{"id":33283,"date":"2009-08-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:00:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T02:00:27","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T02:00:27","slug":"eib_think_piece_obamafood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/08\/25\/eib_think_piece_obamafood\/","title":{"rendered":"EIB Think Piece: ObamaFood"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: Let me come up with an analogy here to explain health care. I have some friends who think that you still don\u2019t get it, and they say, &#8216;You gotta keep hammering this, Rush. People still don\u2019t get <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125107.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>what this health care is.\u2019 I firmly believe that all of you do get it, and I think more and more Americans are getting it, as to what is actually going down with Obama health care. But let\u2019s substitute food for health care in this analogy. Let\u2019s say that people think food is too expensive. And of course food is a right, too! I mean, food, you can\u2019t go without food. That\u2019s why markups in grocery stores on food items are actually 1% overall. That\u2019s why grocery stores sell all the other stuff: the magazines, the razor blades and all this stuff for the markups much higher, but people have to eat, and it\u2019s thus priced the way it is. <\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s say people thought price of food was too expensive and Obama came along and said, &#8216;You know what? ObamaFood can drive down the cost of your spending on food. We\u2019re going to have to an ObamaFood plan to help you with the high cost of food; make sure you get what you want, when you want it and that there\u2019s no discrimination. Nobody\u2019s going to eat better than you do and you\u2019re going to eat no better than anybody else.\u2019 So the Obama administration says they can dramatically cut the cost of food. How are they going to do it? Well, if they wanted to take on the cost of food in the same way they\u2019re taking on health care, they would say that they\u2019re going to drive down the profits of the greedy farmers, and they\u2019re going to drive down and squeeze the profits of the greedy shipping industry, and then they\u2019re going to attack the food stores, the grocery stores that sell at too large a profit. <\/p>\n<p>Speaker Pelosi would not call food stores, grocery stores, the shipping industry and farmers greedy. She would call them immoral! And to keep \u2019em all honest, to keep \u2019em all honest Obama then would create competition, real competition with a public option for you to buy food from. Food co-ops! Imagine if the government was in the business of distributing and getting to you food at an affordable price. And when the rational among us say, &#8216;It\u2019s impossible to do this. The idea we\u2019ll destroy the best food delivery system in the world,\u2019 the people that say that then are criticized, mocked and vilified. There\u2019s nothing wrong with the American food delivery system. There\u2019s nothing wrong with the price. People get what they want. In fact, the food stamp program. Look at the obesity problem. And they would say, &#8216;The attacks on the ObamaFood program are racist,\u2019 and so forth. So here we are. We have a totally flawed plan that\u2019s obviously a mess, still being treated as &#8216;reform.\u2019 Just imagine the government taking over anything else in your life: food or whatever, on the same basis they\u2019re doing it now. 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People still don\u2019t get what this health care is.\u2019 I firmly believe that all of you do get it, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>EIB Think Piece: ObamaFood - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2009\/08\/25\/eib_think_piece_obamafood\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"EIB Think Piece: ObamaFood - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Let me come up with an analogy here to explain health care. 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