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Story #1: Obama Science Czar: Traditional Family Obsolete
RUSH: Does the name John Holdren mean anything to you? Do you know who John Holdren is? John Holdren is President Obama's science czar. Do you know who he is? All right, I know you didn't know. And I, frankly, know that most of the rest of you don't know which is why I introduced it this way to grab your attention. It's a very well known broadcast technique that most broadcast amateurs (which is most broadcasters) don't understand. President Obama's science czar, John Holdren, co-wrote a book with Paul Ehrlich back in 1977 called Ecoscience. In that book...
 Remember Paul Ehrlich is the guy who said we had to limit the population. His first book was The Population Bomb. "President Obama's Science Czar, John Holdren, took a controversial and amoral approach to the science of population by recommending mass compulsory sterilization and even forced abortion (and/or forced marriages) under certain circumstances," in this book. This is a posted commentary at the Washington Examiner by David Freddoso who used to post at National Review Online, and may still. Here's what they wrote, Holdren and Ehrlich. It was actually Ehrlich and his wife, Paul and Anne Ehrlich. "'Radical changes in family structure and relationships are inevitable...'"
This is back in '77. These people have not renounced this, and these people are still held as gods to the left. Ehrlich has been totally discredited. He's still a god. "'Radical changes in family structure and relationships are inevitable, whether population control is instituted or not. Inaction, attended by a steady deterioration in living conditions for the poor majority, will bring changes everywhere that no one could consider beneficial. Thus, it is beside the point to object to population-control measures simply on the grounds that they might change the social structure or family relationships,'" 'cause they're gonna change anyway. So abortion is a population control measure, exactly as Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsburg admitted last week in the New York Times, but it is what the left looks at it as: a population control measure.
What population, exactly? And who gets to decide that? Who gets to decide which population we want less of? Well, the liberals do. So basically you could say here that Obama's "science czar" suggests the traditional family is obsolete and large families need to be punished. You might say, "Well, why did Obama pick this guy?" Ladies and gentlemen, my ears itch. This is who Obama is. I don't know how to convey to people any more than I have the sheer radical nature of this man, his administration, his friends, his nominees, his appointees, his czars -- who have no oversight whatsoever, no congressional oversight whatsoever. These czars are free to do whatever they want to do. They work solely for Obama. He decides everything.
We don't even know what they make! He can pay 'em whatever he wants to pay them. I'm on the verge here of saying all this is un-American. We Americans don't look at population control. We don't look at abortions as a means of control. We don't look at things the way the left does.
Story #2: Emanuel Eyes Total Control of Medicare Purse Strings
RUSH: You look at this health care bill and it's an absolute disaster. And now speaking of the health care bill, this is the Washington Post today, and they're not really happy about this. "Obama Eyes the Purse Strings for Medicare." Now, that may not be a big surprise to you, but here's why it is.
"At the same time President Obama is asking members of Congress to take one of the most politically difficult votes of their careers," i.e., for health care reform, "he is also pressing lawmakers to give up one of their most valued perks of office: boosting Medicare payments to benefit hometown providers. Setting reimbursement rates for local hospitals, doctors, home health-care centers and other providers is a legislative ritual that amounts to one of the most effective and lucrative forms of constituent service," i.e., pork. Obama is telling members of Congress he wants it. He wants total control of this. He wants total control of everything the government does. And this is the guy who is out there saying, (paraphrasing) "I'm too busy. I don't want any more power. I got Iraq on the table. I've got Afghanistan on the table. I don't want any more."
Rahm Emanuel says that the Medicare payment debate is the most important thing in the whole health care reform. And this is the first we're hearing of it in the Washington Post story today! The most important thing is who is in charge of Medicare payments at the local level. Obama wants to take it away from Congress. Now, look, we can debate here the whole point of these reimbursements and how they're rotten and bad. They're political no matter who is in charge of them, but the reason for mentioning this is this is something Congress is not gonna want to give up, and Emanuel is this is the most important aspect of health care reform? Medicare payment debate is the most important thing in the proposed health care reforms?
Why is that? Power. It's not about health care, folks, and in some cases not even about transfer of wealth. I saw Obama today. Was it today or yesterday? He said there's no free lunch on health care. There will be a free lunch for a lot of people. They're not going to pay a dime for it because it's going to be redistributed. They'll pay for it in other ways. There is no free lunch, but it'll be interesting to see how Congress reacts to this, and I guarantee you, Emanuel is already engaging in thug behavior, threatening up there. So the traditional family's obsolete. We gotta punish large families, and Obama wants to be in charge of Medicare rules and the reimbursement payment for all the local providers: doctors, hospitals. All of the local Medicare involvement, Obama wants total control of it -- or somebody in the White House does.
Story #3: 40,000 Follow a Fraud: El Rushbo Does Not Twitter
RUSH: Speaking of Twitter, I was told yesterday that there are a bunch of people pretending to be me and that there are now 40,000 people out there thinking they are tweeting back and forth with me. I don't tweet, folks. I don't have a Twitter account, don't have it, so whoever is out there is a phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock 'n' roller, a fraud. I wanted to mention that.
Story #4: Social Security Bureaucrats Party at Posh Resort
RUSH: Have you heard the story about 700 executives from the Social Security Administration on a party junket to Phoenix? While Obama is telling everybody else in the world don't travel, you can't fly your plane to Vegas, those days are over, federal bureaucrats are filling the vacuum. "Members of Congress are giving the Social Security Administration just two days to turn over all records about a $700,000 management conference at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa." ABC did an investigation on this, and we've got some audio on it.
Claiming they need "to learn how to reduce stress because of a growing number of death threats made against them, nearly 700 executives from the Social Security Administration," 700 executives! It cost $700,000. That's a thousand dollars per attendee. "We received threats against our employees by people who are in the American public," said Social Security Administration Regional Commissioner for San Francisco, Peter Spencer, in defense of the conference. He said, "There is a tremendous amount of stress involved in the job that we do."
What stress? You don't have any competition from anybody. All you've got is a bunch of complaining people, which is never going to change as long as the government runs anything. Look at Congress being outraged. It's proper to be outraged by this. This, folks, is very simple. This is as understandable as the House bank scandal. When this kind of news gets out, ladies and gentlemen, with unemployment news what it is, unemployment continuing to rise, government executives going on retreats for a hundred grand a person for three days, to relieve stress over deaths threats. The American people can't do that right now, the American people are paying for it, but this is nothing. This 700 grand, this is nothing to the pillage that the government as a whole is doing in the trillions on this economy every day. But these little Social Security guys are going to go take the heat for 700 grand. I'm not saying they shouldn't. But don't let it divert from the real issue. There's no money in Social Security. It's bankrupt. We're all gonna get royally screwed.
"Social Security's head of West Coast operations said the conference was essential, that teleconferencing was not an option." Somebody needs to tell 'em it's called GoToMeeting.com. Folks, the interesting thing here about all of this, this is more and more like the Politburo each and every day. The politburo had its hierarchy of leaders from the premier, president on down to these clowns at the Kremlin, they all had their dachas, their houses out there, their girls, their liquor and so forth, people in the country couldn't find food in the stores. Now we've got these people in Washington who are treating the US Treasury as a personal piggy bank to go party. They're better than everybody else, and they're so stressed out 'cause they're getting death threats. Seven-hundred thousand for three days for 700 people. Social Security executives. Okay.
Story #5: Nuking the Liberal Notion of Health Care as Right
RUSH: Investor's Business Daily again: "A 'right,' as we all know, has one key characteristic." This is what is so brilliant and unique about our founding documents. The Declaration of Independence says: "We are all endowed by our Creator..." Not our government, not our family. "We are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights." You can't take these away. Rights can't be taken away. Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Democrats oppose all three of those, by the way, right now. Democrats are miserable. They don't want anybody pursuing happiness. They're trying to destroy that. Liberty, that's under assault -- and life, of course, is too. So... "A 'right,' as we all know, has one key characteristic: It can't be taken away. Ever. That's exactly what the new Democrat-sponsored bill would ensure. As the Associated Press put it, the legislation would 'for the first time make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans.'
"That second word -- 'responsibility' -- is also key. The government will force you to take part in its plan, whether you want to or not. As it turns out, 'responsibility' is code for 'tax hikes' and 'compulsory participation.'" Ed Morrissey at HotAir.com has a pretty good parody today on this whole notion of health care being a right. Well, why not...? Let's do legal care. I'm going to summarize what Ed's point. Let's do legal care, and let's have the government in charge of paying lawyers like they're going to be in charge of paying doctors. And a lawyer can only get so much for that service, only get that much for what he does. No contingencies, no nothing.
Of course, it would never happen. It illustrates the whole flaw in the notion that health care is a right. Do you think the trial lawyers are going to allow that, the biggest contributing group other than unions to the Democrat Party? The lawyers will never do anything. All of this stuff is to boost lawyer income. The FDA announcement on Zicam is to open up more lawsuits against them. We're never going to have the government limit what lawyers can make like they are limiting what doctors can make, but if the right to an attorney is a right -- and the right to health care is a right -- then why should anybody profit from it? Why not make the doctors and the lawyers provide the service at no cost because it's a right? It's an excellent point out there by Mr. Morrissey.
Story #6: VP Chia-Joe Biden Does It Again: Take a Look Around!
RUSH: Vice President Biden has done it again. He's making a speech today. "To those who say that our economic decisions 'have not produced jobs, have not produced prosperity, and simply have not worked' I say, take a look around." Ha! He's actually inviting people to look at the devastation that has been wrought by his administration. "Come see what I see everywhere I go: workers rehired, factories reopened, cops on the street, teachers in the classroom" -- it's summertime -- "progress toward getting our economy back on the move. I ask those critics.... Would they not help the states prevent lay off thousands of teachers, firefighters, cops? Would they not give a tax cut to 95 percent of the American people? Would they sit back and do nothing as our economy collapsed?" Oh, the State-Run Media's more than eager to help facilitate this notion that the economy is roaring back and there's prosperity out there.
By the way, for Biden, Cisco Systems, they make routers (among other things for computer systems) has reduced its head count, which means its fired people at its Silicon Valley headquarters, according to the Wall Street Journal. Cisco is cutting 600 to 700 jobs. Also, Harley-Davidson is cutting 1,000 more jobs as profits plummet, says the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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