00:00:55.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:01.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:04:01.000I got my political start actually in this very studio that I'm broadcasting from, AM 560 The Answer here in Chicago, primarily talking about the danger of big government, deficit spending, how Obama was going to borrow from future generations.
00:04:24.000He was going to bankrupt our country, kick the can down the road.
00:04:29.000When Barack Obama took office, the national debt was roughly $7 to $8 trillion.
00:04:46.000We have sold our sovereignty, sold our future out to foreign nations and out to inflated dollars.
00:04:55.000In the last one year, we have borrowed $3 trillion, $3.1 trillion.
00:05:10.000And now Congress is set to borrow another $1.9 trillion on top of the $4.4 trillion federal budget every single year.
00:05:22.000I read from Politico playbook, and that's trillion with a T. Congress is about to pass, and President Joe Biden is about to sign into law the greatest expansion of the welfare state since Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:05:43.000Lyndon Baines Johnson, a racist president who actually became a United States senator largely because of election shenanigans in Jones Wells County, Texas,
00:05:58.000one of the most corrupt, morally questionable politicians in American history who addicted tens of millions of people to government welfare and dependency through his great society program.
00:06:17.000The bill extends far beyond stimulus payments and unemployment benefits that have received most of the attention.
00:06:24.000It would expand the child tax credit and earned income tax credit, provide more generous support for child care expenses, and bolster Obamacare to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
00:06:36.000The government expansion is so broad that the Washington Post, reflecting the sensibility of most liberals, says it augurs, quote, seismic shifts in United States politics because the pandemic made Americans more pro-big government and more anti-austerity, perhaps permanently.
00:06:57.000Politico continues by saying, meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal editorial page a little late to the fight decries, quote, the COVID welfare state and warns that the $1.9 trillion Democrat bill provides a guaranteed income unlinked to work.
00:07:17.000We already have tens of millions of people that are government dependent, that are taxpayer dependent.
00:07:28.000But this bill is so massive, it is so all-encompassing, it's hard to even comprehend the enormity of it.
00:07:41.000Now, when I go through this piece by piece, more generous support for child care expenses and the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit, that is a small part of the bill and one that I don't necessarily philosophically oppose.
00:07:55.000I think we should be unafraid to tell people to have more children and make it financially easier to have children in our country.
00:08:02.000We are on the verge of a population collapse.
00:08:04.000We are on the verge of having 500,000 less children this year than last year.
00:08:11.000And insofar we can make it economically easier to have children and not go to Planned Parenthood, but instead have another one or two kids, fine.
00:08:21.000Some conservatives disagree with that.
00:08:23.000I think that the family is the most proven institution in American history, but that is not what this bill is about.
00:08:33.000A majority of the bill is about direct cash payments, bailouts for Democrat states that don't need it.
00:08:40.000Meanwhile, California is running a surplus.
00:08:42.000You might say, how can California possibly be running a surplus?
00:08:48.000California is running a surplus because the Zoom and Skype economy has enriched Menlo Park like never before.
00:09:01.000Politico continues: As the bill moves through the House for a final vote this week, two big questions are on our minds: How did Democrats win this fight over welfare while barely firing a shot?
00:09:18.000The main reason why Democrats have won this with very little to any resistance is that most Americans would rather be taken care of than be free.
00:09:36.000It's a difficult thing to talk about, but the idea of self-reliance, saving money, being independent, being free of taxpayer assistance is losing popularity.
00:09:56.000Now, this bill will also send direct payments to the Parkland shooter, the Boston bomber, Dylan Roof from South Carolina.
00:10:08.000They're eligible for $1,400 checks from prison.
00:10:14.000This is according to our producer, and so Media Matters.
00:10:17.000If I'm misstating this, you can blame him.
00:10:19.000Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton did mention it.
00:10:24.000I only say that because last week we got entangled in this whole thing about voting and all that, but I believe this to be true.
00:10:30.000Two senators have tweeted about it: Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton.
00:10:33.000What are the Democrats' true intentions here?
00:10:37.000I have a contrarian theory here of why the Democrats actually want to spend so much money we don't have, inflate our currency, and indebt our nation.
00:10:49.000Because there is only a few solutions when you go this path.
00:10:54.000And one of those solutions benefits Democrats directly.
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00:12:31.000FDR started massive Great Depression welfare programs that did not reduce poverty, that did not get us out of the Great Depression.
00:12:39.000World War II got us out of the Great Depression.
00:12:41.000Massive manufacturing investment pent-up demand post-war and almost no world competitors allowed the 1950s to be a time of peace and prosperity.
00:12:52.000Lyndon Baines Johnson got the Civil Rights Act passed and in return wanted a massive increase in the social welfare state.
00:13:00.000We have spent over $15 trillion on the war on poverty and poverty has won.
00:13:06.000The federal government will spend over $700 billion a year to fight poverty every single year.
00:13:13.000State and local governments spend about $350 billion a year.
00:13:19.000That amounts to, on average, over $61,000 per poor family a year of three gets spent already.
00:13:29.000That's without any additional assistance.
00:13:33.000That's without any of the multi-trillion dollar Chinese coronavirus relief packages that we have passed in the last year.
00:13:40.000And we passed two of them of PPP money, of direct cash payments, of $75 million for the Kennedy Center, of $50 million to NPR, it might be $70 million to NPR.
00:13:55.000And what's not reported in the media is that if you get SNAP or if you get food stamp assistance, if you are on welfare, which is a form of just direct cash payments, or if you are in government taxpayer-supported housing, none of that was changed during the virus.
00:14:14.000You are still receiving your taxpayer-funded benefits.
00:14:18.000However, politicians who are fast to spend money they do not have to recklessly endanger future generations spent a trillion dollars plus back last spring of which we opposed another trillion back in December of which we opposed.
00:14:38.000And now they want to spend another one point nine trillion dollars on top of the four point four trillion, despite over a trillion dollars back in December that was not spent.
00:14:49.000Now, you want me to prove to you just linguistically that we're already living through inflation?
00:14:57.000If you have become desensitized to the term trillion, inflation is already here.
00:15:05.000If $1 trillion becomes something that you throw around without any sort of reservation, inflation is here.
00:15:16.000And I am of the opinion that the way that we calculate inflation is completely and totally inaccurate.
00:15:23.000Things that really drive working families into debt, medical debt, education, they have been going up well past the publicized rate of inflation.
00:15:37.000But there is a sinister reason and a cynical reason and a political reason why the Democrats are doing this.
00:15:49.000There is a question, why are Republicans not even going to the motions opposing this?
00:15:57.000After January 6th, Democrats have been on offense and Republicans have been on defense.
00:16:07.000And a lot of Republicans have felt shy in opposing.
00:16:12.000They have felt paralyzed in mobilizing any sort of public displays of opposition.
00:16:19.000You understand under regular political circumstances, if January the 6th did not happen the way it did, there would be hundreds of thousands of people in the streets peacefully opposing this multi-trillion dollar stimulus bill.
00:16:36.000Cash payments to the Boston bomber and the Parkland shooter, $1,400.
00:16:43.000Bailouts to blue states, which basically is a penalty to states like Florida and Tennessee.
00:16:51.000But there is a multi-generational play that the Democrats are making here.
00:17:00.000Look, you've heard me talk about MyPillow.
00:17:01.000And if you want to support Mike Lindell, do it through MyPillow.
00:17:05.000And a lot of people are saying it's literally changing their life.
00:17:08.000They won't go flat, and you could wash and dry them as many times.
00:17:11.000But all that aside, Mike Lindell, a lot of you are asking me, how do I support Mike Lindell?
00:18:01.000The crisis is not the crisis of the virus.
00:18:05.000The virus is a separate problem that therapeutics, social distancing, people acting with their own agency and liberty and taking the virus seriously of how it impact their own livelihood was something we understood since May of last year.
00:18:25.000And Florida opened restaurants in May of last year and never closed them again.
00:18:29.000They had schools open, and they have the lowest rates per capita in the entire region and some of the lowest in the entire country with the second oldest population in the country.
00:18:42.000The crisis is not a crisis of the disease, Politico.
00:19:29.000The fact that Republicans did not fight on the prior stimulus or at least making it more targeted or doing it in bite-sized form absolutely made this bill easier to pass.
00:19:42.000But Biden's opposition was distracted by internal divisions.
00:19:46.000January 6th, impeachment, McCarthy versus Cheney, Trump versus McConnell, and the conservative media was distracted by juicier fare than tax policy.
00:19:56.000I think they're wrong with their description of this being a crisis of the disease.
00:19:59.000It's a crisis of our own making of the lockdowns.
00:20:01.000But I think Politico actually makes some two very good points here.
00:20:05.000So I'm going to build that out, but I want to complete the point that I teased with in the last two segments, which is why are Democrats doing this?
00:21:11.000America played with inflation back in the late 70s under Jimmy Carter, where we famously had stagflation, low economic growth, and very high inflation.
00:21:24.000As a response, you must adjust interest rates.
00:21:53.000Inflation was so bad that in certain parts of the country, when you went and bought, let's say, a bag of fertilizer that would sit on the shelf for a month and a half, it had a longer shelf life.
00:22:06.000There would be five or six prices written on the side of the bag of fertilizer that were crossed off.
00:22:14.000Prices were changing so quickly that when you would go to a Home Depot or the equivalent of such back in the 1970s and you bought a bag of fertilizer, there would be six numbers listed and five of them crossed out because the price of fertilizer or the money supply was increasing so dramatically to keep up with it for the Home Depot or the equivalent to make money, they had to keep on crossing off the prices.
00:23:41.000And no, that doesn't mean that the Democrats are going to go on a big plan saying that we want to limit abortions and we want to expand family creation.
00:23:54.000Instead, the multi-trillion dollar push that Democrats are making right now justifies, in their mind, a loose, open, and porous southern border.
00:24:10.000They are going to make an economic argument very soon, and you heard it here first, and Senator Dick Durbin will do this.
00:24:19.000And no one's talking about this, and how they will keep inflation in check if we just allow another 5 million people from Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and El Salvador to come in our country.
00:24:30.000You might say, how is that going to keep inflation in check?
00:24:32.000The more people that are trading with dollars, all of a sudden it dilutes the potential money velocity.
00:24:44.000So you have 330 million people that are trading with dollars and 335 million people that are trading with dollars.
00:24:54.000Basic supply and demand will tell you that that should keep inflation at least a little bit in check.
00:25:00.000Now, of course, what they're not talking about is, will those 5 million new people be consumers, producers, or takers?
00:25:11.000Studies show that more times than not, they will go on government dependency and they will take low-wage work.
00:25:17.000And this is where the corporate class comes in.
00:25:20.000This is why the Chamber of Commerce is thrilled to see a $2 trillion stimulus bill.
00:25:27.000Because the Chamber, and this is the way that we have reconfigured our economy, is that almost all, and this is why I think we're on the verge of a very, very dangerous economic trend where almost all of our value is in highly speculative app development,
00:25:43.000Silicon Valley and Menlo Park-based technology pipe dreams and consumer-driven push-delivery services.
00:26:00.000And very little of our economy is in hardware production development.
00:26:06.000President Trump famously hit a nerve when he talked about this, when he talked about reinvigorating a manufacturing class, and he was exactly right.
00:26:15.000If you are not making physical stuff as at least a part of your economic pie, then you are nothing more than participating in a massive labor arbitrage.
00:26:27.000So let's say we bring in 5 million people from Honduras, El Salvador, and Mexico in the next year.
00:26:37.000Why does the Chamber of Commerce want that?
00:26:40.000Well, first of all, wages don't have to go up.
00:26:45.000What better way to keep inflation in check by having 5 million people who are willing to keep a black worker in Philadelphia or a blue-collar worker in Erie, Pennsylvania from getting $35 an hour, and instead, someone who is willing to cut the wages, therefore keep us against inflation.
00:27:13.000That's the wrong way to prevent against inflation.
00:27:16.000Wage growth is a healthy price index increase.
00:27:22.000It's how middle-class families are able to get ahead.
00:27:26.000So instead, we have the worst possible pressure.
00:27:46.000Short-lived, obviously, because of our self-induced worst mistake in the history of Western society, lockdown.
00:27:54.000But the Democrats are now saying, we'll spend a bunch of money we do not have, which will be a massive bailout to the blue states.
00:28:03.000All of our crony donors are going to be very happy.
00:28:06.000All of our corporate interests are going to be thrilled.
00:28:09.000All of the blue states that we represent, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, are going to get the money they need, Illinois, especially, to subsidize their unsustainable pension model, which is a gift to the public sector teacher unions, the SCIU, and APSCAMI.
00:28:27.000And then all of the potential downside can be solved by their actual pipe dream, which is the southern border is nothing more than a suggestion, and we must bring in millions of people a year because we have all these problems.
00:28:47.000The only way to solve it is with a steady stream of foreigners coming into America.
00:29:58.000We are living through the most massive increase of a welfare state in our country since Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:30:06.000Multiply bigger, exponentially bigger is the better way to say that, than anything that Obama even tried to do.
00:30:15.000And yet, where we are is we have a Republican Party that is sort of indifferent to the idea of spending all of this money, at least go through the motions of trying to oppose this.
00:30:34.000Now, the counter argument that is made, and I spent some time with some members of Congress recently, is that, well, they're not even passing this through committees.
00:30:46.000And there is some truth to that, by the way.
00:30:49.000Where the conservative think tanks have gone wrong is they think that we're still in a policy debate.
00:30:54.000They think that this is some form of a Socratic seminar where you can present your arguments and the best ideas will win, or the Democrats will give you some form of a platform to air your grievances.
00:31:32.000The Democrats know they're going to lose in 2022 unless they change the rules of the game so dramatically that they think they're never going to lose again.
00:31:45.000That's what this stimulus is all about.
00:31:47.000That's what every single piece of legislation is.
00:31:50.000They're trying to cement all of their priorities and power permanently, turn the entire country into the state of Oregon, California, where there really isn't much of a contest when it comes to elections.
00:32:05.000The Democrats know under normal and regular circumstances, they are going to lose big in 2022.
00:32:26.000We are going to set the table in a way that will basically say you must have permanently opened borders.
00:32:37.000We are not going to allow anything but mail-in voting and automatic registration for every single human being out there.
00:32:46.000Go through the Bureau of Prisons, go through the DMV, register everyone to vote.
00:32:52.000And if you dare challenge it, we're going to get in your way.
00:32:58.000And so the Republicans are really nowhere to be found.
00:33:07.000And this is a great opportunity, in my personal opinion, for Donald Trump to hit the road now.
00:33:15.000I believe this is a great opportunity for Donald Trump to start doing public rallies again.
00:33:23.000The leaders in Congress have demonstrated they cannot command any form of a stable media narrative in the midst of this Democrat power grab.
00:33:36.000I know a lot of people have Trump fatigue.
00:33:38.000I know a lot of people are tired of seeing and hearing him.
00:33:42.000I thought his CPAC speech was excellent.
00:33:46.000He's all we got right now to reinvigorate the American grassroots against this unprecedented power grab of HR1, HR5 stimulus.
00:33:56.000He has got to get back on the road now.
00:34:17.000The best thing we can do is get Donald Trump back on the road to be a foil to this Leviathan of a Democrat Party, this power grab like we've never seen before.
00:34:32.000If he hits the road, he could stop a lot of this because the Democrats are currently going unchallenged.