We Now Owe Greece Because Of Their Unions - Makes Sense Don't It

I don’t share the intuition or the instinctive move that some of you do that violence is ahead(although alot of you people do), that the way – that things are going to devolve to the point where there’s going to be shooting. I just, I think that the situation, and because of the amount of people and the geographic area that is concerned here, is just too large for that. I mean, we’re aware, and don’t take this wrong, you people, you’re going to go out there and go, we’re a bunch of socialists. We’re a bunch of soviets.” We’re where the soviet republics were in the late 1980s, struggling and grappling with the end of communism and struggling and grappling with what was called “perestroika” at the time, what direction did the soviet republics, which are filled with people that are not communists, they never wanted to be communists, they were forced into being communists.

And what did the soviet republics do people? And there was no shots fired. Gorbachev didn’t try and stop them when they began seceding out of the Soviet Union, just said the heck with this, no more, we’re going to make our own laws. You don’t run us anymore. You know, point your nukes somewhere else, we’re done with you. And I think that that is really the direction that reasonable individuals in this union ought to be looking. The utility, the utility of the union that once was is an anchor around many people’s necks because the parasite class and the government class has expanded to the point to where an honest man cannot make an honest wage and get ahead in his life because so much of it is taken from him. And so many rules are put on him in that endeavor. I mean, we’re being sold to the Third World and to big global banks at some levels.

Matter of fact, I got a story here today, Senator Jim DeMint, did you know this, says that part of the Greek bailout is going to be paid by U.S. taxpayers(80 billion). Did you go to work this morning, Bart, thinking that an hour of your labor was going to be given to some Grecian hack over there who’s demanding his pension be honored? We’re where the soviets were. And the soviets – imagine this. We’re Americans. We’re supposed to be the beacons of liberty. And we’re sitting here telling people, oh, no, you’re a slave to this union forever, bucko. Get used to it. And the people that were actual slaves, military slaves to a union, the soviet republics, said no, we’re not slaves, and they got out of it. We have this backwards, don’t we?

There’s two concepts that are at war here really. One is that people are idiots. People are, by and large, lazy, shiftless fools and idiots. And because they are idiots, we must not allow the idiots to live in the conditions that they themselves create for themselves. We must do everything in our power, because we’re not idiots, to mitigate their own influence on their own lives. And so to do that, since we’ve given up on charity, we have to have these things called governments. And government has to take wealth and transfer it from the people that aren’t idiots to the idiot class.

The scam is, is that the idiots are being confiscated from, and their wealth is being transferred to the elite, to the smart class. The wealth transfers happen in reverse. We keep hearing about wealth transfers. Well, where’s the wealth going to? It’s not just going to the recipient class. It’s also going to Mr. Goldman and Mr. Sachs. It is also going to Mr. Blankfein. It is also going to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. These people aren’t poor. They live in bigger houses than you do. It’s also going to people that are running around, working at these things called think tanks, working at various government agencies doing nothing other than harassing people. Do they live in Section 8 housing? No, they live in nicer houses than most of us do.

And the other, the competing, and the philosophy that ought to hold sway, that held sway for Mr. Jefferson and for the founding generation, was that that centralization is the bane of human existence. It has created war, wreaked havoc, and made people slaves for all of recorded history. We had that one little sliver in there from the founding of Jamestown all the way up until, say, the mid-1930s or so, where men and women on this continent, by and large – don’t call me up about slavery – were by and large masters of their own destinies and were free. You can argue about how free they were or what governments did or did not do. But by and large they were free.

And when I say it’s a sliver, I mean, we have 8,000 years of recorded history, so 300 years is a sliver. Small fraction of it. In the last 70 years we have lived under the opposite of the way that our forefathers lived. And there are some people that are content with that. And yet they parade themselves around as conservatives. And I always want to ask them the question, what exactly are you trying to conserve? And is it those big alabaster-clad pillared buildings in Washington, D.C.? You know how many people think that it’s a great tourist destination to go see the pillars and the monuments that government has erected to itself in Washington? Do you realize how sick that is? Think about that for, oh, I want to go to D.C. for vacation this year. I want to go see this. Other than the Jefferson Memorial, there’s really not much to see, than the museum that was erected by, oh, what was his name, oh, I’ve got a brain spasm. He was the treasury secretary for three presidents. Carnegie, Andrew Carnegie. Not Andrew Carnegie. Oh, man. It’ll come to me in a minute. Anyways, there’s a – he built a museum to compete with Roosevelt’s government-funded museum. And I can’t think of his name to save my life. But that museum is still there.

But think about that concept. Do you think George Washington would want that obelisk at the end of the Mall there in his honor? He’d puke on it. He’d retch. He’d go, like, you need to tear that – first thing we’re going to do is tear that down. So we have a view that government is good instead of a view that government is necessary. There’s a difference. Government is necessary. But is it good? Well, our founders didn’t believe that it was good, and they did everything in their power to mitigate what it could do to you and what it could do to me. This is why you’ll see throughout the writings of the founding generation, just look at the Preamble. We the People, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, provide for the common defense, ensure domestic tranquility, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and who? – our posterity – do ordain and establish this Constitution. They looked forward and future.

And the reason there is a written Constitution was because – is and was because it was an attempt to limit what government could do because history demonstrated, all history, that’s Helvetic history, that’s Roman history, that’s Greek history, that’s Egyptian history, that’s all the history of the Middle Ages, that’s European history, all history demonstrated governments were not to be trusted. And only when people were free to make their own decisions and to interact among themselves in an ordered society with a limited government was there true freedom and liberty. And yet today we sit here and we think that, oh, we can manage our government, though. Yeah, we can send Gingrich up there, and Romney, and they’ll manage it for us [raspberry]. Your friends and neighbors believe this, ladies and gentlemen. And as long as they do, then you will always go to work, and you will always slave at their behest. I say take the founders’ red pill and reject the whole damn thing. “Oh, we’re going to have a fair and balanced debate. This guy’s a conservative, and that girl’s a liberal.” What the hell is a liberal anymore? How do we even know?