On Thursday’s Mark Levin Show, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is an irresponsible big-spending leftist. She testified before Congress that there should be no cap on government spending. Having such a limitation forces politicians to vote and make tough choices so they’d rather not have any limits on spending money and incurring debt. If left to their own devices, our government will spend this country into bankruptcy. Then, America was founded on the belief that We The people are in charge, not the federal government. The Constitution was very carefully designed to divide, enumerate, and, limit powers. Yet here we are spending our way into decline, changing the way we vote and eroding our Constitutional system. Later, brainwashing and indoctrination are plaguing our public schools. The system has been destroyed, so now rebuilding is the task afoot.
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Rough transcript of Hour 1
Hour 1 Segment 1
Janet Yellen is the treasury secretary. Prior to that, she was head of the Fed. She is an irresponsible, big spending leftist. And I want to show you why I want you to listen to this and then I want to break it down. She was at a hearing today. And let’s go to. Mr. Producer, go Secretary Yellen, without getting into the specifics of Mr. Foster’s, but would you support simply eliminating the debt ceiling so that we don’t have to deal with this in the future and then focus on real crisis? Yes, I would, because I believe when Congress legislates expenditures and puts in place a tax policy that determines taxes, those are the crucial decisions Congress is making. And if to finance those spending and tax decisions, it’s necessary to issue additional debt. I believe it’s very destructive to put the president and myself treasury secretary in a situation where we might be unable to pay the bills that result from those past decisions. OK, this is important to understand. She’s saying there should be no limit on the debt. There should be no check on spending if Congress passes spending and the president signs that that’s good enough. And so you can have a Congress and a president. Passed massive, massive spending bills that will tie the hands of future Congresses and presidents and more importantly, the public. For generations to come. The reason they don’t like the debt ceiling issue is because it forces them to make decisions. It’s because it forces them to vote. That’s why they don’t like it. Otherwise, as massive as our this would be even larger. These people will vote today to enhance themselves politically, to empower themselves politically, and somebody will have to pay the price tomorrow. They’re already doing. As massive as the debt is, almost 30 trillion dollars, that’s the on book debt of book debt is already over 250 trillion dollars. Social Security, Medicare, on and on and on the obligations. It’s apparently not big enough. For the Democrat Party and some Republicans. Which is appalling. So here’s the one backstop. That forces them to actually have to confront this and she opposes it. The Treasury secretary, former head of the Fed, and so did the Democrats. They want to destroy every single. Obstacle that’s in their way, whether it’s their agenda, whether it’s spending, whatever it is, whether it’s the Supreme Court. Where it’s the voting system. Whether it’s our immigration laws and now whether it’s the debt ceiling. She could literally have won Congress for a two year period. If they have both houses, as they do and a president as they do, regardless of how big their majority is to spend this country into into breaking its back. Thank God for this debt ceiling. Now she said something else. She also said. Treasury secretary, the president, in a situation where we might be unable to pay the bills that result from those past decisions. I’ve talked about this before, but let me just really hone in on this. When you’re talking about raising the debt ceiling, you’re talking about raising the debt ceiling for future spending. Future spending, because you’ve bumped up to the debt ceiling. Now, they keep lying about this for a reason, but. You’re talking about raising the debt ceiling so they can pass this monstrosity of a budget, of a spending bill, which is really a. Cultural, civil. In every respect, Bill, that touches every aspect of our society. As well as a financial bill. So they need to raise the debt ceiling. Not to pay for our debt obligations, but to pay for new spending. And again, we bring in 322 billion dollars a month approximately. I looked at the latest numbers. That’s what the federal government brings in, seems like a lot of money to me, 44 billion of that little over 44 billion, just shy of 45 billion goes to debt service. So you don’t need to raise the debt ceiling for spending in order to pay the debt service on the debt. Am I pretty clear about this, Mr. Producer? I hope so. So Yellen’s lying their all lying. Because this is a game they play. Now, in addition to this. What we know of this 20, 500 page bill. Is that it doesn’t pay for itself. They’re doing things like costing out. A year or two or three of a new program. When in fact, they don’t intend to end it in a year or two or three, they intend to extend it. And so they’re lying about it. They’re lying about how they budget, they’re lying about what they’re going to spend. Wall Street Journal pointed this out. They’re not the only ones. So, number two, not only are they lying about the debt service, they’re now lying about. What the program’s going to actually cost. Number three. I mentioned this yesterday, and I want to underscore this. Mansion has obviously said, you now know, we now know that he doesn’t want to go up by one point five trillion. But he doesn’t want to go above one point five trillion, I said yesterday, I bet they take a trillion off or something like that, but they keep most of the substance of what it is that they want to put in place when it comes to social engineering and massively expanding the welfare state, because in truth, they really don’t care about the debt or deficit spending. And so now I just watched a news report that said they are going to come down on that number. But we have to watch what is in this thing if we can find out what’s in this thing. Because, again, they’re not going to care ultimately about the debt or the deficit, they’ll throw another trillion into the bucket. They don’t care. There’s so many bad things in this bill apart from the hideous fiscal disaster. That it needs to be killed on that basis alone. So I’m not trying to confuse you all and so forth. What I’m trying to do is lay out the sort of thing that’s taking place here. Now, the most radical elements in the Democrat Party, they keep calling them progressives, they’re not progressives, they’re Marxists. They’re Marxists, they’ve been taught by Marxists, they’ve been indoctrinated by Marxists, they’re Marxists, and yet apparently it’s just too painful for people to say not you and me, but other people. They are American Marxists. That what they are not Soviet Marxists, American, Marxist. They are threatening to to kill the bipartisan infrastructure bill in this bill as well. I say go for it, kill them both. Because inflation is already breaking through the roof, we have supply chain lines that are that are breaking, you see the price of beef, the price, the price of bacon, you see the price of gasoline, the price of homes. It’s coming. It’s here, but it’s coming in a much bigger way now, inflation. So the Marxists. When I kill the spending bills, that is fine by me. That is fine by me. All right. We have a lot more I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 2
Welcome back. I think one of the things that bothers me the most about all of this. Is and we talk about it here a lot over the last almost 20 years. Why was this nation founded and what was it founded for? It was founded against the repressive, centralized government. It was founded on the beliefs that you and I have unalienable rights. That we have a circle of liberty around us that the government may not molest. Interpenetrate. It was very carefully designed and the Constitution after five and a half months in Philadelphia. To divide powers. Enumerated powers. To limit powers. Later, there would be a bill of rights to underscore the fact that we as individuals are the reason this country exists and of course, the 10th Amendment underscoring the fact that there is federalism in this country. The states would never have created a federal government that would crush the individual or crush the states, for that matter. Now, look where we are today, almost 30 trillion dollars in debt. And one or two votes away. From altering our society. From altering how we pick our public officials, from altering the nation of cities, the the the nature of citizenship. To altering the constitutional process. PolyOne, Bill. Altering the finances of the country so we can never recover. Changing the structure of our constitutional system, basically plowing over. All the efforts in the Constitution that are built in order to limit the central government. We don’t even discuss these things anymore. We don’t even debate these things anymore, it’s just assumed that the government has this power, it’s just assumed that the Democrats can do whatever the hell they want if they have the votes. Is that what the Constitution says? Is that how it’s set up? And yet you can see. The. The diabolical nature of the Democrat Party, and they’re not alone. That enough is never enough. If they got everything they wanted, Senator Markey let it out of the bag, he said some time ago, this is a first step. This is a first step if they get every single. The thing they want, it’s a first step. When the government becomes more powerful, you become weaker. When the government becomes bigger, you become smaller. And when they load the courts up with idealogues, which is exactly what Biden is doing right now. The Bill of Rights are fungible. Your liberty is not the number one issue. It’s what the government wants to do and who’s the government? What is the government? Politicians and bureaucrats. How many how many bureaucrats do you know who have some say over how you live? Almost nine, I’m guessing. So why should we confer power to total strangers, and who are these people, are they particularly bright or they stupid? Are the ideological are they political? Are the decisions always angelic, are they noble? How about the politicians? Why is it assumed that they know so much about so much? Where do they get that knowledge? They don’t have that knowledge at all. Even 100 years or so ago, when the so-called progressives, a.k.a. American Marxists, established their reign. One of the reasons they wanted to take power and freedom away from you, the individual, and give it to Washington, D.C. in the government was because they argued that experts could use science and mathematics and other means to run the country. That has even failed. We don’t have experts running anything in the bureaucracy. They have a civil service. They have unions. Most of them can’t get fired. They get seniority. God knows how they’re hired, what makes them experts? What makes them special is smarter than everybody in the private sector, nothing. Getting back to basics, we never get back to basics. It’s important to argue the numbers I just did, it’s important to point out what is or is not in a bill I just did. But it’s also important to explain that the. The nation has changed. In many ways, we are extra or unconstitutional and respects to. So much more goes on in our society as an example. Nobody has said other than me. Nobody has said. Most of what’s in this bill is unconstitutional. But the Supreme Court said, I don’t care what the Supreme Court said. I can read the Constitution, you could read the Constitution, I can read legislative history, but even more I can read the Madison’s notes and another. The original source information. This government was never intended to be this size to begin with, and now they want to massively expand it. What’s the point of a constitution if it isn’t honored in so many respects, we go through the motions with the Supreme Court of the United States and the other federal courts, no justice will ever admit it, no matter which justice we would talk to. But that’s a fact. It didn’t happen today. It’s been happening for decades. How do we get to a point with a 50/50 Senate and a vice president who can vote and every three or four vote lead in the House and you can fundamentally alter our republic? The Constitution provides no avenue for that. I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 3
It is amazing when you sit in a position like mine how people perceive you or perceive what you say and how it’s sometimes so different or detached from how I perceive what I say in myself. My hits on Hannity. Even some of my opening monologues on my Sunday show on Fox, on Live, in TV and behind this microphone, I’ve pointed out over and over and over again that Biden and the CDC and their use of the phrase or the word unvaccinated is problematic because they never tell us what percentage of the unvaccinated. Got the virus. And are therefore immune, naturally immune, and have the antibodies. In fact, I was the first to point this out almost a month ago as I went on the CDC site and I couldn’t find the information and we’ve talked about it many, many times. So a friend of mine writes me and says, how come you never talk about this? I do. I talk about it all the time and I still would like to get some answers. When you consider almost 80 percent now the population that is subject to the vaccine, that is they can take the vaccine has taken it. The question is what percentage of the remaining 20 percent already have immunity? Natural immunity in Israeli study says that’s 27 times stronger than with a vaccine. And they should know because they have another massive outbreak in Israel. But this isn’t some backbencher country coming up with a study, this is a serious country and. They’re pointing out. That is herd immunity issues, a big deal. And it really is so when you take the fact that there’s upwards of 80 percent of the people being vaccinated. And a significant percentage of the people have gotten this virus and have immunity. Well, what are we really talking about here? That requires you to fire nurses, fire teachers, fire employees, and they all have lawsuits, by the way. In my view, they all good lawsuits now. It wasn’t that long ago when we were celebrating first responders in the front line, folks who remember. Here, the Associated Press, health workers once saluted as heroes, now get threats. More than a year after U.S. health care workers on the front line against covid-19 were saluted as heroes with nightly clapping from windows and balcony, some are being issued panic buttons, case of assault and ditching their scrubs before going out in public for fear of harassment. So who’s created this this environment in this situation? Democrat mayors, Democrat governors and Biden. Biden, Biden has said the unvaccinated are effectively the enemy because they’re killing people. Now, that is a lie. Last time I checked, it was Biden who has the death of 13 service people on his hands, not to mention 10 innocent people, including seven children. Across the country, doctors and nurses are dealing with hostility, threats and violence from patients angry over safety rules designed to keep the scourge from spreading. Cox Medical Center, Branson, Missouri, started giving panic buttons, topped the 400 nurses and other employees after assault’s per year, tripled between 2019 and 2022. A spokesman said one nurse had to get a shoulder X-ray after an attack. It’s almost as if. The Democrats and Biden and the rest, they’ve created their own thugs. Like so many autocracies, there is the enemy, go get them. I’m sure Liz Cheney is going to want to. Start a commission to look into this. But I’m quite serious about it, and the teachers unions have done a piss poor job of representing their members to the AFT and the NEA. How lousy job. They’re not following the science anymore. Ladies and gentlemen. They’re not following the science. And I might add, the science has been very confounding. It’s moved over here and it’s moved over there, over there and over here, they couldn’t even get the mass straight for some period of time. And then they would say things that are so absurd that all of us know it were absurd, wear a mask inside your own home, wear double mask and. And eye protection, this is Fouche. And then the politicization of this entire thing, trying to attack Donald Trump. But you see, most corporatists are cowards or they’re leftists, most corporatists now come out of this. Education, quagmire. In order to work their way up the ladder, they take one ideological point of view it’s not only easier, more and more they believe in. So the American corporation is not what it used to be. And let me just make a suggestion to you nurses, to your medical assistance, doctors, teachers and others. Pull your resources together and bring class action suits. And of course, there’s no discussion about the number of people who will, again, not get the kind of medical care they need or who won’t go to a hospital or a doctor because there’s the waiting list is longer, what have you as a result of these firings. How many of them are going to die? How many of them are going to get sick? As a result, a government policy. I don’t know, the CDC doesn’t track that either. Remember I told you when they kept shutting down the private economy, private businesses and so forth? That this is a righteous thing, they tell us. This is a righteous thing. Liberty, what do you want, safety? But look at the debate over the government shutdown that wasn’t. That’s how that’s front and center, and they have to do everything humanly possible to make sure the government stays open and we’re talking about 17 percent of the government, really. Paul Ryan, when you used to come on this show, pointed out that 83 percent of the government remains open. But it doesn’t matter, they’ll threaten you and they’ll talk about what services you lose and so forth. We have two citizens in this country. Citizens who work for the government and get benefits from the government and citizens who don’t work from the federal government and get few benefits from the government, two types of citizens in this country. And the latter is shown no respect whatsoever, you’re successful then the government should beat the hell out of. Take your property, take your money, you don’t need that much. Politicians want to take your money and give it to their constituents, want to give it to their voters. Yeah, we have massive media organizations in this country. Billions and billions of dollars in resources. Hundreds and hundreds of employees. I want to ask a question. Which one of those news organizations have put on the screen for you? The long list of stuff that’s in this bill. Maybe a little, but nothing comprehensive, none of them. Is it because they don’t know? Is it because they don’t want to tell you? Because they’re corrupt. They’ve picked a side. They’re rooting for Biden, they’re rooting for the Democrats, they’re rooting for American Marxism, that’s who they are. That’s what they are. Doesn’t matter what’s in the bill. What matters is who’s for it and who’s against it. And yet it does matter what’s in this bill. So I just said as a constitutional, that discussion will never be had. This is violate your individual liberty. That discussion will never be had. Does it violate your private property rights? That discussion will never be had. Hey, look, don’t you care about the children? I heard Pelosi say this today, this bill really is for women and the children, women and the children. About the children, you’re going to bankrupt the children and the grandchildren, you’re going to bankrupt generations yet born wealth yet created. Had four children, parents wouldn’t do this to their own children, were they, they wouldn’t do it to their own grandchildren, would they? And yet it’s a collective. We seem to lose our minds, we seem to lose our way, most of us would die to protect our children and do anything we all else we could do. To make sure they’re not impoverished and so forth and so on, and yet when we make. Decisions or sort of a collective ideology about this? It’s go ahead, spenta your heart desires. Do whatever you need to do, spend, spend, spend, spend. And it is our flesh and blood. That’s why when I look at this, Jiah Paul, the head of the progressive wing, a.k.a. the Marxist wing of the Democrat Party, they keep making demands. I look at some punk like AOC or anti Semites like Omar and Talib. They want to destroy our country. They have no no attachment to this country. They want to destroy the future for our children and grandchildren. Who are these bastards? He’ll get to make these decisions. How about all of us? I’ll be right back.
Hour 1 Segment 4
I have in front of me really a fascinating piece from over a year ago, maybe a little longer than that, and it was in 538 that come how never Trump has crashed the Democratic Party and the writers, Perry Bacon Jr.. I don’t know who that is. It really doesn’t matter. But he points out that the trumpeter’s have no influence in the Republican Party de minimise. He points out that the representation on TV is well beyond their political clout. And they’re on TV as Republicans, but the bottom line is they’re never trumpeter’s and that several of them. Have jumped from the Republican Party to the Democrat Party, and they’re bigger influence is on the Democrat Party. And that they have as their objective. To defeat the Republicans and, of course, Trump supporters. It’s a very, very good piece. And I think what. The reason I’m bringing this up is. You can see in the Republican establishment. Particularly among those not exclusively, but particularly among those who don’t run for office or have run for office or have retired from running from office. This attitude. That they don’t much care. But the base of the Republican Party thinks or believes they don’t much care. Except. For their own, I can’t even call ideology their own model of governance. You can see this and George W. Bush. Who wants to get along with everybody except the Republican base? They’ve always been standoffish against the Republican base, Republican base supported Ronald Reagan over his father. And there are other examples, the Republican base, the conservative base, supported Donald Trump over his brother. You can see it with Dick Cheney. Unfortunately. But unfortunately, it’s true, most of these people or their parents or so forth grew out of the Nixon era. And the Ford White House, you can see some of it with Mitch McConnell, who worked for the Ford administration. He never supported Reagan. In the primaries in 76 already. I know that those people that you can also see it in some of the writers and even some of the establishment so-called conservative sites, they’re much more comfortable with what was than what is. And yet we are under this horrific assault by the American Marx and Marxism movements. And they still. Are myopically obsessed. We are proving themselves right. And yet they have no popular support, none. None whatsoever. And yet their numbers are. Really exceed their influence and exceed their reach on cable TV. On other platforms and so forth. It’s true now I am adding to what the gentleman wrote. But it is true. Many of these people voted for Biden. But they don’t want to be held to account. Biden’s been the biggest disaster in my lifetime. But they’ll never admit that. Many of them now have paid jobs on MSNBC or CNN or they’ve set up their own websites or where they get speaking fees or whatever it is that they do write books and articles trying to justify themselves. Trying to justify who they are and what they believe, they don’t believe anything. They’re not even in the fight. They’re not even in the battle. George W. Bush is a very nice man most of the time, I think. But he never attacked the Obamas and never did. He did raise an issue when it came to Afghanistan, but he hasn’t routinely attacked Pelosi or Schumer or Biden for that matter, but he attacked Trump supporters on 9/11. Really appalling. Anyway, just a thought, I’ll be right back.