{"id":21558,"date":"2003-06-18T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:20:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T07:20:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T07:20:18","slug":"the_idea_we_re_not_doing_enough_is_offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2003\/06\/18\/the_idea_we_re_not_doing_enough_is_offensive\/","title":{"rendered":"The Idea We\u2019re Not Doing Enough is Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_idea_we_re_not_doing_enough_is_offensive_.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"142\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>I never asked anyone to work to buy me things. I don\u2019t want to create more and more dependent people, or push this idea that certain people owe other people gifts. I never said seniors should pay for their own drugs, but what\u2019s wrong with the ones who <emphasize>can <\/emphasize>afford their drugs buying them? Don\u2019t we have an obligation to support ourselves? Let me ask you this: if you need something, do you walk up and down your street asking your neighbors to buy it? No! Yet you pass a law to force the government to take money out of your neighbors\u2019 wallets &#8211; and then never say, &#8220;Thank you.&#8221; We spend billions and billions on health care programs &#8211; on Medicare and Medicaid and WIC and on and on. <\/line><BR\/> Nor does our charity stop at the water\u2019s edge. Bush is giving $15 billion of our money to treat AIDS in Africa. We\u2019ve been feeding the North Korean people even as their government spends money on building nukes. We attract millions of illegal immigrants and legal ones with our largess. The idea that Medicare will go bankrupt is another scare tactic. We\u2019re never, ever going to let seniors die in the streets &#8211; despite what Democrats warn about letting Republicans in power. People simply ask, &#8220;Is it right to force the working poor and middle class to buy drugs for millionaires?&#8221; For suggesting this means-testing, you\u2019re called heartless. Sorry, I can\u2019t be warm and fuzzy on such tripe.<\/line><BR\/>These people never reach into their pockets to help people buy medicine, but are quite happy to reach deep into <emphasize>yours <\/emphasize>&#8211; and then claim that they\u2019re the compassionate ones! I\u2019m told that the White House is going along with this to &#8220;expand the party\u2019s base.&#8221; Tell me something. Once you win, aren\u2019t you going to worry about maintaining that majority? Tell me you won\u2019t say that the only way we can hold onto a GOP majority is to keep giving the big government spenders what they want again. Tell me we won\u2019t have more Americans working more hours as slaves to the government &#8211; all for a system that\u2019s neither compassionate nor helpful to the needy. Parties don\u2019t matter, folks. Ideas and helping those truly in need do.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/windowsmedia\/en\/download\/default.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/the_idea_we_re_not_doing_enough_is_offensive_.Par.0005.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"18\" class=\"alignleft\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never asked anyone to work to buy me things. I don\u2019t want to create more and more dependent people, or push this idea that certain people owe other people gifts. I never said seniors should pay for their own drugs, but what\u2019s wrong with the ones who can afford their drugs buying them? 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