Way armed with the facts, and the arguments to feel confident in their positions. I want them to have the data and i want them to have the passion. Stephanie miller. I said are you gonna be my girl stephanie it is the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. Eric boehlert from media matters, great stuff this week. Read it. Get. We continue rightwing world. Rush limbaugh. Must we . Okay. Unemployment benefits are paid to people who are not working. And when theyre not working what are they doing . Theyre watching television. Theyre reading tmz. Or theyre playing video games. Now granted theyre going out and buying stuff. Jack daniels. Smirnoff ice. Chips. Lottery tickets and so forth. Stephanie wow he has such a keen understanding. Thats exactly what they purchase. I would like to see how he would live on unemployment insurance. How long would that last . Ten minutes . Hes clinging to such an old stereotype. Hes clinging to the right wing picture of what they see as unemployed in america for decades. And you know, lets face it. Hes clinging to a minority stereotype. If Rush Limbaugh thinks the 7 , 8 unemployed americans today are basically people in the city buying lottery tickets and jack daniels, it is amazing. I would be fascinated to know what percentage of his audience is unemployed because i guarantee you it is a healthy segment. With the National Rate is that high hes getting his fair share, trust me. Stephanie in a personal isnt it ironic file, eric. Isnt it ironic sandra fluke slut comments have hurt nerve the Radio Business including right wing shows and liberal a lot of stations are switching to sports or people arent buying advertising in radio thanks to Rush Limbaugh who is the only one not hurt because he has so many stations. It is amazing. His concern for people less well off than himself. Nicely captured the utterly heartless view of you know, working class americans. Stephanie exactly. Sean hannity on the radio. People that are fed up with a power hungry radicalized abusive federal government intruding into every aspect of our lives people are going to say theyre fed up. And states are going to want more liberty and more freedom. Theyre not going to want to tax their citizens to death anymore. If this pattern continues and gets worse and worse i can see at some point states saying forget it. We dont want to be a part of this union anymore. Yeah, good luck with that. Stephanie boy so tough for sean hannity. This is part of that sort of you know, insurrectionism revolutionary, civil war talk were hearing now. It is amazing. We heard the exact same thing in the winter of 2009 when obama was sworn in. Four years later were going back to the exact same thing. This time pumped up a little bit by the gun debate. Theyre rehitting the greatest hits about we need to arm ourselves against this tyrranical president. And it hasnt gotten better. The rhetoric has gotten worse and more hateful i think. Stephanie as we talk about what is unprecedented seriously, since when people have been losing elections ever since we found all of the states wanted to secede. Really . Everyone, democrats were getting their head handed to them by reagan and bush sr. Where was all of the rhetoric the joke was im going to move to canada. The joke lasted like a week. Here we are four or five years later, it is still the same sort of bloodcurdling rhetoric we hare. Stephanie fox and friends with a handwriting expert. You know on jacob lews signature. This loopy signature could be seen on every american dollar bill. Thats the signature of jack lew, the Current White House chief of staff. The next treasury secretary. You see a bunch of circles. It is repetitive. What that means is the person is compulsive. You also want to know you absolutely cannot read anything in it. Not one letter. When you cannot read a signature, it doesnt want to give you any information about their personal life at all. [ dramatic ] almost like having a pyramid and an eye on the dollar bill. Stephanie wow i guess that passes for journalism eric. I guess. A lot of people laughed at became a bit of a story last week. When you look at it, its truly bizarre signature. It is going to be only fox news though tried to look into the insights into what it told us about the shortcomings of the psyche of the new treasury. Leave it to fox, right . Stephanie his personal life has what to do with his job . Im a little confused. You cant read my signature either [ dramatic ] youre secretive and compulsive. Youve been hiding your relationship with jodie foster for years. Stephanie fortunately i wont be secretary of the treasury. All right Eric Boehlert, great stuff as always. Well see you next week. All right honey, thank you. [ applause ] i would like to have a signature on every dollar bill because then it would look like a hostess cupcake. It looks festive to me. Have the little remnant of a cupcake. His signature makes me happy. Seriously. [ magic wand ] stephanie it does. Magical. Loopy. Homage to hostess cupcakes. Stephanie so that was 32 seconds of our life that no one will ever get back. It went on for five minutes. Stephanie the handwriting expert. On fox and friends. Stephanie thank god were paying attention to the important issues facing the country today. [ applause ] stephanie all right. After the gun debate, why not. 29 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Going to do the young turks. I think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that were honest. They know that im not bsing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. When the democrats are wrong, they know that im going to be the first one to call them out. They can question whether im right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. [ voice of dennis ]. Safe driving bonus check . Every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. Ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. Are you in good hands . There will only be open minds and new horizons. Get ready for Stephanie Miller. Stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 34 minutes after the hour. 1800steph12 the phone number toll free from anywhere. Alan in texas on guns. Hi alan. Caller hi. How yall doing this morning . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller i just wanted to point out a couple of differences between a military assault weapon and a civilian assault weapon or Assault Rifles. First off in the military, you cant have an aftermarket highcapacity clip in it. And also, military has to shoot a nonexpandable bullet. Civilians shoot lead or any bullet that expands. Basically when it goes in, it is going to come out the size of your first. In the military, it is designed to go in and come out about the same size. Military it says i want to wound people. That way another person has to pick him up. I can wound that person. Military weapons Assault Rifles are not designed to kill. Theyre designed to wound. Civilian weapons are designed to kill. So it is a copper jacketed bullet. With lead inside. About a baseball size coming out. Stephanie yeah wow. Facts i dont want to picture this morning. But this is [ world news tonight ] i was reading this story over the weekend. This is what weve come to. This is the good news. In medical triumph homicides fall despite soaring guns. Theyre having to deal with militarytype injuries. Is this our new normal . Were able to fix you if you get shot with a the number of u. S. Homicides has been falling. The reported number of people treated from gunshot attacks has grown by nearly half. Did everyone suddenly become a lousy shot all have a sudden . No. Said a police executive. The potential for a victim to survive a wound is greater than 15 years. More people in the u. S. Are getting shot but doctors have gotten better. Improved medical care doesnt account for the decline but experts say it is a major factor. Assuming you have Health Insurance. Stephanie right. I just it seems like im going well, i guess thats good but right. Its like general mcchrystal says militarystyle weapons dont belong in civilian hands. Being shot would be deemed a preexisting condition because youre going to get shot some day. Stephanie california gun show draws 10,000 people getting ready for the next revolution. [ world news tonight ] what drew an estimated 10,000 people to a Northern California gun show. Theyre scared. Bob. Please and thank you. Obama wants to take everyones guns away. So theyre down here buying ammo guns, getting ready for the next revolution. You should be afraid of your fellow gun show attendees because theyre all crazy like you are. Stephanie jailine harris who presumably knows laureline says we all need to get them now before they take them away says jaylene harris who bought the same weapon used in sandy hook. What does she use them for . Stephanie jaylene doesnt say. Shes excited. She has her Fourth Military assault. Jim in florida youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi jim. Caller hello. Hi ya, steph. Stephanie go ahead. Caller correct me if i say anything thats out of place here. The nra has come out saying that we need to watch out for people who are mentally unstable, correct . Stephanie right. Like Wayne Lapierrre. Caller right. Exactly. So the nra has provided boilerplate language that is being forwarded as a bill by it has the support of our republican governor down here in florida. That would make it a criminal offense for a doctor to inquire if a patient owns guns. Stephanie right. Wow. Caller who is it that determines whether someone is crazy . Stephanie exactly. Caller probably a doctor. Stephanie exactly. Caller probably a doctor. But he cant ask if they own guns . What stephanie read the piece we posted about two Million People who are not in the database because the nra fights every single at every turn. You literally have to be a violent someone who committed violence with a gun and been confined to a Mental Institution to not get a gun. Its ridiculous. You know what the true test of being too crazy to own one of those weapons is . Stephanie that you want one. Caller that you want to own one. If you want one or more than one or however you want to phrase it but if you want to own one youre too crazy. Stephanie thank you. Jim and i did a delightful impromptu skit. It is a very simple background check. Go ahead jim. You want an ar15 with a 100 gun clip . Yes. Then you cant have one. Stephanie simple, seamless done. [ applause ] i learned that in catholic school. Does god answer all your prayers . Yes. Computer says yes. Computer says no. Stephanie the answer is no. Are you a deer hunter . Yes. Stephanie do i get to be as lonely as joddy foster . Steve in maine youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Go ahead. I personally believed there were 27 victims at sandy hook. I think the kid who pulled the trigger was a victim also. I dont hear anybody mentioning body armor. Im curious how many people would commit these atrocities if they werent armored. Stephanie whats the point because he killed himself anyway. Because he didnt want to be badly wounded. He saw the cops coming he killed himself. Im bipolar and everything else. But hes also a victim of the system. He was mentally unstable and they just neglected him. His mother said she had him in control. That should have had red flags when she said i got him under control. Stephanie and the an arsenal in the house. Yes. Another rule for gun buying. If the phrase pried it from my cold dead hands you dont get a gun. Thats a good rule of thumb. [ world news tonight ] stephanie again, weve been talking about various statistics that kind of take your breath away. In the new republic, it is a fact. As i said earlier guns kept in the home for selfprotection 43 times more likely to kill a family member, friend or acquaintance than to kill an intruder according to a study published in the new england journal of medicine. Guns on the street make us less safe. This is the new republic article entitled yes really, ban all the guns. For every justifiable handgun homicide, there are more than 50 handgun murders according to the fbi. The expanding right to carry concealed weapons makes us less safe. What right is being protected if not the right to be safe. The right to feel safe, the expense of actual safety, good stuff by shriver in the new republic. He says how many of the nearly 300,000 children killed by firearms in the u. S. This year does the good of hunting justify . All of them . A handful . How many of the students and faculty at virginia tech. Whats so good about hunting . Hunting for sport is about as vile as we humans get. Hes going after all of the literally. Bush speechwriter Matthew Sculley said most wicked deeds are done because the doer proposes for himself. He prefers dark tons light. He gets nothing except the satisfaction of saying something that wanted to live is dead. Can someone explain to me why thats acceptable or why the love of death should be more important than the safety of the 94 of us who dont have hunting licenses and dont hunt . If youre killing the deer for the meat, thats one thing or youre culling the herd like the wasting but if youre doing it for fun to watch something die stephanie i know people say lets not judge. I think we should at this point. [ ding ding ] [ applause ] stephanie lets go to ron in texas. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi ron. Caller good morning. How you guys today . Stephanie good. Go ahead. Caller good. Look Travis County is in the city of austin, texas. Okay. Stephanie yep. Caller and they were planning on having a gun show. This weekend the attorney general of texas said that if they cancel the gun show, that he was going to sue the county. Stephanie uhhuh. Caller i mean this is it is kind of on what grounds . Caller it is ridiculous. Stephanie to have a gun show and sell more guns to people with no background checks is more important. Stephanie all right. Joe biden yesterday. This president said, diminish the possibility, can only save one kids life as a consequence. Stephanie yeah. Thats the thing to question, what you have to get to, at what point what did i say just . 3,000 of our kids a year are slaughtered by guns and at what point do you go this is worth it or thats worth it. Not if its your kid. Joe biden. We know this is a complex problem. We know theres no single answer and quite frankly we dont even know whether some of the things people think impact on this actually impact on it. And so i want you to know you have not been singled out for help. Stephanie judy in california, real quick. Caller hi, sweet stephanie and mooks. You touched on the subject i wanted to talk about. The mother of the shooter. Right after this horrendous thing, i saw some interviews with friends of hers and how much she loved this boy. How much she wanted to protect him. How much she was worried about him. Blah, blah blah. As a responsible gun owner this woman, from all i understand, was a responsible gun owner. She did what the nra tells you to do. Teach your children to shoot. Teach them about the guns. Put them under lock and key and this precious woman did not see any correlation between Mental Illness and guns. She couldnt they dont even think that way, i guess. When you think that you can have that kind of gun in your home when it was right in front of her hearts eye, i know she loved this boy but she knew stephanie she didnt do the last thing keep it under lock and key. From the way i understand, her friends said yes, they were under lock and key. Thats why Wayne Lapierrre did not mention it. I dont think anybodys mentioned it. She was a responsible gun owner. Stephanie i see what youre saying. Caller you cant be a responsible gun owner and you dont see the Mental Illness in front of your face. You dont correlate the two. God love her and the precious souls that were lost. And the nra just will not accept that. There is no responsible gun owner that can own a gun that can slaughter. Kids tend to be very smart and this kid knew where to find a key. Stephanie 46 minutes after the hour. We continue on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer she was abandoned by wolves and raised by republicans. It is the Stephanie Miller show. 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Gun nuts to build a 200 acre citadel in ohio. Have you ever wondered what happens when you put the two together. How about a fortified community. The latest right wing tactic. A group of likeminded patriots bound together by pride plan on building an Armed Community to protect their liberty. The group named citadel intends to purchase 2,000 to 3,000 acres for the prong in western idaho. [ wah wah ] of stephanie it will compromise 7,000 families who voluntarily choose to live together in accordance with Thomas Jeffersons idea of rightful liberty. Their own selfdevised concentration camps. Stephanie prison. There is an amphitheatre for entertainment. Theyre going to do it themselves before the government does. All righty then. Stephanie putting themselveses in solitary confinement. Eating nothing but potatoes. Stephanie it will be like escape from alcatraz. You can never leave. Line hotel california. Caller this sounds really ghoulish but i got the idea from listening to mcchrystal and then thinking about emmett till. How his mother released the photos to show what racism had done to her sons face and it was just this massive amount of pulp. I think that every legislator should have to look at those sandy hook photos. And then say oh, yeah, you know because they were shot like nine ten times some of them. They must have been you know i feel so sorry for the parents. Their last image of their child. Something horrendous. Stephanie at close range i know. You hate to say it. People are oh, youre sensationalizing it. Youre not. Its reality. Shes right. We sometimes airbrush what the reality is of this. The helpful nra president david keen. What is Wayne Lapierrre . [ world news tonight ] president . Ceo. Stephanie yeah, he said yeah that wont pass the assault weapons ban. David keen yesterday. The Vice President and his folks are focusing primarily on firearms ownship and what we consider Second Amendment rights to the American People. Stephanie no. They made a point of talking about a very comprehensive approach. They met with every single kind of group involved in this whole he said over and over again, this is a complex problem. If youre looking at the problem which is to prevent this sort of thing, what you want to do is do those things that will actually make a difference. We have a profound disagreement with this Administration First of all on what would make a difference. We dont think that a ban on socalled assault weapons which hasnt worked in the past is going to work this time. It did work, you moron. Deaths went down dramatically. Stephanie they have tripled since the assault weapons ban expired. Just a liar. The press wont call him on it. We are. Stephanie before we even had a chance to debate this in congress or have a vote, hes i dont think there is going to be a ban on assault weapons passed by the congress. Stephanie yeah. The likelihood is theyre not likely to get an assault weapons ban. He doesnt believe a ban on certain cliffs could pass either. Im sure a million rounds is fine. Stephanie he said were not going to compromise on peoples rights when theres no evidence that doing so will serve a purpose. Yes, there is there is a boat load of evidence david keen again. I think thats a real threat to their Second Amendment rights. We intend to do all we can to protect them. Oh, we can. Stephanie hes talking about limiting clips of any kind would be really overstepping the bounds. Stephanie horrible, egregious. I dont know that the nra is that powerful. I do think that those americans who believe strongly in the Second Amendment and their right to own privately and use firearms for legitimate purposes is a huge number of people who really care about these issues. We try to provide leadership to those folks. We try to represent them before the congress and elsewhere. Stephanie jasmine in ohio. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hey, jasmine. Caller hi, stephanie. Stephanie hello. Caller couple of things. Im a convicted felon. Of nonviolent felony. Im a combat veteran. Come to find out, i was pulled over a couple of years after i was convicted to find out that i still have a valid concealed carry. So legally, i could actually still carry well, not legally, but say i would get stopped with a firearm, i wouldnt get in trouble. They would have no idea that im a convicted felon. Thats all that comes up is i have a valid concealed carry license. Stephanie hmm. Granted, why actually go out and carry a firearm being a convicted felon because a i wouldnt want to take a chance on repercussions of that and b generally, i think its wrong. Theres a couple of statistics that you said as well. 85 of the children killed worldwide are killed in this country. That is so absolutely ridiculously false. Stephanie you sound very reasonable for a convicted felon, can i just say . Caller well, thank you. [ laughter ] stephanie well, no, it is a good point because again part of more evidence the nra fights anything at any turn that could actually help. Lets go to larry in florida. Hey, larry. Hi larry. Caller hello. Stephanie hi, go ahead. Caller i had a thought here. We know this is a political issue, obviously. When the president gives his state of the Union Address obviously this will no doubt be brought up. Along the lines of the other woman looking at the pictures of it, how about having all 20 parents up there and have these lawmakers be able to look them in the eye and not vote for gun control. Ill hang up and listen to your answer. Stephanie all right then. Hell take no further questions. What do you think this is . Npr . Stephanie there is a way to bring home the reality of this without saying youre politicizing. You dont call it politicizing if it happened to you or your family. Jackis healthcare corner next. Very, very important on the Stephanie Miller show. [ theme ] stephanie i know, i know. Everybodys all aat this time theyre theyre coming up with a jackis healthcare corner. Oh, my god lets get the health spot warmed up. My nurse is claiming somebody told them when obamacare goes into effect, there will be caps put on treatment. No thats not true. [ laughter ] stephanie there you go. I dont know how to give you details on something thats fabricated. Stephanie theyre expert at a mix of some things that are true and misinformation and they could be referring, as you talked about before to quality care instead of quant care. There was an. Had and r commercial where the woman said she read the 900 page bill. It took her weeks to read that bill then i dont want her going toward my taxes. Stephanie jacki and her news hat in the current news center. President obama is holding the last press conference as his first term about a half hour from now. We can assume hell get asked about gun control and also about the fight over raising the nations debt ceiling. In other news, a california woman is sending the president a letter today asking that he help her husband serving prison for growing marijuana. The Huffington Post got an early letter, a plea on behalf of her husband. He was indicted after a raid on two dispensaries. My husband is not a criminal and shouldnt be treated like one. She references the interviews that president obama did with Barbara Walters in which he said the federal government wasnt likely to go after Recreational Marijuana user ins colorado and washington now that marijuana is legal there. He said the authorities have bigger fish to fry. Her husband matthew is not a big fish and did he nothing illegal under california state and local laws. Matthew davies has no criminal record and insists he was legally meticulous in setting up his business in 2009. The Justice Department argues that davies is nothing more than a drug trafficker out on bail. You may remember reports that rand pauls 19yearold son was arrested at the Charlotte Airport for being drunk. Now the Charlotte Observer reports hes being being charged with having assaulted a Flight Attendant on us air flight that brought him from kentucky to North Carolina. The news was not part of earlier media accounts. Well be back with more of stephs show after the break. 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I was feeling depressed because i have suddenly my world bryanted this morning when you reminded me that youre an app. I download your app. Now i can get my fix before we do the meet and grope. Shes a stephaholic. She is. [ applause ] stephanie lots of that. Your box my iphone. [ scoobydoos huh . ] Stephanie Dean from Portland Steph thanks for all you and the mooks do. Thanks for the cast. Having your app on my iphone makes me al roker myself every time i get to use it which is multiple times a day. [farting sounds] dean from portland. [ applause ] stephanie speak of happy clappy things that will be in d. C. Stephanie hi, jacki schechner. Hello. Stephanie whats going on . Makes me want to put on my virtual cowboy hat. Stephanie exactly. For the folks just in radio land, answer that question again. Jim in chicago says steph, my inlaws claim the nurses, somebody told them when obamacare goes into effect, there will be caps on treatment. No, there wont be caps on treatment. I dont know where people get this stuff. Stephanie from somebody in the e. R. [ whatever ] they probably get it from sean hannity. There are caps on treatment now. It is called denials by Insurance Companies. Stephanie oh well, slowly i turn you brought up main point. Those are the real panels. The Insurance Companies say were not going to cover that. Stephanie we talked about this. Health insurers jacking up rates. Particularly vulnerable. Small businesses, people who do not have employer provided insurance must buy it on their own. In california, oh, goody something will affect us. Aetna is proposing a rate increase of 27 . Blue shield, 20 . When i read this stuff jacki it makes me so angry. The rate requests are more striking after a 39 raise sought by Anthem Blue Cross in 2010 helped give impetus to Affordable Care. I dont understand why people are so afraid to lay blame where the blame should be laid. It is on Insurance Companies. It is Insurance Companies who are deciding to do these rate increases. It is nobody elses fault. Theyre making these decisions. And what theyre saying is because the Affordable Care act is going to levy some new fees and taxes on the Insurance Companies, they need to pass those on to consumers. Or the customers. You dont need to do anything. Papa johns pizza will cost a Million Dollars each. Stephanie papa johns pizza will cost a Million Dollars a slice. If you look at the Top Five Health insurance providers and their profits they made 12. 5 billion in 2011. Poor babies. In 2010, they made 11. 7. So their profits are going up. And theyre saying they have to pass these fees and regulations on to us. Stephanie so in other states like florida and ohio, insurance has been able to raise rates. The rate increases can amount to several hundred dollars a month. This is not this is really egregious for a lot of people, right . Were trying to put regulations in fact. There will be when the Affordable Care act goes into effect. But theyre trying to get as much in under the wire as they possibly can. I just dont understand why were so adverse to blaming them for the bad behavior. Stephanie youre right. People are preprogrammed to hate obama want to go see its obamacare. Same thing with the fast food companies. Franchisers are saying theyre cutting workers hours down to parttime hours so they dont have to provide Health Insurance because they say they cant afford it. The whole thing is ridiculous. The regulations dont kick in until 2014. Anyone whos cutting hours now is doing it to cut down their workers hours and their pay. As far as 2014 is concerned theres no employer mandate. There a shared responsibility only if you have more than 50 workers. Only if theyre full time and only if one of those goes out into the exchange and gets a sacks payer subsidy. People need to read the details before they believe the hype. Stephanie jacki, is there something that can be done or no . Single payer. Stephanie there you go. Medicare for all. First of all, get angry at the right person. Imagine if we put the power of the people behind being angry at the right people. Be angry at the employers who are cutting hours. Be angry at the Insurance Companies jacking up prices. Try to take your business elsewhere if its possible. It is very difficult because the Insurance Companies hold monopolies in most markets but i would say be mad at whos causing it. Not at who the Insurance Companies want you to blame. Who the franchise owners want you to blame. Stephanie are the exchanges going to help this at all . Theyre supposed to. This is where it gets a little tricky. If i were toeing the pretty line, i would say yes because there would be competition between the Insurance Companies within the exchange and that way would help lower costs but im a Firm Believer the only thing that will do that would be a public option and we didnt get it. Im not sure were going to have the cost controls in place that we need. Thats the honest truth. I would like to believe it that we could do it without it. I dont think thats the case. Stephanie you and i talk about this all the time. Every story that comes up to me, jim says what would solve this would be medicare for all. You wonder are we ever going to get to common sense on this issue . I dont know. Will we reach a Tipping Point . Thats the question. A lot of people ask why we didnt go for it originally. The truth is it is not politically feasible. Youre not going to wipe out the Insurance Industry and some of the medical industrial industry that weve got in this country. It is too powerful. Theres too much money. Youre not going to erase it in its entirety. I think if we hit a Tipping Point, he may have already passed it where we cannot get healthcare in this country without it being cost prohibitive for a majority of people, maybe well get to the point where we get so desperate that we have to do something huge. Stephanie hang on one second here. Jacki, its for you. Alma in virginia. Youre on with jacki. Go ahead alma. Caller hello. Stephanie go ahead. Caller this is for jacki. Hi, alma. Caller hi. My husband has insurance through his group plan at work. Mmhmm. Caller but our deductible is 6,000 per person per year. Stephanie zoinks. Caller my daughters actually read the Healthcare Plan on the internet and she cant find where this might help me. The problem a lot of the companies are pushing off the deductibles and these copays on to their employees and thats a very real problem. They do offer insurance through work it becomes unaffordable. The nice thing about the Affordable Care act, there is a provision that says if your Company Provides you insurance but it is more than 9. 5 of your income, you can shop elsewhere and your company has to pay a shared responsibility fee for that. So there is a provision within the Affordable Care act that says that employers have to offer affordable plans which means youre not paying more than 9. 5 of what you make. Caller 9. 5 of our premiums that we pay monthly or 9. 5 of our premiums of your income. 9. 5 of your income. Caller 9. 5 of the total of what we pay out of pocket . No. The amount of money his salary. His income. Basically, the provisions are in there it has to be an affordable plan. That your company cannot provide. Plan that you cant afford. If it does, youll have the opportunity to shop on the exchange and if you qualify to get a taxpayer subsidy your company has to kick in i think its 3,000. Okay. We can afford the monthly premiums but we cant afford the deductible every year. Are we talking about premiums or the total . I think it is total. I would have to double check. I think it is the total amount of money you have to pay on your own. Thats the problem with a lot of the insurance plans. The premiums may look affordable but the deductibles are insane. Youve got to have 6,000 laying around to pay for your medical care before your copays kick in. Right. Thank you so much. It is my pleasure. Stephanie thanks, alma. Jacki schechner lets get to the more important thing. [ world news tonight ] you and Melissa Fitzgerald and i out partying. If you knew jodie foster was going to break up with me, you would have been supportive. You were still walking by the end of the night. I would have put a lot more energy into getting you black out drunk so you didnt remember the pain to come. More mojitos. When you say end of the night. Stephanie you wont believe this. For me. I think you were out until 11 00. Stephanie i went out to a bar after. Ive never known you to go to a bar. [ cuckoo clock chimes ] stephanie i must have had a premonition i would be humiliated by joddy foster. You missed my birthday party. It was at a thai karaoke place. The pictures look great. Your friends look fabulous. Aw, thank you. Stephanie what happens at a thai karaoke they get up and sing karaoke in broken english. It is really awesome. Do you get to sing . It looks like a cabaret show. You can go up and sing but it was mostly the thai people. We didnt do that. [ laughter ] stephanie it is power ballads with ted. Like when we go to d. C. , well have to get chris to karaoke. Stephanie i know it. No, no, especially not with this cough. Stephanie d. C. Will be a par at a. We were discussing one of the balls were going to. I said to melissa, i have to wear a gown. You as my bff offered to loan me one. I never owned a long gown. When i moved to d. C. You have these correspondent dinners and white house whatever they are. Stephanie im coming to your house for a fancy shopping. Go, pasch pashminas. It is a no pashminafree zone. Love you. Fabulous corner. Okay. We love the healthcare corner. You could do karaoke or the ball but not both. Stephanie it is a love letter from keith in palm springs. At least im getting support. Your girlfriend joddy foster said shes single at the golden globes. My girlfriend i was dating. What . You were just dumped last night. Stephanie while giving her speech for Lifetime Achievement award, sorry for the bad news. Your ex is leaving you behind again. I go straight for you and i will still be listening on the steph cast for 4. 95 because im not afraid of the commitment. Thats something. Your 4. 95 a month is enough to salve the wound. Plus my heart. 18 minutes after the hour. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Wow yes i love it announcer its the Stephanie Miller show. Youve heard stephanies views. No bs, authentic, the real thing. Now, lets hear yours at the only online forum with a direct line to Stephanie Miller. The only thing that can save america now current television. Join the debate now. Bad bad stefny miller badder than old king kong meaner than a junkyard dog stephanie it is the the Stephanie Miller show. Welcome to it. 23 minutes after the hour. Breck writes steph huge fan. Was at the beacon. Have tickets for the Warner Theatre sexy liberal show this saturday. I can actually walk she can see the Warner Theatre from his house. Cant wait for saturday. Yea sexy liberal tour director roland announces four meet and greet seats the Box Office Just put on sale, great seats in the third row. Grab them. They may be gone now. But try. Couldnt hurt to try. Stephanie all right. Someone sent me a story to make me happy because it is about [farting sounds] employer takes back reprimand of flat you on a lent worker. They reprimanded an employee who colleagues continued of continuously releasing gas and creating an odor that caused an unpleasant working environment. The man told the supervisor in july he would start turning on a fan. The manager explained it would only cause the smell to spread and worsen the air quality in that module. Maybe light a lot of matches. Stephanie well just blow it your way. They make charcoal filter seat pads that capture the stephanie right he should try that. Change your diet maybe. Maybe it is something youre eating. Theres that. Maybe get some beano. Im lactose intolerant. Stop drinking milk stephanie the white house has responded officially to a number of including this one. After telling america piers morgan will not be deported, the white house now responded to several they remain united. We dont have an artificial gravity like they do in science fiction. Jesse sent this to me. The white house has officially responded. Really people . We dont have enough going on. What . Stephanie take up the white houses time with this, really . The administration desires a Strong National defense. Here are a few reasons. The white house needs to take time to the construction of the death star has been estimated to cost more than 850 i dont know i dont know if there is a number. Working hard to reduce the deficit, not expand it. Number two, the administration does not support blowing up planets. Number three, why would we spend countless taxpayer dollars on a death star with a fundamental flaw exploited by a oneman starship. Thank you for making the point about the starship. [ applause ] stephanie hardofhearing darth vader never gets old. Go to the Stephanie Miller time line on facebook and youll see it. Scroll down. Stephanie what . Dan in missouri, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi dan. Caller hi, stephanie. Im a ron paul libertarian straight guy and i love your show. You touched slightly on what i wanted to ask you about but not exactly. Im asking you personally, would you acknowledge that in a years time there are people who are attacked by bad guys, they happen to have a gun on them, wherever that may be and that the bad guy just backs off because hes a chicken doesnt get shot and that nono shots are fired, no ones hurt. No reports are filed. And that that actually saves studies on this exact thing would you acknowledge that . Stephanie show me the study. It is so hypothetical, my brain hurts. Stephanie it happens a lot with those statistics. [ jeopardy theme ] this happened and if that happened stephanie the guy had a gun so he was then spiderman came down and aquaman stephanie he was going to do something but he thought the guy had a thing. Then he made an emergency bat turn. Stephanie so there. The joker ran stephanie i would like to know where that study is. Where might i find that study . In his ice. Stephanie how many times crime is stopped by why not have a toy gun . Hey you back off hasbro . Hasbro stephanie we could do that. Look at what i got here. Look. Smith wesson isnt spelled hasbro. Stephanie there goes the whole crime problem. [ magic wand ] ill use my action grip. Watch out. I got a stretch armstrong. [ world news tonight ] stephanie Treasury Department says it will not mint a trillion dollar coin to head off the battle. You know why . What if somebody lost it . Stephanie because fox said it would weigh more than 86 pounds. Poor fox news researcher. That poor low level stephanie needs a job. Talked about it friday. I know. Clack, clack clack. All dead inside. Really . Okay. Tonya in mississippi. Youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi tonya. Hello, tonya. Caller hey. Stephanie okay. Hello. Caller yeah, im a first time caller. I wanted to say i love your show. Stephanie thank you. Caller i wanted to talk about the gun debate. Stephanie 20 seconds. Caller all of the politicians and everything, i think theyre not personally affected so it doesnt seem they dont see you know, they dont feel it. Im a mother of three. Stephanie im sorry. Hard break. I take your point. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. vo as marijuana gains social and legal acceptance, a new pioneer is emerging from the backwoods. Im basically like a farmer. Instead of corn, youve got dope. vo but what is legal and what is criminal . This is, no matter what you do, a violation of federal law. vo follow real farmers staking their claim on a new frontier. Lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. This crop to me is my livelihood. I have everything invested in this. Only on current tv. Stephanie miller. Buddy, if it takes the edge off, im good to go. And youre done. What . You dont drink wine for the right reasons. She doesnt. [ laughter ] what reasons are those stephanie . To forget. Stephanie it is a multitude. To forget. To remember, i dont know. So many reasons. Stephanie 34 minutes because its there. Because you pay good money for it. Stephanie exactly. There are kids in india that are sober. Okay. I dont know. Puts hair on your chest. Stephanie right. 34 minutes after the hour. The top senate four members of the Senate Democratic leadership privately telling the white house theyll give obama full support if he opts for a unilateral solution to the debt crisis. Apparently the trillion coin is a nogo as we discussed because fox news warned us. It would weigh more than how about a trillion 1 coins. Stephanie yeah. I dont know what there is. White house has said the 14th amendment, they dont think who knows. This whole thing is going to happen all over again. Who can say. Stephanie colin powell strongly endorses hagel. Called him superbly qualified. On meet the press. I said hes a good supporter of israel but not reluctant to disagree when he thinks it is appropriate. Being pro israel doesnt mean you have to agree with every single position. You dont have to agree with likud. There are a lot of parties who dont necessarily agree with netanyahu. Stephanie right. You dont have to think that bombing iran yeah, the New York Times story hawks on iraq prepare for war against hagel. In the bitter debate, like you said, jim, because they were wrong on iraq. They made them look bad. Stephanie in a bit der bait that led up to the american invision of iraq, senator chuck hagel said some of the fellow republicans in their zest for war who have sat in jungles or foxholes and watched their friends get their heads blown off. Cautious geopolitical approach how many of those killed in combat . Stephanie campaign now being waged against mr. Hagels nomination is relitgation of the decadeold dispute. Bill crystal, you were wrong about everything. Everything [ buzzer ] this is the neocons worst nightmare. Combat soldier successful businessman and senator who thinks there may be other ways to resolve some questions other than force richard armitage. We were saying as Eric Boehlert said, this is just par for the course now. Hes a republican. And theyre still accusing obama of not seeking bipartisan [ whatever ] stephanie right. Wow, i bet you theyll be helpful on Immigration Reform as well. Right after they get reasonable gun control done. President obama plans to move congress on an ambitious overhaul on the Immigration Reform a change of one comprehensive bill resisting efforts by some republicans to break the overhaul into smaller pieces. John mccain, as you know, will be its not the policy comprehensive Immigration Reform. Who would ever come up with such a ridiculous idea. Thats exactly whats going to happen which is the sad part. Never heard of him. Javi or javy. Stephanie is that how i say it . Caller hello. Actually, it is javy. Thats the california version. The plural java. Caller hi, guys. I just wanted to bring up something. There was a forbes article, i dont know if you folks saw it, but in december 18th called addicted to bang the neuroscience of the gun. It was in forbes and it brought it argued very successfully, i thought that what were hearing about now the passion thats coming from people in the nra you mention ted nugent, et cetera is basically these people are addicted to specifically assault weapons and what they have found is that the assault weapons in particular, because of the frequency that the bullets are shot out it corresponds to release of dopamine in the brain which is as addictive as cocaine. It is a good article and you know, im kind of almost shocked that nobody is kind of addressing this because the issue of Mental Health is and guns is side by side. People in the nra right at the top may be addicted to these specifically assault weapons. Stephanie i dont understand it because it makes me cry and run home like a little girl. The president is holding a press conference. Lets listen. Obama new security for the middle class. Right now, our economy is growing and our businesses are creating new jobs. Were poisoned for a good year were poised for a good year as long as politics dont get in the way of americas progress. As i said on the campaign, one component to growing our economy and broadening opportunity for the middle class is shrinking our deficits in a balance and responsible way. And for nearly two years now ive been fighting for such a plan. One that would reduce our deficits by 4 trillion over the next decade. Which would stabilize our debt and our deficit in a Sustainable Way for the next decade. Not by cutting Social Security and medicare. Obama that would be enough not only to stop the size of our debt but it would make it manageable so it doesnt crowd out the investments we need to make and people and education and job training and science and medical research, all of the things that help us grow. Step by step, weve made progress toward that goal. Over the past two years ive signed into law about 1. 4 trillion in spending cuts. Two weeks ago i signed into law more than 600 billion in new revenue by making sure the wealthiest americans begin to pay their fair share. Gem. [ screaming ] stephanie save in Interest Payments on the debt which adds up to a total of about 2. 5 trillion in deficit reduction over the past two years. Not counting the 400 billion already saved from winding down the wars in iraq and afghanistan. So we have made progress. We are moving toward our ultimate goal of getting to a 4 trillion reduction. However i hope we can do that. Obama it will be more deficit reduction when the congress decides what to do about the 1. 2 trillion in automatic spending cuts that have been pushed off until next month. The fact is though, we cant finish the job of deficit reduction through spending cuts alone. The cuts weve already made to priorities other than medicare, medicaid, Social Security and defense. Mean that we spend on everything from education to Public Safety less as a share of our economy than it has been true for generation. And thats not a recipe for growth. So weve got to do more both to stabilize our finances over the longterm but also spur more growth in the short term. Ive said im open to making modest adjustments to programs like medicare for future generations. Ive also said that we need more revenue. Through tax reform and by closing loopholes in our tax code for the wealthiest americans. If we combine a balanced package of savings from spending on healthcare and revenues from closing loopholes, we can solve the deficit issue without sacrificing our investments in things like education that are going to help us grow. Turns out the American People agree with me. They listened to an entire years debate over this issue. And they made a clear decision about the approach they prefer. They dont think its fair, for example, that ask a senior to pay more for his or her healthcare or a scientist to shut down Life Saving Research so that a multimillionaire investor can pay less in tax rates than a secretary. Stephanie mitt. Obama they dont think it is smart to protect endless corporate loopholes rather than rebuild our roads and our schools and invest in our workers skills or help manufacturers bring jobs back to america. So they want us to get our books in order in a balanced way. Where everybody pulls their weight everyone does their part. Thats what i want as well. Stephanie republicans have already said please, mr. President , how might we help . Help us help you. Stephanie how may we be of assistance to you. To come together for the good of the americans. [ magic wand ] give the republican an inch, theyll take a lightyear. Stephanie jacki made a good point. Blame the right people for jacking rates. Let a chalk one up for elizabeth warren. Elizabeth warren has been in office for a number of days. She already has a big win against wall street. Aig was about to sue the u. S. Government over the terms of the companys bailout. Taxpayer sponsored 182 billion deal that saved the company from restitution, turn out they didnt think it was enough. Elizabeth warren, plenty of reason to fear was having none of it. Aig has announced they wont be joining the suit. Awesome. Stephanie first smackdown round one. Holy cow you go stephanie along with my exgirlfriend, jodie fossor who broke up with me on national television. Well you and sidney. Stephanie speculation is ripe this morning. Did i break them up . What happened . I dont remember anything. Okay. In case you didnt hear it, that was all the rage. People talking about it. Im here being all confessional and i just have a sudden urge to Say Something that ive never been able to air in public. A declaration that im a little nervous about but maybe not quite as nervous as my publicist right now huh jennifer . But you know, im just going to put it out there loud and proud. So im going to need your support on this. I am. Single. [ laughter ] yes, i am. I am single. Im kidding. Im not really kidding. But im kind of kidding. Stephanie then she basically came out. I thought it was very moving. Least kept secret in hollywood. Stephanie but still. Its important. A couple of years ago she thanked sidney for stephanie at an awards thing. Quite as publicly acknowledged it before. At least in the time we were dating. Would you want to admit if you were dating me . Seriously. Well, theres that. Stephanie okay. Mwah stephanie for those of you who have just tuned in, ive never met herr. You never interviewed her on the red carpet . Not even after the disastrous concert . Stephanie im lonely, too jodie. Call me. Not even after the disastrous Kevin Costner interview . Stephanie where i asked him to send me a message in a bottle . Ive done worse interviews. Really . Is there youtube of this . Stephanie yes, i have. Right back on the Stephanie Miller show. Announcer she gets insulted by more rightwingers before 6 00 a. M. Than most people do all day. Its the Stephanie Miller show. vo follow real farmers staking their claim on a new frontier. Lots of terrible things happen to people growing marijuana. This crop to me is my i have everything invested in this. Only on current tv. [ male announcer ] pillsbury grands biscuits. Delicious. But say i press a few out flat. Add some beef sloppy joe sauce. And cheese fold it all up and boom i just made an unbeatable unsloppy Joe Pillsbury grands biscuits. Let the making begin. [ female announcer ] what would you call an ordinary breakfast pastry thats been wrapped in a flaky crust stuffed with a gooey center toasted up all golden brown then given a delicious design . A toaster strudel. Pillsbury toaster strudel. So delicious. So fun. [ voice of dennis ] allstate. With accident forgiveness, they guarantee your rates wont go up just because of an accident. Smart kid. [ voice of dennis ] indeed. Are you in good hands . vo always outspoken, joy behar. On my next show ill talk to the actress who taught me if you dont have something wise ass to say, dont say anything. The great Valerie Harper on say anything. Stephanie miller. Stephanie tech support during the show. Like voodoo, jim apparently you can print from your ipad. There is an app for that. I should know that as an app myself. All right. So you asked jodie foster and she said no. Stephanie no. I would rather be lonely. Sid in utah, youre on the Stephanie Miller show. Hi sid. Caller hi. Im sidney from utah and i too am coming out of the closet as a democrat. Stephanie yea. Caller ive got interesting tidbit for you. It was on the local news last year. Ive never heard much blowback from it. They said that utah was one of two states that you were legally allowed to buy guns blind. You could be blind and own a gun in utah. A lot of other people come here to buy them. Stephanie what could go wrong there . Certainly some common sense gun laws out there. [ applause ] stephanie wow. I was saying jodie foster coming out was huge. In a lot of ways last night. However [ world news tonight ] look at this. Illinois g. O. P. Calls for ouster of their gay marriage supporting party leader. Hes not allowed to play in any of their homophobic reindeer games anymore. Did you see this story . A lesbian couple dining in a North Carolina cafe was handed a letter that decried homosexuality of being against gods will after they paid their bill. Wasnt that nice . You would think you wouldnt want that filthy money. They went to the stingray cafe on december 4th. On their way out the Restaurant Owner handed them a letter asking them to reevaluate their lifestyle. See how it hurts everyone around you. How is it hurting everyone around them . Look at everyone around you. Look how theyre suffering because of you. Stephanie p. S. , my daughter was also gay and my grandson. Anyway, they were just holding hands. The negative reviews have been pouring in. Being an upstanding christian you refunded their money right . No. Turns out their money was fun. Their gay money. Stephanie Lance Armstrong will reportedly admit hes dating jodie foster on oprah he will do no such thing. Stephanie im sorry. Admit to doping. What . Is he going to cry . What do you think . He probably will. Stephanie in the interview scheduled to air this thursday on own, he plans to admit to doping throughout his career but will probably not go into great detail. His admission carries with it the risk of being sued or held liable by those he defrauded about lying. Interesting, theyre saying that if he provided assistance to doping officials he could eventually be reinstated. But wouldnt he then be hold and undoped and not competitive . I dont know. Im done with him. Stephanie are you . Have you quit him . I quit him. Stephanie all right. [ world news tonight ] gq interview confirms that beyonce is crazy. Gawker brings us the story. How can so much [ bleep ] crazy be contained . When in one twopage interview this is a question asked by all readers of gq, miss millennium beyonce so you can read immediately and spend the day reflecting on it. Gawker brings us parts of it. In her sleek office suite in midtown, manhattan she maintains a beyonce themed competitor to the library of congress. The archive, a temperature controlled digital Storage Facility contains in addition to every show shes ever performed with thousands of hours of private footage every existing photograph of her starting with the very first frames taken of destinys child. Since 2005, beyonce has employed a visual director who has shot practically her every waking moment for up to 16 hours a day. Thats a reality show, basically. Stephanie she also says i know that yes im powerful. Im more powerful than my mind can even digest. Oh, god. That was sasha fierce talking. [ applause ] stephanie all the Single Ladies wow. Who is the alternate universe . Chris the Country Singer. Help me out here. Stephanie chris. He had Country Singer who had the altar ego. Chris gaines. Yeah. That was you know. Garth brooks. Thank you. Stephanie okay. That was a long way to go for that stephanie wowee. I had to back up and go and get that. Here we go, forward. I didnt need to know this. New report claims twilights Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson have sex seven times a day. Star magazine claims to have heard from a source that the couple has a very active sex life. They like handcuffs blindfolds and feathers. Really . Seven times a day . Wow. With Kristen Stewart . Ouch. Maybe not with him. She was with the other guy. She is a little too sour to have sex. Theyre both so bony. Bones banging together. Stephanie hello michelle in indiana. Caller hello. I was calling because i did some research. A lot of people have been putting on facebook an excerpt from the testimony of the brady bill when they were talking about during the l. A. Riots a gentleman was on his roof and had an Assault Rifle and thats what protected his home. Did i some research on this whole argument of a riot if you have an Assault Rifle it will protect you. Theres been started from the 80s. 22 riots that resulted in 99 deaths. 53 were from the l. A. Riots. 33 from new mexico prison riots. I did the same research as far as Mass Shootings starting from the 80s. 33 Mass Shootings that resulted in 311 deaths. And all of those Mass Shootings involved either Assault Rifles or assault weapons or an extended clip. So the argument that they have as far as assault weapons protecting during a riot, theres more Mass Shootings than riots. Stephanie yep. All right. Thank you for that statistic. Naomi campbell convinced she will always be remembered for her phone throwing tantrum. But hopes to repair her reputation with a reality show. Oh great. Stephanie that ought to do it. She seems so warm. Blackberry too back in the days. Walkietalkies. Stephanie all right. Thats it for us. Well see you tomorrow on the Stephanie Miller show