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April 17, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2014, Thursday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchor Man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein filling in.
Honored to be here direct from uh Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire.
We still have uh snow on the ground, but uh but if you're uh fleeing the country, do do swing by and say hello.
You can't miss us.
There's a big sign on the highway saying last uh rush guest host before the border.
So we always love to see you.
Uh Buck Sexton, Buck Sexton will be uh debutting, as HR likes to say, as guest host tomorrow for the Good Friday show, and Mark Belling and uh Eric Erikson, uh and I think then it's Buck again and uh eventually uh Rush returns when he's had his bionic ear attached, and uh he'll be back uh in the uh around the middle of next week all being well.
Uh Hillary struggles to define her legacy.
This is from the New York Times.
I love the lengths to which people are willing to go to drag Hillary across the victory line.
You know, they couldn't do it in two thousand and eight.
And they think they can do Rush talked about this the other day, the way people are so terrified, terrified of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Oh, if Hillary's the Cl the candidate, Republicans are toast, it's over, forget it.
They won't be in power again for another forty years.
Uh why?
Why?
She's in a she's a far worse candidate than she was two thousand in two thousand and eight.
Because she's actually had she's had something to do uh in the intervening years.
She was Secretary of State.
She gave uh in case you don't remember, she gave the Russians a reset button.
That big thing that looked like that yeah we got that button from Staples.
Uh they she gave sta she gave the Russians the yeah we got that button from Staples, and they said, Yeah, we got that, and they annexed Crimea.
They got the message all right.
They got the reset button.
Uh the New York Times today.
A turbulent world, as Hillary struggles to define her legacy.
A turbulent world has frustrated and is now defining Mrs. Clinton's attempts to articulate a tangible diplomatic legacy.
This is why American newspapers are dying.
What what why would you pay half a million dollars to Columbia Journalism School to come out and write like that?
A turbulent world.
What is this?
Like sob sister what is this like the uh the uh the the presidential nominating campaign of Madison County?
A turbulent world has frustrated and is now defining Mrs. Clinton's attempts to articulate a tangible diplomatic legacy.
A turbulent world has frustrated Mrs. Clinton's attempts to argue articulate.
Don't you hate it when a turbulent world does that?
I mean, how ungrateful can a turbulent world get?
Mrs. Mrs. Clinton gave the turbulent world her undivided attention for four years.
She flew everywhere.
She flew while Benghazi burned.
No one could have racked up more frequent flyer miles than Mrs. Clinton.
And how does a turbulent world repay her by frustrating Mrs. Clinton's attempts to articulate a tan these are with the how what kind of what kind of man writes that writes this kind of leaden sludge like prose.
I gotta find I've just got the quote here.
I'm gonna find this guy's pro.
I want to nominate him for a Pulitzer, because this is lousy, unreadable, even by the New York Times uh standards.
Where is it?
Where where did we get that?
That's from uh uh do you do you have that New York Times uh story there with you, HR.
I can't I'll find it here.
I want to get this guy's name.
This is unbelievable, this kind of prose.
Um and uh I hope Elizabeth Warren runs.
Because Elizabeth Warren, right now, right now, Mrs. Clinton, she's got nothing to run on.
She's got she she's got four years as Secretary of State in which American power dissolved and evaporated from the world.
And everybody is making mischief now.
No matter what your deal is, whether you're boy assad in Damascus, whether you're Putin in Moscow, whether you're the Mullers in Tehran, whether you're the Chinese in Beijing, whoever you are, you got the run of the planet and American power has a v a and you've you've you frustrated you you you you frustrated, you horrible world, you you you you turbulent world.
You've had the impertinence and Les Majesty to frustrate her efforts to define her legacy.
How dare you do that?
Anyway, this guy, uh this turbulent world.
Uh so I hope Elizabeth Warren runs, because right now the only thing she's got going for her, Mrs. Clinton, is that she's a woman.
So she offers the novelty factor of enabling people to vote for the first woman.
So I hope I hope Elizabeth Warren runs, because as I said, she's the real deal.
She's the real deal.
Now Elizabeth Warren is also hurt and frustrated, uh, not by a turbulent world, but by unpleasant GOP operatives who've attacked her family and ancestry in the 2012 pres uh Senate race.
And no and she said, you know, when it turned out that she isn't one uh 264th Cherokee or whatever she claimed to be, uh, but that uh she says now that she remembers as a child they all used to sit around the old kitchen table with her grandparents and whatever, all s all talking about their la uh Native American ancestry.
That's fine.
That's not what anybody attacked you for.
What they attacked you for using that, the fact that you're one uh five hundred and eighteenths Cherokee or whatever it is, uh, to actually claim advancement for job advancement for job benefit.
Uh you use that.
You use that.
Uh and that's why uh that's why people don't like this stuff.
Uh that that's that's what they don't care about this stuff.
Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren in 1995.
That's a quote from the Fordham Law Review.
Quote Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren in 1995.
As I said, she's whiter than white.
She's the pastiest whitiest white.
Yeah, it is like it is like the it's not even the one drop.
Mike thinks it's the one drop rule.
There's no evidence there's even one drop.
It's like one sixty-fourth of one drop rule that the Harvard Law School has followed in hiring its first woman of color.
Like I said uh uh a couple of hours ago, she's she's the whitest whitey whitey white person that has ever existed.
She's she's uh she's the whitest white since uh Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of whiteout.
But she self-identified as Cherokee, so suddenly she's a woman of color.
Um she submitted a crab dish to the powwow chow cookbook, which is a compilation of recipes passed down through the five tribes' families.
She submitted uh under the name Elizabeth Warren Cherokee, a crab dish with tomato mayonnaise, which was apparently a traditional delicacy among her fictional Cherokee ancestors in Oklahoma, because they were renowned, the Cherokee were renowned for their ability to spear the fast-moving Oklahoma crab.
Uh everyone knows this.
It's part of Cherokee Law Matter.
And it's in the state song, oh Oklahoma, where the crab comes sweeping down the plane.
And uh now the then the white man came and now the Oklahoma crab is extinct.
Uh but but uh Elizabeth Warren still knows her traditional Cherokee recipes for crab crab dishes with tomato bear.
That's why.
And now she's written a book.
She's written a book saying how hurt and angry she was.
She's hurt and angry.
Hillary's hurt and frustrated that the turbulent world, the turbulent world has frustrated Hillary's efforts to define herself.
And now uh her rival Elizabeth Warren is hurt and angry because people think it's ridiculous that Harvard Law School promoted her as the first woman of color.
So do you realize why she should get into the presidential race?
Because if she gets into the presidential race, uh not only will you have Hillary Clinton running as first woman president, but you would have Elizabeth Warren running as first woman of color president.
And a first Native American president.
Wouldn't that you could just in you could like spearing the fast moving Oklahoma crab, you could instantly spear all of America's legacy of hate, these past this past quarter millennium in one fell swoop and elect a Native American woman of color in Elizabeth Warren.
Who doesn't want to do that?
Warren for president, 2016.
Let's hear it now.
Let's have the bumper stickers now.
This is she ca she'll clean Hillary's clock.
But meantime, Hillary is frustrated by it attempts to define her legacy.
Now I said I said that this stuff is uh is despotic when I was talking about the government agencies in the uh in the previous hour.
And I mean that.
Um, I don't think this the restrictions on telling the truth.
You know, people take it seriously.
Politico today takes it seriously that Elizabeth Warren is a Cherokee Indian.
She's not in any sense.
She's not a woman of color.
It's absurd.
Who are you gonna believe?
Politico or your own lion eyes.
But she claims to be a woman of color on the basis that she's won uh Harvard Law School touts as a woman of color because she's won one thousandth and twelfth Cherokee or whatever it is.
Uh Hillary, uh, in an absurdity, the New York Times thinks that Hillary's that the problem with the turbulent world is not that it's turbulent and the Russians and the Mullers and the Chinese and Assad and everyone else have got the run of the planet.
They think the turbulent world is the problem with the terminal world is that it's frustrated Hillary Clinton's efforts to define her foreign policy legacy.
Well, that's because you don't have one.
That's what it is.
And at a certain point, when you're being peddled nonsense, when you're being peddled rubbish, when you're being told drivel all day long, there's two things that can happen.
People start to believe it, or people occasionally what will happen, as with the photograph of the standoff of the cowboys and robocops, cowboys and aliens in Nevada, people will see some image that distills for them just what's going on.
But you have to be allowed.
You have to be able to get access to the truth.
And I mentioned earlier this uh Virginia Supreme Court decision that says uh Michael Mann, the guy Rush mentioned a couple of uh I think it was last week when he was going Rush was going on about the guy who cooked up this hockey stick.
That's that's this Michael Mann guy, the guy who's suing me.
Uh and he's now won a uh thing in the Supreme Court of Virginia today, saying he doesn't have to disclose his emails showing how the hockey stick was created, all the back and forth about climate science and everything.
In doing that, the Supreme Court of Virginia has gutted Virginia's Freedom of Information Act.
So if you live in Virginia and you want freedom of information, your Supreme Court, a politicized judiciary, has just in effect uh taken the hockey stick to your Freedom of Information Act and shoved it right up there and uh and and left the Freedom of Information Act howling on the floor in agony.
Um it's it's a terrible decision for freedom of information.
If Michael Mann were to win his lawsuit against me, it would be the biggest setback for the First Amendment in in uh in half a century.
Uh and there would be no First Amendment.
Uh I mean uh and people are increasingly comfortable with that.
The Bureau of Land Management, they set up a little First Amendment zone miles away from where they were surrounding this guy in their Robocop outfits and training their rifles on him.
They set up a little First Amendment zone where you were allowed to protest against the the shock troops of the Bureau of Land Management.
The First Amendment zone is supposed to be the United States of America.
And all these things are basically free speech issues ultimately.
They're about the right of the citizen to know what is being done in their name, about the public policy being enacted in their name, about the integrity of the information that is collected from them.
They are all free speech issues.
Uh and that's why I'm, you know, it's tough these odds.
I don't particularly want to be stuck in this lousy uh lawsuit against this guy uh uh Rush uh was talking about last week against this uh hockey stick guy, Michael Mann.
He's personal climatologist to Jessica Ulba in one of these star-studied uh global warming scaremongering documentaries that's currently going out on Showtime.
Uh so they fly around the planet uh this uh you know dweeby-looking scientist and hot-looking Jessica Alba, and he says, Oh, is it just me or is it getting uh warm in here?
Must be the global warming.
And uh unless you can unless you have the right to actually get at the facts underlying these things, you cannot know whether your society is living in truth or whether, just to put it in climate logical terms, you are simply uh existing in a blizzard of lies.
And that's what's at issue under all these stories.
Mark Stein for Rush will take more of your calls straight ahead.
Mark Steided for Rush.
I I said I wanted to fight out the name of uh the person who wrote that incredible uh sludge like sentence from the New York Times.
If I was two people, Mark Landler and uh Amy Chosick, who uh who wrote about uh the turbulent world uh frustrating Hillary Clinton's uh efforts to articulate her foreign policy legacy.
Don't uh don't you just hate it when a turbulent world does that.
That was written by Mark Landler and Amy Chosick of the uh of the New York Times.
I don't know who who was it um they just said, Oh, the world has frustrated the uh an ungrateful world.
No, no, let's make it uh an ungrateful world, let's make it a turbulent world, a turbulent world has frustrated Mrs. Clinton's efforts to that's by the way, if you're what are they, there's like seven billion people in the world and uh so there's like six point seven billion people in the world who aren't Americans.
That's your role in this story in this psychodrama that the New York Times.
You're you're just the turbulent world frustration you're the crowd scene.
You're the turbulent world frustrating Hillary Rodham Clinton's efforts to articulate her foreign policy legacy.
You have no actual uh point or purpose of your own.
The idea that uh Russians and Ukrainians or Libyans and Syrians or Iranians or Chinese and North Koreans or Belgians, any of you have any purpose.
You'll just know you're just the big non-speaking crowd scene parts where six point seven billion of you belong to the turbulent world that's seeking to frustrate Mrs. Clinton's efforts to articulate her foreign policy legacy, and we can't have that, can we?
So that was Mark Landler and Amy Chosick of the New York Times who wrote that Pulitzer Prize winning sentence.
Let's go to John in Pieru, Indiana, home of uh home of uh Colport birthplace of coal porter Pierre, Indiana, uh, who wrote, I get a kick out of you, and I've got you under my skin, and night and day you are the one.
All things I think of when I speak to John.
John, great to have you with us on the show today.
Well, thank you for taking my call, Mark.
I really appreciate it.
And uh I would dismiss Elizabeth Warren as being merely a volunteer Indian.
That's not the point I told H.R. I was gonna mention to you, and that is the reservoir in Portland that the young man urinated in, and they therefore had to drain thirty-eight million gallons of water.
Right.
And um I looked it up on Google, and very appropriately it says it's a kidney-shaped reservoir built in nineteen eleven.
That's right.
Beyond that.
It said it's drained for cleaning each spring and fall, and it goes on to say they just drained it about three weeks ago.
Right.
So between the preemptive draining and the scheduled draining, they've dumped seventy-six million gallons worth of water out of there.
That's right.
And I'm wondering what they do about fish defecating and urinating in the same water that was so unacceptable for the nineteen-year-old to urinate in.
Well, don't forget that that's because the fish, the the defecating fish, are the stewards of the planet.
Whereas the young man is us unsustainably urinating his uh consumerist industrial society year in into the reservoir.
So he's he's breaching its pristine natural quality.
It's the it's the same thing as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where they got those uh mosquitoes the size of golf balls.
It's the biggest mosquito herd in the world up in Alaska.
And it's fine for them.
Yeah, and it is it's like fine fine for them to like fly around biting people.
Uh but if like some guy uh with uh was to wander around doing it's like it's different when it's nature, when it's nature.
So when it's like uh then that's that's that's basically the same story as the Bureau of Land Management.
They don't want all these uh farmers uh on the land using the land.
They want to preserve it in its pristine condition, one-eighth of the United States as the world's biggest animal toilet.
And that's fine.
That's natural.
We all love it.
Who doesn't love to see there's a There's a popular American saying about bears and woods that seems germane at this point.
You know, does a bear defecate in the woods?
Does a fish urinate in the Portland, Oregon reservoir?
That's nature at its most scenic and attractive, John.
Ducks and geese flying over.
Would they have to establish a no-fly zone if they choose to land on the reservoir, or you think that's susceptible also?
Don't get me started on that.
We we got a uh my town pod.
We had a geese geese problem.
The cad the Canada geese who are supposed to be flying from Canada to Florida, uh, but they like the look of iPod, so they just basically stay circling overhead for six months of the year, defecating on on the little children gambling and frolicking on the town beach.
And that's okay too, because that's natural and beautiful and pristine.
Mark Stein, in for Rush, lots more stiltica.
Yes, uh yes, Rush is uh having his uh having his surgery today, as uh as he talked as he's talked about on the show, he's having his uh little implant put in, and he's taking a couple of days off for that, which is is like about uh thirty days less than I'd want to take off if I had to go if I had to go through that.
And uh he will be back around about the middle of next week, and so we are in the season of guest hosts, season of guest hosts.
It's like people you wait ages for a Rush Limbaugh guest host, and then four come along all at once.
So we got uh uh Buck Sexton in tomorrow and Mark Belling and Eric Ericsson, uh, and then I think it's Buck again, and uh at that at some point Rush will return and say, to hell with these guest hosts.
I'm preempting the pre-scheduled guest host and I'm taking the show back.
And and all being well, if all goes well today, uh because he's gotta get i he's he's uh he's back into it because he's uh he may even have had his surgery by now.
But if they say you just need some rest, Mr. Limbaugh, take it easy for a while, and he switches on the radio and his like ear starts bleeding, something wrong with it because the guy who's guest hosting for him doesn't even sound like an American.
What the hell is up with that?
So uh so Rush is taking it easy, uh, until everything's fine on the medical front, and he will return at some point uh in toward the middle of uh of the next week.
Uh the I I I I said I said the there was a despotic tendency, uh, and that all what all these stories going on at the moment are really about.
All the stories, the Mozilla guy.
The guy who's fired from Mozilla, uh the Bureau of Land Management putting up some tiny pen called uh a First Amendment area, as if Americans are literally, literally cattle out of George Orwell's animal farm and have to be put in a little animal pen to graze on the Bureau of Land Management's uh vast uh uh real estate holdings,
and the the freeborn American citizen is a cow from uh or George Orwell's animal farm and here so putting the little First Amendment pen.
The Mozilla story uh is a First Amendment story.
Uh my uh old friend Ayan Hirsey Ali being denied a uh a an honorary uh degree at Brandeis University because she's wandered off the reservation in which uh black feminist immigrant women are supposed to be confined by saying things about Islam that don't fit the narrative.
That's uh that's a free speech story, too.
All the the great story of the Western world in the twenty first century is that the left has given up even pretending it believes in free speech.
And I wrote a piece about this for uh for my friends of the Spectator in Australia, uh this week.
This week.
If you're if you happen to be listening in Sydney, it's on New Stands tomorrow.
If you happen to be listening in uh Dublin or Edinburgh on New Stands Tomorrow.
But it's it was uh in the uh British and Australian Spectator.
I wrote about all these free speech issues going on around the world.
And uh a fellow called Pat Norswald, who is a Hollywood guy, and he's uh he he was in the uh King of Queens and he's been in two and a half men, he's in all these sitcoms, he's a stand-up comic, he's a comedian.
Uh he my kids uh love him because he played Remy the Mouse in Ratatouille.
And he linked he linked to my piece, saying the left just wants you to shut up.
The left doesn't pretend even to believe in that v apocryphal Voltaire quote about how they'll defend to the death they disagree with what you say, but they'll defend to the death your right to say it.
Once upon a time the left used to pretend, pretend at least to believe in that.
Now they don't do it.
Now they don't do it.
Now they say this is the line.
It's climate change, you've got to believe this.
It's gay marriage, you've got to believe this.
It's it's race, you gotta believe this.
It's transgendered bathrooms, you gotta believe this.
There's one line, and you can't deviate from the line.
And you can't be in agreement on 19 issues and wander off the reservation on the twentieth issue.
So I write n I write this piece in the Australian Spectator, and it somehow crosses the radar of Patton Oswald from King of Queens and Two and a Half Men and Ratatouille and all this other stuff, and he retweets it.
There's a line in there that he happened to like that I wrote, and he retweeted it.
And immediately, within the space of an hour, all the gr the great showbiz the showbiz conformity enforcers, the great liberal free thinking liberal progressives all take the Twitter social media tire iron to him and club him into the pulp just for linking to a column by me.
And Patton Oswald says, uh again, he's nobody's conservative.
He's like a he's like a Hollywood liberal who just wants to be able to say what he wants to say.
Uh and because of that, because he linked approvingly to my piece, he's now assumed to be a right wing hater.
Uh you gotta demonize him, you gotta club this guy to a pulp so that no other left-wing comedian will ever make the mistake again of linking to a Mark Stein column in Australia.
Uh that's how insecure these guys are.
They can't permit any dissent.
And Patton Oswald, to his credit, said, um you uh you basically uh just made my point uh that uh that that no dissent is permitted.
And because I linked to one Mark Stein column, you guys all assume I'm a right wing lunatic and shouldn't be allowed to speak, which kind of makes uh Mark Stein's point.
And this is the group thing.
This is this is they're not even pretending.
They're not even pretending to acknowledge the idea of free speech anymore.
They've no idea of free speech.
Even if you be Patton Oswald should have known, Patton Oswald should have known, somewhere he might be on board with 99% of the of the new rules of of the new progressive uh pieties that that he might be supported.
I'd I've no idea what the guy believes.
I have no idea, other than he happened to link to a piece he liked mine on free speech.
I don't know what he thinks about climate change, don't know what he thinks about gay marriage, don't know what he thinks about transgendered bathrooms, don't know what he thinks about Islam, don't know what he thinks about the Affordable Care Act.
Doesn't matter.
You can be on you can be correct on ninety-nine out of a hundred of them, like the Mozilla guy, and you wander off the reservation on just one pff, you're toast, you're gone, you're out of there.
You can wander off the reservation uh on just uh on just one little thing and your history.
And that's why you see uh great people, powerful people, uh forced to conform, forced to say it's not worth it.
I can't say anything.
Oh, I'd quite like to say this, but if I do, uh people will be clobbering me, beating me up.
The this idea that you this idea that there is only one correct view, and that if you sign up for the liberal program, you're signing up for one hundred percent of it.
It's not it's not uh a salad bar.
You can't pick what you want.
It's not Burger King.
You can't have it your way.
This is it.
It's Ford, it's uh the model T. You can get it in any color as long as it's one hundred percent exactly the same.
You join, you sign up with this side of the fence, you gotta agree with them on everything, everything.
They're conformity enforcers.
And and Patton Oswald, God bless him.
I don't know him, don't know him, not um you know, all the showbiz guys I like uh died fifty years ago, and Mr. Squaresville on that front.
He's uh he's someone who's on uh sitcoms, he's does stand-up comedy, he's hugely successful, even my kids love him in uh as Remy the Mouse in Ratatouille.
Uh but he made the mistake.
He made one little mistake, he got Everything right.
And then he made one little mistake of of reading a column of mine that he quite liked in Australia on the other side of the planet.
And he linked to it and poof, the Hollywood liberal media, uh lefty, uh university college enforcers got the tire irons out, uh, and got him in Twitter's back alley and clubbed him to a pulp.
And that's that's bec what kind of it doesn't matter what it is, you know.
What what's w what what is wrong with the liberal agenda that they're so insecure that they cannot permit any dissent from it.
Um and I I call it a free speech issue.
Uh effectively, these are heresy laws.
These are heresy laws for the new uh progressive pieties.
That's the Mozilla guy.
Uh the the Mozilla guy believed what everyone, including Obama believed about marriage for millennia.
He 'cause Obama uh uh at the time the Mozilla guy gave a thousand bucks to the proposition eight uh proposition eight, which only got voted in, by the way, because all the people who turned out to vote for Obama uh in California in two thousand eight stayed in the voting booth long enough also to vote for Proposition Eight.
Uh redefine uh g uh saying that marriage was defined as that between a man and a woman, what it means for thousands and thousands of years.
That's what Obama thought.
He took longer to evolve uh on the on gays than uh than Ricky Martin did.
Ricky Martin's evolution on gayness uh took uh whatever it was, ten years.
Obama's took even longer than that.
And but but once it's done, it's done.
You can't go back.
You can only go forward in the liberal world.
You can't the fact that this guy he was on board with ninety-nine percent of the agenda, uh the uh the agenda of inclusiveness and respect and tolerance, and we can't tolerate or respect or include anyone who doesn't agree with us one hundred percent.
And God bless uh dear old Pat Noswalt for standing up for standing up to these people who say you're not allowed to think.
Once you sign up for the club of progressive pieties, once you sign up to the club of modern day liberalism, so-called liberalism that isn't liberal enough to let you think for yourself, this is the program.
Uh you come to us.
What do you think?
Keystone pipeline, you gotta think this.
Gays, you gotta think this.
Islam, you gotta think there's no room for any deviation.
You have got to think this.
And if you're boring enough to want to live your life that way, if you want to just have uh basically be lobotomized into droning uh the s nothing but liberal catchphrases on every single issue that ever arises, you have come to the right place.
But if you wander off the reservation for just a smidgenette, boom, the conformity enforcers will plug you to a pulp in the alley.
Mark Stein and Farush will take more of your calls straight ahead.
That sounds like New York Times reporters expressing their frustration at the turbulent world for frustrating Hillary's ability to articulate her her foreign policy.
Uh Mark Steid in Frush had a couple of emails how I'm funding my massive lawsuit, uh accusing me of big old the Koch brothers uh payroll, my uh my defense against uh Michael Baird, the hockey stick guy.
I know the Koch brothers check is apparently still in the mail.
It hasn't come through yet, so I'm uh I'm I'm funding it basically at my website through t-shirt sales and sales of my Christmas disco CD.
And uh that will be a jurisprudential first for the United States if that pulls off.
But uh the Koch Brothers check to fund my lawsuit, uh my defense in this lawsuit is apparently still in the mail, it's lost in the mail somewhere.
It's it's it should be here any day now.
Let's go to Mike in uh Rush Revere Beach in Florida.
Oh no, no, no, no, not Rush Revere Beach, just Revere Beach.
They've uh uh they've shortened it, but uh we think of it as Rush Rever Beach.
Great to have you with us, Mike.
Oh, thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
What's on your mind today, Mike?
Well, the the my biggest complaint on this Obama Ob Obamacare thing is look, I I'm turning fifty soon.
I I've been a US is in all my life.
I was born and raised here.
Uh my mom taught me to be honest, taught me to be polite.
And once well foop uh the both of the American people have voted me to be a criminal by this Obamacare thing.
I did not have uh health insurance before all this started.
I hadn't been able to afford it.
And now that it's come through, I know I can't afford it.
All I've done is see the prices rise.
And so I'm forced to either buy something I can't afford or be a criminal.
Yeah, or you're and you're forced to buy something you can't afford that won't be any use to you when you ever need it.
Or you'll you'll have to pay huge uh deductibles, you'll have to pay huge copages.
Now when you say you're an independent contractor you mean there's just you working for yourself.
Uh yeah technically I deliver parts for a for a huge dealership but I don't work for the deal the Right so you you report so you report your business income uh on uh on your 1040 uh is that c is that correct on your usual regular tax return then?
Uh yeah I believe I would use the 1040 ES as exam.
That's great.
I love that as I said the other I saw this is the only country in the world where government form numbers are household aid.
The 1040 ES, is that right?
Excellent.
Yeah I've never heard of that one before this year either.
No, well I'll show you my 1099 R if you show me your 1040 ES.
You know what is what is wr what is wrong about this though this Mike is they don't want people like you who are in business for themselves to have and I I've got my company has uh has a health care plan.
Our uh premiums of it's up 20% is that right 20%?
And we've got to make room for another lady here who was being insured by a municipality but all the municipalities in this state are kicking their spouses off uh next year so she's got to come on to our plan.
They're making it more and more difficult because they don't want small businessmen, independent contractors like you to actually be in charge of your health care.
They want you to go and be a government dependent uh going and plugging into the government system.
That's why they've made you a criminal they because you've got a choice between being a criminal or or being a uh or or being in the government system.
That's it.
There's no private sector.
There's the government sector or the criminal sector, Mike.
And they're the only two roles that the government is willing to entertain for you.
And as you say, you did nothing wrong.
You've lived in America all your life.
You're born here.
And yet somehow it's now the law of the land that you have to make arrangements for your hernia and for your kidney and for your heart ventricles that meet the approval of the commissar of body parts.
And that's what America's come to, Mike.
Yay.
Hey, come on.
This is the audience part.
participation part.
You could do a better yay than that.
Give me give it your best shot give give you a big yay honestly I can.
I can't even type WE in capital letters on a text right now.
It's got me that frustrated.
Okay, I sympathize with you, Mike.
But it's only going to work.
They're doing it very carefully.
It's the slow-boiling frog routine here.
They've lowered the independent contractors, the self-employed, the freelance writers, in fact, into this pot first.
Then next year, the people whose spouses are on plans, they're getting kicked off.
The year after that, it's going to be the kids who are on plans that are getting kicked off.
Then it's going to be the whole employer plan collapsing.
They're lowering everybody into, I said the frog in the slow-boiling plot, but, it's actually a cuisinot and it's like when you put too much stuff in the cuisinate it can't chop you up and fill it you uh as smoothly and efficiently as you like.
So they're lowering us all in to chop us up and fill it us and splatter the blood all around the outside of the cuisine art very slowly and uh and independent contractors are first and then it's going to be spouses then it's gonna be children then the whole deal.
Mark Stein for Rush will close things out in just a moment.
Mark Stein and Frush by the way people have reminded me about Hillary Clinton's great accomplishment as Secretary of State she did personally rappel into that uh Abbotabad compound in Pakistan and put six bullets in between Osama bin Laden size.
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