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'Best and Brightest' reference follows after a few paragraphs below:
10/28/13, "How Will the Millennials Fund Obamacare If They Don't Have Jobs?" Rush Limbaugh
"RUSH: Carol in Pittsburgh. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello....
CALLER: I'm awful glad that you are doing this piece today, because
it's giving us a chance, those of us who are as frustrated as you are --...I can't tell you how many times I would watch Krauthammer or
people like him and felt like throwing something through the television
set, because you know he has the same access that we have to all this
information, and he insists on giving his "opinion" based upon the fact
that Obama is some tepid in-the-middle ideologue when all he has to do
is owe up to the truth. We all know that he has a history of far, far
leftism, so why doesn't Krauthammer's opinion come from that viewpoint
to begin with? It's just so frustrating. He's choosing to leave out
half the information, the information that, you know, truly makes the
opinion piece worth anything.
RUSH: Well, I mean, if I were to endeavor to answer your question,
or try to answer your question, I can only guess. I quoted two e-mails
from a friend of mine who described the inside the Beltway mind-set, and
I think he may be right. There are just a lot of assumptions made about
politicians inside the Beltway, that they all want a growing economy;
that they all want to reduce the debt; that they all want the US to be a
superpower. They just automatically assume that anybody that becomes
president wants those things, and then they go from there. And of
course if that's your starting point with Obama, you're missing the
story entirely.
CALLER: I have another question I was wondering. All of this about the
health care bill they're talking about every night, the linchpin seems
to be the young, the Millennium generation paying into this. But he
hasn't created a job for any of these people in the past five years.
How are these people gonna kick in if they don't have a job?...
RUSH: Now, what I think is brilliant about the question is it fits in with
everything we're talking about today. Assumptions that are totally
devoid of reality. The reality is Millennials can't find work, ergo, they've got no
income, yet they are the primary funders, and yet the wizards of smart
behind all this don't seem to put that together. They just think that
they open the website, announce it's available, and these eager
Millennials run in and sign up. But they, even the wizards of smart are
failing to realize that because of the economy they have all given us,
there aren't any jobs for these people. They're not even putting two
and two together.
It can't work in this economy, because the people, it turns out, who
are responsible for funding it, don't have the money. Even if the
website was working, they would log on, they'd get their sticker shock,
and I think, in fact, those who are logging on and getting through are
seeing the sticker shock, and I think they're going to Medicaid. I
think when the Millennials go to Medicaid, instead of buying Obamacare,
it's just gonna make everybody else's costs go up because the
Millennials are not going to be contributing, so to speak....
But nobody talks about that. It's just like when Washington
raises taxes. They just assume everybody's got the money to pay and
they're gonna be fine after the tax increase and they'll continue to buy
their flat screens and cell phones and what have you, and slowly but
surely they are destroying the economy. Ninety million Americans are
not working....
Remember how the
early sign-up success stories were all about these young college kids
getting Medicaid? In Kentucky, 82% of the new sign-ups are Medicaid. They're not Obamacare. And Obama called the governor of Kentucky, said,
"Way to go. Way to go, dude. Way to run that exchange." No, it's not
working. And now they had their glitch, it shut down in 14 or 15
states or 30 states, whatever, and now the technicians are saying, "You
know what, we have to just broom the whole thing and rebuild it from
scratch."....
I can't tell you the number of people in leadership positions in this
country who have been Peter principled on us. Remember, The Best and
the Brightest, that book that David Halberstam wrote about the Vietnam
War? The Best and the Brightest was not a complimentary thing. It was
about how could these wizards of smart have so goofed up the Vietnam
War. The McNamaras of the world and the LBJs and the Schlesingers, and
all of these brilliant people, the best and the brightest, and look how
they made a mess of it. And it's just repeating itself. The best and
brightest are buffoons, incompetent morons passed off as the wizards of
smart, smarter than you and I will ever be, so smart they can't keep up
with 'em. We can't even understand what they do, they're so far ahead of
us."
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"The Best and the Brightest," David Halberstam, published in 1969
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10/28/13, "How Retirees Will Suffer Under the ACA," Wall St. Journal, The Experts, Bud Hebeler,
"Everyone, including retired people, will see a significantly enlarged
1040 income tax form to include many personal health-care inputs so that
the IRS can fulfill the ACA mandated surveillance. Many will be unhappy
having this kind of information in the IRS database."
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