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RUSH: We got a call from Iraq, and I want to grab that call. This is Don. Where are you in Iraq, if you can say, Don?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am at Camp Delta in Iraq, which is near Al Kut, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos from here.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I have a question about the health care bill, sir. I hope you can hear me okay. I\u2019m calling over the Internet actually, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I actually hear you better than most telephone calls.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Excellent. The question is: How have we gotten to the point where we are now in the health care debate? We went from wanting to insure people that had no insurance. Now, I realize we provide most Americans with health care, but we went from providing people who didn\u2019t have health insurance to this gargantuan bill and we\u2019re still leaving out 12-1\/2 million people without insurance. I don\u2019t understand how we went from trying to get everybody on insurance to this gargantuan monstrosity of a bill which still leaves 12-1\/2 million uninsured and you rarely ever hear anybody ask that question of them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. I think you probably do know the answer, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, absolutely I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Then answer your own question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not about providing health care. That\u2019s the answer.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely right. It\u2019s not about the uninsured. It can\u2019t possibly be if, after this gargantuan thing (over 2,000 pages), it still leaves 12-1\/2 million uninsured. It can\u2019t possibly be about that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I thought that\u2019s what this is all about?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, no. That\u2019s what they tell us it\u2019s all about so that they can hoodwink people into supporting it. They grab at people\u2019s heartstrings, their hearts. They tug those heartstrings and try to say (sobbing), ‘It\u2019s a terrible thing, so many people uninsured in the richest country in the world. It\u2019s unseemly. It\u2019s a sin and we gotta fix it,\u2019 and everybody supports this until they see the details and then realize that this is not about health care. It\u2019s a bill that expands government, that raises taxes, and depletes the private sector of one-sixth of its value that\u2019s put in control of the Democrat Party. There\u2019s an even better explanation for it, and this is something that is so simple that it\u2019s difficult for people to accept, and that is: This is a bill advanced by who? Liberal Democrats; and the one thing that\u2019s inexorably true about them is they lie. <\/p>\n

They have to lie. They cannot be open and honest about what liberalism is. What happens when they are is what you see happening in Massachusetts. They have gotten arrogant and they\u2019re condescending. They\u2019re thinking they hold all three branches now so they don\u2019t have to wear the mask anymore and they can go out and say whatever they really believe, plan what they really want to do. And when they do that people rise up and revolt. They\u2019re going to do that tomorrow in Massachusetts. They\u2019re going to do it big time in November. The health care bill, which they intended to get written in secret, has been made public (no thanks to the mainstream media) and so it is what it is. It\u2019s a reassuring fact, I think, Don, that the country has not gone over the cliff. The country\u2019s not socialist. The people of this country are not wacko leftists like we were being led to believe after the election of Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I\u2019m just glad that people have come to realize what\u2019s going on in this country. We really appreciate you over here. I can\u2019t tell you how many of our men listen to you on the Internet, and we appreciate everything you do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That —<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re here fighting for you. We love you and we love all the people that are over there supporting us and we appreciate everything you do, and people like you are the reason that we\u2019re here doing what we\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, my God. You have melted my heart. (deep breath) It\u2019s very few people that can render me speechless but you have, because we here in this country have a reverence for what you all are doing above and beyond what you even know. So it\u2019s very humbling to hear you say that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Like you, it\u2019s my calling and it\u2019s what I love to do. It\u2019s hard for me to leave my family back home and come here and do this, but when I\u2019m with my men… I\u2019m a flight medic here. When I\u2019m with my men and I\u2019m treating the soldiers, it\u2019s just my calling. It\u2019s what I was designed to do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s what you were born to do. I understand that totally. I often say that about myself. How long you been there?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve only been here about five months now. I\u2019ve got about eight more to go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, God bless you, sir. Thank you so much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: God bless you, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. <\/p>\n

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

RUSH: I truly appreciate it. That\u2019s Don calling from Iraq over the Internet. That\u2019s a VOIP call: Voice Over IP. Sounds superb. Ladies and gentlemen, he\u2019s got people tearing up here at the EIB Network. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not often that I share with you things that I see floating around the Internet that are mass-spam mailed, but this one\u2019s kind of interesting. You never know if the origin here is truthful, but I\u2019ll just read you what it says. ‘This was an article from the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday. The Business section asked readers for ideas on ‘How Would You Fix the Economy?\u2019 This article was one of the ideas submitted… ‘Dear Mr. President, Please find below my suggestion for fixing America\u2019s economy. Instead of giving billions of dollars to companies that will squander the money on lavish parties and unearned bonuses, use the following plan. <\/p>\n

”You can call it the ‘Patriotic Retirement Plan:\u2019 There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force. Pay them $1 million apiece severance for early retirement with the following stipulations: 1) They MUST retire. Forty million job openings — Unemployment fixed. 2) They MUST buy a new American CAR. Forty million cars ordered — Auto Industry fixed. 3) They MUST either buy a house or pay off their mortgage — Housing Crisis fixed. It can\u2019t get any easier than that!! P.S. If more money is needed, have all members in Congress pay their taxes… Mr. President, while you\u2019re at it, make Congress retire on Social Security and Medicare. I\u2019ll bet both programs would be fixed pronto!” Now, if you run the numbers on this (and I haven\u2019t done it), if you\u2019re gonna give 40 million people a million dollars each, I don\u2019t know how many billions or trillions you\u2019re looking at. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m not good at numbers in my head, but the point here is to contrast it. Obama has spent $2.3 trillion additional, added to the national debt, this year. This program that this guy proposed would cost nowhere near that. It\u2019s the same thing with health insurance. If you really wanted to insure the uninsured, you could do it. There are 12 million uninsured people that want it. The rest don\u2019t particularly want health insurance. They want to buy it. But this health insurance plan is going to require that you buy it or go to jail or pay a fine or both. But we ran the numbers on this. You can insure these 12 million people — the 12 million that want health insurance that can\u2019t afford it — for about $30 billion a year, which is chump change compared to this $2 trillion we\u2019re talking about spending on Obamacare. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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