Why We Want republicanism

January 3, 2013 1

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s just say, for example, if the people of Massachusetts and New York and New Jersey, if they want to live under ObamaCare, who are we to deny them? If that’s what you want to do, you ought to be able to do that. I don’t care. I believe you’re going to bankrupt yourself, and I believe there’s going to be a shortage of actual human liberty there. You’re going to steal from the wages of one to supply the non-earned wages of another. Ultimately that will lead to despotism and possibly war. Who are you going to wage war against? Either your own people to confiscate what remains of their property, or maybe you’ll look to your neighbors to the South to confiscate it from us. Just as I’ve heard it said here, because Southern states are recipient states, if there was to be a rethinking of the American union — which is long overdue and must happen and will happen — that Southern states are going to lose because we won’t be able to suckle off the teat of the Northern states. I don’t buy that for a moment. You’re talking about continuing a corruption that cannot continue. This is a corruption of the culture and a corruption of the soul. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

Begin Mike Church Show Transcript

Mike: The restoration of [r]epublicanism is nigh. That reminds me, we had a very successful Christmas season and campaign with the additions that were made to the [r]epublican line of products. Remember I said back in November that looking for a Christmas gift for me, we’d see some signs that the term republicanism is gaining a foothold, and that’s with a little ‘r,’ not a capital ‘R.’ It is totally distinguished from Republicanism, meaning John McCainism, Lindsey Grahamism, Peter Kingism, Chris Christieism. Republicanism as we practice it is local, local, local: local control, home rule, small government if any government controlled by the people that it directly operates upon, meaning it is the government that is the most likely to effect your safety and happiness because you ware in direct control of it. If you don’t like what your [r]epublican area, state, county, city is doing, either change it or move to another one. You can’t do that when the federal edifice chooses to tyrannize you. You can’t do that when the federal edifice chooses to devalue the currency that all of us have to use. Now we all suffer the tax increase.

There’s a smarmy, snickety comment on the Twitter feed, which is popping today. I hope you’ll follow us on Twitter, Twitter.com/TheKingDude. AG, I’m still only 1,686,000 short of Adam Schefter, but I’m working on it. We’ll get there someday, when we have something that’s actually tweetable. One of the guys, [mocking] “You’re not paying. You’re not paying, jerk. You’re not paying for Sandy bailouts. The Fed is going to print money.” If the Fed prints money, they’re devaluing the currency. That is a tax. That’s the most pernicious tax because it means everyone suffers under it. Of course, those who devalue the currency it won’t matter to. That’s the elite rich. This is why — and Bruce Fein answered this question once upon a time. The great Bruce Fein, a lawyer for the Reagan administration in the Justice Department, answered this question better than anyone I’ve ever heard answer it. That was when Fein said the reason we want federalism, I would say the reason we want republicanism, is because you want competition and good government.

Let’s just say, for example, if the people of Massachusetts and New York and New Jersey, if they want to live under ObamaCare, who are we to deny them? If that’s what you want to do, you ought to be able to do that. I don’t care. I believe you’re going to bankrupt yourself, and I believe there’s going to be a shortage of actual human liberty there. You’re going to steal from the wages of one to supply the non-earned wages of another. Ultimately that will lead to despotism and possibly war. Who are you going to wage war against? Either your own people to confiscate what remains of their property, or maybe you’ll look to your neighbors to the South to confiscate it from us. Just as I’ve heard it said here, because Southern states are recipient states, if there was to be a rethinking of the American union — which is long overdue and must happen and will happen — that Southern states are going to lose because we won’t be able to suckle off the teat of the Northern states. I don’t buy that for a moment. You’re talking about continuing a corruption that cannot continue. This is a corruption of the culture and a corruption of the soul.

No civilization in history has been able to survive a despotism like the one that we are currently suffering under or live under. I shouldn’t even say suffering. We’re enjoying passing these debts onto our kids. We’re enjoying telling kids: Go out and get a student loan. Go get that degree. You’ve got to these days, you know. Really? You still tell you children that and let someone else pay for it? Let Obama give you a student loan, operative word: loan. You mean I’m going to have to pay it back? Don’t worry about it. You’re going to make bazillions of dollars. You’re going to out-earn those losers that only have high school diplomas. Those losers that only have high school diplomas won’t have student loans to pay back.

If they accept a job waiting tables or doing something in the service industry that has nothing to do with their degree, they’ll probably have little upfront costs involved; whereas someone that has a college degree — one of the funniest commercials that I still laugh at when I see it, Andrew, when I’m watching NFL games, have you seen the Enterprise Rent-a-Car commercial where they show all the wonderful young adults that have gone off and earned degrees at Notre Dame and stuff that are now basically at checkout counters for Enterprise Rent-a-Car? Is there a degree in rent-a-car studies at Notre Dame that you know of?

AG: I actually know a couple people that went off and joined them just because they have a fast-track management-style kind of apprentice by beginning with Enterprise right after college.

Mike: My question was, was there Enterprise Rent-a-Car studies?

AG: Business Admin was the study.

Mike: Couldn’t you business admin by starting at the car washer at Enterprise? They do wash cars out back. Work your away into the warmth when it’s wintertime and working your way into the cools when it’s summer, working your way to the counter and then “oh, he’s really good at the counter. Let’s make him in charge of the counters next.” My point is, we’re continuing to engage in this — this has to be one of the most stupefying continuing trends, if it’s going to continue, that modern man has embarked upon, that is the idea that four-year university is necessary and is actually an integral part of a majority of being able to participate in the workforce. I got into an argument with the dean. Did I tell you this, that the dean at the University of New Orleans sent hate mail to WGNO, my TV station here in New Orleans that I do commentary for, over commentary that I did? Did I tell you that?

AG: No. For which one?

Mike: He got upset because I said: Why is the Louisiana State University — which UNO Is basically an offshoot of — why is LSU taxing the citizens of Louisiana to subsidize a state-run university that is teaching culinary and hotel management skills? Shouldn’t the Hyatt Corporation, shouldn’t the Marriott Corporation, shouldn’t the Sheraton or Hilton Corporations, shouldn’t they be subsidizing or paying for the actual internship or training of young people that are going to learn to be good little managers of their hotels and restaurant chains? It seems to me that they should. That was my only point. It wasn’t to knock UNO per se. It was to say that if you’re going to say that, what field isn’t there that the citizens of Louisiana shouldn’t be taxed for to subsidize the training of? I see this continues today apace. I just wonder.

My daughters ask me this all the time: Daddy, what am I going to do about college? I say: Well, the first thing you’re going to do is get it out of your head that you actually have to go. That’s the first thing you’re going to do. You’re going to consider that if you actually choose to pursue a career, is it necessary for you to actually go and get that four-year diploma and incur the cost for it? If that’s not the case, we’re going to figure out how it is that you achieve that. That ought to be the first option. That’s not the last option, it’s the first option. Instead, so many kids: What school are you going to? What college are you favoring?

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