The departure of Rush Limbaugh for Costa Rica is now imminent with the passage of the second health care legislation — the so-called fixes of the original bill. Limbaugh threatened earlier that if Congress dared to pass the legislation he would leave for Costa Rica, here. It was an offer that Congress could simply not pass up.
In his prior radio interview, Limbaugh stated to a listener: “I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.”
Here are the flights this weekend from Florida near his beach home from Expedia:
12:00 pm Depart Miami (MIA)
Arrive San Jose (SJO) 4:55 pm Sat 27-Mar
Duration: 6hr 55mn
American Airlines American Airlines 2189
10:35 am Depart Miami (MIA)
Arrive San Jose (SJO) 4:55 pm Sat 27-Mar
Duration: 8hr 20mn
American Airlines American Airlines 993
LACSA LACSA 692
Connect in Panama City (Tocumen Intl.)
3:10 pm Depart Miami (MIA)
Arrive San Jose (SJO) 4:00 pm Sat 27-Mar
Duration: 2hr 50mn
American Airlines American Airlines 1051
Nonstop flight
As a further assistance to speed his departure, here is all the Spanish he will need on his new Spanish radio program in San Jose, Costa Rica:
Tea bag – bolsita para hacer té
Socialism – socialismo
Conservative – conservador
Free Market – mercado libre
OxyContin – OxyContin
Duh:
It isnt that simple. People that love a sports team dont necessarily bet on their team every game. Rationality and analysis of the statistics plays a part. As does self interest.
Byron,
How much you want to “bet” that most Democrats would “bet” they win the 2012 election?
Woosty:
my sister is a nurse and she has told me her health care benefit sucks and she works in a hospital. But her pay is pretty good.
Big business gets a pass because they have talked our elected representatives into subsidizing their losses by telling them it will cost jobs. It doesn’t, what costs jobs is taking money from people to pay for stupid decisions that big corporations make.
They pay big money to K St. to talk dumb asses in congress to believe that piece of BS.
Duh:
Typically people bet to make money not lose money.
Byron,
“If you cant afford health insurance call your congressman and tell him to deregulate the health care industry and while you are it tell him to quit regulating wall st and also to quit subsidizing wall st.”
To the first part,I did. I am a nurse and I’ve seen ‘regulation’ and ‘deregulation’ from the inside. Deregulation led to the insurance Industry taking over and dictating cost and care. One went up….the other down. Guess which one went where. As far as Wall St….and the banks…regulation rears it’s ugly head when abuses become rife. That is what is happening now. If the laws were enforced at this level those broad regulatary strokes would probably not be so necessary.
Can anyone tell me why the monster entities keep getting a free pass?
Byron said “actually Slarti is right about Intrade. It is a “free market clearing house” and at the very least gives an indication of what people are thinking. The more input you have the better your results are going to be.”
How many of those who “invested” in a Democrat winning the 2012 election were Democrats? Do you think that would have some influence? How many of them are foreign nationals? In reality, isn’t Intrade just an illegal gambling institution where people bet on the outcome of elections?
What is the “margin of error”?
Woosty:
I think welfare for corporations is as bad as welfare for people, actually worse. Let the corporations compete or fail and the bank bailout was the height of economic stupidity as was the stimulus.
Who do you think is allowing/causing this problem? Corporations don’t make economic/monetary policy in this country. If you cant afford health insurance call your congressman and tell him to deregulate the health care industry and while you are it tell him to quit regulating wall st and also to quit subsidizing wall st.
A few years ago congress killed the luxury boat business with a luxury tax on boats. Who do you think makes boats or small jets? Rich people don’t they buy them.
And if you cant afford health care then find another job, unless you have a pre-existing condition it isn’t that expensive. I don’t owe you health care and you don’t owe me health care. I have no moral right to your pocket book. I don’t expect you to spend part of your life taking care of me, why should I have to spend part of my life taking care of other people?
What has happened is that we have an entitlement class that expects food, shelter, health care and other of life’s necessities to be paid for by you and me. If you cant afford health care blame the lazy who can work but don’t and who you are supporting through your tax dollars. The middle class is supporting the rich and the poor in this country. The rich take risk and instead of taking the loss it is distributed to the rest of us. The idle poor just feed off us and produce nothing and we pay for them to exist at the expense of ourselves and our families.
Screw the idle poor and the rich who want us to pay for their bad investments. The idle poor should be made to work if only to sweep streets and the rich should be made to pony up for their losses.
It is immoral for the rich to have their losses subsidized by the middle class and it is immoral for the people who are able to work not to work and expect others to pay their way through life. In other words it is immoral to take from a productive person to give to a non-productive person. Each human being has a right to their life, it doesn’t belong to the state and it isn’t to be lived as a sacrificial milk cow for others.
‘The IBD/TIPP Poll was conducted by mail the past two weeks, with 1,376 practicing physicians chosen randomly throughout the country taking part.’
‘More than 800,000 doctors were practicing in 2006, the government says. Projecting the poll’s finding onto that population, 360,000 doctors would consider quitting.’
So, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY may have a slightly biased pool to pick from, they are not a healthcare entity. Knowing how they generated their polster pool could shed some light on the matter. I personally don’t care for extrapolated stand alone polls. Statistics can be be tricksy.
con man? who
Thanks, Bdaman @March 27, 2010 at 10:51 am for the Les Paul and Mary Ford!
You aren’t the only one who would like El Rushbo to go away.
and you are a con man
Byron are you saying what I think your sayin.
Everything I read says it is going to reduce the deficit and save money. Thats great news
45% Of Doctors Would Consider Quitting If Congress Passes Health Care Overhaul.
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=506199
Byron,
“It may be noble to have health care for all but it is going to be expensive and we are probably headed for extra taxes, my guess is on consumption and food so that people off the radar have to contribute.”
Do you mean the tax loop holey Corporations?
Maybe luxury taxes on boats, private jets and high faluttin travel and restaurants.
Nobody that I know is asking for free food. Or free healthcare for that matter.
I haven’t had health ‘care’ for over 10 years. Or insurance either for that matter. I am working. I can’t afford it. Salaries for the majority of working people were not touched mightily by the economic expansion and has remained flat. Do you see the problem here? http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
I know people who are not eating well, certainly not lobster and caviar. Yet it was those tax dollars that bailed out the banks (who are very good at dodging taxes)….who bailed out the auto industry ( who flew to the handout in their private jets…). There is no magic formula. Even in a Democracy people have to pull their own weight.
Everything I read says it is going to reduce the deficit and save money. Unless you turn a wild profit in healthcare…which is what necessitated this measure in the first place,and blah blah blah blah blah……..
Bdaman:
when you are dealing with other peoples money and you are a con man you always promise high returns for low cost. It isn’t anything new. Our government is the biggest con artist in history. And anytime they promise the moon for a reasonable cost just multiply by 10 and you will have the real number.
Duh:
actually Slarti is right about Intrade. It is a “free market clearing house” and at the very least gives an indication of what people are thinking. The more input you have the better your results are going to be.
I read an article written, I think, by Admiral Poindexter on using an Intrade like idea to determine terrorist activity. The idea being that the aggregate knowledge of millions of people all possessing a byte of information could, in the aggregate, yield actionable information. Not specific or particular information but whether you should increase threat level or put the military on alert.
Assistant Treasury Secretary Herbert M. Allison Jr. told a House panel Thursday that “we did not fully envision the challenges that we would encounter” when the earlier program was launched.
They gonna say the same thing about health care.
Byron don’t forget free mortgage payments. President DEMANDS that banks give breaks on mortgages, again. Even though the number who defaulted under the loan remod program defaulted again.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502426_pf.html
Duh:
Food is a right, we should all be able to eat at Morton’s and The Palm. As you say if we don’t have food health care is unnecessary.
Free food for all Americans, it is life’s basic necessity. Why should I be deprived of food when my rich neighbor is eating steak and lobster and drinking champagne? Fair is fair. If I cant eat steak and lobster then my neighbor shouldn’t be able to either. He should give up his steak and lobster so that everyone can have hamburger.
You are selfish if you want caviar when everyone else is eating peanut butter and jelly. Food is a right.
You hear me President Obama? We want reduced cost food to go along with reduced cost health care. What is health care going to do if we starve to death?
Free food now, free food now.
Slarti said; “I guess Intrade, like conservation of energy, is something you don’t understand. Intrade is basically a free market bookie that will take bets on anything. People actually buy and sell bets (with real money) and the site figures out the odds based on how people are betting (just like any other bookie). Intrade showing a Democratic victory in the 2012 presidential election trading at 58% means that 58% of the people are betting on a Democrat winning. Since people actually have to put money on it, this makes it better than a poll (especially this far out) and it provides a metric for the odds in question with a well-defined methodology (unlike your psychic).”
I’ll give you this much; it does resemble your type of analysis. 🙂 If 60% of those “buying” are Democrats, and they all bet on Obama, they must be correct. Right?
And what percentage of those 58% of the people are likely to vote for the Democrat? I’m sure you can answer that, Mr. Scientist. Can’t you?
“Since people actually have to put money on it, this makes it better than a poll”? You’ll have to explain the logic behind that one.
sLARTI:
“And for what it’s worth, I think that a 1st world economy is child’s play compared to modeling all the behavior of a single human cell. (Not that either of them are easy…)”
Just occupational bias 🙂