The Hannity/ Limbaugh audience must be healthy, wealthy and stupid

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

They keep saying that we have the greatest health care in the world and how people from other countries come here to get our healthcare.

They must be healthy or they would know how our system sucks and that even if you are insured, the co-pays, meds and extras will take you down in a nano-second.

And yes - the WEALTHY from other countries can afford our system and might come here as an option (especially now with our devalued dollar). And, the WEALTHY here can afford great health care regardless.

But,for the rest of us ( Joe and Mary Shit) most of our health insurance policies have maximums - like 1 MIL per person. Sounds like a lot, but a couple go rounds of cancer will exhaust your lifetime benefits in a heartbeat.Why is the US practically alone as a major power where healthcare drives almost a third of all bankruptcies?


Stupid because they seem to think that they or a family member will never face a long-term chronic or drastic acute health situation.

[cuke]

1. I disagree

I'm really not sure that they're wealthy or healthy

[rurallib]

12. But they really believe they will be someday

Once there is no taxes and they can charge people to drive on their private highway.
I agree. RW listeners have bought the whole BS line about getting gov't out of their lives so they can make a killing.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Narcissistic Fibrosis

[Richardo]

6. Nice one!

:rofl:

[Buzz Clik]

3. None of the above: They're lazy and hateful.

[AlCzervik]

4. try ignorant.

[Jade Fox]

5. A lot of them are young, isolated men who know nothing about the real world....

They simply repeat what Limbaugh etc. say because they have no context of experience to put the information into.

May the real world kick their butts soon!

The book "Memoirs of a Former Dittohead" is a good read.

[EST]

7. In the early '90s, I worked at a place where we kept the radio on

all day, tuned to a St. Louis all-talk radio station. After the deaths of some of the long term talent and management at the station, they changed the whole thing, radically.

One of the, in my opinion, stupid changes they made was to put that gawdawful mush lumpbutter on, 11am 'til 2. The tiny town (village) where I worked was certainly no liberal bastion but there were some there, plus me.
One of the callers, one day, was a guy who lived right there and he got in--I recognized his voice--and I knew a lot about him.
A right wing zealot, he had a shitty little job, fifty miles away, lived in a super el-cheapo old house, drove a shabby, two hundred dollar, rusted out yellow truck, was tighter than the bark on a tree and was the original Ebeneezer Scrooge.
He demonstrated little of the milk of human kindness, was a money grubbing snot with few talents, a gun nut, cheated everybody he could get away (in a sneaky, covert fasion) with and hated liberals.

He was actually pretty smart, no haunted genius, but could carry on a fairly deep conversation and thought he knew everything there was that was worth knowing.

He believed all the stereotypes, viscerally, and was uninterested in any challenge to his self satisfied beliefs, was fairly religious and bad mouthed his wife when not around her but kowtowed and sucked up to her when she was present.

He talked big man talk and bragged about his willingness to do violence to those whom he thought opposed to him, but, when fiercely confronted, he backed off, mumbling the old "wait'll next time" bullshit.
I was as friendly toward him as I could be, in our fairly limited exchanges, and engaged in the occasional repartee, really kind of looking for friendship with someone near my own age. It did not work out, for obvious reasons.

This description might give a pretty good picture of the average limbooger caller and avid "dildo head."

[Sparkly]

8. My hunch is they're afraid helping anyone else means less for themselves...

Just a guess, but it seems to me that people are so afraid of the larger well-being, the good of the community, or in other words the (shudder!) "socialism" of all helping all, because they see themselves on the losing end of it - even if they'd benefit. Somehow they've got the idea that rich have to be rich ("Did you ever get a job from a poor person?") and any help to the non-rich ("redistribution of wealth") threatens their livelihoods. I think it's an incredible con job from the rightwing, complete with characterizations of "welfare queens" etc., to scapegoat as the cause of hard work for low wages, etc...

[EST]

10. That's accurate. n/t

[dflprincess]

9. I know a lot of wealthy middle easterners go to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,MN

(hence my theory that Bin Laden shaved off his beard and has been in Rochester the last 6 years getting his kidney disease treated, but I digress) but I haven't heard that a lot of wealthy Europeans heading there.

What would be interesting to know is, when (and if) wealthy people come here for treatment, where are they going? I would bet it's places like Mayo or Sloan Kettering - places who may be researching treatments you can't get anywhere else. Or they've tracked down a specific doctor who's considered the premier expert on a disease or condition. I doubt if they're coming here for routine procedures.

Of course the irony of this is that, even though I have fairly decent health insurance and even though I live about 90 miles from the Mayo Clinic, my insurance considers it out of network and a visit there would be covered only if Mayo was the only place an approved treatment could be found.

[kevinmc]

11. An Example of a Limbaugh Listener ......

A comment posted under this article ....

Life in 2020

Cosmos asked some of the world's leading scientists to forecast the future.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1668

The following sentence is from the article:

"Around 90 per cent of people living today will still be alive in 2020, so these disturbances will touch almost every family on Earth."

The following is the first portion of a comment posted by a reader below the article:

Gorebasm
You sound like Owl Gore when you predict 90% of us will be gone in 10 to 20 years. What a joke. Owl Gore is a has been political hack that failed out of divinity school. His scientific credentials are non existent. In today's liberal society, if you don't spout the Global Warming mantra, you don't get grants.