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RUSH: Michael in Concord, New Hampshire. Hello. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My concern is, you mention all the issues that we have regarding the reform of the health system regarding how people are, you know, the overweight people, so to say, and how they\u2019re going to regulate what you can eat and so forth and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question is, are they going to also try to cut costs and basically tell people that they can\u2019t do extreme sports because they\u2019re at high risk of going to the hospital or for injuries? You know, whatever it is, whether it\u2019s racing, whether it\u2019s, you know, car racing sports, I mean, you know, all those injuries are obviously, you know, obviously we\u2019re going to be paying for it, which —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a good point. Look at the medical bills of your average college football team, your average National Football League team. These guys run MRIs every day.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I guess that\u2019s my whole point. I know it sounds a little bit extreme, but at the same time, if they\u2019re going to regulate what you can eat and what you can\u2019t eat and what they\u2019re going to tax and so forth, I mean is that the next level? <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a good question because your question illustrates something. You have the public at large, mom and pop, Joe Six-Pack, Mary Botox, and they\u2019re out there living their lives and they\u2019re going to have all these restrictions on what they can eat, what they can\u2019t eat. Now let\u2019s move to the NFL. Well, certainly I can\u2019t believe that Obama will outlaw the NFL because it\u2019s too dangerous, but the health care costs, they have surgeons, medical trainers, the doctors on staff. And I, frankly, don\u2019t know if they pay for all this out of pocket at the NFL team or if they have insurance policies to deal with it, probably a combination of both. But what if they have to go to the government for all of their insurance, what if that happens? This economy and our culture, our society is so complex, and your question illustrates a good point, that Obama\u2019s treating every citizen as being identical in terms of health care this and health care that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jacquelyn in Wichita, Kansas, a college student, I think, welcome to the program. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. Actually I\u2019m a college graduate. My fiance is still a college student, though. And I\u2019m uninsured and it really chaps me that they are passing this bill in my name basically because I\u2019m one of the people they keep talking about, and it\u2019s like I\u2019m engaged and my fiance and I are getting married soon. One of these days we\u2019d like to start a family on our time and our choice, and according to some of the legislation in this bill, this health care bill, the government will get to dictate when we can have children, they\u2019ll get to dictate the —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why do you think the government will be able to dictate when you can and when you can\u2019t have children, based on when they\u2019ll pay for it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Well, that, and if it turns out that for some reason Brandon and I can\u2019t, for some reason, conceive and we have to have fertility treatments or something, they can say, ‘Oh, well, no, you don\u2019t get to,\u2019 or, ‘Well, no, we\u2019re not ready for you, you have to stay on birth control,\u2019 and if we don\u2019t they can basically hold it over our heads and they get to decide everything. They get to decide how we do things.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Jacquelyn, who told you all this?<\/p>\n

CALLER: My father sent me an e-mail with the link to the text of the legislation, and I read it, and unfortunately, I\u2019m in the car right now in Wichita and not in my home, so I can\u2019t look up the actual page number for you, but it was like in the 900 range of the text on the page numbers.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Folks, I want you to understand what we have here. We have a college graduate who has read the whole thing. Did you need two lawyers to translate it for you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, John Conyers said he does and he\u2019s chairman of the Judiciary Committee. So you read the whole bill, somewhere in the 900 page range you found all that you just told me?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, basically. I mean it doesn\u2019t take a lot of — I mean you have to sit there and you have to, you know, work at it and be willing to understand it. It isn\u2019t like reading the newspaper. But I mean it\u2019s not impossible to understand just by reading on your own.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Nothing\u2019s as bad as reading the newspaper. But you\u2019re talking about —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — how complicated it is.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Harry Potter books are more complicated sometimes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Well, I didn\u2019t even know that was in it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I mean a lot of people don\u2019t realize that\u2019s in there, but they get to control all of that, you know, family planning. The government\u2019s doing family planning.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They have been for quite a while in all these disguised ways, but this is just putting it out in black and white, wide open.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why do you think they want to do that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Because I\u2019m a Republican and they don\u2019t want me spawning more little Republicans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, no, they\u2019re going to make the Democrats do this, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m betting if you pay certain money or whatever you probably get a better bill than I did. I don\u2019t know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ve heard that this fear from so many people who have called this program, that whatever the rules in this bill are, that if you\u2019re a Democrat it\u2019s going to be a little easier for you to be massaged through the system, you\u2019re going to be punished less, your wait list will be shorter if you\u2019re a Democrat. A lot of people have this fear. It tells me that people know who this guy is and what he\u2019s all about. Jacquelyn, thanks for the call, I appreciate it. They\u2019re going to control family planning. Now, the real reason they want to control family planning, you could throw in, yeah, they want to limit the number of potential Republicans born and so forth to counter all the liberals being aborted. But, it\u2019s about controlling everything. People just can\u2019t understand. Americans, the average American, you tell \u2019em, for example, this guy\u2019s purposely destroying the US economy. That doesn\u2019t compute. People do not understand. They can\u2019t think that there are Americans who would do that. They can\u2019t think they\u2019ve actually elected a president and have members of Congress who genuinely want to deny the basic liberty and freedom our US Constitution and other founding documents have proclaimed. <\/p>\n

When I have people tell me this, I point out world history to them. The history of the world is tyranny. Human beings are viciously mean to each other. The history of humanity is tyranny, torture, dungeons, dictatorship, fear. The exception has been the United States of America. That\u2019s the whole thing behind American exceptionalism. The exception to human nature and world human history is the United States of America. The people that want to control others so that they have more power, the people that want to limit liberty around the world, they\u2019re all over the place. They\u2019ve always been all over the place. They surround us. That\u2019s why we\u2019re despised and feared. We represent the only opposition to them, and they\u2019re everywhere. They\u2019re in the Middle East. They\u2019re in Europe. They\u2019re in Asia. They\u2019re in South America, Central America. They\u2019re all over. We are surrounded. And now we have a president who\u2019s sympathetic to those people and is engaging in policies that will replicate the same kind of loss of freedom and liberty that has been the traditional lot in life for the average human being since the beginning of time. <\/p>\n

So you tell the American people, ‘Okay, they\u2019ve finally done it, these statists, these tyrannical types, they\u2019ve finally gotten their foot in the door of the United States of America,\u2019 they have. And this has been something that a lot of Americans have been fighting for a hundred years, these people have been around, we fought it 50 years, certainly. But they never stop. The quest for this kind of power is insatiable. These people are no different than whoever the bad guy was in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Sauron. No matter what they get they\u2019re never happy. They have an addiction that can never be satisfied or quelled, by definition addictions can\u2019t. And most Americans with a historical perspective that begins with the day that they were born just can\u2019t fathom the idea that people of the likes of people in world history who have been tyrannical dictators and torturers and murderers, that doesn\u2019t happen, that\u2019s what\u2019s America. Well, people have been trying to create this in America for a long, long, long, long time. <\/p>\n

Somebody had a very funny description of Obama the other day. A friend of mine told me he was talking to somebody, a friend of his, a third-party thing, but this guy was retired military, very respected by everybody that knows him. ‘What do you think of Obama?\u2019 ‘This guy is the greatest ventriloquist I have ever seen.\u2019 Now, what he meant by that is, somebody\u2019s running Obama. Somebody\u2019s putting the words in his mouth, the greatest ventriloquist. And I think there\u2019s something to that, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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