{"id":32955,"date":"2009-07-14T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:10:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:10:20","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:10:20","slug":"crisis_09_kids_fall_in_bathtubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/07\/14\/crisis_09_kids_fall_in_bathtubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis \u201909: Kids Fall in Bathtubs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: ‘More than 43,000 children head to the emergency room each year after slipping or falling in a bathtub, according to researchers at Nationwide Children\u2019s Hospital.\u2019 Do you know what that works out to? That works out to 120 kids injured every day in a bathtub in the most prosperous nation on earth. Now, something needs to be done about this. Don\u2019t know what, but something needs to be done. (interruption) Well, because it\u2019s 43,000 kids hurt falling in the bathtub. (interruption) Bathtubs are. Maybe the bathtubs, I don\u2019t know. (interruption) No, it\u2019s not allowed for kids to get hurt. You\u2019ve seen those stories, haven\u2019t you? I remember when I was a kid, let\u2019s see how much of this I can remember. When I was a kid, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, get up in the morning and leave the house at eight o\u2019clock in the summertime, and the parents were happy to see you go, get outta here, kid. <\/p>\n

You get on the bike and you\u2019d go and they didn\u2019t know where you were going, and you had no helmet. You had a deck of cards in the spokes to make noise, a little transistor radio attached to the handlebars so you could pretend you\u2019re driving a car and you cruise around and sometimes you\u2019d run through red lights, sometimes you\u2019d run through stop signs risking it all that no car was coming. Sometimes you\u2019d end up five miles away from home, parents didn\u2019t know, didn\u2019t care. You got home and told them what you did, they comment on it one way or the other. We\u2019d fall off the bicycle, scuff up our knees. I remember one time my mother sent me up to the Snack and Pack, which was the convenience store, Snack Pack, I think it was, which is five blocks away. She sent me up there on my bicycle to pick up some stuff so that she wouldn\u2019t have to go to the grocery store. She was busy doing something, playing with the dog. <\/p>\n

So I went up there, and I got the sack of stuff, and I\u2019m carrying the sack on the handlebars, and my left knee as I\u2019m pedaling hits the sack and causes the front wheel to do a 90-degree turn, and I went head over heels onto the street, no helmet, no nothing, sat up, the stuff had fallen out of the sack, and I am mad as I can be. I\u2019m probably 10. I\u2019m mad as hell my mom made me do this. I didn\u2019t have a basket on the bike so I had to carry that sack in the left hand on the handlebar. So I got home and told her what happened, and she said, ‘Stop whining and don\u2019t worry.\u2019 She ran and got some iodine and put it on the scuff on the knee and that was it. I remember playing baseball, youth league baseball at 12 and we had the screen backstop, as these little park baseball diamonds had. A wild pitch and I was a catcher and I scurried back to pick up the wild pitch and one of the prongs of the screen came out and cut my head and the coach said, ‘Don\u2019t worry about it,\u2019 and grabbed some dirt and rubbed it in it. ‘This is how we deal with it, son.\u2019 I wasn\u2019t crying. ‘Don\u2019t worry about it, keep playing.\u2019 Now, I guarantee you, none of that\u2019s allowed to happen today. <\/p>\n

We were fine. At the time, you know what we were worried about? We were worried about the Russians nuking us. Kids today are worrying about stupid polar bears dying or they\u2019re worried about Bush lied. I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re worried about but they\u2019re made to worry about a bunch of stuff. I\u2019m just telling you that we know people fall in the bathtub all the time, kids, adults or what have you. But in this climate when this statistic — this is the Baltimore Sun, by the way. I won\u2019t be surprised if somebody says, ‘We got to do something about this, we can\u2019t have 120 kids falling and hurting themselves in bathtubs or showers every day in this country.\u2019 But do you think that your average parent today will wave good-bye to the kid at eight o\u2019clock in the morning on the bicycle and not care. No, they have to arrange play dates and the reason is there are molesters and all this other kind of stuff out there. Well, you might have had weirdos. Our weirdos were people we laughed at. We weren\u2019t afraid of them. <\/p>\n

Our weirdos were 90 years old driving down the middle of the street weaving in a 1920 car and then showing up at Wimpys, which is the local hamburger joint, to get a cup of coffee. We named this guy Gertrude Vangard. I never knew what his name was, but he was the funniest old little guy. Gertrude Vangard. We made fun of the local mortician. We weren\u2019t afraid — (interruption) Well, that\u2019s true, the schoolteachers weren\u2019t having sex with us back then. It was different. Now, I\u2019m not an old fogy and saying that let\u2019s go back to those days. I promised I\u2019d never be one of those, but I\u2019m just telling you that we were allowed to be kids and grow up and have things happen that shaped us, and today no harm, no pain, no suffering is allowed, it\u2019s not good, it stunts growth, kids today are not even allowed to compete. They secretly do, you know, when they tell these kids at T-ball you can\u2019t keep score, they do, they know at the end of the game which team won. Even though it\u2019s not officially done, people are naturally competitive. (interruption) Actually, I did have an experience with a bully when I was growing up, two of them. <\/p>\n

I remember the first time I went home and told my mom or dad, whichever one, there was a bully in the school: ‘Well, what are you going to do? What are you going to do about it?\u2019 rather than call the school and demand that something be done with the bully. Nobody called Congress or the state legislature to get bully legislation passed. It was much different, but of course back then the teachers also were not polluting our minds with ultra-radical leftism. Teachers were not requiring us to watch Algore movies and not telling our parents they had to come watch or we would fail the class. We didn\u2019t have teachers who were giving us the answers to the tests in history so that the teacher could actually teach anti-Bush Republicanism while disguising successful history class with test scores that were made — that\u2019s happening today. It\u2019s happening today. <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m just telling you, something\u2019s going to have to be done, bathtub falls, 43,000 kids a year, something\u2019s gotta give here. Something has to give. Can you imagine somebody hearing the story today about rubbing dirt in an open wound on my head? Lawsuit, I guaran-damn-tee you, lawsuit. Sue the coach, sue the city for having a defective backstop and screen, and social services would have probably come and tried to take me away from my mother if I told them she made me drive to the Snack Pack and cut myself open on the bicycle \u2019cause the pack hit my knee and the wheel went 90 degrees and I went flying. And then they\u2019d sued the bicycle maker or the store that sold it to me because they didn\u2019t put a proper basket on the back to carry sacks from the Snack Pack, or whatever it was called. I think it was Pack and Snack. It\u2019s where we went and got the baseball cards. Well, at any rate, folks, we gotta take a brief time-out. I\u2019m just trying to avoid more Sonia Sotomayor sound bites with these stories, but there will be some after this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Tammy in Tucson. Tammy, nice to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. How are you? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I heard you talking this morning about slips in the bathtub, and, you know, people going to the emergency room. And I used to be a nurse. I\u2019m now a schoolteacher. And I would say conservatively probably 75% of the people that come into emergency rooms come in on a nonemergency basis, i.e., slips in the bathtub which are really not emergencies. Children throwing up, ticky-tack things, which, you know, contributes to our health care situation. And to prove my point, big U of A fan, University of Arizona, when the University of Arizona is playing when it\u2019s football or basketball, the emergency room clears out, the hospital floors, there\u2019s no lights being turned on, no one\u2019s sick. So my point being that if you\u2019re not sick when U of A is playing, you\u2019re not really sick. So don\u2019t come to the emergency room, don\u2019t come to the hospital.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I understand exactly what you\u2019re saying. We\u2019ve had this story, talked about it recently where nine people over six years visited a single Texas emergency room about 2,000 times. Some of them were illegal immigrants and so forth. <\/p>\n

CALLER: We have a lot of that here.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m sure you do. You\u2019re a border state. But there\u2019s a dichotomy to this because we can sit here and talk about the old days back when I was, you know, 12 years old, which would be more than 40 years ago, you can talk about that. But admittedly times were different then. We were not peppered every day with newspaper and TV stories about what was going to kill us. We were not peppered with the notion every day that if we don\u2019t do that and don\u2019t do that and don\u2019t do that and don\u2019t do that, we could live forever. We weren\u2019t nearly as affluent then as we are today. A combination of media and affluence and medical advances. So if the kid does get a cough — remember, my grandparents on my father\u2019s side lost a daughter, name was Marguerite, my father\u2019s sister, she died at 13 because she scraped her arm on a nail, got lead poisoning, there was no penicillin. This is in the early 1900s. Life was tougher then. We can\u2019t imagine something like that. <\/p>\n

I scraped my head on a backstop and they poured dirt in it. I was fine, by the way, didn\u2019t get infected. Dirt\u2019s clean, very clean stuff, unless the animals have been on it, and they weren\u2019t there. So today, people with their pets, people with their kids, first sign of a problem we can probably fix it now, plus people have been told all these things out there are going to kill them or hurt their kids or what have you, medical panic. I think health panic exists as a daily event in this country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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