Episode 64 Hour of Decision: Really Taking On Big Government (SEGMENT ONE)

[00:00:00] Look Around You, Wrong Rules The Land While Waiting Justice Sleeps. I Saw In The Congress, And Crossing The Country, Campaigning With Ron Paul, Tyranny Rising, Unspeakable Evil, Manifesting, Devils Lying About Our Heritage Who Want To Enslave And Replace Us.

[00:00:23] But We Are Americans With A Manifest Destiny To Bring The New Jerusalem Of Endless Possibilities. But First, This Fight For Freedom. Be A Part Of It. But Don't Delay, Because This Is The Hour Of Decision. Hour Of Decision With Lou Moore Starts Now.

[00:00:50] Welcome To Hour Of Decision. My Name Is Lou Moore. This Afternoon, We Are Going To Talk About Big Government. And The Threat To Big Government That Donald Trump Appears To Be. Along With His Wingman, The Doge Man Himself, Elon Musk. And The Wailing And Gnashing Of Teeth.

[00:01:14] The Sounds Coming Out Of Some Of These Democrat Congress People Like Demons Being Exercised Out Of The Bodies Of Human Beings. I Mean Screeching. And We Are In War And We Are Not Going To Put Up With This.

[00:01:32] Just Because Trump Has Discovered That USAID Is Nothing But A Bunch Of Programs For Our Enemies To Spread Transgenderism And Many Other Bad Things All Over The Earth. So Anyway, We Are Going To Take On Big Government Here For The First Part Of Our Decision This Afternoon.

[00:01:55] And Then In The Second Half Of The Program, We Are Going To Interview The CEO Of The Constitutional Sheriffs And Police Officers Association, The CSPOA, None Other Than Sam Bushman, Who Is Also The Owner Of Liberty News Radio Network.

[00:02:12] And Sam Is Going To Come On And Talk To Us About Constitutional Sheriffs, Why They Are Important, Why They Are Critical For Us Long Term To Maintain And To Increase Our Constitutional Liberties Here In America. Okay, So I'll Be On The Second Half Of The Second Half Of The Second Half. But Let's Get Right Into The First Half. Big Government In The Crosshairs Of The Doge. And This Is By Necessity Folks.

[00:02:40] I Think You've Heard Me Say This Before On Hour Of Decision. We Have Had The Fabian Socialist Project, The Gradual Project That Began At The Turn Of The 20th Century To Give Us Marxist Total Government Here At Home And One World Government Across The Globe, But To Introduce It Gradually, Gradually Into The Populist.

[00:03:09] Not The Bolshevik Method, Where They Start Throwing Bombs And The Next Thing You Know, A Guy Like Lenin Is Sitting There At The Presidential Palace And He's The Boss Of Everything. That Was The Bolshevik Method. But The Bolshevik Method Was Not Going To Be Effective In Western Europe Or In The United States. And People Saw That Who Wanted A Marxist Government For These Places. They Saw It Pretty Early.

[00:03:35] And So Hence The Birth Of The Fabian Project Named After The Roman General Fabius Who Used A Gradual Strategy. Just As These Folks Want To Do To Give Us Total Government. So They Been On The Scene In America Since The Turn Of The Last Century. They Kind Of Nested Themselves At Harvard First And Then Across The Ivies And Then Eventually Into Unfortunately Every College Campus In America.

[00:04:05] But They Started There. But They Started There. But It Did Not Take Them Too Long To Penetrate The Government Because Of The Rigged Election Of 1912. Where Woodrow Wilson, A Democrat In A Party Who Had Not Been Very Successful At Presidential Politics For 70 Years, 60 Years, That Only Had Elected One President Since The 1850s.

[00:04:31] And Wilson Was Able To Win Because Teddy Roosevelt Split The Republican Vote And We're Not Going To Get All Into The Election Of 1912 Right Now. I Cover It In My Volume 1 Episode Of The Fabians. But That Project Really Got A Boost When Woodrow Wilson Became The President Of The United States. He Brought Us Central Banking. He Brought Us Central Banking.

[00:05:00] Which Allowed For Huge Deficits To Be Run Up. He Brought Us The Income Tax. Which Allows The Government To Extract A Large Amount Of Resources From Their Citizens To Further Grow The Size Of Government. He Began The League Of Nations Which We Did Not Join But Other Nations Did.

[00:05:24] He Began The Foundational Organization For World Government In That Part Of Our History. Fortunately, We Didn't Join It Actually But Other Countries Did. He Got The Federal Government Into Antitrust. And To Saying Companies Are Too Big. That They're Not It's Not A Competitive Environment. And I'm Not Going To Argue Out All Of These Various Issues In A 20 Minute Segment About Big Government.

[00:05:53] But These Were All Expansions Far Beyond What The Founders Visualized The United States Government To Be And To Become. That Wilson Undertook Beginning In 1913. But The Big Ticket Items Obviously The Federal Reserve And The Income Tax. But After Wilson Left Office He Won Two Terms Of Office. He Was Very Ill Toward The End Of His Second Term.

[00:06:23] And As The Custom Was Then Not The Law But The Custom. He Did Not Run For A Third Term. He Probably Wasn't Capable Of Doing It Anyway. Republicans Came In And The Republicans Didn't Start A Bunch Of New Programs Under Harding, Under Coolidge. But They Did Not Roll Back. But They Did Not Roll Back These Consequential Seminal Programs Of What We Now Call Big Government In America.

[00:06:53] And That's A Pattern That Will Reemerge. We Have A Democrat Come In Very Aggressively Tork Around The Size And The Jurisdiction Of The Federal Government. And Then When They Leave The Republicans Don't Roll Back What They Did. They Keep It. And Then They Brag About How They Didn't Make It Too Much Larger On Their Watch. And This Is The Pattern That Begins In The 1920s.

[00:07:23] But The Depression Hits In 1929. The Stock Market Crash In 29. The Depression Really Settles In Worldwide In 1930. And So By The Presidential Election Of 1932, We Are Not In Very Good Shape As A Country. There Is An Emergency. There Is A Crisis.

[00:07:44] And A Figure By The Name Of Franklin Delano Roosevelt Comes In To Solve All Of Our Problems With A Huge Expansion Of The Federal Government. And Expansion Of Our Understanding Of The Federal Government. Maybe As Important As The Actual Programs He Put In. And That Was All Called The New Deal. And I'm Going To Bring This Book Up Folks. I've Brought It Up, Mentioned It Before.

[00:08:11] For Those Who Are Only Listening, I've Got Holding Up The Book, Crisis And Leviathan. Critical Episodes In The Growth Of American Government. This Is By A Scholar By The Name Of Robert Higgs. Tremendous Work. And He Explains This Cycle Of How Do We Have A Crisis? And The Only Answer Is For Us To Have The Federal Government Come In And Save Us. And Then There Is A Huge Expansion Of The Government.

[00:08:38] And Then After The Crisis Is Over With, The Government Is Not Roll Back. It Stays The Same Size Or Grows Even More But Just Not At As Fast Of Rate. So This Is What Happened In The 20s. And This Is What Happened In The 50s.

[00:08:56] After 16 Years Of Franklin Roosevelt And Harry S. Truman And Another Four Years Of Truman Completing His Own Term, One That He Won In 1948. He Took Roosevelt's Place And Roosevelt Died In 44. So Truman Served Almost Two Full Terms, But One As Vice President Becoming President. You Know, He Had The Same Philosophy As Franklin Roosevelt. He Tried To Even Further Expand The Government.

[00:09:28] He Was Not Successful In That To A Great Degree. But Roosevelt Had Done So Much. And Then Ike Comes In. He's Supposed To Be A Republican. He's Supposed To Be A Conservative. He Talks About Rolling Back All This Terrible New Deal. And Then He Doesn't Do Anything About It. And All The New Deal Programs Stay In Place. And Ike Then Starts Fostering This Idea Of Modern Republicanism,

[00:09:57] Which Is Just Rhinoism. It'S Just We Want To Have More Government But We'Re Going To Be Smarter About It Than The Democrats. We'Re Not Going To Be As Corrupt As The Democrats. And So Then He Expands The Government Even Further. Even Though It'S Not At The Pace, The Frantic Pace That Roosevelt Established, He Expands The Government Even More. And You Know, I'M Not Even Mentioning The Wars.

[00:10:23] The Wars Under Wilson And Then The War Under Roosevelt. And Of Course, As Randolph Bourne Told Us, War Is The Health Of The State. I Mean, There Is Nothing Invigorates State Power Like A War. And Particularly A Country That'S Taking Full War Powers Away From Their Citizens And Giving It Unto Themselves. As Our Government Did In World War I And World War II.

[00:10:52] And So That Pattern Continues Then With Eisenhower. The War Ends. The New Deal Ends. The Fair Deal. Truman's Fair Deal Ends. And Ike Doesn'T Roll Anything Back. So Then Kennedy Comes In. He'S An Ineffective President.

[00:11:09] But After His Death And Martyrdom, Lyndon Johnson Again Greatly Expands The Government Under The Label Of The Great Society. 100 Programs In 100 Days. His First 100 Days. Unbelievable. Completely Changed Our Immigration System. Changed Our Understanding Of Private Property.

[00:11:33] Got The Federal Government Into All Of These Poverty Programs Which Are Really Just Programs To Give A Salary To Marxist Agitators. That'S Basically What Was Happening There. And It Goes On And On Folks. And Of Course We Also Get Medicare During This Time Which LBJ Promised Would Only Cost I Think $9 Billion A Year Ever In Its History. And Of Course It... I Mean It'S Almost By Itself It May Bankrupt This Country Even Yet.

[00:12:03] We'LL Have To See. But All These Programs Come In Under LBJ. And Then There'S Nixon. There'S Ford. And There'S Not Really A Roll Back. Nixon Actually Adds More Programs. He Adds The EPA. He Adds New Programs Like He'S The Democrat In There. But Ronald Reagan Comes In And He Had Campaigned For Years Even When He Wasn't Running For President.

[00:12:29] He Had Campaigned As Somebody Who Wanted To Greatly Reduce The Size Of Government. But He Didn'T. And So, You Know, This Pattern Just Goes On. Then We Get... Then We Get The Next Big Expanse Of Government Under Obama. And Then That Brings Us To Donald Trump, Who Is A Different Type Of President. To Say The Least. He Is A Different Type Of President.

[00:12:58] But It'S Not Just Because, Boy, Trump Really Wants To Get Rid Of The Big Government. And He Really Wants To Get Rid Of The Leviathan State As They Also Call It. The All-Encompassing State. And He Really Wants To Reduce Government. But, Well, You Know, How Much That'S True, I'M Not Sure Of What He Wants. But He Does Not Have A Choice Now, Folks, Because Of The Unbelievable Spending That Has Gone On Just Since 2019.

[00:13:27] Just As COVID Hit. The Fact That Our Budget Is Double. It'S Essentially Double In 2025. The Size It Was In 2019. It'S Totally Unsustainable. Well, They Are Printing Money. More All The Time To Cover This Debt. But That Can'T Go On Forever Because If They Don'T Have Bondholders Willing To Buy Bonds To Finance All Of These Deficits,

[00:13:55] They Are Endangering The Dollar. And Creating A Situation That Could Easily Lead To What Happened In The Weimar Republic In Germany In 1923. Where You Have To Have A Wheelbarrow.

[00:14:11] You Have To Have A Shopping Cart Full Of Money And A Marking Pen Where You Change The Amounts On The Money Just To Use It Because It'S Losing Its Value So Fast They Can'T Even Print The Correct Values On The Money Before It Devalues Again. You Know That'S What Happened Then. Don'T Think It Can'T Happen Then. Don'T Think It Can'T Happen Here Folks.

[00:14:35] Our Financial System Is Based On The Confidence Of Investors Around The World. That'S It. When They Lose Confidence In The Dollar, It'S Over With. That'S Why We Need A Constitutional Currency That Has Inherent Value In Gold And Silver. So We Are Protected Because Our Money That Is Representative Of Our Fruits Of Our Labor, Our Efforts In Society,

[00:15:04] That'S Why It Can'T Be Manipulated By The That You Are Using To Do Transactions With.

[00:15:28] So Anyway, This Is The Pattern We'Ve Had And Now Trump Is Trying To Break That Pattern With Some Very Aggressive Activity With Doge. Elon Musk Is Talking, Him And Vivek Ramaswamy Were Talking About $2 Trillion In Cuts In The First Year.

[00:15:49] Now They'Re Talking About $1 Trillion In Cuts And Every Day Somebody Tries To Dumb That Number Down Or Explain Why That'S Just Not Possible To Do That. But Anyway, Musk Is Really Going At It.

[00:16:02] And We'Ve Had This Drama With USAID, Totally Exposed As A Piggy Bank For Our Enemies, Wasting A Ton Of Taxpayer Money And Using It To Destroy Our Civilization And Destroy The Civilizations Of Countries Around The Globe With Transgenderism And Stuff Like That. But Anyway, Musk Is Really Taking A Swing At These People And Others Like Them.

[00:16:32] Talking About Closing The Department Of Education. Trump Says He Told His Incoming Cabinet Member For The Department Of Education That They Would Be The Last One. This Is Music To My Ears Folks. Are We Really Going To Shrink The Size Of Government? Are We Going To Really Go At The Heart Of The Fabian Total Government Project? Trump Seems To Be Taking A Swing At It.

[00:16:57] So Why Has It Been So Difficult In The Past? I'Ve Talked About These Waves Where People Are Scared Or They'Re Freaked Out During A Crisis And They'Re Convinced That We Need More Government To Save Them. Whether It'Re From The Great Depression, Whether It'Re The War On Poverty And All The Other Things Lyndon Johnson Came Up With In The 1960s Or Whether It'S Obamacare Under Obama.

[00:17:28] And It Is Such A Crisis In Medical Services. By The Way Folks, Do You Think The Practice Of Medicine, Do You Think Our Medical System Is Better Now? That It'Re From The The That It Was In 2008? It Wasn'T Great In 2008. It Wasn'T Great In 2008. But Folks, Let Me Tell You, It Is Not Better Now. But We Will Discuss That In Another Episode Of Our Of Decision. But Why Can'T You Roll This Back?

[00:17:54] Besides The Fact There'S A Conspiracy That Doesn'T Want To, There'S Other Reasons Too. The Nature Of The Politician. That Was On The Politician. It'Re From The Real Be Yours. The escuela Of The Emi, The American American People, The People, The Long The Politician.

[00:18:17] The Politician'S Nature To Have More Programs With Their Name On It Maybe To Give You Something. Even If It'S A Con. The Media. The media goes berserk. If one person loses their welfare benefits, if one transgender person in Tanzania is not going to be able to put on a play or whatever the USAID was financing in their country, boy, this is just a catastrophe.

[00:18:45] This is the worst thing that's ever happened to humanity. Just ask these guys in the news media. Every budget line, I mentioned this in another episode, every line in the voluminous budget of the United States of America, every line has an interest group, folks.

[00:19:07] It has an interest group. It doesn't usually have one person unless it's a really rich person who wants that expenditure to go forward. It has an interest group. It has lobbyists. It has people in the news media.

[00:19:22] And, you know, the politicians have not up until now had the political will of the American people marshaled behind them to fight that kind of pressure line by line by line in the budget.

[00:19:39] And then there's just the nature of government. When you get a little fiefdom in the government and you have a little department, you know, you have to justify your existence. It's not like a business. It's pretty obvious. If you sell widgets, you sell widgets at a profit. Your little part is going to grow in that company because you have a profit center in that company. But the government doesn't have profit centers.

[00:20:06] So there's always this subjective evaluation of how they're doing and how they could be doing so much better if they just had a few more employees in this particular department. And this thing just goes on and on, folks. But you have people in the government, all of them want to see it get bigger. They want this. They want more people to shoulder the load of whatever it is they're doing.

[00:20:31] They want their department to be bigger and more important within the scheme of things. And then there's a tendency in the government to paper over problems. And, you know, if there's an agency that is totally ineffective, that might be the appropriate agency to deal with, let's say, cleaning up a river, the government, they're very happy to just start a whole nother agency to do that function.

[00:20:56] And they somehow justify it. But so there's more than one agency jurisdiction over this problem. And then this agency becomes dysfunctional or never is functional. And they get another agency involved. This is something that happens all the time in the government. But this is so government is just going to grow and grow unless it's whacked.

[00:21:23] And may I point out, you see all of these federal buildings, one after another in Washington, D.C. But have you been to your state capital recently, whichever state you're in? You've been to Sacramento. You've been to Helena, Montana. Have you been to Carson City, Nevada? There's always new buildings. The government is expanding like crazy all over the country at the state level and the local level.

[00:21:51] And a lot of this has to do with the overreach of the federal government and the things they mandate these other governments to do. But all of these governments are getting bigger and bigger. And they need to be whacked, folks, not just because it costs us money, not just because our dollar may be threatened. But every time you empower one more bureaucrat in the government, you are lessening your freedom.

[00:22:17] Government by nature is force in the society. And they keep thinking of more and more things to force you as a citizen to do. It's just inimical to constitutional liberty and to a Republican form of government. We got to get rid of it, folks. So Donald Trump has got them screeching today. And I'm telling you, this is a tougher assignment.

[00:22:45] This is a heavier lift to really shrink the size of government than it is to seal off the border. Than it is to undertake a mass deportation. Eisenhower had a mass deportation. And millions of people have been deported under all of the presidents we've had in the last many years. They didn't do it in a dramatic fashion. They didn't have the news media all over them. But that's not the heaviest lift. It's not the heaviest lift to keep China from attacking us.

[00:23:13] It's not the heaviest lift to keep the federal agencies from taking away your First Amendment rights. Or for attacking the fact that you are pro-life activists. These are all parts of the existential crises I've been talking about that Trump needs to solve and needs to fix. And he does need to fix the First Amendment crisis, the border crisis, and these various crises overseas. But they pale, folks.

[00:23:42] They pale in comparison. They pale in significance to the crisis of big government, big government overspending, and just the threat to our dollar, the threat to our way of life that they represent. And these bureaucrats, more and more of them, every generation of bureaucrats becomes more Marxist, more Bolshevik, more socialist. We need to whack this government.

[00:24:12] Two trillion a year would not be nearly enough for me, folks. But it's a heck of a start. And Musk is giving it a shot. But you hear the demons shrieking. So you know that they are on the right track. My name is Lou Moore, and you are listening to the Hour of Decision on Liberty News Radio.

[00:24:35] And we will be right back with Sam Bushman of the CSPOA and of Liberty News Radio after the news.