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\"Listen<\/a><\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Bob in Bloomington, Indiana. Welcome, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for having me, Rush. Thanks for your great work in preserving our republic, and I miss David Brinkley, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (chuckling) Thank you, sir, very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ve known President Obama has been a fraud since 2004 and 2009. I read the ACA. It was poorly written, and it was going to fail, and it was designed to fail. I\u2019m a CPA, and I read it. I understood it, and this is what it\u2019s done to my family. We had a qualified plan. It fit the law. We were taking less out of the company than our premiums were putting in. But the company could not make it, so they terminated everybody\u2019s plan. <\/p>\n

My wife and my two six-year-old twins are now going to be uninsured. We\u2019re looking into the marketplace, and it is now apparent that our premiums are gonna go up 2.5 fold. Our deductibles are gonna go up 2.5 fold. I highly resent the government interfering with my ability to create a private contract. If you look at the current numbers, 54% of the American population wants this law repealed, and this is easy to do. It can be done. <\/line><\/p>\n

The employer mandate is about to kick in, which had a one-year reprieve, and when it kicks in we\u2019re going to have total revulsion to this law. We could do this if we still had a Republican Party. The reason why nine out of 10 people are mistrustful of government and it doesn\u2019t accrue deleterious effects to the Democrats, is the American people no longer see a great difference between Democrats and Republicans. We have angst, anger, and economic hardship coming as a result of this law.<\/p>\n

If Reince Priebus and others would get off their duff and clearly outline what\u2019s wrong with this, we could achieve a veto-proof Congress.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t think they disapprove of it. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re hearts in repealing this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, Rush? It should be \u2019cause it\u2019s bad law. We have 291 people that could be elected to Congress, and that\u2019s likely. That could happen. It\u2019s not very likely we\u2019ll have 67 Republican senators, but we could create a coerced coalition. How would you like to be one of three Democrat senators who get a very unpopular law still in force? It could be done. We could corner these people and get this law repealed. <\/p>\n

Obamacare is not a legacy, it is an albatross, and we need to be up front about it. <\/p>\n

Ronald Reagan had a head-on attack approach when he said, “Government isn\u2019t the solution, it\u2019s the problem,” and this still resonates if we want to be free. McCain and the other Republican bigwigs are clearly out of touch because the media is the enemy. When I was nine years old, I heard CBS say horrible things about Goldwater, and it was at that moment I knew that they were in the business to filter the news, not present it. By courting media —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hang on just a second. Don\u2019t lose your train of thought. Whatever you do, don\u2019t lose your place.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bob, you said something at the very beginning of your call that the Affordable Care Act, you read it, and that it was “designed to fail.” What do you mean by that?<\/p>\n

\"original\"CALLER: Exactly what I said. The first time I read it, I thought it was unworkable and then I thought about it some more and decided that it was designed to fail. It was designed to siphon off everyone on to this unworkable system, have it collapse, and then have single payer. That is exactly what it\u2019s designed to do.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh! Oh, oh, oh, okay. Granted. So it\u2019s designed to wipe out the private-sector insurance business and then there\u2019s only one option left: The government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct, and it\u2019s happening to my family right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The government comes in as the savior, to protect you and save you from these vultures out there raising your premiums and so forth.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, Rush, we all know that from \u201964 to \u201974 we had 50% general rate of inflation but medical costs went up 400%, and it was the direct result from the implementation of Medicare. It was an unlimited bucket of money following a finite amount of goods and services that drove the price up. Every time you have a third-party payer system in place where the person is taken out of the loop that\u2019s receiving the service, no one cares for value anymore, and it deteriorates, and it\u2019s gonna get worse until we have rationing of health care. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s on tap, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it\u2019s coming. You might as well get ready for it. Where I left off in my mental diatribe is when I was nine, I heard CBS say awful things about Goldwater, and that\u2019s when I understood they were in the business of filtering news, not presenting it. That means, then, that having Republicans court the media means they must adopt some of the media\u2019s views which turns Republicans into slow-motion Democrats.<\/p>\n

Now, we\u2019ve got a failed Obamacare and a failed economy with cooked numbers. We won the war in Iraq, and President Obama surrendered it, and our republic is now in the balance. Two more generations of federal interference and education and in local issues, we\u2019re lost forever. I\u2019m looking right now at a letter that my dad wrote from the front lines in France in World War II, and I think about him being in the 242nd Field Artillery Battalion attached to Patton\u2019s 3rd Army.<\/p>\n

\"original\"Firing 7,000 rounds of howitzer ammunition with his head bouncing off the ground trying to sleep at night on the frozen ground, trying to save our republic — and here we are throwing our freedom away with both hands as fast as we possibly can. My six-year-old twins have grandfathers on both sides of their family that were in that war, and I was hoping to bequeath them something better. And you know what? I have my doubts that I\u2019m gonna be able to pull that off with this hideous embrace of Big Government that we have and the termination of my individual prerogative.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re not judged competent, Bob, to make the right choices. Maybe you will for you, but it will leave other people out in the cold, because, you see, when people decide for themselves, that\u2019s selfishness, and you are not caring enough about your neighbor. So Obama needs to step in and make sure that your selfishness is compensated for out of your pocket.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know that the government built roads, but they\u2019ve got roads in North Korea, and they\u2019re not doing very well, either. It is private enterprise. This isn\u2019t a “capitalist” country, \u2019cause that was a pejorative created by Marx. This is a private enterprise. That\u2019s what made this country the powerhouse of this planet.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No. Private enterprise? You didn\u2019t build that. The government built that. Without the roads… I don\u2019t care whether North Korea\u2019s got \u2019em. Without the roads to get to your goods to market, your private enterprise wouldn\u2019t have amounted to anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Are you off your rocker? If I hadn\u2019t made the money to build the roads there wouldn\u2019t be any roads.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (laughing) Nah, I\u2019m just trying to stoke you here \u2019cause you\u2019re on a roll and I want you to keep going. Imagine this, Bob. Imagine how much more money we would have… Real money! We don\u2019t have any money anymore. We\u2019re $17 trillion in debt. We don\u2019t have a dime. In the real world, we don\u2019t have any money. But imagine how much more we would have to spend on vaccine research or development to deal with Ebola if the government wasn\u2019t taxing and regulating private enterprise so severely. Imagine all that money Obama\u2019s thrown down the drain on solar and wind and green crap and global warming. Imagine if we had that money to spend on research and development in the medical field.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Medical and any other factory or implementation. We could create real jobs instead of part-time, burger-flipping jobs that are counted as full employment under these cooked numbers that we\u2019re looking at. It is a sorry excuse for an economy that we have right now, and it is on life support because we have effective 0% interest rates. And the only “metric,” to use the president\u2019s term, that is favorable — the stock market — is being propped up by the fact that nobody can make any money in CDs or debt.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

\"original\"CALLER: You can only make money in the stock market, and once the interest rates come up — and that\u2019s inevitable — that will fall.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: He decimated the bond market. Once you take the bonds out of things, all you can do is spend money in the stock market. Plus what the Fed had been printing and then allocating to the stock market on top of all that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s a house of cards, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know it is. But they\u2019re telling us, “Hey, the economy\u2019s roaring!” Obama\u2019s out making speeches, “The economy is really roaring, you just don\u2019t know it.” We got 5.9% unemployment, and we\u2019re rolling in good times. It\u2019s just people aren\u2019t feeling it, and Obama is gonna go out and with the power of speeches make people feel how great this economy and this country is just rolling right along.<\/p>\n

CALLER: All that is hot air. I don\u2019t care about hot air. As an accountant, I want results, and we\u2019re not getting it. My little kids look up to me for guidance and future and hope and direction, and right now I\u2019m kind of befuddled as to what to tell them.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, because you want to be honest with them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have to be honest with them. I can\u2019t lie to my own kids.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And how do you avoid scaring them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s impossible. The only thing I can do is have them live on their faith and understand that, in the long run, they\u2019re gonna be all right. But in the short run we could lose our republic.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a genuine fear. By lose the republic, he means lose our freedom, our self-determination, our right to self-determination, and more. Bob, it\u2019s great. I\u2019m sure you got people standing and cheering out there. I am thankful you called, and I appreciate your holding through the break at the bottom of the hour. That\u2019s Bob in Bloomington, Indiana. Thank you again for the call. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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