I mean, one of the ways controlling costs is making people responsible for their own money, for their own expenditures and that is exactly what this program does not do. Without going through the specific numbers - although I’d be more than happy to do that - you know, whenever you separate people from the purchases they make… If you walked into a store and weren’t told what anything cost and you could pick out whatever you wanted free, you’re going to be squanders, you’re going to buy things that are way too expensive that you don’t want. LAFFER: Well, you know, it’s a fairly straightforward thing. After all this, it would still leave 30 million Americans uninsured.’ Fill in the blanks here for us. ‘The current proposals being discussed in Washington, House and Senate, would raise the total federal government expenditures by 5.6% more than otherwise, adding $285.6 billion to the deficit in 2019, would increase national health care spenders by an additional 8.9%. Let me just run through a couple bullet points and then you can take it and expand on this. RUSH: Well, I thank you very much for that. LAFFER: You impressed me enormously then as well as today. LAFFER: I don’t know if you remember, Rush, but I was on your show in studio in Sacramento, California, many, many years ago. LAFFER: A minion? Minion, minion! Oh, my gosh! RUSH: You were a minion doing dirty deeds. When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly instead I’d pronounce on the need for change, change in the White House where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds.’ I didn’t know anybody making a living that way. You may not know this, but you are partially responsible for Obama becoming a community organizer, from chapter 7, page 54 of his book, Dreams from My Father: ‘There wasn’t much detail to the idea of community organizer. RUSH: By the way, I want to share something with you. Laffer, ever since I first heard of you back in the late seventies, early eighties.

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