Congressman McEwan, Politics, and Integrity
Audio Transcript: The Need for Self-Respect
Dr James Dobson for family talk you know
many of us spend a lot of time trying to gain the respect of others but the truth
is the person we most need respect from is ourselves Fiona Campbell
of Great Britain so long for the admiration of others that she spent
eleven years walking around the world her goal was to make it into the Guinness Book
of Records long journey came to an end in October of one thousand nine hundred four
at the northern tip of Scotland before thousands of cheering fades it was Fiona's
finest At last she found the admiration she craved but her heart was hidden
because she knew she had cheated while walking across the United States
she became weary and accepted a ride. In the months to come the shame of having
cheated drove her to drugs and alcohol she even considered suicide to appease her
conscience she made the trip to America and finish the thousand mile stretch
in secret but even that didn't help so she called again a softness and asked that
her name be removed from the record and then she publicly apologize as
the lesson Fiona learned is a timeless one it's possible to live without the
admiration of others what we can't live without is self respect one more
thought isn't it interesting that Fiona is most respected for having
the courage to admit her mistake and make it right Dr team stocks and
her family talk.
Newborns - A Blank Slate
Many behaviorist in
past years believe that newborns come
into the world devoid of personality. There just a kind of
a blank slate to be written on by
their parents in the world around them. That's why moms and
dads got all credit or all the blame
for everything their child
eventually became. Most parents have
had a hard time believing this
blank slate theory. Every mother of two or more children will affirm that each of those infants had a different
personality, a different feel from the very first time
they were held. Numerous authorities
in child development now agree with her. One important
study identified nine characteristics
that vary, didn't baby, such
as moodiness and level of activity
and responsiveness. And they found that
the differences tended to persist in
the later life. Now this one study is only the beginning,
I believe, when we have a better
understanding, we will find an
infinite number of ways that children
differ at birth. And how foolish of us to have believed
otherwise. If every snowflake
is unique and every grain of sand this different
from another, doesn't make any sense
that children would be stamped out as
though they were manufactured
by Henry Ford? I think not. Now, no observer of human behavior will
deny the importance of the environment and human experience in
shaping who we are. But we are truly
one of a kind from the very first moments of life outside the womb. Pure Moore had my
family talks.com.
Can I Really Understand Politics? I
Welcome,
Congressman bottom. It's the other way around. Thank you, Jim,
for what you just presented and what you've done for our country
and for so many people. I could not help but sit there and listen
to that and just rejoice my
temperaments like you, I look over my shoulder, did I do this right?
Did I do that? Fortunately, I'm married to a
woman who doesn't. She looks forward all the time. She never regresses. And so but I know
my temperament and so I decided early on that when our children came that we were going to take every 90 days and stop and look back over our shoulder the
previous 90 days. And have I done my best and have we spent
time together? Because I said I know
20 years from now, I'm going to
condemn myself for for not doing it. The things that we did
in listening to that, I cannot thank you
enough for imparting the knowledge that when you're busy and you're looking at the
newspaper and you're looking at work and you're looking
at television, and these little kids are around you and you think, well, they don't know. And then at age
13, when they start to look
out of the home and suddenly they start
to dress in a manner that's inappropriateness
and you try it, you begin to have
these conflicts and you look at your
daughter and you say, Don't you understand
you the most important thing in
the world to me. And yet for 12 years, the newspaper was
more important or work was
more important. And so I learned from what you
taught that when I would get up early
in the morning for quiet time and in our youngest
daughter who just got engaged two weeks ago, he could sense when
I got out of bed, I don't care how
early it was, 435 and I want to have my private time right before anybody
else because she could figured out. And she would come
down the stairs with her little blanket
and come over and and I deliberately
and intentionally would put down whatever I was doing and
focus on her. And she would crawl
up into my lap every morning and eventually she would go
back to sleep. Now I could go back to doing what I was doing. But the point is
that I only knew that because
you taught it. And then at age 13 of
the four children, she started to
do the little bit about where you hug. We always hugged a lot and then she
started to rebel. Nope. Nope. And when we
come home and I give her a squeeze and get away from it,
Get away from me. It's not till you
give me a hug. Not to give me a and
it became a shtick for about 12 to 18 months where I
would let her go into into phi
should give me she could miss squeezed
nobody break. And then after that,
after age 14 or so, it went back to
normal again? I would have no, no. And for what
you've done for our country and
for so many of us. And it's now at
this body of knowledge that
we are now going to be able to
preserve and extend. For generations to come. Words are inadequate to communicate my
gratitude to you. So last night we talked about culture
and the church. And Dr. Moore, thank you for culture and
the family as to what everything you
just said was so helpful and I so
appreciate what you did. My my turn is
yes. Thank you. I beg your pardon. Erebus should buy
all the books. And thank you
for writing it down so there's preserved. Then I'm going to talk briefly about the
culture and government. And then tonight Dr.
Lori is going to speak about the culture and you and I and what we do. And then tomorrow is
really going to be fun. But in sitting there
listening to Dr. Dobson, I got so smuggled
in and so happy. Let's take 50 seconds to stand up and sing with me. Praise God, from whom. All bless. Thank you very much. Good. Our data that we mentioned was spent a
year in Rwanda, a country in the
middle of Africa. We went to visit her. And there's,
you know, they, Hutus or 80 percent, uh, tutsis or 20 percent, they believe in democracy. There's not a Republican, so the majority rules. 80 percent wanted
to do away with the 20 percent
over 90 days, they chopped a
million people and pieces by by machetes. As we went to visit the work that
she was doing, we took the Land Rover out as far as the roads
would go and then we went on a trail and
then we went across the river on a on a log and got
clear back there. And these little kids
were coming out of the grass with
plastic jugs. And I said, Where are
they going to sit? There is a fountain
down there. And so we went down
to the fountain and they're in the concrete
of this pure water. Said, this
fountain, a gift of the people of the United States
of America. 4% of the population of the world are
called Americas. And what they
do is that they bless other folks for
thousands of years. People would hope
to someday fly. But it was the Americans than invented
the airplane. And the light bulb,
and the telegraph, and the telephone and the global
positioning system and the Internet and air conditioning
every year, more books, more plays, more symphonies, more copyrights,
more inventions. And the other
96% combined. And since they do
that, they then bless the world with
the abundant well. Half of all the
people on earth live on less
than $2 a day. Half of those live on
less than $1 a day. The second we're just
spot on earth is Western Europe, France,
Germany, Britain. In America, we
have a level below which we will not permit
a person to sink. As you come to
this country, sit down on a park bench, put your feet up, you
can complain about the country We will
bury you with. Food. Stamps, will give you
a roof over your head, a bed to sleep in unlimited healthcare
and education, a person living in
poverty in America. Rector study
every 24 months, Wall Street Journal,
Heritage Foundation. A person living
in poverty in America is more likely
to have a telephone, television, and
air conditioner. An automobile eats
more meat and has more square
footage space than the average resident of the second richest spot on Earth, Western Europe? Now the question
would be, why? And it's important
that we know the answer to that question. Because if we don't, we're liable to elect someone who wants to fundamentally
change America. And then there'll be no
place else for us to go through the solution. And the answer is
really quite simple. When we vote, we vote
on only two things. Politics is really
easy as pie, politics equals integrity
plus Economics. Those are the only
two. I don't care if you're in Belgium
or Buenos Aires, or Baghdad or Boston. The only two things
that you vote on our politics
and economics. Now, integrity
and economics and integrity was kind of an interesting
thing because being in politics, you dealt with people
that were good folks. And yet when you went to lean on him, they
weren't there. And and and I couldn't
quite figure it out. It wasn't that they'd
done anything bad. And I finally had
to come up with a definition as to
what integrity is. Integrity is made
up of two things. We say that this
platform has integrity or a bank has integrity
or a stairwell. It means it
performs the task for which it was designed. It's trustworthy,
it's reliable. And so integrity to me, first of all, is
made up of morality. And I defined morality as not doing what's wrong. Shalt not Steal, shall not bear false witness, shall not commit adultery. Morality, not doing
what's wrong. Yet. Integrity is
more than that. Edmund Burke said all this necessary for charity
to prosperous, for good men
to do nothing. I mean, you can
lay in bed all day and be moral. Integrity means that when you go to lean
on there, there. And so it's
more than just, just morality is also character and I
define character is doing what is right. And so the
example I use is a little girl comes
home from school. She says
everybody's picking on Sally and all, but I didn't do it.
I didn't do it. That's good. You didn't
do anything wrong. But did you have
the character to stand up and do
what was right? Now? Here's an observation. You cannot do
what is right? If you're doing
What's wrong. I know that sounds
rather elementary, but if you're with
the New York Times, this will be a profundity. That is, by definition. By definition, if you're doing something wrong, you can't do
what's right now. You can not do something wrong and still fail
to do what's right. But by definition,
if you are doing something wrong, you can't do
what is right. So therefore, a person
who lacks morals, by definition lacks integrity, you say,
oh, no, no, no, but it doesn't have to do with his
professional duties. So what he does
on his private time as you
mature, I mean, you can imagine you walk
into a bank and say that your teller has been arrested three
times for breaking entry or I know when
he's not at the bank, He's just a
real scoundrel. But when he's here, he said, No, no,
no, no, no, no. We're going to say
the president. What he does on his
private time is not, doesn't really
matter how many. I remember the
governor of New York, Governor Cuomo was
on Larry King. He said, I wouldn't not trust the President
with my sister. But I know that in time of crisis he'll do
what is right for it can limit day
of your family, can't trust your rest assured nobody
else can country. So the, so the
important thing is very simply will
come back to it. Doing what is right. There has to be
a definition. What is right? So in order for us to make a decision as to a
person's integrity, we have to define
what is right. Let's put all that aside. Number 2, economics, I'm going
to share with you now 95% of all the economics you'll
ever need to know the rest your life.
This is very simply it. Let us suppose that
this represents a 100 percent
of your income, a 100 percent of
the income of a city or a state
or a nation. Let us say it represents a
hundred-dollar bill. And you go to
Walmart and the most expensive thing
in the store is ninety-nine dollars. That means you are
completely free to choose anything
in the store. Let us suppose that
someone comes along and takes 25 percent of
it away from you. What happens? Two things. Number one, you
have fewer choices. There's some things
you can't choose. Thomas Jefferson said freedom is having choices. The more choices I take away from you, the
less freedom you have. Anybody ever
had a teenager understands this debate. I want to make my
own decisions. I want my freedom.
Yes, I understand. So the more choices I
take away from you, the less freedom and the more money
I take away, the lower standard
of living. I repeat, if you're not with the
New York Times, there's a really
simple stuff. Or let us say I take
away 50% of it. What happens? Even fewer choices,
even lower. So suppose I take 75,
leave you with 25. What happens? You
have less freedom. You have a lower
standard of living. Let's suppose
someone comes along and takes all of it away. What do we call a
person who works all day and keeps
absolutely nothing. That person is
called a slave. Now, there are
only two people that can take money
away from you. One is called a criminal, has a gun and can take
money away from you. The other is called
the government has a gun and can take
money away from you. Now here's the point. The impact is the same. So you go to the pay window and you pick up your
money and you walk across the
parking lot to fill it comes up, puts
a gun to your ribs. Don't want 50%
of everything in there and you go sit, drive home, you sit down with your
wife and family. You say this is how
much money we have. This is what we're
going to eat this, how much clothes
we can buy this, what vacations
we can take, or you pick up
the money to pay. When do you make it all the way out to the drug? You open up the paycheck. Uncle Sam's
already been here. The impact is the same. So what's the principle? The principle
is simply this. The greater the
government, the greater the poverty, the greater the freedom, the greater the wealth. And so once you understand
that principle, then that's all you
need to know about. So you show me
what percentage of the gross domestic
product of any nation. I don't
need to know the name. The nation doesn't
matter what percentage of the GDP has taken
by government. And the principle applies. The greater the freedom, the greater the wealth, the greater the
government, the greater the poverty. And if you understand that you can make
any rich place, poor, richest city in the
world when I was young, was a place called
Detroit, Michigan, richest city
on the planet. They voted for change. And now in the
city of Detroit, population same, it is
now collapse to 1890. And there are 42000
single-family homes in Detroit that are not uninhabited
or uninhabitable. The mayor of
Detroit now markets his city by taking
once treeline, gorgeous homes,
neighborhoods, and having
bulldozed at all. He now says, see these streets are here
with nothing at all. You can come and
put a plant here. Any business
management to ask, why did all these
people leave? But nevertheless, all they have to offer is the fact that they've increased
government regulation, control, less freedom, and created poverty
at the same time that he did that. At the middle
of the 1950s, there was a war
that divided the Korean Peninsula
at the 38th parallel. I have to use Korea because it's
surrounded by water. If you can't blame
it on its neighbors or ethnicity or whatever. North Korea got 75%
of the arable land. Same heritage,
same culture, same climate,
same language. South Korea got
independence and freedom. And last year they had
the tenth largest GDP in the world, North Korea, over the last five years, 2.5 million people
have start. Now the first thing
to as food, clothing, shelter, first thing
you do is food. Food. And so when they
collapse a country and destroy is culture and in, in Uganda, Congo
or whatever. And the engineers
and the doctors, everybody has to
go out and work in the garden to
try to get food. You gotta do that first. In North Korea, they're smaller now than they
were 30 years ago. They weren't,
they eat sticks and leaves to fill
their stomachs. They walk stooped
or around. They are starving
to death. Why? Same gameplay. You don't anything other
than the fact that freedom creates wealth and the lack of freedom
creates poverty. And that's what
politics is all about. Now, you say, Well Bob, you sound like you're sort of anti-government. And the answer that yes, but there's a reason why, why that is because
it works like this. You gave us a conclusion. But why is that?
Well, let us suppose that
you're going to buy something
for yourself. So you care about
two things. You care about
price and quality. And nobody can make that decision as
well as you can. You might pay $4 for a cup of coffee at
seven in the morning for which you
wouldn't pay $0.50 it two in the afternoon. Nobody can make a decision when you're spending
your money for yourself, you care about price and you care
about quality, and you get the maximum use because Germany, now, let us suppose
that one of those two things is not
controlled by you and you're going to buy something
for someone else, you still care
about the price because you're
paying for it. Which are a little more flexible on the quality. By the time it breaks, it'll be married
three or four years. I'll forget who gave
it to him anyway, this will be fine. Now we've all bought
things for people who had never buy
for somebody else. We've all received things as gifts that
we've never what about we care about the price because
we're paying for it, but we're not as concerned about the
quality because we're not consuming
it. Let's invert that. Let us suppose that we're going to consume it. If we're going to
consume it than, than we care about
the quality. But if we're not
paying for it, so the waitress comes
around and says, How would you like to
have some orange juice? And you say, well,
how much has it? And she says, well,
it's $3.5 a glass. You really are. I'm fine. Thank
you so much. Oh, no, no, no. You got the special day. It's complimentary.
You can have all fall
in that case, I'll take three glasses. Poor way you might walk, I believe have a glass you wouldn't have you're paying for your care about the quality because
you're consuming it. But you're not nearly
as concerned about the price because you're
not paying for it. Any father that
ever got roped into an open bar at a wedding understands
this program. They, let us suppose
final example. Let us suppose that
where you work, everybody that comes
in late has to put $5 in the kitty at the end of the
month, a raffle. It often it's the last
day of the month. And so the boss says, John wants you count how many, how much money's in
the kidney and buy something with it, we'll
rattling off today. And so you counted
out there's a $150. So you go to lunch and you're coming
back and think, oh my goodness, I have
to buy something. I don't have
time for this. And you're looking
around and they're in the store window is a six-foot tall
stuffed frog. And so you go
over, you check the price. $149. Oh, perfect, That's great. So you buy the
frog and you take it back and you shove
it in the closet. At the end of the
day, the boss invites everybody
down in lectures to him about being
late and then thereby draws a number
to see who wins, who in sally ends
Watch or she, when the new secretary
open up the door, six-foot tall frog air by laughs and claps things
that's so wonderful. Go out and carried him
to jump into her car. She drives through the parking lot
cheering and clapping. What's that? That is called a
third-party purchase. A third-party purchase is purchasing something with money that's
not yours. Therefore, you don't
care about the price. To purchase something
that you're not going to personally
consume. Therefore, you don't
care about the quality. Now, they say in public speaking
manuals that when you say
something profound, you're supposed to
pause for emphasis. And so I am now
going to pause for emphasis because what I'm about to say is
not Democrat, Republican labor, Christian democrats,
socialists. This is the facts, jack. That by definition, all
government purchases or a third party purchases made with money
that's not theirs to purchase things they were not personally
consume. Therefore, it
will be waste in the highway department. You betcha. Will it be waste
in the defense? Of course there will be. That's why we believe, as Abraham Lincoln said, the government should
do only those things which a man cannot do
better for himself. Why? Because every time we
take a dollar from an individual to
save and invest in use to the maximum
benefit of themselves and their family and
run it through the third party system
called government. We're in the process of making the nation poorer. And you show me
what percentage of the gross domestic
product of any nation is controlled
by government? And you have
the principal. The greater the freedom, the greater the wealth. You can make. The California fifth
largest economy in the world in 2006. You can begin
to attack it in such a manner that it
begins to disintegrate. It's now the
eighth largest economy in a spiral. You can do it. You can make any
rich place poor or the same
principle applied. You can make any
poor place rich. Now, if you understand how that works, you say, Well, Bob, there's
some things that they tell me government
really, really has to do. Well whenever you see an aberration
in something, I promise you look
to government. Said, well, why is
it that we have the greatest health care
system in the world? If you are a, a Saudi shake and you, if you're the
Prime Minister of Canada and you want
to heart bypass, you go to the
Cleveland Clinic. Why would a person
who has social, why would they come here the finest healthcare
in the world? We understand that and yet the prices seem
to be fouled up. Well, how could
that happen? 940 to December 1941, Americans attack 1942, people were marching
off to war, losing their legs
and limbs and lives. And so politicians
want to help. And so they say,
well, what we should do is we should have a wage
and price freeze. And that is it. No one can get a
raised during the war, we should sacrifice
at home just like the folks are fast
sacrificing abroad. What doesn't take any
time, but obviously that's going to create
all kinds of chaos. How's McDonald Douglas going
to get engineered, moved from Chicago to California unless a good payment
differential said it. And so immediately when all the trouble
comes through. But being a liberal means never having to
say, you're sorry. So you never say what?
We should undo this. So they go into
FDR and say, No way, way, way, way. We labor unions
take money out of their paycheck every
week and you're telling us we can't get anything more for them. I mean, they're
not going to be happy and they're
going to have with us, which means they're not going to be
happy with you. And, and so what
are we going to do? Well, rather
than fixing it? Here's what they said. Hey, what if you will negotiate to have
the employer? Purchase, not their
car insurance, home insurance or not,
they're likely to purchase their
health insurance. We won't count that
as a pay raise. And so in 940, 25 percent of the people
in the country had a second party, has someone else bridging
it would care about the why don't
you betcha care about the price of
not paying for it. So by 945, 85%
more than four out of five people
in America have somebody else purchasing
their health care. And over the time as
it has proceeded, we've begun to the
point that people say that politicians,
they get, isn't it terrible that when a person
loses their job, they lose, they lose
their health care. You're darn tune. That's a stupid as if
you're I lost my job, I lose my car insurance. I mean, that's silly. What if we started
paying a mortgage for them instead of
doing their health care? Their health care is,
isn't it terrible in America that when
you lose your job, you lose your house? Yes, I would be
done as opposed, shouldn't do such a thing. And so you've got your, you've got a second
party purchase, and now you have two
options. Two options. Number 1, you
could go back to the first-party
purchase and say, how about if we had
300 million people purchasing their
health care just like they purchase
their car insurance. And that little gecko would be up every night. Asa you a little
more coverage for little less cost habit of air, but it
could compete. And this thing could write itself in a
matter of days. Or the other option is happen if we
have those nice, compassionate
people, folks down at the Bureau of
Motor Vehicles, why don't we
have them take over our health
care system. You know, those good folks that keep such
good records of the Social Security
office will have got government takeover
of health care. Now, you've got
the picture. You've got the picture. We have a second
party purchase. We have two options. And just you got
the picture. October 2010. Follow it. Those on the left. Believe that the
only way to fix the system is through a single-payer system
like Canada's. He had to stop
because the folks on his suddenly I got all excited during
the judge clap and Wesley get away
from slow down. Then he says, Where are
we would've received barely restrict the
private insurance market. The greater the government,
the less freedom. And have the government provide coverage
for everybody. They're all excited.
Next sentence, here's about, he understands
what the issue is. Next sentence
is on the right are those who argue
that we should end employer
based systems and leave individuals to buy health insurance
on their own. Poor little sweetie pies. The fact is that's when our folks should
have been standing on their chairs and
clapping and cheering because there's no reason for us to be in
the spectrum. And he understands
it perfectly, and it's important
that we do as well. But let's proceed on. You understand
the principle, there's a better hustle. The how did we get
in this condition? How do we, Bob? If it's so simple that when people have freedom to create wealth, Hong Kong, same heritage, same culture,
same climate, seeing everything
as China. When Hong Kong
was handed back to the Chinese, its output proportion had no natural resources,
by the way, built on a rock, people
floating there and Sam pans from
Southeast Asia wouldn't even set
foot on the ground. People raise their
children and they had to get barbers
and so mood vegetables and
sewing all kinds of things on these
little sand pounds and they output per
person was 40 times 400, 40 times as great. It's just across
the border into China with all of its great culture and heritage and climate
and all the rest. Why, why would
people so obviously do what is this as
damaging to their country? Well, Thomas Jefferson said we have to have
a starting point and all arguments
of every kind, there are certain
primary trues or first principles
upon which all subsequent
reasoning must append a starting place. And the starting
place is simply this. And all of these debates, there are only
two worldviews. Only 21 is you believe
that man created God, or you believe that
God created man. End of discussion. You can go to any
philosophy course. You go to any
philosophy section of a bookstore
or a library, pull down the book and start reading by page 5, I can tell you there's
only two worldviews. If you believe that man called up out of
the slime and said, Let's write a symphony. Or you believe that God created man
one of the other. Now the impact
is significant. And after you,
you see this, you'll be able to listen
to a politician for 60 seconds and tell whether or not he has
you're interested. Mind works like this. You believe that
man created God, then you believe that
man is his standard. If you believe that
God created man and you believe that
God has a standard. Here's the important
part. If you believe that man
created God, then you believe man
is basically good. By what standard
would he not be good? If you believe that
God created man? And you believe that
man falls short. If you believe that
man created God, then you believe that
anything that goes wrong Can't be his fault
because he's good. And so if a person
comes in and starts shooting people
intuitively inside, we know that
that's not right, but it can't be useful because he's
good. So it's gotta be. The guns fall. Gotta
regulate deck gun, see that gun coming in. They're doing bad things. If, if, if a fellow is going around
impregnated people and taking no
responsibility as a father in no provision for the fat can
be his fault. He's got so it's gotta be the schools
didn't have enough, didn't pass out enough condoms in
the classroom. We didn't have enough
sex education courses. And I repeat, you can listen to a
politician and you can sense it however you believe God
created man, you understand
there's an individual accountability to him, both spiritually
and personally. Finally, if you
believe that the standard is yourself, Record rights come from, they could only come from one place, the group. And so you listen
to a politician, you listen to the two
national conventions. And it gets humors. Because one
national convention can never say the words. People are Americans. Everybody has to
be gay or lesbian, or women, or
Hispanic or black. And they have a
whole litany because everybody power comes
from one source. It has to come
from the group. And the group is
where their focus is. However, our founders were not ignorant to this. See, this isn't very old. This is, this is
all pretty new by the way, the
American idea. And so when we looked over all of
recorded history, our founders
figured it out very clearly that where
our rights came from. And just to remind
you of this, all of us have only
four grandparents. Only for three of my wife's
grandparents were born Ulysses Grant
Administration. There are many
people who lived on the Ulysses Grant
Administration that remember, such as Abraham Lincoln
would've remembered when Jefferson and Adams and all
those people died. So this is not a
very old country. This is a very brief
period of time. And our founders dealt with the questions that
we're facing with, and they came up with
a clear answers. How does it implement
into public policy? It works like this. If you believe
that man is in control than the way that you fix things
is only one way. You have to have
more government. However, if you believe that there
is a rightness and trusting
the individual, then you want
limited government making the decisions that we just talked about. If you believe in
more government than you will always want
more taxes. I repeat. You listen to a candidate
for city council, for mayor, for state
representative, for Congress,
for president. And the voice that
they will always at this critical
time in history, this exceptional moment, we will just need a little bit more of your money. And they only say that every single day
of their lives, they will always
want more taxes. And when you listen, you know exactly
where they are. These people always
want fewer taxes. Why? Fewer taxes? Because
as morphine, that what these people always want a
weak defense. Now this is where they
start to fall apart because Katie Couric will see you folks
on the right. You always say
that you want lower taxes and less gaba, but you always want to
have a strong defense. The answer is right,
that's correct. Why? Because limited government
gives us more freedom, fewer taxes, it gives
us more freedom. And strong defense
protects our freedom. And that's what government
is supposed to do. Final example is
these people, because they're
the standard. They can rearrange
the standard at any given time when
they choose to. And so therefore, they decide that
marriages between two men and a horse. And since they're
the standard, they can make it a
hate crime for you to laugh at their definition
of a marriage, because they're
the standard. And our founders
knew that that is the definition of tyranny. Whereas we knew
in America that are rights do not come
from the majority, that come from a
biblical definition. How does that work out? This has to do
with leadership. Let me just do it
in 60 seconds. That's a picture of
George Washington. December 25th, 1776. In April of 1776, he had 40000 soldiers. He got beat repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly. He came across
the Hudson River in a night escape
from New York. Fortunately, the Lord put a cloud cover that lasted until 11
in the morning. And when the
last soldier was across into New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
it lifted. Virtually everybody
had abandoned him. He's now down in in Valley Forge
was 7400 men, of whom only 2400
could stand 5000 rail. And the only reason they
were hanging on was because their
enlistment was up on January 1st. And those folks
that had already abandoned him, we're
going to get nothing. And they were
hanging on until January 1st in order to have their enlistment
be paid in full. And then he would
have no army. And he knew that
America would not exist. And one man. One man, leader
makes a difference. One man said, what we're going to do is all of
you that can march. I know you don't
have shoes. Who grabbed burlap and put them around your
feet, you could follow. They'll be able
to follow in the snow from the blood. And they marched down to where there were supplies. The German
Hessian soldiers were living in
luxury heads, had foodstuffs and
military supplies. He went down to attack that soldiers and Trenton, New Jersey on
Christmas Day, 1776. The password was
victory or death. Because there will be no United States
of America ever unless we are
victorious here. And the password, that was the password gave
the order to post none but Americans
on guard tonight, a third of the people in America wanted to beat. Third them didn't care. And in that circumstance
he went down. The Lord blessed him with a marvelous victory. John Marshall,
james Madison, one of the only
five people wounded was James Monroe, the fourth president
the United States. He was hit and fortunately was spurting
blood and they were able to
stop and save as like James Madison, who 12 years later
would become the father of the
Constitution. Alexander Hamilton was his aide-de-camp in the
course of the battle, who set the standard
whereby America became the financial standard of the world because
of what he was to do 15 years later. From the big, from that
victory because of that leadership, great
opportunity came, was never what we
face as bleak at the moment cannot compare
with what he faced. And so as they got together to put
together a country, they wrote our
birth certificate in which it says
simply this. We hold these truths. Now there's enough
to get denied tenure at any college in America
right off the bat. We hold these truths
to be self-evident. Which is a gracious Jeffersonian
way of saying, any idiot, I don't
understand this. I mean, if you're
blind, deaf and dumb, We hold these truths to
be self-evident that all men are created equal. And then our endowed by a five to four decision. The Supreme Court are endowed by their creator. Rights only come
from two sources. Either they come
from God or they come from
the majority. In the majority,
80 percent can kill the 20 percent. That's why America is not a democracy
by the way, we democratically
elect people, but we are not a democracy in the
word democracy. And that does not
appear in any of our founding
documents because our whites don't come
from the majority. Are rights come from God? Certain inalienable rights among these are life. No, no, no, no,
no, no. I don't want government
involved in a bedroom. This is between
a woman and or the wrong country on a, because it says
right there in our birth certificate that this is what
government does. The preservation
of life, liberty, and to secure
these rights, governments are
instituted among men. This is what
government does. And notice the
sequence life first and then Liberty. See, liberty is a
precious little value. If you're dead, you have
to have life first, then liberty, then sewer systems
and overpasses. But the first thing
you do is life. So don't tell me that that's above
your pay grade. You shouldn't be a dog
catcher in America because the purpose of the American government is to preserve life, then Liberty, and then the right to
pursue happiness. Now, at the same time
that we were doing that the French
god love them. They wanted to have a
revolution as well. But it was the enlightenment as
you understand. And they didn't
need that God part. And so they wanted to
have a revolution. And their theme
was liberty. We're missing a word. Liberty, equality,
and fraternity. What's another word
for paternity? Group wasn't
open for groups Soviet or another word
for Soviet Union. So because of my group,
I want equality. How do you get
equality? You take from one person and
you give to another. What happens when you
take from people? They object. What happens
when the object? Well, you gotta kill. The symbol of the
French Revolution was the guillotine. Now this only
happens every time. So when Pol Pot
goes into Cambodia, he kills 2.5
million people. Anybody who wore glasses, anybody who drove it, a foreign automobile, anybody who had a degree, and if I could speak
a foreign language, anybody who own property, Pol Pot, it in Cambodia. A 400 thousand
immediately with che Guevara killing in the
Afford a time in Cuba. We don't know any
close to at least a 100 million in China
under Mao say tongue, when Listen, I would
visit the Soviet Union. Under communism, they always give
you a minder and after eight or 10 days you develop a certain
relationship. And I always plan for at the end after we develop a certain
friendship. How many people do you
think Stalin killed in variable is a
neighborhood of 60 to 65 million? Even a liberal history
books say 35 million, no matter how
you slice it, It's a pot load of folks. Man without God always
ends up killing. A man without God
ends up killing. So when they take out God. So the French, to this
day on their coin, when the president finishes speaking
in Paris, he doesn't say
God bless France. He says liberty,
equality, fraternity. America. Understood,
God bless America. What happens when not
when at the difference, a man without gone? Well. You understand now as to why those are
our opponents. Want to do away with the god tied to
what America is. They want to separate
and why do they care if they have undergone to the
Pledge of Allegiance? Why do they
care if there's a cross on a city seal? Wants it wants it to them. Well, they want to
separate us from God. They want to separate, got out of our culture. Now there's a
term for that, by the way, it's
called sin. Sin is anything that
separates us from God. And sin, when it is conceived,
bring it forth. Death. The wages
of sin is death. There is a way that
seems right unto a man, but the end there of
are the ways of death. What are the
ways of death? Abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, right
to die legislation, drug addiction, alcoholism, death,
death, death. But I am come that
you might have life. I am the way the
truth and the life. He did have
some half-life. And so you clearly have a life and death
struggle and apart. And so the man that they respected the most
was invited back to the same room in
which they had signed the Declaration
of Independence and tried to draft
a new constitution. 10%, 50 percent of the country lived
in 10 states. 50% of the
country lived in three states. Now there's
no way around that. Big states aren't
gonna be dictated by little ones,
vice versa. For states wanted
to have slavery. John Adams, who he didn't fight for
independence, slavery, I'll tell you that. And so they could
agree upon 6.5 weeks. Absolutely. Nothing
began to break apart. George Mason, George Washington's
best friend, next door neighbor got his carriage
started leaving. George Washington walked alongside the carriage, pleading with Augusta,
Georgia can't do them. At Mason said, I
kinda the things that I can't sit
around it rolls. I'm going to argue
about this. I mean, there's no way
out of this. Washington is
able to crown back one final time. The oldest person in attendance was
Benjamin Franklin, one of the six people in the room that had signed the Declaration
of Independence some 12 years before, 11 years before,
he had gout. One of the most respected
people in the world. He chose to speak
for the first time. By the way, as an aside, you will find nothing
in history that purports promiscuity or
your responsibility, if anything, of
Benjamin Franklin prior to the 1920s. It was the deconstruction of our founders in which all the stories that
have now taken for truth it because they
repeat each other. And when David Burton took the founding
documents as to what Thomas
jefferson said, he was strongly
attacked by all of these professionals
who did what quoted each other. Tom and David Barton did not quote
anyone except the actual facts
as to what he said and what he
wrote and what he what he believed. And supposedly he
didn't believe in Christ when he
signed the document. When we put an
official documents done in the year
of our Lord, Thomas Jefferson
would cross out Lord and put Christ. So the people 200
years later wouldn't be misconstruing
as to who we met. There's some some
nebulous nevertheless, I'm digressing as these
folks are speaking. The oldest member,
84 years old, Benjamin Franklin finally says, let me say a word. He said this June 28, 1787, you can get
the whole speech. He said this,
Mr. President, the small progress
that we have made after four or five
weeks as proof of the imperfection of
human understanding that we have gone back to ancient history for models of government and examine the difference forms which now no longer exist. We have viewed modern states all
around Europe, but find none of
their constitution suitable to our
circumstances. But let me say this. Knowledge is good.
Wisdom is better. Wisdom is the proper
use of knowledge. You can teach a 12-year-old how
to drive a car. You don't throw your
keys to a 12-year-old. Why? Because he
lacks the wisdom, the proper use of
the knowledge. Where does, where does
wisdom come from? Two sources. Wisdom
comes from experience. Either your own or
someone else's. But there's some
things we've never experienced before. We've never gone through
the seventh year of a marriage with a five-year-old and
a three-year-old, or what are some
things we never end. So the scripture says, If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all men liberally and a
braid of not. So the two sources
of wisdom. First of all, you
view modern states all around Europe tried to find what you
can find out. And if there's
nothing there, now you're in a pickle, What are you
gonna do next? Here's what you do
in this situation. Groping in the dark to
find political truth. We have not one startup
humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our
understanding, we've been calling around here in the dark
long enough and nobody's bothered to go over and flip
on the light. In the beginning of the contest with
Great Britain, we had daily prayer in this room for
divine protection. Our prayers were heard and they were
graciously answered. I get this. This is
not 200 years later, this is 11 years later. Get this. Have we now forgotten
this powerful friend? Or do we imagine
that we no longer need his
assistance? Sir? I've lived a long time.
The longer I live, the more convincing
proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the
affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground
without notice, is it probable that an empire can rise
without his aid? We've been assured in
the sacred writings that accept the
Lord build a house. They labour in vain
that built it. Well, I firmly
believe this, that without his
concurring aid, we shall succeed in
this political building no better than the
builders of Babel. Therefore, I
move the prayers imploring the assistance
of heaven and its blessings on
our deliberations beheld in this assembly every morning before we
proceed to business. They voted and
they agreed. That recessed
across the street for three days of
fasting and prayer. They met on Monday
morning where Pastor do Shea gave a brief little 3.5 hour prayer
on their knees, which was published
on the front page of the Philadelphia
journal. And from that
day until this, The United States
Congress has never met without first calling
upon God in prayer. And over the
next five weeks, they wrote the
Constitution of the United
States of America, creating the oldest
government on the planet. Every government on Earth has changed repeatedly. It's one of the
youngest country, the oldest government
on the planet. And so the factors that, you know, this
is a good thing. We gotta make sure that a 150 or 200 years from now, people don't forget this. And so therefore, no person shall take
a position of public trust unless they first swear
allegiance to God, asked to be a
starting point. And so when, when Dashiell took over
in the Senate, he tried to
eliminate the idea that when you take witnesses
before committees, do you promise to
tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth? Stop. Seat with no reference. If you're at the standard. Yeah. Everything I
say is going to be true because i'm I'm
understanding it. So help you God, there has to be a
starting point. They don't want the
starting point. We do. That's what makes
America different. So every person, whether it be dog catcher or
president United States, must first swear
allegiance on the Biot number 2, all
official documents. So remind them whether
it be declaring Groundhog Day or
the Obama Care Act. It shall say done in this, the, the year of our Lord, the 2012 and that the independence of
the United States, that 232nd, there has
to be a starting point. And finally, Congress
shall never meet. Congress meets today
for five minutes. Take a message from
the senate president, speaker, come and
bang the gavel. First, asked for prayer, receive the message, bang the gavel and adjourn. That's what has made
America different. And that's where
the battle is. If we don't understand it, if we don't engage it, if we have pastures that want to walk away from it, if we don't want
to get involved, we want to get
flexibility than America will not survive. John Adams said about
that constitution was made only for moral
and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government
of any other. Why? Because when
the slaves left America to form a new
nation in Europe, in Africa called Liberia, which is French
for liberty, and they named it
after President Monroe Monrovia
is the capital. They took the
Constitution of the United States
and they use that as their
constitution. It's a very unhappy place. Why? Because that
constitution was made for a moral and
religious people. It's wholly inadequate to the government
of any other. George Washington
simply said this, of all the habits
and dispositions which lead to
political prosperity. To support you
take away this. You're not going
to have, you, libertarians, you want
to have all this into, But you cannot have a political
prosperity without religion and morality as the dispensable supports. Including is this. We can have reasons to be frustrated
at this moment. Throughout history that we've been here before. In our lifetime. In 1979, 980, 18
percent inflation, 22 percent interest rates, embassies being run over by people because we
were incompetent. They didn't have
the leadership to even defend
what they were. The last time an
ambassador was killed, her basis was
35 years ago. It was the Carter
administration was the last time ambassadors were killed. We didn't do
anything about it. The head of the Council
of Economic Advisers talked about the 1980s. He said The future
for the 1980s is, the question is
not, I'm quoting. This is the chief
economic advisor speaking on behalf
of the President United States was standing
right next to him. The question is not whether or not
America will have a declining standard of living in the 1980s. The question is
whether or not Americans can learn to adapt to their declining
standard of living. America is coming to an end next Tuesday
a week where your sweater ride
your bicycle, it's all over. On election night,
November 1980, former governor
of California went on nationwide
television. He said there's nothing wrong with this country that proper
leadership came here. We had gas lines. I was like, Listen,
I re-elected. We drove back
and forth from Washington to
Cincinnati six times between November
and January 3rd, we knew that
there was not a single filling
station in any of that 470 miles that was open after three o'clock in
the afternoon, if you didn't have
a full tank of gas, you weren't going
to make it all. While Reagan came in
first thing you took all those regulations
through and the Potomac where
they belong, began to cut taxes. 21 story investment
and productivity. By the end of that
decade, three out of every four jobs created on this planet were
created in one country, the United States
of America. When we drove
home for Easter, she was asleep on the
front seat of the car. We drove up in there and my hometown of 5
thousand Hillsborough, there were three filling
stations at midnight all lit up for the first
time in 2.5 years, I woke up, I said,
Look, how do we not 1, this wouldn't
have happened. And nation that was
flat on its back. Again to rise
up that by 999, the end of that
decade, the entire world,
Managua, Warsaw, even the Kremlin
are chanting, USA, USA, USA leadership
makes a difference. Final point. When you do the wrong thing, do
the right thing. Our finances were a mess when George Washington
becomes president. And so in the Constitution says the president shall from time to time give a report on the
State of the Union. I was observing the
third State of the Union address by George
Washington in which he says this about that financial chaos that was the United States. He appointed
Alexander Hammond, Secretary of State who went on the gold standard. Here's what he says in his third State of
the Union address. The United States enjoy a scene of tranquility and prosperity under the new government
that would have hardly had been
hope for get this. Our public credit stands
on that high ground, which three years ago it would have been
considered a species of madness to have foretold a very gracious
way of saying only an idiot would
say that we could accomplish as much as
we did in three years. Why does that mean you
do the wrong thing, you destroy the greatest
country on earth. You take the
greatest state of richest city
like Detroit, a great study
like California, you do the wrong thing,
you can just draw. It cuts the corollary. Corollary, if
you do the right thing, you get fixed. And that's what we're
committed to doing. God bless.
Can I Really Understand Politics? II
Wall Street Journal
had a series of articles on a
study that has been conducted
for 15 years by the Chinese
government as to why for 4 thousand
years sanitation, lifespans, life styles, quality of living stayed virtually same level
all over the globe. And suddenly, in
the middle of the last millennia in Europe began to
climb exponentially. And Bach and Beethoven and Mozart, Haydn,
Handel, architecture, Christopher Wren
and Shakespeare in and Bunyan and Jim watch the
Industrial Revolution with the steam engine, the Adam Smith and architecture
and economics. Why is it that, that play suddenly exploded
in 400 years later, China and the sub-continent
and Africa are still the same
as they were for 100 years earlier. And they came
to a conclusion that it was two things. They observe the Chinese
Communist government documented that
what happened. There was the translation
of the scriptures into modern language
coupled with a technological change called the printing press. And where that book went, there was a total
explosion and safety and sanitation
and banking and, and the bathrooms and the banks from there
went around the world. They didn't come
back that way. Exploration and civilization went
from that spot. And those that
embrace that succeeded than those
that ignored, missed it. We have benefited
from that. Now, I want you to
take that thought, put it on a shelf and I'll come back to
it in a minute. I want you to think of, I'm going to read a
series of pathologies. All of them have
something in common. I want you to guess
what they are. 72% of all
juvenile murders, 80% of rapists, 70 percent of all
teenage births, dropout, suicides,
and runaways. 70 percent of all
teenage pregnancies. 71 percent of
chemical abusers, 80 percent of all
prison inmates, 80 percent of all
homeless children. This is a study
by the very left-wing Progressive
Policy Institute. And they observed
that all of them have one
thing in common. No father in the home. So whatever your
passion is, if you want to
correct those things, our friend Chuck
Close, it was dedicated to
helping prisoners. He said we can go
into any classroom. I can tell you those, that 70 percent of
the children of prisoners are going
to end up in jail. I can walk into a elementary school
and the third great, I can denote
by their name, where they're sitting
and who they are. Those people are going
to end up in jail. And therefore, his passion was to rescue them
from that program. Very good burger goal. The reason we don't
leave our children, don't ride to school
and leave their bicycles out in
the arteries. We don't leave the
keys in the cars anymore is because there is an explosion in crime, 80% of which four out of five are credited
to drug addiction. That drugs, Dr. theft, and break-ins in America. Or if you're like me and what really drives and motivates you and what you get you up
in the morning. It's the United
States of America, this lighthouse
for the gospel. $0.85 out of every dollar that goes
for the cost of global evangelism
comes from this 4% of the
population of the world. This is the nation that stands for righteousness. A ship, Japan imports a 100 percent of the oil. If a ship is going through the
Solomon Islands up to the Pacific
and attacked by on the high seas has happened over
300 times last year. To whom can they appeal? The 340 thousand Americans to wear the uniform of the United States Navy. And without that, there is no standard for
righteousness in the world is America. That's the place that
people can turn to. Scripture says
it will bind the city must bind
a strong man. There's only one strong
man in the world. It's the United
States of America. You take down America the rest of the
piece of cake. So there if you care
about where the world, you want to make
America strong. How do you make
america strong? How do you fight crime?
How do you strike? Homelessness,
runaway children, teenage pregnancies, whatever it is that
you're concerned about, what your passion
is that drives you. The answer to
it is Christ. And having it
such that they can absorb it and
understand it. And the technology
now is such that for Liz and me every
morning without fail, we had the clock automatically pop
radio automatically went on at six thirty. Six thirty. We listen to focus on the family
every morning. And then from seven to seven
thirty seven thirty. I had a quarter in front of each
one that gets placed at the kitchen
table because it's 730. Had breakfast.
They weren't sitting there. I
got the quarter. Are we going to yell
or holler or fired? But they were
always there. We did their Bible verses. And that system of
organization and listening to radios impacted our
lives massively, but we don't
do it anymore. I don't do it
anymore. As a member of Congress always had
to watch 60 minutes, couldn't miss 60 minutes. And so we had to
rearrange Sunday evening. Every Sunday
evening, where am I am when I'm finished
and everyone, we're going to do that. I'll worry about
that anymore. Why? Because I just hit, I
got a 60 minute app. I just hit it on my iPad. I watch it when
I feel like it, if I get bored or
if I'm, if I'm off, stop and come back
and catch it later, because technology
is such that young people don't sit and listen to the radio
at the same time, same place every time. So how do we get these
good things to it? Well, it's
wonderful that over three decades a person and this is not just
my judgment in your judgment as well. That when you
think of how does one construct and maintain a family and a
Godly fashion? Try and think of any other avenue
source, spokesman, or author that even is in the same ballpark
as James Jones. He has not only dedicated
his life to it, that's had a
godly example. And everyone else in the field has
come through. And collectively,
that body of knowledge over these last three
decades of those that are written on these
issues and understand the opportunities and have the answers and that
we absorbed overtime. And now we would loved to say to a young
24-year-old, why don't you read the
ones you sit down. I know you've got
two jobs and you got three children and your husband you
see on weekends, but why don't
you sit down to read these three books? Well, we would love
for them to do that, but you know, they just
don't do it anymore. So if we could
take those books, make it in a form that when they
need something, you and I could send it to them or they
can have it sent to them or they can pursue it
on their own. And then when they're
talking to each other, say here's what I learned. And all of that great knowledge that
was available, that was available
from the time of Christ up until the
Gutenberg press. But once it was made available that
they could use it, the world changed
for all time. Now if we take
those same books, those same interviews,
those information, and make it such
that it's in a manner and a form
that they can use it, they can save it,
they can keep it. And one thing
about digital, it never deteriorates. Tape deteriorates. Everything else did
here is digital is perfect for from then on, with every inflection. Many people in
this room saw the national
prayer breakfasts speech on Thursday. Bye Ben Carson guy. Just see some
of your hands as to as to how many
I've seen them. All right. Now,
let's do this. How many of you
were there too? All right. Isn't that something that wouldn't
happen ten years ago? But not only did
you hear it, not only did you understand which
actually watched it, we had the capacity to take this great body
of knowledge that God ordained and blast and gave talents
and, and, and, and was involved
in putting together we have
the capacity to make it available that you can send it to
your daughter-in-law, but your
daughter-in-law can send it to her cousin. They can send it
to everybody in their Sunday school class. They're going through
the struggles that they all are, which they have
sibling rivalry, rivalry, or are all the things
that go with it? Here are the
three programs to listen to hear the
two paragraphs. Here's what the
expert said on that night tremors
of a five-year-old, all those things
can be available. There's only one
thing that we need. We need the finances and the resources to
make it possible. And then what
it's going to do. It's going to help to
restore marriages, help to restore families. When it does that,
it's going to impact portion is going to
impact our country. It's going to impact
drug addiction, going to impact
all the things that whatever our
concerns are, it will allow
us to do that. So that's what we wanted
to share with you. You all know it and
you agree with it. And we just wanted to
give us give all of us the opportunity
to participate and to make it possible. I know of no other answer. For America. There are three
sources of power. Economic, political slash, military, and spiritual. Economically.
Wall Street's not going to save America. Politically. Politicians aren't
going to save America spiritually unless we
have spiritual revival. This nation and the hope of freedom
loving people around the globe
will be lost. I truly believe with
all my heart that we have the
capacity to impact it immediately
such that this can rapidly be
brought to an end in 72 months from
now with your help. We'll do it. God bless.