Unofficial Summary of the Rush Limbaugh Show

for Tuesday, August 2, 1994

by John Switzer

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August 2, 1994

BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Kate Michelman calls for federal funding
for abortion in any health care plan; Democratic leaders in House
and Senate are trying to distance their health care plans from
the President; Haitian junta pledges to use voodoo should
American army invade; it's clear someone is lying in Whitewater
hearings; Hillary Clinton did talk with her chief of staff Maggie
Williams about Vincent Foster files; Health Security Express bus
tour runs into more protestors, especially in Richmond where bus
got stuck in the mud for two hours; Clinton attacks protestors in
Jersey City speech; NY Times is wrong in its assertion that
health care alliances are no longer being considered because they
are back in Gephardt's plan; words to "Come On, Get Health Care";
Hillary received status reports about Whitewater investigations,
according to memo written by Harold Ickes; why didn't Fiske find
any of the things coming out of the Whitewater hearings?; Jane
Fonda suggests women who travel cry to get what they want; caller
thinks special prosecutor is needed to investigate the job being
down by the Whitewater special prosecutor; caller resents how
Clintons are trying to play on people's emotions to sell their
health care plan; Health Security Express bus tour is an ill-
conceived PR attempt; Hillary and Ira Magaziner ordered to stand
trial on September 12th for covering up the involvement of
special interests in the Clinton health care task force; words to
"Dr. Hilldare" promo; words to "Read It in the Headlines"; EMS
teams in Jersey City told to expect 25,000 people for Clinton
visit, but only 3000 or so showed up; William Kristol releases
memo about the Gephardt health care plan, showing that it is like
the Clinton plan, but worse; Gephardt plan would expand Medicare
to include another 100 million people; NY Times opposes
Gephardt's plans for Medicare; Democrats are ignoring the
alternatives Republicans are putting forth for health care;
caller is worried that Gephardt plan is a diversion from Mitchell
plan; physician worried about growth of "entitlemania" in
America; new revelations in Whitewater; there have been a lot of
bad omens lately for the WHite House; Rush banned from North
Carolina ABC package liqu0or stores because of a liberal buying
cheap gin; Rush dedicates part of his show to Henry Cisneros and
Benjamin Chavis; Denver airport will be opened, but with its $190
million baggage system sill out of order; press and NOW are not
criticizing Louis Farrakhan for his statements about women;
caller bothered by how people aren't themselves bothered by
government saying it will "allow" the pe9ople this or that kind
of health care; Washington state health care system is forcing at
least one doctor out of business; it's unknown how strong
Gephardt's opposition will be in the November elections; Cuban
emigre proud to be American citizen and proud of opportunities
offered by America; caller describes insurance companies in
ancient Rome; NY workers have to earn $44,900 to net what welfare
mother of two can get; caller thinks people expect too much from
their health insurance.

LIMBAUGH WATCH

August 2, 1994 - It's now day 560 (day 579 for the rich and the
dead, and 98 days until the November elections) of "America Held
Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal" which has 902 days left) and 637
days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air
with 648 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million listeners
weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of
3.7), and a newsletter with over 450,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best-
seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies
sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped
printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To
Be" was on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list
for 28 weeks. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on
the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2.25
million copies.

NEWS

o	Kate Michelman of the National Abortion and Reproductive
Rights Action League insisted that Congress had to resist the
"radical right" and include federal funding of abortion in any
health care plan, saying, "If members of Congress cave to this
intimidation, they will be drawing a legislative bull's-eye
around clinics and physicians, isolating them from the American
medical mainstream."

LEST WE FORGET

The following are from the Rush Limbaugh show on Tuesday, August
4, 1992:

o	The August 3, 1992 issue of National Review West
contained an observation by Kris Kristofferson on the fact that
both he and Bill Clinton were Rhodes scholars: "I think between
us, Bill Clinton and I have settled any lingering myths about the
brilliance of Rhodes scholars."

o	The Washington Post on March 22, 1992 had a story about
Clinton's ties to the poultry industry, and how as governor he
used Tyson Chicken's private jet, while allowing them to pollute
state rivers.

o	The Republicans for Choice caravan, run by Ann Stone, was
embarrassingly inept. Stone believed that the Republican Party
had to become pro-choice or face massive losses, so she was
travelling to Houston in a rental truck. Her stops, though, were
greeted by only a few pro-choicers and hundreds of pro-life
supporters.

o	President Bush apologized for the faxes that his
strategist Mary Matalin had been sending out. The Democrats
called these faxes "sleazy and dirty," but everything in the
faxes were the naked truth; this, though, to Democrats was
considered "negative campaigning."

For example, Matalin reported that Clinton's campaign has spent
thousands of dollars to stem off "bimbo eruptions," a term coined
by Betsey Wright, one of Clinton's campaign staffers. Clinton had
hired private investigators to check out all of the women coming
forth to say that they had slept with him. In short, Clinton
couldn't remember all of the women he had made love to, so a
private investigator had to check out each allegation.

Matalin also documented the 128 tax increases that Clinton gave
Arkansas, and everything she listed was accurate and factual.
Matalin concluded this fax with the line "Clinton is an arsonist
posing as a firefighter." There was absolutely nothing sleazy
about this FAX or Matalin's closing line, which was in fact a
great description of what Clinton really was, as far as taxes
were concerned.

A second fax called Clinton a "silver tongued straddle panderer.
When it came to the Desert Storm operation, Slick Willie jockeyed
for position, riding high in the straddle." This was exactly what
Clinton did: on January 15, 1991, he declared that he thought
that sanctions should be given more time, maybe a year, to work.
After the war, though, Clinton claimed to have supported Bush's
efforts. Why is it dirty campaigning to point these facts out?

The third fax said "to his bulging bag of political tricks -
pandering, plagiarizing, flip-flopping, back-pedaling, and
waffling - Clinton stuffs in exaggeration and credit stealing.
His rhetoric on welfare reform is so far from the truth that
Tipper Gore should stick a warning label on him." This was a
funny, clever bit of writing, and everything in it was true. Rush
admired Matalin as someone who showed what a true feminist really
was - right on with her attacks, and able to do it with humor.

The fourth fax had a list of Democratic quotes titled as
"Sniveling Hypocritical Democrats - Stand Up and Be Counted! On
Second Thought, Shut up and Sit Down!" The fax contained a number
of quotes from various Democrats, presented in the form of a
test. For example, one question asked "who said `George Bush is a
racist'?" The answer was Clinton co-chairperson Maxine Walters,
in an address to the National Press Club, on July 8, 1992. This
was certainly, at best, a provocative statement, and at worst, a
sleazy charge. Bush had contributed heavily to the United Negro
College Fund, and he nominated a black Justice to the Supreme
Court. Who was the real racist? Could it be Maxine Walters, who
threatened "no peace, no justice?"

Another question was "who says `Bush's going to war is sort of
like juvenile love-making - too quick to get in and get out?" The
answer was Tom Harkin, Washington Post, May 19, 1991.

Rush showed his solidarity with Matalin by playing EIB's own
promo:

<<The theme to Mission Impossible starts>>

<<Mysterious voice on tape recorder>> Jim, your mission is one of
profound importance to our goal of fooling, um, ahem, convincing
Americans to vote for Governor Clinton. It won't be easy. You
must transform a hick from the sticks into a viable candidate by
rearranging his speech patterns from this:

<<Twangy southern voice>> Tax and spend, tax and spend!

<<Voice>> . . . to something much more acceptable to mid-America,
like this:

<<Refined southern, not-so-twangy, voice>> Invest in America,
invest in America!

<<Voice>> You'll need to rewrite his personal history. Erase this . . .

<<Twangy southern voice>> Oooh whee! I was toking on that thing
so hard I could'a suck-started a Harley!

<<Voice>> . . . and insert this . . .

<<Refined voice>> I didn't like it and I didn't inhale!

<<Voice>> And his wife - this is the hard part!

<<Southern belle>> If he loses, I'm going to drop him like a hot
potato.

<<Voice>> Change her to something more acceptable, like this:

<<Belle>> And when I'm first lady, I'll bake cookies and play
hostess. In short, I'll stand by my man!

<<Voice>> This is your assignment. Remember, to drop the L-word
from any speeches and correspondence. That concludes this list of
directives. This party will self-destruct at any second.

o	Donna from Washington, DC thought Mary Matalin was right
on the mark but felt that the majority of Bush's staffers were
interested only in winning; they didn't know right from wrong and
didn't have the stomach for a real fight. She worked in the
Reagan administration for five years, and was employed in the
Energy Department when Bush was inaugurated. She then saw a
marked change in the operation of the department when Bush's
people took over - there were no principles, no mandates, and no
goals.

o	Barry from Martha's Vineyard, MA didn't see much
difference between what Bush had done and what Clinton said he
would do, which is why he thought the Republican party should
demand a new candidate. Barring that, if the country was ever
going to return to conservative principles, it would be better to
elect Clinton so that he would flop and spur the election of a
true conservative in 1996.

o	The July 25th edition of the Economist reported on riots
that plagued the British cities of Bristol, Blackburn, and Burley
during July. The riots began in a Bristol housing project after
two men riding a stolen motorbike died after colliding with a
police car. Rioting, looting, and arson quickly spread to
Blackburn and Burley. Most of those arrested were from outside of
the local areas.

The Economist concluded that while many things could make people
riot, there was one inescapable conclusion: good policing - a
strong community presence, good intelligence sources, and a quick
and heavy response to violence - could prevent future riots.

o	A man who was sitting on a ledge of an open window at
Barnard College because he was smoking in a no-smoking area, lost
his balance and fell four stories to his death.

o	A Boston police union was preparing to sue two rap
artists, including Ice-T, over their songs advocating the murder
of police officers, and Oliver North's Freedom Alliance had
offered legal help.

o	Sunset Sam was a one-eyed dolphin who painted pictures
using a brush held in his teeth at the Clearwater Marine Science
Center. Sunset Sam even chose his own colors, and his "abstract
art" was being sold for hundreds of dollars. Rush had no doubts
that the dolphin was probably as good as many others in the
arts-and-croissant crowd, but he wondered why the other artists
weren't offended that his works were considered "art."

o	Eight pregnant mothers travelled to the Red Sea to give
birth with dolphins as midwives. Supposedly the experience with
the dolphins would result in babies who were "calm and more
open."

o	One caller had phoned Senator Al Gore's office to find
out why he, in his book "Earth in the Balance," referred to the
environmental movement as a "struggle" similar to the "Communist
and Nazi struggle." The called noted that a law passed in Nazi
Germany on November 24, 1933 to protect animals had much the same
language that was used by modern environmentalists.

Gore also gave a speech in the Senate about how the ozone hole
was destroying Patagonia, but the reality was that a volcano was
dumping ash over Patagonia. Gore's office couldn't supply any
information as to their boss's source for believing that an ozone
hole was over Patagonia.

o	The Tampa Tribune confirmed Ronald Reagan's statement
that trees cause pollution. It had already been discovered that
the Carrotwood tree in southern California contributed
substantially to the area's smog, and an EPA-sponsored study done
by the Center for National Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO
discovered that many leafy trees, including oaks, excrete noxious
gases such as isoprene. These gasses were emitted into the air,
helping to create "ground-level ozone" (i.e. smog). Florida's
summer heat, light, and heavy auto traffic especially helped to
concentrate the hydrocarbons released by the trees.

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MORNING UDPATE

House Democratic leaders unveiled their health care reform plan
on Friday, insisting that it was not the Clinton plan and not the
Clinton bill. Rep. David Bonior (D-MI) and Rep. Dick Gephardt
(D-MO) made a point about this because they knew that having
Clinton's name on the bill kills it. In their news conference
they listed all the differences between their plan and the
Clinton plan, proudly noting that under the House plan Americans
would be able to choose their own doctor (proving that the
Clinton plan didn't offer that choice).

Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell is also distancing his own
health care plan from Clinton, but he's also distancing himself
from the House as well. Mitchell is claiming his plan would be
less expensive than the House one and would phase in its reforms
gradually, through the next century.

Senator Bob Dole, though, said Republicans wanted a week so they
could read the bill before debating it, but Mitchell refused,
claiming Republicans only wanted time in which to generate
opposition to the bill. Meanwhile, both Mitchell and Gephardt are
confident they will have no trouble reconciling their two very
different bills, which brings up the possibility that their idea
of "compromise" might be defined as the Clinton bill.

Mitchell is worried, though, saying that if the Congress can't
pass this bill this year, it could be a long time before any
President would take up the issue of health care reform again.
Rush thinks this is good news, perhaps the best news he's yet
heard in the health care debate.

FIRST HOUR

Items

o	The Haitian junta has threatened to use voodoo against
the United States if America invades.

o	It's safe to say that someone is lying during the
Whitewater hearings. Joshua Steiner has already admitted he lied
to his diary about whether Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman
was under White House pressure to keep running the RTC. Meanwhile
Jean Hanson testified that she was sitting right behind Altman on
February 24th when he lied to Congress about all this, but she
didn't say anything about it then.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), along with the other Democrats,
were very displeased with Hanson, not because she lied but
because she didn't save the day by speaking up back in February.
Instead, the matter's been allowed to fester for months, making
Democrats look bad.

It's clear, though, that either Altman or Hanson is lying, and
Lloyd Bentsen might have lied, too. The most important thing
about all this is that "independent counsel" Robert Fiske had
supposedly looked at all of this stuff and concluded that there
was no evidence of any wrongdoing or unethical behavior.

It's also been revealed that Hillary's chief of staff Maggie
Williams called her boss to find out what to do with the files
taken from Vincent Foster's office after his death. Hillary told
her to put them in a safe in the White House residence until she
could figure out what to do with them.

The administration, though, is insisting that it didn't look at
any of these files and that it gave all of them to the Clintons'
lawyers. And Maggie Williams told the House Banking committee
last week that she had never spoken to Hillary about Whitewater.

Rush thus has to wonder where special prosecutor Robert Fiske has
been and what he has been investigating, given that he found none
of this stuff. In any case, it's clear that things in these
hearings are not "hunky-dory."

Rush gets handed another "bombshell" about the Whitewater
"Whitewash" hearings, but he'll save it after his update on the
Scamtrack bus tour.

Update	Health Security Express (Don Wade and the
	Inoperatives, "Bogus Bus")

The Health Security Express bus tour arrived in Richmond
yesterday, but one bus got stuck in the mud for two hours, which
gave opponents to the Clinton plan ample time to hoot and deride
the tour. Rush notes that there were a lot of omens like this
which happened yesterday: a bus gets stuck in the mud, while in
Jersey City, President Clinton pounded the lectern so hard that
the Presidential seal fell off.

There were far more opponents to Clinton's plan than supporters
in Richmond, and some of the opponents listened to Rush on their
personal radios. Meanwhile, in Louisville, protestors chanted
things like "go back to Russia" and "Clinton go back home," while
the supporters shouted back "health care for all." The minister
at the Unitarian Church, which hosted the rally, said he hadn't
seen a protest like this since the Vietnam War and thought it was
a "well organized protest of a vocal minority."

Meanwhile in New Jersey, President Clinton spent most of his time
shouting at protestors, defending his Presidency, and attacking
critics of his health care plan. John Fund of the Wall Street
Journal was at the Jersey City rally and sent Rush a note about
the event; Fund noted that many protestors were obviously
"fanatical dittoheads," with one group of young women carrying
signs reading "Listen to Rush, Mr. President, You Might Learn
Something."

Rush didn't see any footage of this protest, but from reports he
had heard, one of the network news programs showed this sign.
Fund adds that there were three protestors who were constantly
screaming Rush's name and who mentioned Rush to the news people
who interviewed them. However, the reporters seemed disgusted at
the influence Rush seemed to have on these people.

The NY Times, though, did quote one woman who said she was
concerned about the same things Rush has been talking about, such
as "you're going to be fined for going outside your health unit."
The Times, however, says this is a reference to the health
alliances "that are no longer a part of the discussion in
Congress."

This, however, is not true - a careful reading of the Gephardt
plan reveals that the idea of the alliances is back into the
plan, indicating that Gephardt's plan is basically the Clinton
plan with Clinton's name on it. Rush still thinks that it is in
the House where the administration and liberal Democrats are
going to put their hopes; the Senate bill put forth by George
Mitchell will basically be irrelevant because the real focus will
be on the House bill.

The NY Times does get it right, though, by stating, "Both Mr.
Dole and Mr. Limbaugh have asserted that the plans offered by the
White House and congressional Democrats would increase government
control of the health care system, limit the choice of doctors
and treatments for many of the people who are currently insured,
and raise costs for the middle class." Rush agrees that he has
these fears.

These fears, though, are genuine ones, and Rush will discuss the
Gephardt plan later in today's show to illustrate this point.
However, Rush doesn't want to end the segment on a negative note,
so he plays the very, very upbeat "Come On, Get Health Care":

<<Chorus>>
"Hello, world, there's a plan that we're selling,
Come on, get health care!
A whole lot of taxes is what we'll be bringing
To give you health care!"

<<Verse>>
"We had a dream, we'd insure everybody,
Paint it as a crisis and then we'll come along.
But something always happens when you add up all the numbers,
You say it costs too much, but we'll tell you you're wrong."

<<Chorus>>
"Travelling along, there's a plan that we're selling,
Come on, get health care.
A whole lot of taxes is what we'll be bringing.
To make you healthy, come on get healthy, come on get health care!"

*BREAK*

The Washington Times is reporting that Hillary Clinton received
detailed White House and Treasury Department reports about
Whitewater developments, including the RTC inquiry into improper
dealings involving Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan. Deputy
Chief of Staff Harold Ickes reportedly sent Hillary a March 3rd
memo that mentioned these reports, as well as how the RTC had
hired former Republican-appointed U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens. The
memo, by the way, was released late last night by White House
Counsel Lloyd Cutler, who didn't explain why he didn't release it
earlier.

Rush is amazed at what can be found when one digs a bit deeper,
not to mention what has evidently escaped the White House's
shredder. There is no question now that the White House kept
cronies in certain positions, especially in "independent"
agencies, so that they could keep the Clintons informed about the
progress of investigations which might concern the Clintons and
their dealings in Arkansas.

Rush wonders where Robert Fiske has been and why he hasn't been
investigating these things; why hasn't Fiske been interested in
the discrepancies in the testimonies of Jean Hanson, Roger
Altman, Lloyd Bentsen, and Joshua Steiner? Why hasn't Fiske
looked into how Bill Clinton reportedly became enraged when Roger
Altman early this year decided to recuse himself from the
Whitewater investigation and resign from the RTC?

And all this is supposed to be the "safe stuff," the 5% of the
Whitewater investigation outside of Arkansas, so the question is
what else is there that isn't yet known? The Democrats thought
nothing would come out of these hearings, but so far all sorts of
revelations have occurred.

Maybe nothing else really happened in Arkansas, but if this is
the case, why are the Clintons acting as if they have so much to
hide? Even if they aren't guilty of any other improprieties, the
failure of the Clintons to be upfront and direct about these
matters is convincing a lot of people that there might be
something they're trying to hide.

For example, it's now known that the First Lady's chief of staff
Maggie Williams told Hillary Clinton she had files from Vincent
Foster's office, and Hillary told her to "put them in the
residence." Yet Williams last week told Congress that she had
never spoken with Hillary about the Whitewater investigations.

*BREAK*

Rush notes that the average working New Yorker will have to gross
$45,000 a year in order to net what the average New York welfare
recipient gets from the government. He promises to explain more
about this later.

Update	Feminist (The Forester Sisters, "Men" with "in
	your face" slogan)

Today's update comes from the Goodwill games in Russia, and Rush
notes that the Goodwill games have to be the useless games in
existence, given that Ted Turner started them so as to provide
harmony and understanding between the world superpowers: the
mean, nasty, and evil U.S., led by that "dangerous cowboy" Ronald
Reagan, and the nice, happy, "never hurt a fly" Soviet Union.

Now, of course, there is only one world superpower, thanks to
Ronald Reagan, but since you need a lot of programming to fill
500 channels, the games are still going on. And Turner's devoted
wife, Jane Fonda, is in Russia for these games, and this feminist
icon has issued some advice for female travellers:

"If you're ever in a situation where you're not getting served or
you can't get what you need, just cry."

The rest of the Associated Press story on this is as follows:

"The two-time Oscar winner told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
she came to this conclusion in 1962, during her first visit to
Russia. She had stepped into a Moscow elevator, but the operator
was reading a letter. She waited, but the operator wouldn't take
her upstairs.

"`I burst into tears,' the 56-year-old actress said, `and the
minute I started crying, he was all, `Can I do anything for you?'
I think that's what he was saying.' Fonda said she tried crying
again a week later in a restaurant when she couldn't get served,
and it worked."

Rush points out that this is typical - when liberals or women
don't get what they want, they cry. Even Hillary has tried this
technique to sell her health care plan, and the lesson to be
learned is that when feminists get frustrated, they fall back on
being helpless, victimized women.

Bo Snerdley asks if Rush really thinks women can "turn it on like
water faucets." Rush replies that he thinks so - at least Jane
Fonda can do it. He notes most men can testify that there have
been times when they've just walked into a room and a woman
starts crying. The rest of the EIB staff note that this happens
to Bo all the time.

Rush has no doubts about that, and he decides to take a trip down
memory lane by playing one of his first Feminist Update themes,
Sandy Posey's 1966 hit "Born A Woman," which includes the lyrics
"and if you're born a woman, you're born to be hurt, you're born
to be stepped on, lied to, cheated on, and treated like dirt" and
"because to be a woman, no price is too great to pay."

*BREAK*

Phone	Don from Houston, TX

Don thinks a special prosecutor is needed to investigate the
special prosecutor because of the poor and incomplete job he's
been doing. Rush notes that William Safire yesterday called for
getting rid of Fiske, pointing out the unresolved inconsistencies
in Vincent Foster's death. Safire also noted the FBI badgered a
witness 25 times to get him to change, or at least doubt, his
story about how Foster's body appeared.

Don notes the Clinton administration has been tied to several
strange deaths and suicides, but Rush says he'd prefer to leave
that sort of thing to others, such as the tabloids, although the
Economist of London did mention these deaths, and the Economist
is not a tabloid but a well-respected magazine. Don therefore
asks if Clinton started his legal defense fund because he's
expecting massive legal expenses in the future.

Rush says Clinton obviously does expect to have huge legal bills,
but now, of course, the administration has had to scale back its
plans to hold rallies and fund-raisers for the defense fund since
soliciting gifts like this would violate some federal statute.
This, of course, means that Rush's own idea for a legal defense
fund auction is even more appropriate now.

Phone	Chuck from Marietta, GA

Chuck thinks the Health Security Express bus tour is a sham, and
he resents how the Clintons are playing on the emotions of the
public, instead of presenting rational and well-reasoned
arguments. Chuck is not going to buy this emotional rhetoric, and
if the President thinks this bus tour is going to make any
difference in public opinion, the President is a major fool.

Chuck, though, wants to know who is paying for this bus tour.
Rush says the organizers are soliciting sponsors for the trip,
but Rush doesn't know whether any taxpayer money is sponsoring
this trip. However, putting that issue aside, Rush finds the
premise of these bus tours to be interesting - the President's
plan is supposed to be dead. After all, everyone in Congress has
said this and is insisting that their plans are not the Clinton
plan. Thus, why is there a bus tour for the "Clinton plan?"

Chuck thinks this bus tour is solely designed to stir up
emotions, and Rush agrees; this bus tour is an ill-conceived PR
attempt, designed to repeat the crowd-cheering successes of the
1992 Clinton/Gore bus trips. However, there's a cardinal rule in
entertainment that once you have achieved a major success, don't
try to repeat it because you'll never equal the original
achievement.

For example, Rush as a young whippersnapper played a great
practical joke about a "Know Your Bible" contest. He managed to
con a lot of people into thinking this was a real church-held
contest, but when he and his friends tried the same sort of joke,
this time pretending to be the Rotary Club holding a "Know Your
History" contest, a few months later, they got caught.

The Clintons are in the same situation now because they are
desperate to find something that works. There is a lot of good
economic news right now, but Clinton's approval rating is still
low, only 40%. Thus, they tried to recreate the very successful
bus tours of the 1992 campaign, but they've failed utterly. The
very fact that people have to stop and think about what the
purpose of the Health Security Express is all about proves how
the tour has failed.

*BREAK*

Phone	Barry from Los Angeles, CA

Barry says that the Paul Craig Roberts column from July 31st
reveals that a U.S. District judge has ordered Hillary Clinton
and White House staffer Ira Magaziner to stand trial on September
12th for covering up the involvement of special interests in the
Clinton health care task force. Rush says this is why many people
think that any vote on health care should be delayed until after
this trial.

To Rush, though, the most interesting part of Robert's column is
the paragraph that points out that if the plaintiffs succeed with
their lawsuit, it would mean that the secret proceedings of the
task force would finally be made public, exposing how Bill and
Hillary Clinton tried to deceive the public in a way that would
make "Richard Nixon's transgression look mild in comparison."
According to Safire, special interests were "devising a scheme
that would drive doctors out of private practice, terminate fee
for service insurance coverage, curtail the supply of medical
specialists, and herd the public into impersonal, bureaucratic
health care organizations that would save money by rationing
medical services."

This is all stuff that is in the original Clinton plan, which was
written by the health care task force, but the White House is now
claiming that its task force had no input on the Clinton plan.
Barry says he also worked with Senator Ted Kennedy about health
care, and he still has the budget projections about health care
which were done in 1980. Rush says it's a no-brainer that those
projections will be nowhere near the reality of modern-day
America.

*BREAK*

SECOND HOUR

Rush starts off the segment with his bit for the Clinton health
care plan:

<<theme music from "The Outer Limits" plays, as announcer
speaks>> She's a doctor, with a prescription for disaster. She's
Hillary Clinton, and she's . . . Doctor Hilldare!

<<Patient>> I don't know doctor, I tend to get a <<burp>> little
heartburn after eating spicy food. What do you recommend I do?

<<Dr. Hilldare>> Heart Transplants! How's Monday at seven sound?

<<Patient>> But I just got indigestion! <<burp>>

<<Dr. Hilldare>> You can never be too sure of these things! Next!

<<Announcer>> Dr. Hilldare, she specializes in fixing things that
aren't really broken!

<<Bill Clinton>> Prosthetic hand replacement for a hangnail? I
don't know if I can go along with that now, Honey.

<<Dr. Hilldare>> You *know* what happens when you question my
judgment, Willy!

<<Bill Clinton, whipped>> Okay, I'll get the scalpel.

<<Announcer>> Dr. Hilldare, she wants to overhaul the best health
care system in the free world, and you better hope she doesn't do
house calls!

<<Bernard Nussbaum, opening the door>> Hello, can I help you?

<<Dr. Hilldare>> Mr. Nussbaum, Willy tells me you have a wart on
your big toe.

<<Nussbaum>> Why, yes, but how did you know?

<<Dr. Hilldare, shouting to someone outside>> Bring in the saw!
<<sounds of saw, followed by screams of unimaginable agony>>

<<Announcer>> Hillary Clinton is Dr. Hilldare.

<<Dr. Hilldare>> Let's play dentist today, Willy!

<<Bill, resigned to his fate>> Ready when you are, honey!
<<sounds of drill are mingled with Bill's moans>>

<<Announcer>> Coming soon to a regional alliance near you!

********

Next, is President Clinton's latest lament:

<<Verse, sung by Bill>>
"Well, I really wonder how you know
Because I thought I was fooling you.
I worked so hard on my health care plan,
But you figured out it was a scam."

"It took me by surprise, I must say,
When I saw the front page today,
Oh, I read it in the headlines,
My health care plan is in a real bind,
Well, I read it in the headlines,
Oh, that I'm just about to lose my behind, and your money, yeah!"

<<Chorus, sounding like it includes George Stephanopoulos, James
Carville, and Robert B. Reich>> Read it in the headlines, I'm
about to lose my behind, baby!

<<Verse>>
"I know that a man ain't supposed to lie,
But for your own good, I felt it justified.
Now I can't believe how much you know.
Well, I blame that guy on the radio."

"Well, you could have told me yourself
That I can't take away your wealth.
Instead, I read it in the headlines,
My health care is in a real bind.
Well, I read it in the headlines,
Oh, that I'm just about to lose my behind, and your money, yeah!"

<<Chorus, repeats and fades in background as Clinton takes the
verse out>> Read it in the headlines, I'm about to lose my
behind, baby!

<<Verse>>
"You think it's funny, I know,
I'm falling in the polls, read it in the headlines,
Oh, read it in the headlines . . ."

********

Paul Craig Roberts wrote a column that appeared in Sunday's Los
Angeles Times about the trial that will start September 12th
concerning charges that Hillary Clinton and Ira Magaziner covered
up the role of special interests in drafting the original Clinton
plan. Rush repeats the paragraph he read earlier from this column
about the duplicity which would be displayed shown the
administration lose this case.

The Clinton plan is supposed to be dead, given the plethora of
alternative plans, none of which ostensibly have the major
components of Clinton's plan, such as health care alliances or
penalties for fee-for-service treatment. However, Rush has always
thought the original Clinton plan was still important because it
demonstrated how the Clintons viewed government and its role and
power over the American people. It's also important to note that
the Clintons' health care plan was put together in secret, but
the White House is going to claim in the upcoming trial that the
task force had no input into "Clinton's plan."

Meanwhile, the NY Times is reporting that the Emergency Medical
Services department in Jersey City was told to expect 25,000
people at the President's rally yesterday. However, only 2500 to
3000 people showed up, which shows the lack of support for the
President's plan, especially since most of these were protestors.

Clinton got so exorcised by these protestors that he pounded the
podium to the point that the Presidential seal fell off. The
President even spent a significant portion of his speech
addressing the protestors and defending his Presidency.

The press interviewed one woman from Madison, NJ, Patricia
Wickens, who said her main concern was "exactly what Rush says -
you're going to be fined if you go to a doctor outside your
health unit." The NY Times reporter then claims these health
alliances are no longer in the plans being considered by
Congress, but these alliances are indeed in the Gephardt plan.

Rush doesn't know if the fines specified by the Clinton plan are
also in the Gephardt plan, but the fact is those fines were in
the Clinton plan. And what was in the original Clinton plan is a
window into what the administration's real agenda is on
everything, not just health care. Gephardt's plan, though, is the
Clinton plan in many respects, as Rush will discuss after the
break.

*BREAK*

Rush received a memo from William Kristol, former chief of staff
to Vice President Dan Quayle and currently head of a group that's
trying to help the Republican party unify itself and develop a
set of core principles. Kristol has been analyzing the various
health care plans and has been sending a number of memos out
about them.

Kristol's latest memo is dated today, and in it he states that
George Mitchell's health care plan is insignificant and can be
ignored, as it's the House bill, proposed by Dick Gephardt, which
is the one to watch. The House bill is where liberals' hopes for
a government-run health care bill are truly based, and it's in
the House where the Democrats have their true strength.

Because most liberal Democrats are in the House, the House has to
be in the "power position" when the Senate and House bills go
into conference to be resolved. Also, whatever compromises are
made in conference, that's the bill which must be voted on by
both the House and Senate; no amendments can be made to the bill
once it's left the conference.

Thus, the liberals have to get what they want in the House bill
so as to ensure that the employer mandate and other aspects of
government-run health care can get into conference bill. Kristol
stresses that the Democrats' main goal is still to get
government-run health care, and they haven't abandoned the
Clinton plan by any means.

Kristol also notes that the Gephardt plan would permit mandatory
state health alliances, which everyone had thought were long
gone. Also, the House plan would also permit state-sanctioned
single-payer systems, which goes beyond even the Clinton plan.

The House plan would also include federal funding of abortion and
an 80% employer mandate, in addition to establishing a community
rating approach to insurance which prevent insurers from charging
lower premiums to healthy people. And in the year 2000, a panel
of "experts" would be created to implement price controls; this
would be equivalent to the National Health Board that was a
centerpiece of the Clinton plan.

The Gephardt plan basically is the Clinton plan, complete with
the employer mandate, health alliances, National Health Board,
etc. Kristol warns, however, that the Gephardt plan includes a
new feature, one which "exceeds even Hillary Clinton's most
ambitious dreams"; this feature is the creation of "Medicare Part
C." This expansion of Medicare cover broad new classes of
Americans: firms that have less than 100 employees, low-income
workers, part-time employees, and early retirees, among others.
This change would add, via fiat, 100 million Americans to the
Medicare rolls.

Kristol points out that this part of the Gephardt plan,
originally suggested as part of a single-payer system sponsored
by Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA), is government-run health care, without
the window dressing of the Clinton plan. This idea is so
frightening that even a NY Times editorial warned that it was an
"ill-conceived expansion of Medicare" which would do more harm
than good and which would start the ball rolling towards
inevitable government-controlled health care for most Americans.

Rush notes that if a majority of House members support this plan,
they will clearly have shown that they are not listening to the
American people, and they will could very well inspire the
biggest turn to the right in this November's election that the
country has ever seen.

*BREAK*

Rush returns to Kristol's memo which devotes some space to what
Republicans should be for, as opposed to only criticizing the
Clinton plan. However, Republicans have already tried to spell
out what they're for with their seven or eight plans, the most
recent example of which is the Dole plan. Republicans thus have
spelled out an alternative, but the mainstream press has ignored
these other plans.

The Democrats know that Clinton still beats Dole in the straw
Presidential polls only because nobody knows what Dole stands
for. They thus are putting Republicans on the defensive by
consistently demanding what Republicans are for, and then
ignoring whatever they say.

The political reality, though, is that it doesn't matter what
Republicans are for because they don't have the votes to do
anything about it. What Republicans should thus be for is
defeating the Clinton plan because no bill is better than a bad
bill. Republicans should be for genuine improvement, and not just
change for change's sake; not for doing something just so you can
say doing something.

It's taken 30 years for health care to get the problems it has
now, so it will take time before these problems can be corrected.
The Democrats, though, want to craft a bill in only two weeks and
get it passed before November. Republicans should thus
shamelessly say they are for the defeat of this bill, explaining
to the American people why it's a bad bill that should be
defeated.

Phone	Margaret from Burlington, VT

Margaret wonders if it's possible that the Gephardt bill is just
a ploy designed to push people into the arms of the Mitchell
plan, on the basis that it's the lesser of two evils. She's
afraid people will spend too much time looking at the Gephardt
plan and ignore the Mitchell plan. She heard Bob Squires this
morning say that if the Democrats didn't pass any health care
plan before November, the elections would be a death-knell for
them, so it's obvious the Democrats' goal is to get a bill, any
bill, passed.

Rush says he'd hate to be a Democrat today, thinking he would
have to pass a bill that would harm their country to help
themselves. Over the break, Rush was talking with some people
about what was motivating the Democrats in the House, given that
the American people don't want a bill like the Gephardt plan.

Margaret says this is why she thinks the Gephardt bill is just a
Trojan Horse to divert public attention. Rush isn't so sure and
points out that the Democrats are talking about passing a health
care bill because it's needed to "save the Presidency." And the
House leadership is all about forcing House members into doing
what is best for the Democratic party.

It's politics that is driving the drive for some sort of health
care bill now, and Gephardt, as the Majority Whip in the House,
has to be loyal to the White House. The question, though, is whom
Gephardt really represents: his constituents or his party.

Margaret says she'd love to know whether any of these major
Democrats have any viable opposition. Rush says Gephardt had a
tough re-election race in 1992, but he's still got a pretty safe
district. And it was Gephardt who got the most praise, next to
President Clinton, at the health care rally in Independence, MO
last Saturday.

Margaret says she had thought it was Rush who got the most
applause there, but Rush says he might have gotten the biggest
reaction, but that reaction from the Clinton supporters
definitely wasn't applause. As to the motives behind Gephardt's
desire to come up with a bill so close to the Clinton plan, Rush
doesn't quite see why Gephardt would want to put his name on
something that the American people, once they learned what it
was, have clearly rejected.

It's safe to conclude, though, that Gephardt and other House
Democrats don't care about what the American people want. It
could also be concluded that Gephardt is trying to fool the
American people, hoping he could keep what's in this bill secret.
This might not be what's going on, but if it is, they won't
succeed because there are people on both sides of the political
aisle who don't want Gephardt's bill, and they'll be very vocal
about their opposition.

*BREAK*

Phone	Jim from Mount Dora, FL

Jim is a physician and is concerned about the growth of an
"entitlemania" out in the country, where people think they are
entitled to health care as if it were a right. Rush notes that
Hillary Clinton is out there, actively telling people that health
care is their right.

Jim says people must realize there is no such thing as "free"
health care because when health insurance is paid for by the
government, it's really being paid for by the people. Rush says
in his second book he wrote about how there is a growing number
of people who think that the role of government is to provide
them with all sorts of benefits. There are always people who will
have the sob stories that "prove" the need for government "help",
and the Clintons' use of class envy tries to convince people that
it's always the guys in the upper income ranks who will be
paying.

Jim says that one part of this is the myth that doctors and
others working in health care earn too much, but the reason these
doctors earn more in America than elsewhere is because they do
more - more operations, more examinations, etc. Also, there are a
lot of high-technology medical miracles out there which are
saving lives, but this machinery costs a lot of money.

Rush says a lot of people would claim that they should be able to
get whatever health care they need, and that it's not fair
someone who earns $100,000 a year get better care than someone
making $30,000. Jim says realism means that basic health care can
be given to everyone, but you can't give "Cadillac health care to
those with a Volkswagen pocketbook." If you try to do this,
you'll just end up lowering the quality of health care for
everyone.

Rush agrees - it would be as if everyone in America wanted a
Mercedes, but if the government tried to force Mercedes to price
its cars so everyone could afford them, nobody would end up
getting what a Mercedes really is. The only way to solve the high
price of health care is by imposing cost competition and the free
market on the industry.

And it should also be noted that those on welfare are getting
"Cadillac care" - this is called the emergency room. There is no
health care crisis right now. However, people's expectations
about health care have been fed by those promising them the moon,
and now everyone thinks they should be covered for everything.

Yet nobody thinks an insurance company should insure a home
that's burning down, but there are those who insist that
insurance companies should insure those with pre-existing
conditions. Not all problems with health care can be easily
solved, but one thing that is known is that costs will go down
only if there is cost competition; they won't go down if you
start promising everyone everything.

*BREAK*

Rush promises to give details during the next hour about the
controversy brewing about him at an ABC package liquor store in
Raleigh, NC. Plus, he'll explain more about how New York's
welfare recipients are on a par with those earning $45,000 a
year.

*BREAK*

THIRD HOUR

Items

o	Rush reviews the Whitewater revelations: Joshua Steiner
has admitted "lying" to his diary about the answers Roger Altman
gave to Congress about his tenure at the RTC; Jean Hanson has
given answers that differ to a great degree from those given by
Altman and Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen; Hillary Clinton
received detailed White House and Treasury reports about
developments in the Whitewater investigation; and Hillary
Clinton's chief of staff Maggie Williams did in fact speak to
Hillary about the Vince Foster files, although Williams had
previously testified that the two women had never discussed
Whitewater.

And all this and more has shown up in the congressional hearings,
which are supposed to be covering only the "safe stuff." The
House Banking hearings are a major joke, thanks to the rules
imposed by Chairman Henry B. "Speedy" Gonzalez, but the Senate
hearings are more substantial. The most interesting part of all
this is that there is evidence of outright lying to Congress, the
"original sin" that Oliver North and other Republicans were
guilty of, but Robert Fiske evidently didn't find any shred of
any of this recent evidence and testimony.

Also learned today is the Dick Gephardt's health care bill would
bring back the health care alliances that supposedly were dead
and buried with Clinton's plan.

As if this weren't bad enough news for the administration, there
have been a lot of omens lately about this administration: while
jogging Saturday, Clinton tripped and fell in front of the
Watergate building; while in Jersey City, NJ giving a speech
about health care yesterday, Clinton pounded the lectern so
strongly that the Presidential seal fell off the podium; a Health
Security Express bus got stuck in the mud for two hours while in
Richmond yesterday.

o	A funny news item is the controversy surrounding the ABC
state-run package liquor stores in North Carolina. Over 700
listeners to Rush's show called EIB's Raleigh affiliate WPTF
yesterday to express their anger over a state edict forbidding
the playing of Rush's show in these liquor stores.

The brouhaha occurred when liberal Democrat Janice Simons went
into her local ABC package liquor store last week to buy a five
dollar bottle of "Five O'Clock Gin." Rush has never heard of this
brand before, but he wonders if it could possibly be any kind of
quality liquor, given its price of $5. The EIB staff, evidently
more knowledgeable about these things then their boss, tell him
that it's probably the "big bottle" and that "five o'clock"
probably refers to when it was poured into bottles last night
from a South Carolina bathtub.

Getting back to the story, Rush notes that Simons was outraged
when she heard Rush's show on the store's radio; Simons snootily
demanded that the radio station be changed, and the clerk replied
"can't get the truth, huh?" This angered Simons, so she called
the Raleigh News and Observer to ask if the stores were allowed
to "let Limbaugh hold court" like this. It turned out that there
is some state law requiring such stores to play only music, so
the order went out banning the playing of Rush's show.

This made the news, and Simons was treated like a hero by her
fellow liberals at church on Sunday, who think "Limbaugh lies and
exaggerates." However, when Rush's listeners read about this,
they jammed WPTF's phone lines about it. The manager of the ABC
store in question noted that Simons had basically tried to impose
her will on the clerk, and a number of callers to the radio
station said this woman obviously was intolerant.

Rush admits, though, that the stores have to follow state law
which means playing music on their radios; however, he does point
out that his show indeed plays a lot of music. Meanwhile, Robert
Massey, who manages the Wake County Board of Alcoholic Control,
which runs these ABC stores, said he hopes "this revolt remains
more civilized than the Whiskey Rebellion in which 500 men
attacked and burned the home of a regional tax collector."

Rush loves this story, especially since this busybody liberal
started the whole "controversy" by picking up a five dollar
bottle of "Five O'Clock Gin" sometime between noon and three in
the afternoon. The fellow gin drinkers at her church applauded
this woman, but meanwhile 700 people called to defend Rush, who
thanks all of them for their support.

Rush suggests that all of these people, next time they go to the
ABC stores to buy some "quality booze" that they wear Walkman
radios with earphones and ask the clerk if he'd like to listen to
Rush's show during checkout.

o	Rush dedicates this portion of the program to Benjamin
Chavis and Henry Cisneros, two prominent Democrats having major
problems with women.

o	The Denver Airport will finally be opened, but the $190
million baggage system still doesn't work.

o	Rush has a few things to say:

-	Women should put husbands and children ahead of their own
careers.

-	Women should not wear tight, short skirts.

-	Women ought to stay off welfare and reject abortion.

-	Women should learn the importance of cooking and
cleaning, and not abandon homemaking as careers.

-	Women should realize they're not going to be happy unless
there is happiness in their home.

-	Women should know that professional lives cannot satisfy
their soul like a good, loving man can.

The EIB staff accuse Rush of drinking some Five O'Clock Gin
himself, so he admits that he really didn't say these things.
Rather, these principles were what Louis Farrakhan told a group
of 1,000 women in Boston a couple of days ago. Farrakhan spoke to
the women because he had been repeatedly criticized for only
speaking to men.

Rush points out that NOW, the NEA, Anthony Lewis, CNN's "Reliable
Sources," and the rest of the liberal press haven't had much to
say about Farrakhan's statements, but had Rush said these things
himself, it would be all over the news. NOW and the NEA, though,
are scared of criticizing Farrakhan, Lewis is probably trembling
as well, and "Reliable Sources" probably hasn't even heard about
Farrakhan's remarks.

*BREAK*

Phone	Ellen from Rocky River, OH

Ellen is a registered nurse currently working for a health care
facility, so she's concerned about the debate over health care.
She is most disturbed by how the public's attention is being
diverted from the real issues; people are talking about what's in
all the various bills instead of focusing on how a group of
bureaucrats think they have the authority, power, and knowledge
to restructure a private business.

Ellen hears her friends talk about this without understanding
what's really going on. These friends will say "we will be
allowed to do this," but they don't realize the import of that
phrase - they don't realize the horror of saying that people will
be "allowed" to do something by the government's "largess."

Rush says he mentioned this on his TV show about how Dick
Gephardt used the same sort of language, talking about how the
people "would be allowed" to choose their own doctor. This is the
kind of arrogance shown by those who are pushing for government-
run health care.

Ellen says she is also discouraged by how so few people seem to
be bothered by how some groups, such as the Kaiser Woods
Foundation and Johnson Woods Foundation, are taking it upon
themselves to determine how doctors and patients must interact.
If all these groups, along with the "pot-bellied" bureaucrats,
can take over and dictate terms to one industry - health care -
then what will stop them from making decisions about architects
or any other industry?

Ellen doesn't know why otherwise intelligent Americans are
allowing such things to happen. Rush says that people are willing
to accept this because Hillary Clinton is telling them "let us
give you health care." Ellen, though, points out that the
government is not a money-making enterprise, so the government
can't give the people anything except some of their tax dollars
back.

Rush praises Ellen for making some absolutely brilliant points
and he thanks her for calling.

*BREAK*

Phone	Bill from Seattle, WA

Bill heard Rush on Friday talk about the article in the Seattle
Post Intelligencer about how the Washington state health care
system will be controlling people's choice of doctor. Bill just
received a letter from his orthopedic surgeon informing him that
the doctor would be going out of business because he can no
longer make money as a solo practitioner; the only way he could
stay in business is by joining some sort of massive managed
health care facility.

Bill therefore warns the rest of the country that this is the
kind of thing they can expect from the Democrats' health care
plan: this highly competent physician is closing up shop. Rush
says the Intelligencer article was about how Washington state
decided that the only way it could provide universal coverage was
to save money by limiting patients' choice of their doctor. The
Washington plan has been in effect for only a year, but it's so
bad that state legislators have already proposed over 200
amendments to it.

Bill says that most of the Republicans in the state legislature,
along with many Democrats, are each offering a handful of such
amendments. Rush notes that this news is important because it's
real life - not theory, but reality.

Rush thanks Bill for calling, and says EIB has gotten some calls
from St. Louis listeners about Dick Gephardt's re-election
chances. Partisan primary elections are being held today in
Missouri, and two Republicans - Gary Gill and Wally Anderson -
are vying for the chance to run against Gephardt in November.
There thus is some opposition to Gephardt, but nothing is yet
known about how strong Gephardt's chances for re-election are.

Rush notes he was not trying to slight any of these Republicans
with his comments about "safe districts," but only pointing out
that there are incumbents who are considered to be guaranteed
re-election. Whether this is the case with Gephardt remains to be
seen, though.

Phone	Domingo from Concord, NH

Domingo thanks Rush for waking up the American public about the
Clinton health care plan. Domingo was born in Cuba, in Pinard del
Rio which is right by the fabled Cuban tobacco fields; he moved
to the U.S. when he was 8 and is now very proud to be an American
citizen. He wishes Americans would realize just how much there is
in America, especially the opportunities America gives its
citizens to make their own lives.

The Clinton health care plan sounds good, but its costs will be
outrageous and won't help anyone. For example, everyone in Cuba
has "free" health care, but there are long lines of people
waiting for service, and some people are dying while they wait.
Rush notes that Castro praises his Cuban health care system as if
it were a truly modern one, but this is anything but the truth.

Domingo agrees, and he adds that Rush's books have inspired him
to start writing. He now has his own column in a hispanic
newspaper that has 25,000 readers; he was tired of seeing all the
liberal views in this paper, so he stepped up to write a column
with alternative views. A lot of those in the hispanic community
think anyone who achieves is their enemy, but they don't realize
that if they work hard, they too can achieve.

Domingo also would like people to remember that the goal is to
"save the country, not our President," and Rush has to agree with
that, too. He thanks Domingo for calling.

Phone	Wayne from Monroe, WA

Wayne thinks Rush is wrong about insurance companies not having
to insure houses that were on fire. In ancient Rome, the
insurance companies owned the fire departments, and if you didn't
have insurance, they'd negotiate with you first before putting
out the fire. Basically, the longer you waited to buy insurance,
the higher the prices became; if people bought their insurance
ahead of time, it was cheap, but if they waited until there was a
fire, the price became very expensive.

Wayne adds that insurance fraud was also a big problem back then,
with people burning down their buildings to get the insurance
money. Rush is amazed at all the things he learns each day doing
his show and thanks Wayne for calling.

*BREAK*

The NY Post has a story about how workers in New York City have
to earn $44,900 a year in order to get the same benefits given to
many welfare recipients. The group "Change New York" released a
study showing that a NYC mother on welfare with two children
receives nontaxable city, state, and federal benefits of $32,571
annually, not counting other benefits such as Headstart,
childcare, and food benefits for Women, Infants, and Children
(WIC). This is equivalent to what someone nets from a gross
salary of $44,900.

State officials called this report "fiction" because the average
welfare recipient wouldn't receive all of the benefits counted in
the survey. Instead, a spokeswoman insisted that the actual cost
for the average woman on welfare was $14,903 per year.

Rush, however, points out that poverty figures in America don't
take into account non-cash benefits or the assets that these
families might possess. For example, the example given by "Change
New York" - a mother receiving $32,571 a year in benefits - would
still be considered to be "poor" because these benefits are not
considered part of their income.

This $32,571 figure includes a basic cash grant of $2856 a year,
Medicaid totalling $13,664 a year, housing assistance of $9,828 a
year, food stamps of $4,507 a year, energy assistance of $1,716 a
year. A working New Yorker would have to gross nearly $45,000 to
afford all these things.

Rush notes that nearly 1 million people are on welfare in New
York City, about one out of every seven or eight residents, which
means that the benefits in the city have to be pretty attractive.
Plus, a lot of welfare recipients are receiving money in the
underground economy which they don't report.

The NY Post has a chart listing starting salaries for various New
York occupations: the average starting salary for a secretary is
about $18,272 a year while that for a starting sanitation
engineer is $23,104. A teacher gets $26,900 and a cop or fireman
gets $27,155. A deck hand on a ferry boat gets a starting salary
of $30,942 a year. Thus, a single mother with two kids who
accesses all the welfare benefits available to her nets more than
a cop grosses.

*BREAK*

Phone	Brian from Lansing, MI

Brian says people seem to have track of what insurance is
supposed to be when it comes to health care insurance. People
don't expect their homeowners insurance to pay for mowing the
lawn or their auto insurance to pay for changing their oil, but
they do get upset if they have to pay any small copayments, much
less keep track of how much their doctors visits are costing.

Rush notes that insurance was originally supposed to be for
catastrophes, and Brian agrees; however, that's not the case at
all now. Brian adds that not only do people expect their
insurance to pay for normal checkups, but they'll bellyache if
they don't get put on a prescription drug plan, too. All of this
misses the point about what health insurance is supposed to be,
plus it helps create the notion that health care should be free.

Rush says this is absolutely true, and the supporters of the
Clinton-style health care plans are exploiting this feeling to
the ultimate degree by suggesting that universal coverage means
getting everything you want. In fact, Hillary Clinton is saying
that health care is a right for every American, and this implies
that costs don't matter as to health care - people should get
whatever health care they want, no questions asked. However, just
because Rush has First Amendment rights doesn't mean someone else
has to pay for his microphone.

<<The final minute or so of the show is missing because the clock
on my VCR is evidently running a couple of minutes fast>>


