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And so the government comes in as the great equalizer. The government comes in as the great playmaker that\u2019s going to make sure nobody gets hurt, nobody suffers, nobody has hurt feelings or whatever. You know, it\u2019s not life. It\u2019s not realistic. And it just deadens people, creates a bunch of walking zombies. You want to see liberalism on parade, take a vacation to San Francisco. They\u2019ve got a homeless out there they haven\u2019t been able to fix for decades. They\u2019ve been working on it every day. They\u2019ve got a new plan every month. Every plan makes it worse. The place has become a magnet for the homeless. It\u2019s outrageous. It\u2019s one of the most beautiful cities in the country. <\/line><\/a>The people running the city haven\u2019t the slightest idea how to fix it, but they assault it based on what their opinion of capitalism and the free market is, and all it does is exacerbate the problem. And they spend more state money, they spend more city money, they spend more federal money trying to fix the problem. And note: It never gets fixed. Because they can\u2019t fix anything. Government is not part of the solution. Government is the problem. This is not hatred of government speaking, by the way. I\u2019m simply giving you a realistic assessment. Look, it\u2019s no more complicated than this. You live somewhere – small town, large town, rural, urban, whatever.<\/line>Just go to where you live, pick any neighborhood, pick any part of town, and you go to where the people in that part of town are largely dependent on the state government, the city government, the federal government, and then go to that part of town where the people who live there aren\u2019t, and you tell me which you\u2019d rather be. And you tell me who\u2019s doing the best. And I\u2019m not just talking about in money terms. I\u2019m not talking about purely financial measuring sticks here. I\u2019m talking about all facets of the quality of life and how we measure it. <\/line>You go to any part of these towns, and you\u2019ll find who the dependent class is. And the sad thing is, in many cases, it\u2019s not their fault. They were exposed to it when they were born; they\u2019ve never known anything else. And they are not exposed to anything else because it\u2019s thought they can\u2019t deal with it. And it\u2019s as ridiculous as some people saying, “The Iraqi people may not be ready for freedom,” or “the Soviet Union may not be ready for freedom.” Well, screw that. Everybody is ready for freedom. It\u2019s how everybody is born. It\u2019s amazing. <\/line><\/p>\n

You know, liberals are constantly amazed how well people do when they\u2019re just turned loose to compete. You can find, even in liberal newspapers, they occasionally run a story about how somebody overcame long odds to really succeed. And throughout the story is almost a tone of, “Why, we don\u2019t believe this! Why, we can\u2019t believe how this happened! Why, this is really unique.” No, it\u2019s not. It\u2019s common. It\u2019s common. People overcome things every day. There are obstacles in our way every day of our lives, and some of us, fortunately, learned how to tackle them and overcome them. <\/line> Some of them never learned because big daddy protector is out there making sure that no pain and no “suffering,” will ever be experienced. I\u2019ve told you the story countless times. Way back, early nineties, water volleyball party, Saturday afternoon up at Croton-on-Hudson, and after the water volleyball game one day, this 26-year-old teacher is holding court. We\u2019re having a discussion, this 26-year-old teacher, “I think we\u2019re pushing the students too hard now.” “Really?” I said, you know, not wanting to cause trouble. This is a big social event, water volleyball – big social activity. <\/line>“What do you mean, ‘pushing kids too hard\u2019?” “Yes, we\u2019re just putting too much pressure on them. We\u2019re demanding that they excel in grades. We are just putting too much on them too soon. We need to back off.” I said, “Back off? What age are we talking about here?” “I\u2019m talking about seventh, eighth, ninth grade. We\u2019re really pushing.” “No! That\u2019s what you pile it on them. This is when they\u2019ve got the energy to deal with it. This is when they learn how. You know, you\u2019re letting the inmates run the asylum. You\u2019re actually treating them like babies. This is the time to show them what life is really all about.” “No, I disagree with you totally. I think we need to back off. We\u2019re just pushing them too hard.”<\/line>That\u2019s the root of all this: pushing people too hard. All that means is we\u2019re demanding too much of them, our expectations are too high. I want to tell you what. You want to get something out of somebody, shower them with high expectations. You go up to somebody you really love and you tell them you expect way-up-here out of them, and you watch them beat a path trying to get there. Far more than if you baby them along, and assume they\u2019re not capable of this, not capable of that, can\u2019t face this here, can\u2019t face that – and they never will. So here we come. The big, giant federal government, when the Republican Party announced: Yep, we\u2019re going to start spending more money, and the government is going to get bigger, whatever the people want they\u2019re going to get. <\/line>Meaning, “We\u2019re going to provide for as many people as we can because that\u2019s how we\u2019re going to get votes.” It is tantamount to never forcing them to face challenges; it\u2019s tantamount to trying to make life as easy as possible for all these people, so they can survive on some, you know, below average subsistence, not existence. It\u2019s just – it\u2019s a sad thing, especially if you happen to believe like I do and that is that this is a country which features because of freedom the opportunity for ordinary, everyday people to do extraordinary things. And I\u2019m telling you, it happens every day and if it didn\u2019t, the country wouldn\u2019t be what it is.<\/line>You know, there\u2019s a reason why in less than 250 years we run rings around cultures that have been around for a thousand years or more. There\u2019s a reason for it. We\u2019re all humans. You know, we all have the same insights, all have the same brains, all have the same thing – but there\u2019s something different about living in this country, and all these other places I\u2019m talking about, largely are socialist democracies or worse, they all have low expectations of people. And, by the way, that\u2019s classic liberalism, to think very little of people\u2019s potential. To think they\u2019re dumb, stupid, incapable. That\u2019s what they want. That\u2019s how you generate power: need and all these other things. It\u2019s just highly frustrating. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/strong><\/line><\/p>\n

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