The Charlie Kirk Show - Generational Theft Is Infrastructure

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00:00:26.000 What is generational theft?

00:00:29.000 What if I told you that the people in charge are stealing from the next generation?

00:00:35.000 This is best demonstrated by the multi-trillion dollar spending bill coming out of Congress.

00:00:41.000 What Republicans are voting for it and why?

00:00:44.000 We go through that.

00:00:45.000 And also, the mandatory masks on children is another example of this top-down plunder.

00:00:51.000 It's time for us to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

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00:01:46.000 Generational theft.

00:01:47.000 What does it mean?

00:01:48.000 How do we stop it?

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00:04:51.000 What do masks on children and multi-trillion dollar spending bills that actually don't even say anything in Congress have in common?

00:05:03.000 Let'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.

00:05:18.000 It's very important.

00:05:20.000 Many of us talk about this.

00:05:23.000 We say it every so often.

00:05:25.000 I 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?

00:05:39.000 And when we talk about the phrase that starts with we the people in order to form a more perfect union, what does that mean?

00:05:52.000 Well, as we go through the preamble, we must understand that there are seven action verbs in the preamble to the United States Constitution.

00:06:03.000 And there's also goals in mind.

00:06:05.000 One of the goals is to secure the blessings of liberty.

00:06:12.000 What 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.

00:06:31.000 There's an intergenerational dynamic that the founding fathers were getting at here, that James Madison was getting at.

00:06:39.000 In order to secure these blessings, you want to make sure that you are not the only generation that can enjoy them.

00:06:48.000 Founding 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.

00:07:09.000 Our leaders' first obligation should be leaving the country better than they found it.

00:07:18.000 It should be basically being able to hand down a nation to their children and their grandchildren that at least is remotely recognizable.

00:07:29.000 When I first started Turning Point USA nine years ago, one of the issues we talked about a lot was our national debt.

00:07:38.000 Now, many of you know that, obviously, I'm a supporter of President Trump's.

00:07:42.000 One thing that I, If I had to offer one critique, it was how our national debt grew exponentially during the Trump presidency.

00:07:55.000 Now, mind you, we had correlated economic growth, but the national debt accelerated beyond anything that we were able to pay for.

00:08:07.000 When I first started Turning Point USA, the national debt was $12.7 trillion.

00:08:14.000 It is now north of $28.5 trillion, which is a debt per citizen of $85,726, a debt per pact per taxpayer, $227,473.

00:08:35.000 And it's going up every single day.

00:08:38.000 We ran a structural deficit in the last year, almost more than all of the money we collected as tax revenue.

00:08:49.000 Every dollar we borrow from the federal government has to be repaid in one of three ways.

00:08:56.000 You have to cut programming, which will not happen.

00:09:00.000 You have to raise taxes, which they're attempting to do, or you can debase your currency.

00:09:06.000 You can inflate your way out of the debt, which is what we're living through right now.

00:09:12.000 You see, $28 trillion isn't as much if every year the U.S. dollar becomes worth 10% less.

00:09:21.000 All of a sudden, that $28 trillion isn't actually the same number as far as the value goes.

00:09:29.000 Inflating your way out of debt is the cheap way out, and obviously it comes with massive cost.

00:09:39.000 So, 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.

00:09:48.000 All 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.

00:10:08.000 What do those two things have in common?

00:10:13.000 Well, 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.

00:10:28.000 Now, I think having short-term abilities to borrow money for war or for essential government programming in certain emergency circumstances, that could be justified.

00:10:41.000 That's nowhere near where we are as a nation.

00:10:44.000 Starting 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,

00:11:12.000 expand their portfolios while middle-income workers continually get crushed.

00:11:20.000 Leveraging your fiscal situation as a nation to gratify the present and to rob or pillage, plunder, ransack from your children is morally disgraceful.

00:11:34.000 And 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.

00:11:56.000 To 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.

00:12:09.000 I want to ask every single one of you a question.

00:12:12.000 If 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?

00:12:32.000 This is the way that our government has been operating, and this comes at a cost.

00:12:38.000 And the cost is more than higher taxes.

00:12:40.000 It's more than just inflation.

00:12:42.000 The cost is also an ever-eroding trust in our political system and its long-term viability.

00:12:50.000 In fact, this has national security implications.

00:12:54.000 If 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.

00:13:11.000 Generational theft is occurring of parents ransacking their children's future.

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00:13:48.000 I'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.

00:13:59.000 Leave 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.

00:14:08.000 So when you go to a campground, you are going to find it even better.

00:14:12.000 You're going to go find trash that was there before you came.

00:14:17.000 I wish Senate Republicans and congressional representation were steeped in the value of leave no trace. 0.88

00:14:28.000 Leave the nation better than you found it.

00:14:32.000 In 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.

00:14:51.000 Instead, our current leaders are saying the blessings of liberty to ourselves, and they got rid of to our posterity.

00:15:00.000 It's tempting and it's easy to want to steal from people who cannot defend themselves.

00:15:08.000 It's also immoral.

00:15:10.000 Our current leadership is stealing from five, six, and seven-year-olds.

00:15:15.000 They're taking from their future.

00:15:18.000 They're taking from their spending power.

00:15:20.000 They're also taking from their current livelihood in schools.

00:15:24.000 And 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.

00:15:42.000 But 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.

00:15:50.000 Instead, 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.

00:16:11.000 How often did Democrats negotiate with Republicans when Trump was president?

00:16:16.000 You know, Trump wanted to do infrastructure week.

00:16:18.000 It's one of the great jokes in like DC circles, kind of DC socialite circles, which again, thankfully I'm not part of.

00:16:27.000 Oh, it's infrastructure week.

00:16:30.000 And in fact, one New York Times blogger said, it's actually infrastructure week.

00:16:34.000 Trump wanted to get infrastructure done.

00:16:36.000 He wanted to do it right.

00:16:39.000 Now, let me just say this: there is no infrastructure bill.

00:16:42.000 I know this sounds weird.

00:16:43.000 There's no text.

00:16:45.000 It's just kind of a general grocery store list, right?

00:16:48.000 It's just kind of like I'm going to the grocery store, and here's a couple things.

00:16:54.000 So here are the Republicans that decided to vote for the $1.2 trillion bill.

00:17:01.000 Number one, Roy Blunt from Missouri.

00:17:04.000 Number two, Richard Burr from North Carolina.

00:17:07.000 Not a big surprise there.

00:17:08.000 He wants a bridge named after himself as he drives to a lobbying firm he's probably going to work for.

00:17:13.000 Number three, Shelly Moore Capodo.

00:17:15.000 No surprise there.

00:17:16.000 Four, Bill Cassidy.

00:17:18.000 That's a disappointment.

00:17:19.000 Number five, Mike Crapo from Idaho.

00:17:22.000 Really surprising.

00:17:23.000 Number six, Lindsey Graham from South Carolina.

00:17:26.000 He might have thought it might be like a better chance to go invade Iran or something.

00:17:30.000 I don't know.

00:17:30.000 Number seven, Mitch McConnell.

00:17:32.000 No surprise.

00:17:32.000 Number eight, Lisa Murkowski, no surprise.

00:17:34.000 Number nine, Rob Portman from Ohio.

00:17:36.000 No surprise.

00:17:37.000 Number 10, Jim Risch, again from Idaho.

00:17:40.000 Don't quite get that.

00:17:41.000 11, Mitt Romney from Utah.

00:17:43.000 No surprise.

00:17:44.000 12, Tom Tillis.

00:17:45.000 What is that all about?

00:17:46.000 13, Todd Young.

00:17:48.000 14, Chuck Grassley.

00:17:49.000 He gets a pass from me.

00:17:50.000 Okay, I like Chuck.

00:17:51.000 No criticism towards Chuck.

00:17:52.000 Seriously.

00:17:53.000 15, John Hoven from North Dakota.

00:17:56.000 16, Kevin Kramer.

00:17:58.000 He will be hearing from me.

00:17:59.000 I'm going to ask for his explanation.

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00:18:05.000 17, Susan Collins.

00:18:07.000 No surprise.

00:18:08.000 And 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?

00:18:16.000 Joe 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.

00:18:30.000 You think that's going to help oil and natural gas in North Dakota?

00:18:35.000 So here's the problem that I have, respectfully, with the two good senators of North Dakota, they're good, voting for this bill.

00:18:42.000 The 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.

00:18:52.000 Something's wrong with that equation.

00:18:55.000 So this is what they voted for.

00:18:57.000 And this is, it's not even a legislative text.

00:18:59.000 It's kind of just like a suggestion list.

00:19:01.000 It literally doesn't exist.

00:19:04.000 $73 billion for clean energy transmission.

00:19:08.000 Oh, this is why Nancy Pelosi bought Tesla stock. 0.94

00:19:14.000 This is why Nancy Pelosi's husband went all in on green energy stocks.

00:19:18.000 You see, someone asked me, he said, Charlie, where should I invest my money?

00:19:23.000 I said, it's very simple.

00:19:25.000 Go look at Nancy Pelosi's insider trading disclosures and just buy the same stock she buys.

00:19:32.000 She will make sure that public policy makes herself richer. 1.00

00:19:37.000 If she dumps stock, you dump stock.

00:19:39.000 If she buys stock, you buy stock.

00:19:42.000 She knows exactly where this is going.

00:19:46.000 $21 billion.

00:19:49.000 This is unbelievable.

00:19:51.000 This is what Senate Republicans voted for.

00:19:56.000 $21 billion in environmental remediation to address racial disparities in environmental pollution.

00:20:05.000 So 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.

00:20:22.000 $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.

00:20:50.000 $2.5 billion for ferries.

00:20:53.000 Okay.

00:20:56.000 $7.5 billion to help develop plug-ins for electric vehicles.

00:21:01.000 So North Dakota, both their senators voted for this boondoggle.

00:21:09.000 And the two are make sure I get the names right.

00:21:18.000 John Hovind and Kevin Kramer.

00:21:22.000 So to plug in for electric vehicles, North Dakota has one of the greatest deposits for oil and natural gas in the entire country.

00:21:40.000 It's called the Bakken Basin.

00:21:44.000 The Permian Basin's in Texas and the Marcellus is in Pennsylvania and New York.

00:21:48.000 How could investing more money in electric vehicles be representing the voters of North Dakota?

00:21:53.000 Maybe I'm missing something.

00:21:56.000 $66 billion.

00:21:58.000 That's right.

00:21:59.000 You heard that.

00:21:59.000 $66 billion to invest to address Amtrak's maintenance backlog.

00:22:05.000 $66 billion.

00:22:07.000 So we're not spending $66 billion to go fix the fatherlessness crisis.

00:22:11.000 We're not spending $66 billion to fix the southern border crisis.

00:22:17.000 Just to give you an idea, $7.5 billion would fully fund the southern border wall.

00:22:24.000 And yet you have Senate Republicans that are negotiating infrastructure for electric vehicle plug-ins while not funding the border wall.

00:22:35.000 If 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.

00:22:54.000 Why wouldn't they say we're not even negotiating until we get 20 billion for the wall?

00:22:57.000 Thanks for shopping.

00:23:00.000 Do they all want like bizarre, weird bridges named after them or something?

00:23:06.000 And who, again, the obvious question that I hear in cable television, it always bothers me.

00:23:12.000 How are we going to pay for it?

00:23:14.000 They're never going to answer that question.

00:23:15.000 Okay.

00:23:15.000 The question is, should they be doing it in the first place, even if they had the money to do it?

00:23:19.000 But I think that question actually deserves being asked.

00:23:21.000 How are they?

00:23:22.000 They're not going to pay for this.

00:23:23.000 They'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.

00:23:33.000 So you can call it the whatever Senate Republican, you know, multi-trillion dollar bridge, whatever.

00:23:39.000 Or you can call this Susan Collins gets a ferry at least, okay?

00:23:43.000 Susan Collins gets a ferry out of outside of Mount Desert Island.

00:23:49.000 So $0 going for the wall.

00:23:52.000 I don't see anything for the Southern board.

00:23:54.000 So you have an infrastructure package on top of a $3.5 trillion package that's being passed, and zero dollars going for the wall.

00:24:03.000 Why are Republicans always betraying their voters?

00:24:09.000 There's a reason for this.

00:24:11.000 It's hard to do what Rand Paul is doing.

00:24:16.000 It's hard to do what Ron Johnson is doing.

00:24:18.000 By the way, God bless Ron Johnson.

00:24:20.000 I love that guy.

00:24:21.000 I'm going to do whatever I possibly can to get Ron Johnson re-elected.

00:24:24.000 Seriously, he's on my list of, I'm going all in.

00:24:27.000 I love that guy.

00:24:29.000 In the last six months, he has demonstrated courage and clarity, leadership, integrity.

00:24:37.000 He's been phenomenal on every single issue I can think of.

00:24:41.000 But you're going to get hit piece after hit piece.

00:24:44.000 You're going to get reporters on you.

00:24:46.000 You are going to get investigated.

00:24:49.000 It's so difficult to hold the line as a Republican, a conservative, because the media incentive structure is so terrible.

00:24:57.000 If you go along with the other side and if you try to sound reasonable, they'll keep on platforming you.

00:25:06.000 You'll be able to go on television.

00:25:07.000 The lobbyists will donate to you.

00:25:10.000 You'll be able to get a bridge named after you.

00:25:13.000 You'll be able to hire by some public relations firm to go lobby for some foreign country the last 10 years of your life.

00:25:21.000 Controlled opposition as Republicans is the least resistance path.

00:25:27.000 It's easier, but it's not courageous.

00:25:32.000 It's not brave.

00:25:35.000 We have, according to Tucker Carlson, we are on pace to have 1.8 million illegals cross into our border this year.

00:25:46.000 You see, I got to be so specific.

00:25:48.000 And if I get a comma wrong, fact check, take him off of social media, worst person ever, destruction to humanity.

00:25:55.000 All these sorts of things.

00:25:57.000 Yeah, and we're the ones that are trying to restrict freedom of speech, right?

00:26:01.000 Okay, yahoo.com.

00:26:04.000 1.8 million people coming into our country.

00:26:09.000 1.8 million.

00:26:10.000 That's according to Yahoo.com.

00:26:12.000 So we're all on the same page here.

00:26:12.000 Okay.

00:26:15.000 And you have Republicans that are voting for a bill for $66 billion to address Amtrak's maintenance backlog.

00:26:27.000 $73 billion for clean energy transmissions.

00:26:32.000 $21 billion in environmental remediation.

00:26:35.000 How does that represent the voters exactly of North Dakota?

00:26:40.000 When both senators, how about Idaho?

00:26:42.000 Idaho's a great state.

00:26:44.000 Both the senators from Idaho addressed that.

00:26:48.000 Here'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.

00:27:03.000 The sense that they will win reelection because they say they're pro-gun and pro-life.

00:27:09.000 They'll win re-election in North Dakota.

00:27:11.000 That's it.

00:27:12.000 Just check the box, even if you go negotiate with the other side.

00:27:17.000 You know how this would work?

00:27:18.000 If Democrats wanted the wall, you know how this would work, which, of course, Democrats wouldn't want the wall.

00:27:23.000 The only reason the Democrats would want the wall if a bunch of Bulgarians were coming across the southern border, okay? 1.00

00:27:28.000 If 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? 1.00

00:27:41.000 Just to be perfectly honest, right?

00:27:44.000 Because those people, having lived under communism, tend to be very conservative.

00:27:48.000 I said Cubans. 0.85

00:27:51.000 By the way, we should put a bill in that says that we should re-domicile 2 million Eastern Europeans and Cubans. 0.93

00:27:58.000 Democrats would lose their mind.

00:28:00.000 No, 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.

00:28:11.000 That's just the statistical average.

00:28:13.000 But 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.

00:28:22.000 We're not even opening our mouth.

00:28:23.000 We'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.

00:28:35.000 And this is exactly what happened in the stimulus bill last year.

00:28:38.000 Remember the stimulus bill that I don't think President Trump should have ever signed?

00:28:42.000 Where public broadcasting and national public radio received $100 million.

00:28:47.000 The Kennedy Center received tens of millions of dollars.

00:28:51.000 Every Republican voted for that one too.

00:28:55.000 And 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?

00:29:10.000 And also say, hold on a second, infrastructure, okay?

00:29:13.000 Infrastructure usually means things you can touch, right?

00:29:16.000 That's probably a fair thing.

00:29:19.000 Well, what could be a better infrastructure item than southern border security?

00:29:24.000 I was just in New Mexico.

00:29:27.000 I could tell you right now, they are feeling the price of illegal immigration.

00:29:32.000 Those Democrat senators, they don't care.

00:29:34.000 They'd rather have some bridge or underground tunnel in Albuquerque named after them.

00:29:41.000 And this goes to this broader question of why are our leaders betraying, and I use that word betraying a couple times.

00:29:52.000 They are turning their back on.

00:29:54.000 They are disobeying.

00:29:55.000 They are gravitating against, away from the promise that is put in the preamble to the Constitution.

00:30:04.000 Secure the blessings of liberties to ourselves and our posterity.

00:30:09.000 Every Senate Republican should put on the top of their mission statement of what they do, what they do.

00:30:17.000 We want to put our children first.

00:30:19.000 We want to leave no trace and leave a better country for ourselves and our children.

00:30:23.000 That's what our founders did.

00:30:25.000 That is what Lincoln did.

00:30:27.000 That is what Eisenhower did.

00:30:29.000 And for whatever reason, this generation of leaders, they care more about their own personal vanity than the well-being of their children.

00:30:40.000 There's no doubt in my mind that Americans trust in the media is at an all-time low.

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00:31:59.000 People are not happy with these senators that are voting for these bills.

00:32:02.000 That's for sure.

00:32:03.000 That's the consensus that we're getting, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:07.000 And again, the fiscal health of our country is failing.

00:32:12.000 We talk a lot about public health recently.

00:32:15.000 Public health has become the new focus of our government.

00:32:18.000 What about fiscal health?

00:32:20.000 What about our ability to pay our debts and to have a stable currency?

00:32:25.000 We know you cannot print wealth.

00:32:27.000 That is an obvious economic truth.

00:32:31.000 And this is not a Republican or a Democrat issue.

00:32:33.000 This is a math and a reality issue.

00:32:36.000 This is not left versus right, but it's basically top versus down.

00:32:41.000 It'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.

00:32:51.000 So 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.

00:33:06.000 Someone sent us an email.

00:33:07.000 They said, Charlie, we need baseline budgeting again in the United States Congress.

00:33:12.000 I totally agree.

00:33:14.000 Baseline budgeting is a solution to be able to fix a lot of this.

00:33:20.000 You know that our government does not baseline budget every single year.

00:33:24.000 That our government does not start from zero.

00:33:28.000 Instead, they budget based on what started last year.

00:33:33.000 It's called baseline budgeting.

00:33:36.000 Got to get rid of it.

00:33:37.000 We got to have to have zero-based budgeting, is what I meant to say.

00:33:40.000 Zero-based budgeting.

00:33:42.000 Now, what does the forced masks and the national debt have in common?

00:33:48.000 Informed consent.

00:33:51.000 Informed consent should be needed from kids on debt, on the national debt, and masks and the vaccine.

00:33:59.000 And 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.

00:34:15.000 And I want to just get to one email that someone said.

00:34:18.000 They said, Charlie, what could possibly be the motivation here?

00:34:23.000 Why are our leaders doing this?

00:34:26.000 The answer is that they do not want the criticism or the tough fight.

00:34:31.000 The tough fight would be holding the line, like Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Lee and Senator Cruz.

00:34:37.000 The tough fight would be to not negotiate over a multi-trillion dollar boondoggle when the debt is suffocating our nation.

00:34:46.000 And we as conservatives have to start caring about the debt again.

00:34:50.000 We 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.

00:35:04.000 And the only treatment is to stop negotiating with another multi-trillion dollar bill.

00:35:10.000 To 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.

00:35:19.000 The nation is on fragile footing.

00:35:22.000 And only when conservatives and constitutionalists rise up and say we are not going to allow the intergenerational theft to continue, will it stop? 0.69

00:35:33.000 Challenge 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.

00:35:45.000 Thanks so much for listening.

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The Charlie Kirk Show - July 29, 2021

Generational Theft Is Infrastructure

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