00:00:45.000And also, the mandatory masks on children is another example of this top-down plunder.
00:00:51.000It's time for us to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.
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00:04:51.000What do masks on children and multi-trillion dollar spending bills that actually don't even say anything in Congress have in common?
00:05:03.000Let's begin today by reminding ourselves the mission statement of the United States government, the nation of the United States, in the preamble to the United States Constitution.
00:05:25.000I bet that there's a good amount of people that can name off the preamble to the United States Constitution, but what does it mean?
00:05:39.000And when we talk about the phrase that starts with we the people in order to form a more perfect union, what does that mean?
00:05:52.000Well, as we go through the preamble, we must understand that there are seven action verbs in the preamble to the United States Constitution.
00:06:05.000One of the goals is to secure the blessings of liberty.
00:06:12.000What they're saying here is that when you are elected in office, when you are in control of the government, you must make sure future generations can enjoy the same sort of transcendent blessings that you yourself can enjoy.
00:06:31.000There's an intergenerational dynamic that the founding fathers were getting at here, that James Madison was getting at.
00:06:39.000In order to secure these blessings, you want to make sure that you are not the only generation that can enjoy them.
00:06:48.000Founding Fathers wrote extensively in the Federalist Papers about how a selfish ruling class can very well disrupt this promise, can interrupt the blessings of liberty.
00:07:09.000Our leaders' first obligation should be leaving the country better than they found it.
00:07:18.000It should be basically being able to hand down a nation to their children and their grandchildren that at least is remotely recognizable.
00:07:29.000When I first started Turning Point USA nine years ago, one of the issues we talked about a lot was our national debt.
00:07:38.000Now, many of you know that, obviously, I'm a supporter of President Trump's.
00:07:42.000One thing that I, If I had to offer one critique, it was how our national debt grew exponentially during the Trump presidency.
00:07:55.000Now, mind you, we had correlated economic growth, but the national debt accelerated beyond anything that we were able to pay for.
00:08:07.000When I first started Turning Point USA, the national debt was $12.7 trillion.
00:08:14.000It is now north of $28.5 trillion, which is a debt per citizen of $85,726, a debt per pact per taxpayer, $227,473.
00:08:38.000We ran a structural deficit in the last year, almost more than all of the money we collected as tax revenue.
00:08:49.000Every dollar we borrow from the federal government has to be repaid in one of three ways.
00:08:56.000You have to cut programming, which will not happen.
00:09:00.000You have to raise taxes, which they're attempting to do, or you can debase your currency.
00:09:06.000You can inflate your way out of the debt, which is what we're living through right now.
00:09:12.000You see, $28 trillion isn't as much if every year the U.S. dollar becomes worth 10% less.
00:09:21.000All of a sudden, that $28 trillion isn't actually the same number as far as the value goes.
00:09:29.000Inflating your way out of debt is the cheap way out, and obviously it comes with massive cost.
00:09:39.000So, just in the last 48 hours, the Center for Disease Control is now saying that every child needs to be masked at schools across the country.
00:09:48.000All the while, our leaders, if you couldn't call them that, the Republican leaders in the United States Senate are negotiating and have allegedly struck a deal for another trillion-dollar spending bill with the Democrats.
00:10:08.000What do those two things have in common?
00:10:13.000Well, put simply, this is a pattern that our ruling class has grown accustomed to of generational theft, robbing from your children to satisfy the present.
00:10:28.000Now, I think having short-term abilities to borrow money for war or for essential government programming in certain emergency circumstances, that could be justified.
00:10:41.000That's nowhere near where we are as a nation.
00:10:44.000Starting after the 2008 housing crisis, which was created largely because of the federal government, by the way, our leaders grew addicted, and so did our financial leaders, by the way, and our Wall Street leaders and the people in the corporate world with cheap money from the federal government, advantageous public policy programs where they could boost their profits,
00:11:12.000expand their portfolios while middle-income workers continually get crushed.
00:11:20.000Leveraging your fiscal situation as a nation to gratify the present and to rob or pillage, plunder, ransack from your children is morally disgraceful.
00:11:34.000And we're going to name the names of every single one of the Republicans here on this program because I felt that we haven't been controversial enough this week on our show that actually went and negotiated with the Democrats to go pass another multi-trillion dollar boondoggle.
00:11:51.000$1 trillion is what they say, but it's going to cost more than that.
00:11:56.000To give Biden a legislative win, to expand our national debt and deficit, all while we have a massive looming debt ceiling fight, and we borrowed more money than we took in last year.
00:12:09.000I want to ask every single one of you a question.
00:12:12.000If your adjusted median income for your family is $100,000, if you borrowed $120,000 last year, would that be a fiscally responsible way to conduct your household income or your household finances?
00:12:32.000This is the way that our government has been operating, and this comes at a cost.
00:12:38.000And the cost is more than higher taxes.
00:12:42.000The cost is also an ever-eroding trust in our political system and its long-term viability.
00:12:50.000In fact, this has national security implications.
00:12:54.000If the U.S. dollar ceases to have value, then all of a sudden our ability to be able to maintain any form of a Western hegemony in our hemisphere starts to disappear.
00:13:11.000Generational theft is occurring of parents ransacking their children's future.
00:13:48.000I'm an Eagle Scout, and I was taught always to leave no trace that the moral thing to do is to leave a campground better than how you found it.
00:13:59.000Leave no trace is this idea that you are going to be thankful and you're going to have gratitude for the beauty and the wonder and the nature around you.
00:14:08.000So when you go to a campground, you are going to find it even better.
00:14:12.000You're going to go find trash that was there before you came.
00:14:17.000I wish Senate Republicans and congressional representation were steeped in the value of leave no trace.
00:14:28.000Leave the nation better than you found it.
00:14:32.000In the preamble to the United States Constitution, secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, capital P. You see, the founding fathers, and James Madison wrote extensively about this, talked about this intergenerational promise.
00:14:51.000Instead, our current leaders are saying the blessings of liberty to ourselves, and they got rid of to our posterity.
00:15:00.000It's tempting and it's easy to want to steal from people who cannot defend themselves.
00:15:18.000They're taking from their spending power.
00:15:20.000They're also taking from their current livelihood in schools.
00:15:24.000And we are going to get into this new mask Nonsense that has come down from the CDC that even public broadcasting, government taxpayer-funded broadcast, PBS, is coming out and starting to ask questions about this.
00:15:42.000But first, I'm not going to go through the Democrats that voted for this infrastructure bill because we already know what team they're on.
00:15:50.000Instead, I'm going to go through the Senate Republicans that have decided in a moment where our borders are wide open, crime is surging, big tech is on the march, that the most important thing they can do is to go negotiate with the other side.
00:16:11.000How often did Democrats negotiate with Republicans when Trump was president?
00:16:16.000You know, Trump wanted to do infrastructure week.
00:16:18.000It's one of the great jokes in like DC circles, kind of DC socialite circles, which again, thankfully I'm not part of.
00:18:08.000And we're going to go through some of the specifics of this, but what could the possible explanation be as we're running a $3 trillion deficit?
00:18:16.000Joe Biden is now taking a legislative win in your face to go vote for these non-specified objectives of infrastructure.
00:18:25.000$7.5 billion to help develop plug-in electric vehicles.
00:18:30.000You think that's going to help oil and natural gas in North Dakota?
00:18:35.000So here's the problem that I have, respectfully, with the two good senators of North Dakota, they're good, voting for this bill.
00:18:42.000The Biden administration just shut down the Keystone XL pipeline and restricting oil and natural gas development, and you go and sue for peace with the Biden administration for electric car vehicles.
00:19:51.000This is what Senate Republicans voted for.
00:19:56.000$21 billion in environmental remediation to address racial disparities in environmental pollution.
00:20:05.000So if you're a white person in West Virginia that might be suffering from some form of an issue because of a coal mine, nope, we're only going to help people of color $21 billion.
00:20:24.000$50 billion in Western water infrastructure for quote, people of color are more likely to live in areas most vulnerable to flooding for climate change-related events.
00:20:39.000$2.5 billion to develop zero-emission buses and $2.5, another $2.5 billion for low-emission buses.
00:22:07.000So we're not spending $66 billion to go fix the fatherlessness crisis.
00:22:11.000We're not spending $66 billion to fix the southern border crisis.
00:22:17.000Just to give you an idea, $7.5 billion would fully fund the southern border wall.
00:22:24.000And yet you have Senate Republicans that are negotiating infrastructure for electric vehicle plug-ins while not funding the border wall.
00:22:35.000If these Republicans actually wanted to represent their voters, and I know some of these guys, I'm going to give some tough love on this, of Blunt, Burke, Moore Capito, Cassidy Crapo, Graham, McConnell, Murkowski, Portman, Risch, Romney, Tillis, Young, Grassley, Hovind, Kramer, Collins, and Mike Rounds from South Dakota signaled that he's going to do it.
00:22:54.000Why wouldn't they say we're not even negotiating until we get 20 billion for the wall?
00:23:23.000They're going to go to some seven-year-old, tap him on the head, and say, You get to pay for my Vanity Project bridge going from, you know, going across Fargo into Minnesota.
00:23:33.000So you can call it the whatever Senate Republican, you know, multi-trillion dollar bridge, whatever.
00:23:39.000Or you can call this Susan Collins gets a ferry at least, okay?
00:23:43.000Susan Collins gets a ferry out of outside of Mount Desert Island.
00:26:44.000Both the senators from Idaho addressed that.
00:26:48.000Here's the cruel reality that I'm about to tell you: that the senators from these states don't actually have to live under the price of illegal immigration because they're not Democrats.
00:27:03.000The sense that they will win reelection because they say they're pro-gun and pro-life.
00:27:09.000They'll win re-election in North Dakota.
00:27:18.000If Democrats wanted the wall, you know how this would work, which, of course, Democrats wouldn't want the wall.
00:27:23.000The only reason the Democrats would want the wall if a bunch of Bulgarians were coming across the southern border, okay?
00:27:28.000If it was a bunch of Cubans and Bulgarians and Lithuanians and Serbs and Macedonians and Croatians, they would want a 50-foot wall and they would say, How dare you bring all these foreigners into America?
00:28:00.000No, we want Hondurans and Nicaraguans, many of whom are very conservative people, but the general moving average is that they vote Democrat and they tend to be used as political pawns for Democrats.
00:28:13.000But if the Democrats wanted a wall, which of course would only happen under the circumstances, they would say, we're not even having lunch with you.
00:28:23.000We're not going to say hello in the hall to you unless the first thing that you get, the first thing that we talk about is our wishlist item.
00:28:35.000And this is exactly what happened in the stimulus bill last year.
00:28:38.000Remember the stimulus bill that I don't think President Trump should have ever signed?
00:28:42.000Where public broadcasting and national public radio received $100 million.
00:28:47.000The Kennedy Center received tens of millions of dollars.
00:28:51.000Every Republican voted for that one too.
00:28:55.000And so as we try to build the conservative movement that can win in the future, why don't we get leaders in Congress that aren't negotiating for the downfall and the decline of their own states and voters?
00:29:10.000And also say, hold on a second, infrastructure, okay?
00:29:13.000Infrastructure usually means things you can touch, right?
00:30:29.000And for whatever reason, this generation of leaders, they care more about their own personal vanity than the well-being of their children.
00:30:40.000There's no doubt in my mind that Americans trust in the media is at an all-time low.
00:30:44.000I mean, when you turn on so-called respected news channels, all you get is propaganda, shameless virtue signaling, and blatant disregard for the truth.
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00:32:36.000This is not left versus right, but it's basically top versus down.
00:32:41.000It's the elite is basically the 1%, the great reset team, and the bottom is the muscular class, the middle class, which is most of our listeners right now.
00:32:51.000So you have this almost intergenerational dynamic happening of the most powerful people that are reaching down and trying to punish and penalize people that actually don't have a voice in this.
00:33:51.000Informed consent should be needed from kids on debt, on the national debt, and masks and the vaccine.
00:33:59.000And instead, we have a ruling class that will be the first generation of leaders to make a series of decisions that will, instead of leave no trace, leave a complete forest fire in the midst.
00:34:15.000And I want to just get to one email that someone said.
00:34:18.000They said, Charlie, what could possibly be the motivation here?
00:34:26.000The answer is that they do not want the criticism or the tough fight.
00:34:31.000The tough fight would be holding the line, like Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Lee and Senator Cruz.
00:34:37.000The tough fight would be to not negotiate over a multi-trillion dollar boondoggle when the debt is suffocating our nation.
00:34:46.000And we as conservatives have to start caring about the debt again.
00:34:50.000We as conservatives have to start talking about the same sort of energy that got behind the Tea Party movement, which is that the fiscal health of our nation is failing, is that we have a fiscal pandemic on our hands as well.
00:35:04.000And the only treatment is to stop negotiating with another multi-trillion dollar bill.
00:35:10.000To give you an idea how big this bill is, this is bigger than the Obama stimulus bill back in 2009 that animated conservatives towards action.
00:35:22.000And only when conservatives and constitutionalists rise up and say we are not going to allow the intergenerational theft to continue, will it stop?
00:35:33.000Challenge the lawmakers that voted for this and demand that we get back to fiscal restraint because we have a debt ceiling fight looming right now that is incredibly important.