what are you going to do?
You are.
That Social Security story, people having their refunds claimed by the IRS.
I imagine a lot of people say, well, it's a government.
We can't stop it.
Just hope it doesn't happen to me.
Folks, let me tell you something.
It is really hideous.
This woman, the story, Mary Grace, she did not pay anything.
Her family didn't not pay anything.
Social Security made a mistake way back when, by either giving them too much money or whatever, the thing that they're trying to do here is say that some people cheated the government.
Some people didn't pay a debt.
That's not what's happening here.
Mary Grace, whatever her, she's due her tax refund.
She's not getting it because the government says somebody 30 years ago owes some money.
The Social Security Administration made a mistake and blaming somebody who did not make the mistake for it and taking their money.
Talk about the rule of law.
She doesn't owe anything.
She did not shortchange anybody, and yet she's the one whose money is being taken.
And that has happened to the tune of $2 billion so far this year.
Now, as you know, this is the final hour, 24th annual curathon for leukemia and lymphoma.
And what is this?
The basics here.
What is leukemia?
What is multiple myeloma?
Leukemia is cancer of the bone marrow.
They're all blood cancers, but they differ in some ways.
Cancer of the bone marrow and the blood.
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under 20.
One-third of cancer deaths for children are from leukemia.
And yet, leukemia actually kills 10 times as many adults.
And as I've said, there isn't any precursor.
There's nothing you can not do to avoid it.
It just happens.
One day you're not feeling well, or a week goes by.
You go to the doctor and the doctor comes out and says you have leukemia.
It's the way people find out about it.
Lymphoma is cancer of the lymph system.
79,000 people diagnosed last year.
731,000 are living with this cancer in the U.S. this year.
70, 731,000 are living with it.
You know why?
Because of you.
Because in the past, for the past 24 years, you have dug deep.
You've given of yourself.
You have called 877-379-8888.
Or you have gone to rushlimbaugh.com.
You have found a way.
You've been moved.
And you continue to.
You continue to come through and support.
Lymphoma, cancer of the lymph system.
It used to be death sentence.
79,000 people diagnosed last year.
A lot living.
Myeloma, cancer of the plasma cells that begins in the bone marrow, touches 88,000 people today.
In all, there are 148,000 new cases of blood cancers every year, 54,000 deaths.
So it's still a huge killer.
But progress is being made.
And again, everybody wants to have evidence that what you're doing is helping because you're never going to meet in these people that you're sending the money to.
Trust me, you are helping people do more than survive.
You're helping them actually live.
877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Here is Wayne in Lawrence, Michigan.
Great to have you.
I'm glad you called, sir.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
Hey, I just want to tell you about something I don't hear anybody talking about with the subsidies for the Obamacare premiums.
I have a daughter turning 26 in a few months, so she's going to have to get off my policy and get her own to get she on her income was based on a subsidy, but because she lives in my home, she has to go by my income.
So that means her premium is going to be 10 times higher than if she was on her own, even though I'm not paying her bill.
Wait, wait, I'm not sure I understood this.
Her premium or your premium is going to be 10 times higher.
Hers is.
When she moves out.
Oh, when she turns 26, she leaves my insurance and has to purchase her own.
Oh, okay, forget.
So she'd been, and it's going to, it's, it's.
Okay.
And it's not based on her income, even though she's the only one paying the premium.
She has to use my income because she lives in my home.
Right.
And so she will or will not qualify for the subsidy, or you or you will.
She will not qualify.
She'll end up paying a high premium even though she does not make a lot of money.
Well, it kind of confuses me.
I don't know what her being or not being on your policy would have to do with it.
She's out on her own.
If she makes more than 400% of the poverty level, then she would not qualify for a subsidy.
Anything less than that, and she will.
Well, hell, I don't know what your income, I don't think anything to do with it.
When you go, it asks for the entire household's income to base their premium.
Yeah, and I would think that your household income would not qualify you for a subsidy because you're way above if you're combining.
But why should she be penalized on my income for her premium?
I'm not sure.
Are you able to get a subsidy now?
Is she able to get a subsidy now?
And when she gets off your policy, she won't be able to get a subsidy?
No, I work for a company that provides us insurance as a family.
Right.
But when she turns 26, she's no longer on that and has to purchase her own.
Right.
And no, and it will not be based just on her income.
If she lived in an apartment on her own, she would get a subsidy.
But because she lives in my home, she has to pay full price.
I'm not helping pay the bill.
I am totally confused, because the numbers aren't making sense to me.
Well, I know, but I don't know why she's being penalized.
That's what I can't figure out.
What would her, her in?
It doesn't, this doesn't make any sense.
That's what I'm having trouble figuring out.
It doesn't make any sense.
Why in the world should she be penalized simply because she's now old enough to get kicked off of your policy?
She still should qualify for a subsidy if the formula fits her.
Well, the formula doesn't fit her because they have to use my income as well as hers combined.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
Even though she's not on your policy because she's living at home, she's considered part of family income.
Yes.
Okay.
That's where I got confused because I thought you said earlier in the call she didn't live with you.
That's what I was having trouble figuring out.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Yes, she does.
Okay.
Okay.
Well, I'll guarantee you that whoever wrote this stupid monstrosity does not even know that.
This is one of the countless millions of things, unintended consequences that they had no clue was going to happen.
All they wanted, the only thing they wanted, Wayne, was the political salesmanship involved in you can stay on your parents' policy until you're 26.
They just wanted the young person's vote, and they wanted family votes to support her kids.
Now, all of a sudden, she turns 26.
She can't stay on your policy, but she's under your roof.
And oh, I guarantee you, since all of this is political, this is not based on anything that makes fiscal financial sense at all.
No aspect of this makes any kind of dollars and cents sense.
It was all political.
That's what you've run up against here.
I apologize for being so thick-headed.
I misunderstood.
I thought she was not living with you.
And that is, maybe that's the answer.
Move out.
And then, you know, because the poverty, 400% of the poverty level for a family of four is $95,400.
So anything under that, you qualify for a subsidy.
And I'll guarantee you, 400% of federal poverty level for a family of one is $40,000, $47,000 a year.
So if she makes over $47,000, she wouldn't qualify.
If she makes under $47, she would.
And only you know the answer to that question.
But I guarantee you, the reason why this doesn't make sense is because it doesn't make sense.
And the whole thing was political.
Just like the pre-existing condition thing, purely a political sales point to get votes.
It wasn't based on actual pre-existing condition compassion.
None of them what they do is.
It was all, everything is politicized.
Please, ladies and gentlemen, if there is one thing and only one thing that you take away from this program for however many years you listen, everything the Democrat Party does, everything, every issue, every supposed act of kindness, compassion, it is all political.
And by that, I mean it has a political intention.
It's part of a political agenda to advance the interests of the Democrat Party, not you.
There's no way a 25-year-old person's a child.
There's no way a 26-year-old person is a child.
But for the purposes of the Democrat Party, all of a sudden, everybody 25 or under is a child so that they can stay on their parents' policy.
Well, that, wow, I love the Democrats, man.
They really care about me and my family.
I'm voting for them.
Those Republicans don't care.
That's the objective of that.
What happens to your daughter now?
I'm sure it's a problem for them because she may not be happy with the regime now, but they got what they wanted out of it at the time.
And this is how they're going to be dealing with the fix.
Every fix is going to be political.
That's why all the delays, that's why all the waivers, it's all political.
It isn't based on you having better coverage.
It isn't based on you having better insurance.
It isn't based on you getting treated.
It isn't based on fairness.
It's based on how does the Democrat Party enhance, improve, entrench its power.
Period.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
See, we're at Jeff Bezos, Amazon, offering employees five grand to quit.
Yes, they need to downsize in there.
$5,000 to quit.
Amazon.
I'd pay some of you people more than that.
I'm just kidding.
Just kidding.
Folks, look, I don't want to jinx anything.
I don't.
I don't want to be premature here, but I've got to also be honest.
877-379-8888, rushlimbaugh.com.
You are just over the top.
You are just over the top.
You are making so many people happy like you can't believe today.
Don't stop.
Don't stop.
Still some time left here.
Here's Jennifer in Naples, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Happy Friday, Rush.
How are you today?
I'm fine, Jennifer.
Thanks.
And how are you?
I am great.
I am great.
It's an honor to speak with you.
I called in because I wanted to let you know I was the guest surprise reader for my son's third grade class today, and I brought in Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
My son thoroughly enjoyed the first book.
So I obviously, the day your book came out, bought the second one.
And I read for 20 minutes to the class the first chapter.
And by the time I was finished, every single child was asking, what's the title of the first one?
Write it down.
You're asking the teacher to write it down on the board.
And I had every single child wanting to run out and buy your two books.
So you are making sales in Naples, Florida this week.
That is just incredible.
That is just – so they let you show up and you read the first chapter of the second book, Rush Revere and the First Patriots.
And the kids wanted more.
They wanted more.
They wanted to hear more.
They wanted to know the title of the first one because obviously you know your first chapter.
You must be a really good interpretive reader.
I was.
I was, you know, making the jokes that Liberty was making, like, you know, he stunk.
I was really trying to be, I don't know, I'm nervous.
Well, I just, look, I thank you.
That is, these testimonials are.
Yeah, it's fabulous.
And I can't wait for all the rest of the books to come out because my kids love them.
More schools should be promoting them.
I think it's just a fabulous message that you're sending.
Well, I agree with that 100%.
And then with calls like yours, it might be facilitated.
Look, you know, Jennifer, I want to send you the audio versions of both.
You probably don't have those, right?
We don't, actually, but that would be fabulous.
Okay, well, I'll send you some.
Hang on.
Mr. Snurdy will get your address, and I'm going to send you the audio versions.
And I'll sign a couple of the books, too.
So you can give the books to the school if you want.
I don't want to be presumptuous.
But he'll be there.
Don't hang up, whatever you do.
Folks, look, I've said as much as I can.
The only thing I could try to do is change how.
And that's been the ongoing struggle.
And it's not a struggle.
It's a challenge to properly express my personal gratitude to each and one of you, each and every one of you, who have participated in the curathon today or in any of the previous 23 years to cure the blood cancers of leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, multiple myeloma.
They're dreadful.
But there's progress being made left and right.
The theme today has been the vast increases in not survivability, that's a given, but live ability.
And the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, in addition to funding research, they do what they can in funding care for families who have a family member affected by this.
Nobody can help every family, obviously, but they do what they can.
And the more they collect, the more they're able to do.
And what you've done today is, again, just over the top amazing.
Now, this audience is largely made up of conservatives, but not everybody is.
But you all listened to the program.
You've all heard me describe what I think it is that makes the country great and what makes the audience great and what makes the country work.
And in my opinion, it's you.
People like you make this country work in a host of different ways.
But basically, just the way you live your lives and the examples that you set, the way you're trying to raise your kids, resisting the temptations as best you can and shielding your kids from those at the same time.
And then in the midst of all that, you hear a plea to help people maybe have a disease you don't.
Nobody in your family does.
But nevertheless, you hear a plea from me to participate in our effort to cure the blood cancers.
So you hear me give the phone number 877-379-8888 or the website, rushlimbaugh.com.
PayPal is part of the donation payment mechanism again this year.
So it's easy.
It's easy to make the phone call.
It's easy to go to the website.
But sometimes it's not easy to part with the donation.
Times are tough for a lot of people.
And yet every year you come through, every year you come through in larger numbers.
This year we've got an increased number of donors as well.
That kind of growth is unparalleled, particularly in an enterprise that has been underway for 24 years, and we do it in essentially three hours, one three-hour period a year.
When I started doing this 24 years ago, the prognosis for people with these blood cancers was grim in many cases.
A lot of children didn't see their fifth birthday, and a lot of parents with a different form of the disease never saw their kids' fifth birthday either, one way or the other.
Anytime a doctor walks in the waiting room and says, we found out what it was.
Your son has cancer.
It's leukemia.
And then across town in another hospital, a doctor is heard saying, I'm sorry, your daughter has lymphoma.
With that shocking bad news, what we're trying to do is have it tempered somewhat with the realization.
There'll be people in this audience who are going to get this diagnosis at some point in their lives.
And they're going to remember having heard this day one year, and they're going to know that there has been money donated to the cause, and they're going to be confident.
The way that people are helped here is immeasurable, the ways.
And again, you may never meet the people you help, but you should know that they're there and have the most heartfelt appreciation for what you do.
One more time, 877-379-8888.
If you want to call on the phone, rushlimbaugh.com, if you want to donate online, and don't worry about web security.
We are untouched.
Rushlimbaugh.com was unaffected by that SSL security bug anyway.
It's not a problem.
Be right back, folks.
Don't go away.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me remind you, the telephone number to donate to the cure-a-thon for leukemia, lymphoma, 877-379-8888, will be operative through the weekend, as will the donation page that you will find at rushlimbaugh.com.
And you'll find, if you go to the website, the various premiums that we're offering for certain levels of donations, that's all there.
So I thank you again.
And if you haven't yet been able to make up your mind, you have the weekend to do so, but you have been phenomenal again.
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