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Nothing is happening. 26 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,920 Speaker 2: That's coming up on Timeless Wisdom, but Dennis Prager, and 27 00:01:46,040 --> 00:01:47,640 Speaker 2: it starts right now. 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:51,680 Speaker 1: All right. I hope some of the ideas will have 29 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: been helpful. And now we have some microphones going around. 30 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,840 Speaker 1: Pam you are you? Are you on board here? And 31 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: Richard you're on board? Okay, So you guys walk around 32 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:09,040 Speaker 1: and I'll just call on people. So okay, so you're 33 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:10,800 Speaker 1: going to walk around, okay, So we'll start with this 34 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:14,560 Speaker 1: gentleman over there. By the way, the questions should should 35 00:02:14,600 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: be to anybody me or or them. I won't be 36 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,400 Speaker 1: insulted if they're all to the expert. So whatever you 37 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 1: want to ask, Am. 38 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:24,680 Speaker 3: I. 39 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,920 Speaker 4: Am I on. Yeah, okay, Dennis, thank you very much 40 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 4: for putting us on tonight for us. I'm sure that 41 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:35,799 Speaker 4: all of us have gained a great deal from it. 42 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:36,680 Speaker 1: Good I hope. 43 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 4: So my question needs to be phrased to take about 44 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 4: fifteen seconds, and then I can ask the actual question 45 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:45,840 Speaker 4: of the group. As of June ninth, two thousand and eight, 46 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 4: the total notational value of the outstanding derivatives surpassed one 47 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:55,280 Speaker 4: point one four four quad trillion dollars, this being the 48 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,079 Speaker 4: shadow banking industry two. As of the year two thousand, 49 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:02,919 Speaker 4: we entered the condrire winter, in which the previous three 50 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:05,080 Speaker 4: winters over the last two hundred and eleven years in 51 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:09,080 Speaker 4: American economic history have lasted nine years, twenty one years, 52 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:13,760 Speaker 4: and nineteen years. That the subprime mortgage disaster lasted approximately 53 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 4: twenty two months in two thousand and seven in two 54 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:20,639 Speaker 4: thousand and eight, whereas the arm mortgage rate possible disaster 55 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:24,440 Speaker 4: waiting to happen will cover thirty one months over the 56 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 4: years of twenty ten, twenty eleven, and twenty twelve. That 57 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 4: all the unknown billions of toxic paper has got to 58 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:35,840 Speaker 4: be cleaned off of the balance sheets of the financial sector. 59 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:41,200 Speaker 4: Along with these several and other non stated financial complexities 60 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 4: we face. Dewey Envision and bear in mind I am 61 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:48,800 Speaker 4: an optimist, not a pessimist. Dewey and Vision ad from 62 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 4: going from a serious deep recession into a possible Big 63 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:54,760 Speaker 4: D depression. 64 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 1: Okay, you could have actually asked it with the last 65 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:59,880 Speaker 1: sentence alone, but that it was a fine build up 66 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: about actually in all seriousness, that was one of the 67 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 1: questions I had on my list. Are we headed to 68 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:06,520 Speaker 1: the Big D? Anybody want to answer? 69 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 5: I would say no, this is not the Great Depression 70 00:04:10,480 --> 00:04:11,600 Speaker 5: for a number of reasons. 71 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 6: Number one, there is no FDIC. 72 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 5: Back in the thirties two thousand plus banks failed. 73 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:22,440 Speaker 6: Every time a bank failed. 74 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:27,240 Speaker 5: Every depositor lost every penny, Every shareholder lost every penny. 75 00:04:27,640 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 6: We have a backstop. 76 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,160 Speaker 5: There was something called a run on banks because people 77 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:34,560 Speaker 5: knew there was no backstop. So that was a downward 78 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:37,680 Speaker 5: spiral that took us there. During the Great Depression, they 79 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,920 Speaker 5: were actually raising rates into the stock market rally in 80 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,800 Speaker 5: nineteen thirty two when everybody thought things were going to 81 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:44,320 Speaker 5: be okay. 82 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:46,560 Speaker 6: I hope that. 83 00:04:46,480 --> 00:04:48,599 Speaker 5: Ben Bernanke has done his research, and I think he 84 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:51,680 Speaker 5: has one thing that makes me feel good about the situation. 85 00:04:52,640 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 5: Not necessarily the administration, not necessarily the Treasury Secretary, but 86 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,480 Speaker 5: I actually think Ben Bernanke is doing the right things 87 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:03,920 Speaker 5: with the tools that he has and the tools now 88 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:07,800 Speaker 5: are much more powerful. Everybody went off the gold standard 89 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,160 Speaker 5: in nineteen thirty two thirty three. It completely ruined the economy. 90 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 5: Everybody was devaluing their currencies, all right. So I think 91 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 5: that the policy response, although not perfect, it could have 92 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:23,839 Speaker 5: been a lot better, is much better than what happened 93 00:05:24,320 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 5: back in the back in the thirties. 94 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 6: So no, I don't think there's going to be a depression. 95 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: Anybody else or should we go for another question? Okay, 96 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,280 Speaker 1: So let's alternate parts of the room. Pam back there. 97 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:41,040 Speaker 1: If somebody's okay, Richard, is that Richard? I can't even see. No, 98 00:05:41,080 --> 00:05:42,359 Speaker 1: it's not Richard. Okay. 99 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 7: Hi Hi. The issue of optimism came up on whether 100 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 7: we should be optimistic, and Mark, you said that we 101 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 7: should be optimistic in the normal scheme of things in history, 102 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:57,039 Speaker 7: as we looked at the trends, there are things that 103 00:05:57,080 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 7: go up and there, up and down times, and things 104 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:02,320 Speaker 7: are resilient in the United States. But I wonder whether 105 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:04,360 Speaker 7: or not this time around should be different and should 106 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,160 Speaker 7: give us pause, primarily for political reasons, because for the 107 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:10,799 Speaker 7: first time we have a left discovernment, and I wonder 108 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:14,320 Speaker 7: whether or not that left discovernment. That political factor will 109 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,240 Speaker 7: affect everything. And unlike Jimmy Carter, by the way, Jimmy 110 00:06:18,279 --> 00:06:21,039 Speaker 7: Carter didn't inherit the problem. Here we have for the 111 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:24,800 Speaker 7: first time a left disc government that inherited a problem 112 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 7: and now could take us in a downward sprial or 113 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 7: even worse. 114 00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,359 Speaker 1: Yeah, let me let me give it a shot. And 115 00:06:32,400 --> 00:06:34,719 Speaker 1: then anybody here who wants to as well. I I 116 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,880 Speaker 1: hapen to agree with you, and I don't want to. 117 00:06:38,440 --> 00:06:43,400 Speaker 1: Look everything I said now will really play a role. 118 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:49,000 Speaker 1: I am worried about the country precisely because of the 119 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:54,920 Speaker 1: direction that it is being taken. The Once you create 120 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: in a society a sense of entitlement and a vas 121 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: sector that is employed by the state, you can't go back. 122 00:07:06,200 --> 00:07:08,760 Speaker 1: We don't have Let's put it this way, maybe you can. 123 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 1: We have no example of going back. People get used 124 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:17,600 Speaker 1: to what they get, and people get used to working 125 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:21,680 Speaker 1: for the state and not having to produce as they 126 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:26,560 Speaker 1: would for a private company. And the security most people, 127 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:34,720 Speaker 1: the human nature wants security over adventure, security over autonomy. 128 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:41,440 Speaker 1: And I am deeply, deeply worried at the massive intrusion 129 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,680 Speaker 1: of the state into the lives of the American people. 130 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:49,280 Speaker 1: I do believe that large government makes worse people. I'll 131 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:52,840 Speaker 1: give you one simple example. Americans give far more charity 132 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: than Europeans. And the reason Europeans give less charity is 133 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 1: not because they're selfish and mean. We are all kind 134 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,880 Speaker 1: and wonderful. It is because in Europe the mentality is 135 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,240 Speaker 1: if there's a problem, the government will take care of it. 136 00:08:07,880 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 1: My neighbor will be taken care of by the state. 137 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: Why should I get involved. Detaukeville in the early nineteenth 138 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,480 Speaker 1: century came from France, wrote the greatest book about America 139 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 1: ever written by a foreigner. Democracy in America, and he 140 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:27,640 Speaker 1: marveled at how many associations there were, how much Americans 141 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 1: would form non governmental associations to take care of each other. 142 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: These are dying as the state grows. 143 00:08:39,280 --> 00:08:41,960 Speaker 2: This episode of timeless wisdom will continue. 144 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:42,640 Speaker 1: Right after This. 145 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 8: Is losing weight getting harder as you get older. It's 146 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 8: not your fault. You're eating better, you're moving more, but 147 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 8: your body isn't responding anymore. At PhD weight Loss they 148 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 8: help people identify what's actually blocking fat loss and help 149 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 8: increase your lifespan. 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I think the American people are smarter 159 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 5: than we give them credit for. Just to give you 160 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:36,679 Speaker 5: an example, I have a client, Democrat, not hard left Democrat, 161 00:09:36,800 --> 00:09:40,839 Speaker 5: works for a bank. He talked to me today, is 162 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 5: very distraught. 163 00:09:44,200 --> 00:09:46,200 Speaker 6: His whole staff is. 164 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 5: Going to lose their entire yearly paycheck because they get 165 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 5: bonused out and all they did today was sit around 166 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:56,040 Speaker 5: and watch TV and worry that. 167 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,080 Speaker 6: They weren't going to make money. So I think as 168 00:09:59,080 --> 00:09:59,640 Speaker 6: soon as. 169 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,760 Speaker 5: These people, people that voted for the current administration but 170 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:07,600 Speaker 5: most importantly gave money to the administration, start waking up, 171 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 5: hopefully we only have another three and a half years 172 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:17,320 Speaker 5: of this, you know, because we need to stand up 173 00:10:17,760 --> 00:10:20,800 Speaker 5: now and do something about it. 174 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:23,199 Speaker 6: Because if this thing last eight years, twelve years. 175 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 5: Dennis is exactly right, and it's up to everybody in 176 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:30,000 Speaker 5: this room to go out and do something about it. 177 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:42,280 Speaker 9: In a minute, I want to reiterate what my gentleman 178 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 9: Callity here had to say. I think that the reason 179 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,480 Speaker 9: why I'm optimistic is because I'm watching right now, I'm 180 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:54,800 Speaker 9: watching the approval ratings drop as people people's eyes are opened. 181 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:57,160 Speaker 9: I know, I can't even watch hardly watch the TV 182 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,280 Speaker 9: anymore seeing these things that are happening, and I think 183 00:10:59,640 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 9: that they're there are enough people that even though we 184 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:05,120 Speaker 9: have been complacent in the past, I think that we 185 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 9: need to be optimistic and we need to just as 186 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:09,920 Speaker 9: he said, we need to get up. Every single person 187 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 9: has to start to care. And when good people start 188 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:14,960 Speaker 9: to care, then good people can make a difference. But 189 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:17,520 Speaker 9: it is Dennis is absolutely right. I mean, if we 190 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 9: remain complacent and people don't step up to the play 191 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 9: and start standing for what's right and supporting people who 192 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 9: have our values and start making a difference, then we're 193 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:30,720 Speaker 9: going to be We're going to have to suffer the 194 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 9: consequences of that. But I do believe that in time 195 00:11:35,240 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 9: people will do that and we will work our way 196 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,120 Speaker 9: out of it. I believe in the American spirit, we've 197 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 9: been free for too long, and I think that that's 198 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:48,320 Speaker 9: the reason why I'm optimistically dying. 199 00:12:00,120 --> 00:12:00,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. 200 00:12:01,559 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 10: A comment for Dennis in a question for Colin. Dennis, 201 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 10: I like your idea of what you said about compartmentalizing 202 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 10: problems and stuff like that. I'm not a psychologist, but 203 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:16,600 Speaker 10: I understand that men are extremely good at comparkmentalizing women. However, 204 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 10: their thoughts, their emotions are like spaghetti and a big 205 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 10: ball and stuff like that. So I don't think, no, no, 206 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:29,840 Speaker 10: it's all a good thing. It's all it's just all 207 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:35,960 Speaker 10: wound up. Men comparkment mentalized things. Women wind things up anyway. 208 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 10: Question for Colin, do you think the federal government's gonna 209 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:41,720 Speaker 10: collectively get their act together and do what they did 210 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 10: in the savings alone debacle in the eighties and put 211 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,079 Speaker 10: together a program where they're gonna buy the toxic assets 212 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:52,600 Speaker 10: and ultimately return make an investment return on the investment 213 00:12:52,640 --> 00:12:54,520 Speaker 10: to the taxpayers by buying these. 214 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 1: Okay, through the spaghetti first is what Colin said. He 215 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: happens to be right. Women suffer from No, women suffer 216 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:07,640 Speaker 1: from depression far more than men. 217 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:07,760 Speaker 3: Do. 218 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: I mean, it's not because their lives are worse. I 219 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 1: don't think I have. On any objective basis, it would 220 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,120 Speaker 1: seem that both men and women have different problems and 221 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: or similar problems, and suffer equally in a very difficult world. 222 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:27,480 Speaker 1: But whenever I speak about men and women, I offer 223 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: this thought that if we could swap brains for a day, 224 00:13:31,800 --> 00:13:33,960 Speaker 1: men with women and women with men, this is what 225 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:39,920 Speaker 1: would happen. Women would take a man's brain and just 226 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 1: go I can't believe it, nothing is happening. It would 227 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 1: actually be a service because women ask us all the time, 228 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 1: you know, what are you thinking about? And we say nothing, 229 00:14:01,960 --> 00:14:08,120 Speaker 1: and they don't think we're telling the truth. But we 230 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: are telling the truth because if there's no game on, 231 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: there's nothing to think about. What are you going to 232 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: think about right now? If, on the other hand, if 233 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: we put a if men got a women's brain for day, 234 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: all men would kill themselves. There would be no man 235 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:34,360 Speaker 1: left on earth. They would also go, I can't believe it. 236 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:41,480 Speaker 1: It's so noisy. It's so noisy, all these conversations happening 237 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:47,960 Speaker 1: at one time. I can't believe it. So, yeah, you 238 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:50,280 Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head. I wouldn't use the 239 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:55,440 Speaker 1: spaghetti analogy. I it's just if you use humor, are 240 00:14:55,480 --> 00:14:58,720 Speaker 1: you married? Okay? If you use humor, your wife will 241 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 1: accept it much better. I just quota thim. 242 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 6: That's a tough one to follow. 243 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,800 Speaker 5: As far as getting the bad assets off the banks, 244 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 5: there is a proposal that's being floated out there called 245 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,240 Speaker 5: the bad bank idea, where the government takes all these 246 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:18,600 Speaker 5: toxic assets, holds them to maturity, perhaps refinances some of 247 00:15:18,640 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 5: the mortgages in there, which I think is a great idea. 248 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 6: The problem has. 249 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:27,160 Speaker 5: Always been how do you value these depressed assets? 250 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:28,880 Speaker 6: How much does the government have to pay? 251 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 5: One alternative would be for the government to take these 252 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,880 Speaker 5: assets in whatever they're valued at, pay for them, hold 253 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:39,600 Speaker 5: them on their books, hold them to maturity, and then 254 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:45,240 Speaker 5: have private enterprise, private investors take that amount of money 255 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,280 Speaker 5: that it's no longer at the banks instead of the 256 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 5: government just purchasing those Take a look at the balance sheets, 257 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,240 Speaker 5: see how much capital needs is required to make the 258 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 5: banks solvent again, and let private equity go into the 259 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,160 Speaker 5: banks at a capital gains tax free if they hold 260 00:16:04,160 --> 00:16:06,960 Speaker 5: the bank for three to five years. You get some 261 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,480 Speaker 5: good management teams in there, and I guarantee everybody in 262 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 5: this room, at the toxic assets we're off the bank's 263 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,280 Speaker 5: balance sheets, would be happy to put your hard earned 264 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 5: money back in the American free enterprise system capital gains 265 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,200 Speaker 5: tax free for the next two or three years. And 266 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,680 Speaker 5: let me tell you, the government's not making any capital 267 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:29,800 Speaker 5: gains anywhere else anyway, So it's not going to cost 268 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 5: the government anything, no matter what they tell you. 269 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 6: So yes, I think that would be a great idea. 270 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:37,160 Speaker 6: I just don't know if there's a political will to 271 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:37,480 Speaker 6: do it. 272 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:41,360 Speaker 2: This episode of timeless Wisdom will continue right after this. 273 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:51,680 Speaker 2: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom as. 274 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:54,440 Speaker 11: Man as Chuck Thompson from World Emergency and I had 275 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 11: to approve of the of being in a lot of 276 00:16:57,440 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 11: homeland security meetings in Washington, DC doing the Bush administration, 277 00:17:02,280 --> 00:17:07,119 Speaker 11: and the biggest conversation all the time was the next 278 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:13,520 Speaker 11: next attack on this nation. And that will wipe everything 279 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 11: away in regards to all of the positive talk that 280 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,919 Speaker 11: we have here, which is great. We will have another attack. 281 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:22,600 Speaker 11: And it's what they don't tell you that you need 282 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 11: to worry about. Now. I need to shut my mouth 283 00:17:25,600 --> 00:17:27,960 Speaker 11: and not say so much of what I've been told, 284 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:35,040 Speaker 11: But the census is love your families, take care of 285 00:17:35,119 --> 00:17:38,600 Speaker 11: each other, enjoy meals like this because we won't see 286 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:43,120 Speaker 11: much of it soon. It's not about whether there's going 287 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 11: to be a depression. There is going to be a depression. 288 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 11: We have a Kinko economy where we just go and 289 00:17:49,280 --> 00:17:52,879 Speaker 11: print money, where the ink soon will be worth more 290 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:58,159 Speaker 11: than the denominations it's printed with. Now. In regards to 291 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 11: what you were just saying, this gentlemen from Arizona. In 292 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,640 Speaker 11: ancient Israel, what they would do is, of course, every 293 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,280 Speaker 11: seven years they would wipe out the debt and after 294 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 11: a fifty years you'd have a jubilee. That's perfect. But 295 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,080 Speaker 11: as you said, the political will is not here, and 296 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,800 Speaker 11: we're not going to have that political will with this administration. 297 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:21,080 Speaker 11: So basically we need to pray, and we need to 298 00:18:21,119 --> 00:18:24,399 Speaker 11: honor God, and we need to get ready for a 299 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:27,240 Speaker 11: new government that will replace this one. 300 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:36,879 Speaker 1: Just an observation, Oh, I was happy have a thought. Look, 301 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: you know, it's good to hear, and I mean it, 302 00:18:40,160 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: I mean, were mature enough to hear every possibility. Everybody 303 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,720 Speaker 1: thinks there will be another attack. I don't know how 304 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:50,879 Speaker 1: one could think otherwise. There are people who want to 305 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 1: destroy us, and we'll do whatever they can and do. 306 00:18:54,240 --> 00:18:57,120 Speaker 1: I think that we are as secure with this administration 307 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 1: as we were with the previous No, I don't. However, 308 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 1: they have kept a lot of the policies intact, not 309 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:05,959 Speaker 1: all of them. I think that President Obama is starting 310 00:19:05,960 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 1: to regret the foolish notion of closing Guantanamo. Europe has 311 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:14,639 Speaker 1: already announced it's not taking any of the prisoners after 312 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,160 Speaker 1: after you know, squawking about Guantanamo for eight years or whatever, 313 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:25,160 Speaker 1: well seven years now, now, okay, why don't you take them? No, no, 314 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 1: not us, not us? And then all the all the 315 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:31,320 Speaker 1: Democrats who said it was the wrong thing Guantanamo. Then 316 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:35,520 Speaker 1: Eric Holder, the Attorney General, has it investigated, and to 317 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: his credit, reports turns out that treated beautifully. I had 318 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: a man on who has been to Guantanamo about seven times, 319 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 1: and he said, the American guards, that's what I use. 320 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: I use that to wake up. I hope it's not 321 00:19:55,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: a bad sign though, that he had his wake up 322 00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:03,200 Speaker 1: alarm while I was talking. Anyway, the guy had been 323 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:07,160 Speaker 1: to Guantana. The American Marines that are there guarding them, 324 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,119 Speaker 1: they cannot touch a Koran with their bare hands. I mean, 325 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:15,080 Speaker 1: is that astonishing? They can only touch a Koran with 326 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: gloves anyway. Now, all of the Democrats who run states 327 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,200 Speaker 1: they don't want any of these people either, So where 328 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,120 Speaker 1: are we going to put them on the moon. It's frankly, 329 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: that wouldn't be a great great thought. I know we 330 00:20:30,840 --> 00:20:36,919 Speaker 1: would think similarly, but we can't now. Ironically, if we 331 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: are attacked that I and God knows, I don't want 332 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:45,720 Speaker 1: an attack. I believe that that would be a wake 333 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:51,480 Speaker 1: up call to Americans not to live in the left 334 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:58,000 Speaker 1: wing fantasyland that currently dominates the media, academia, and the administration. 335 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 1: They really are bad people. We are not hated because 336 00:21:03,760 --> 00:21:08,040 Speaker 1: we have done bad things. We are hated because we 337 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: represent the opposite of what they believe in. This notion 338 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:17,840 Speaker 1: that somehow or other, our behavior has been so awesomely 339 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:21,800 Speaker 1: bad as to deserve what happened on nine to eleven 340 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:27,880 Speaker 1: and triple nine to elevens that might come is beyond belief. 341 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:37,960 Speaker 1: We have died to liberate Muslims. Remember Bosnia, Remember Afghanistan. 342 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 1: We have intervened, and remember Somalia. This was all to 343 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: save Muslims. When did a Muslim country die for Americans. When, 344 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,160 Speaker 1: for that matter, did any country die for Americans, Muslim 345 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,920 Speaker 1: or not. But this will be a wake up call 346 00:21:56,960 --> 00:22:01,199 Speaker 1: if it happens, and then, ironically, then the great reservoirs 347 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:04,480 Speaker 1: of the American spirit would come out. So I'm not 348 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:08,159 Speaker 1: even super worried under those circumstances. But thank you for 349 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:16,000 Speaker 1: your troubling comments. Okay, I don't we stand up? 350 00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:19,920 Speaker 3: Okay, my turn? Finally, Hi, this comment basically is for 351 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 3: Colin and Mark both. I am really concerned, but by 352 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,840 Speaker 3: nature I think I'm a pretty positive person. Now I'm 353 00:22:26,840 --> 00:22:29,840 Speaker 3: trying to hang on to that positivity that I have 354 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,359 Speaker 3: going for me. But when you made the comment Calin 355 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:36,760 Speaker 3: in regards to three and a half more years of this, 356 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 3: that people will wake up. Here's my concern. The people 357 00:22:41,359 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 3: that donated the small amounts of money to the Obama 358 00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,600 Speaker 3: campaign were the college students that were just being spit 359 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,320 Speaker 3: out of college. My niece twenty dollars. She couldn't afford it. 360 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:56,479 Speaker 3: She was a struggling college student, but she gave her 361 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:59,439 Speaker 3: twenty dollars and got her bumper sticker. I about had 362 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,280 Speaker 3: a heart attack, but she did. So I don't think 363 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,400 Speaker 3: those people are going to be those young people are 364 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:11,040 Speaker 3: going to be of the mindset to realize that we 365 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 3: made a mistake. That's my concern in my comment, and 366 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,480 Speaker 3: I'm so passionate about this. I'm overwhelmed with it. It's 367 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:20,240 Speaker 3: a big concern. 368 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:25,680 Speaker 5: I think their parents are low I think they're smart enough. 369 00:23:28,359 --> 00:23:30,679 Speaker 5: I can't speak for your individual sister. 370 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 2: This episode of timeless wisdom. 371 00:23:33,560 --> 00:23:38,280 Speaker 1: We'll continue right after this as Passover approaches. Salem is 372 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:42,720 Speaker 1: offering My Rational Passover Hagada for fifty percent off at 373 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: the Praeger Store. The Hagada is the book used for 374 00:23:45,520 --> 00:23:49,479 Speaker 1: the most widely celebrated Jewish ritual, now increasingly celebrated by 375 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,040 Speaker 1: Christians by the way, the Passover Satyr. 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Get the rational Passover Hagata for fifty percent off. 385 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: Go to Praguerstore dot com or click the banner at 386 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:31,920 Speaker 1: Dennis Praguer dot com. 387 00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 2: Now back to more of Dennis Prager's timeless wisdom. 388 00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:44,719 Speaker 1: Okay, I don't share your optimism in that regard. I 389 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,080 Speaker 1: is this the final comments? Do any of you want 390 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: to make a final comment? I'll make a final final 391 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: But do any of you want? Is there a final question? 392 00:24:54,680 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 3: Too? 393 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,320 Speaker 1: Because I'll reserve the response for the final moments. Is 394 00:24:58,359 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: there somebody else commenting there? 395 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:02,800 Speaker 6: Comment can give him? 396 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,960 Speaker 1: You want to give the phone? Here is colleague, Colin's colleague. 397 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 1: It's Colin's colleague. You better be good now, I just 398 00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 1: mine was more of a question. 399 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:22,040 Speaker 12: You know, you see all the people here tonight, and 400 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 12: you tied morality to happiness. And I don't find myself 401 00:25:26,280 --> 00:25:29,320 Speaker 12: troubled by a lack of money or a recession or 402 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 12: potential depression. What I find myself troubled by is a 403 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,360 Speaker 12: lack of morality and leadership. That's what I found myself 404 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 12: troubled by. Now I hear the young the women's question here, 405 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,840 Speaker 12: I have too have college children. I think college children 406 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 12: today have a sense of en titlement. 407 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 6: They got there. 408 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,639 Speaker 12: Easily, but as they get out of college and they 409 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,760 Speaker 12: start to work for themselves, I think that that starts 410 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:56,080 Speaker 12: to diminish. And you talked about a reservoir. I was 411 00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 12: one of my questions is you talk to a lot 412 00:25:58,000 --> 00:25:59,800 Speaker 12: of people, You have a lot of listeners. You talked 413 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:04,560 Speaker 12: in large groups. The reservoir and morality of the people 414 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,600 Speaker 12: in the United States. Is that large enough to overcome 415 00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:10,520 Speaker 12: the leadership that we have today. 416 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: Okay, I'll comment on both of you in a moment. 417 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 1: Do any of you want to make a final comment? Okay, 418 00:26:17,280 --> 00:26:21,439 Speaker 1: you do, don't You're fine? Okay, all right. I'm going 419 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: to be very very open with you. I'm very open 420 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 1: on the air. But I do debate something that I 421 00:26:27,760 --> 00:26:31,200 Speaker 1: won't debate now, and that is I have and I've 422 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,119 Speaker 1: mentioned this on the air, but I've resolved it for 423 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: the radio a little differently than I will resolve it now, 424 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: and that is, do I communicate on the radio my 425 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 1: real worries because you don't want to give a down 426 00:26:46,800 --> 00:26:49,960 Speaker 1: or broadcast. To be perfectly honest, you just don't. It's 427 00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 1: not good for your listeners. It's not good for your show. Hey, 428 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,000 Speaker 1: let me tune into Dennis and get depressed. You know, 429 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,720 Speaker 1: this is this is this is how to give you know, 430 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: the other ninety nine stations in LA and all those 431 00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,879 Speaker 1: cities that I'm on, you know, more listeners. So I 432 00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 1: convey my concerns. But so let me tell you something 433 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:13,880 Speaker 1: you'll find. I think I know you'll find this of interest. 434 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 1: We all come from different backgrounds, and I mean philosophic 435 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 1: backgrounds as well as anything else, and here you'll find 436 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,200 Speaker 1: this of interest. I've never said this on the radio. 437 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: I said this once before in the presence of Bill 438 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: Bennett when we were on a panel at Salem in Washington. 439 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,800 Speaker 1: I think it happened Bill Bennett and I and Mark 440 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 1: Stein Mark Stein Protestant, Bill Bennett Catholic than As Prager Jewish. 441 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:54,280 Speaker 1: And then it was one other time with another Catholic theologian. Anyway, Yes, 442 00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: who was the Catholic theologian Sue You remember on Two 443 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: Wings he wrote and he's a Polish background. He's at 444 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: the American Enterprise Institute. Novak Michael Novak, is it Michael Novakia. 445 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,920 Speaker 1: He's a big theologian, a Catholic theologian, a wonderful human being. 446 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: We found that the Bennetts, the Praegers, and the Novaks 447 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:29,880 Speaker 1: were more worried than the Protestants that we were with, 448 00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: which is of course in Salem Radio. These are mostly 449 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:37,760 Speaker 1: Evangelical Christians who would fall under the Protestant category. The 450 00:28:37,840 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 1: Catholics come from Eastern Europe by and large. Bennett's background, 451 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,960 Speaker 1: I guess is Irish, but that's the same thing in 452 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: terms of human suffering. 453 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 11: Uh. 454 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 1: And Novak comes from Poland, I believe, which is only suffering, 455 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:56,400 Speaker 1: and the Jews come from a background which is only suffering. 456 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 1: So we who come from that background are more worried 457 00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: about America than the Protestants are as a general rule, 458 00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:14,160 Speaker 1: because we know how easily civilization crumbles, because it's fallen 459 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,600 Speaker 1: on the heads of Catholics and Jews more than it's 460 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:20,320 Speaker 1: fallen on the heads of Protestants. So this may be 461 00:29:20,520 --> 00:29:23,920 Speaker 1: a factor in the division that you even may find 462 00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,240 Speaker 1: at this table. And I think I'm right. I think 463 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:34,360 Speaker 1: I'm right, because civilizations do crumble. There is no guarantee 464 00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,920 Speaker 1: that the next generation will be as wonderful as the previous. 465 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,920 Speaker 1: The greatest generation, that's my parents who fought in World 466 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,560 Speaker 1: War Two produced the worst generation in American history in 467 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: my opinion, okay, the most narcissistic, stupid generation in American history. 468 00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,760 Speaker 1: Where the Baby Boomers. I am a member of the 469 00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,600 Speaker 1: stupidest generation in American history. I don't think I'm stupid, 470 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,400 Speaker 1: but because I know that I was alienated from my 471 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:07,440 Speaker 1: generation since college. When I saw these quasi fascists take 472 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: over my university in the name of anti war demonstrations 473 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 1: and shut down classes, and I saw the greatest generation 474 00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:19,760 Speaker 1: give in to them. It was a trauma. That was 475 00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:23,040 Speaker 1: a trauma, not the economics. It was a trauma to 476 00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:27,960 Speaker 1: see the deans of Columbia University give in to the 477 00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,360 Speaker 1: thugs who took over the classrooms at Columbia in the 478 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,760 Speaker 1: name of anti war. I've never recuperated from that. I 479 00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: realized that the foundations are not nearly as strong as 480 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:44,040 Speaker 1: I thought they were. And when you add the entitlement 481 00:30:44,080 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: issue and the sense of rights over obligations, when you 482 00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:54,200 Speaker 1: have Jay Leno have a feature on his show to 483 00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 1: show the utter and total ignoramises produced by our colleges, 484 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 1: people who they couldn't answer. I mentioned this on the air. 485 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,320 Speaker 1: I only watched TV when I'm on the road. So 486 00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,200 Speaker 1: at my hotel room last week I watched Jay Leno 487 00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: and he had this quiz with three adults. They didn't 488 00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:16,680 Speaker 1: know when Columbus discovered America. One of them said eighteen 489 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,880 Speaker 1: forty two. Now people laugh and totally understandably, it is 490 00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,479 Speaker 1: almost hilarious. They asked them what the iron curtain was, 491 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,480 Speaker 1: so the two women didn't even buzz The guy buzzed 492 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:31,920 Speaker 1: said it was He thought it was a Pittsburgh Steeler 493 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:38,520 Speaker 1: defensive maneuver. I don't believe that the average graduate of 494 00:31:38,560 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: college can identify Joseph Stalin one of the three greatest 495 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: mass murderers in the history of Earth. They know all 496 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,280 Speaker 1: about global warming, but they know nothing about Joseph Stalin 497 00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 1: and well Mal, forget maw. They're probably wearing a mouth 498 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: button somewhere. I mean, did you know that there's a 499 00:31:56,680 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: restaurant in la named Mal the greatest mass murder history 500 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,920 Speaker 1: as a restaurant, and they think it's cute. Then it's 501 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: not that they support his policies, they just think it's cute. 502 00:32:06,720 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: So I am worried. Of course I'm worried. Why would 503 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: I not be worried? Where are the indications of great hope, 504 00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:21,080 Speaker 1: the university, the elementary school, the high school, television, TV, news, newspapers, movies. 505 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,040 Speaker 1: As the Psalmist said, from where will my salvation come? 506 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,200 Speaker 1: And he didn't mean salvation, he meant help, not salvation 507 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,760 Speaker 1: in a theological sense, from where will my help come? 508 00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,400 Speaker 1: While the answer is from God? Okay, that's good. And 509 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: if God wants to intervene, we're in great shape. But 510 00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,840 Speaker 1: if it takes divine intervention, I don't know if we're 511 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,840 Speaker 1: in great shape. Because God decides whether to intervene, we don't. 512 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,880 Speaker 1: So barring divine intervention, there really are reasons to be worried, 513 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,320 Speaker 1: and they're not economic. The economic is the symptom, it 514 00:32:55,400 --> 00:33:00,280 Speaker 1: is not the cause. And so I do I do 515 00:33:00,640 --> 00:33:05,080 Speaker 1: have these terrible fears about about the moral level. You 516 00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,160 Speaker 1: mentioned leadership, and I'll conclude because I don't want to 517 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,280 Speaker 1: keep you so long. It's already gone beyond time. In fact, 518 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:16,400 Speaker 1: you'll be charged because it was Actually, we're very grateful 519 00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: to you for coming. But you mentioned leadership. Leadership is 520 00:33:20,560 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 1: a big deal. But the strength of America has not 521 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: generally been great presidents. It's been that the guy in Iowa. 522 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: We always thought I always thought we romanticize Iowa. All right, 523 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:41,200 Speaker 1: we romanticize Iowa all so as grassly from Iowa and 524 00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:44,719 Speaker 1: we romantic But the values in Iowa are no different 525 00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: right now than the values in California. That backbone the 526 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: heartland has been infected. TV gets into Iowa just as 527 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,280 Speaker 1: much as it gets into Berkeley. The professors at the 528 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:05,720 Speaker 1: University of Iowa are identical to the professors at at Columbia. 529 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 1: And so I don't know where to look for this 530 00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:16,279 Speaker 1: this core strength I did. I mean, frankly, I'll tell 531 00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,720 Speaker 1: you where I looked through evangelical Christians. That's where I looked. 532 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,600 Speaker 1: And I'm a Jew saying this, So I hardly have 533 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,959 Speaker 1: any vested interest in this. That's that was the core. 534 00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: But now, but but they they they've been whipped so 535 00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:32,319 Speaker 1: bad they want to go back to prayer in many 536 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:36,239 Speaker 1: cases and they want to they or even start challenging, Well, 537 00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,399 Speaker 1: maybe we're wrong. Time magazine hates us, News Week hates us. 538 00:34:39,400 --> 00:34:42,640 Speaker 1: We must be wrong. So now you have evangelical the 539 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:46,960 Speaker 1: leaders on behalf of global warming prevention, like this is 540 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,759 Speaker 1: the great message that the evangelicals want to bring to 541 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:54,799 Speaker 1: the world. So, yes, this is it's not to leave 542 00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:59,480 Speaker 1: you depressed. I'm not depressed, but yes, I'm bloody worried. 543 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,240 Speaker 1: There are no guarantees in life. Every generation is born 544 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:11,239 Speaker 1: a tabula raza morally, a blank slate. You don't get 545 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:16,120 Speaker 1: morality by osmosis. That's what the greatest generation's big error was. 546 00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:20,320 Speaker 1: We don't have to articulate American or Judeo Christian values 547 00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:23,319 Speaker 1: to our children. They'll just get it, because hey, it's 548 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,240 Speaker 1: all around you. Just you pick it up from the air. 549 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:30,040 Speaker 1: You don't pick these values up from the air. They 550 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,880 Speaker 1: have to be and you will speak about these things 551 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,680 Speaker 1: when you wake up and when you walk by the way, 552 00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:38,640 Speaker 1: and when you rise up and when you lie down Deuteronomy, 553 00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,080 Speaker 1: because if you don't talk about these things all the time, 554 00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: then the bad values prevail. So it's a big task, 555 00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,640 Speaker 1: and there are no guarantees, not even for our beloved 556 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,760 Speaker 1: United States of America. Thank you so much for coming. 557 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:55,480 Speaker 1: Thank you. 558 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,319 Speaker 2: Tomorrow, untimeless wisdom with Dennis Pragger I have. 559 00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,080 Speaker 1: I'm going to throw out a theory today that I 560 00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: once I threw out once, and it is simply this. 561 00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 1: This is about our society at this time, or at 562 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,200 Speaker 1: least for the last generation. Something happens to a lot 563 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,799 Speaker 1: of women around age twenty nine in the way they 564 00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:27,640 Speaker 1: look at life, so much so that it may in 565 00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:33,719 Speaker 1: fact be a cause of a disproportionate number of marital breakups. 566 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:37,480 Speaker 2: Join us tomorrow to hear more on Timeless Wisdom with 567 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:42,080 Speaker 2: Dennis Prigger. This has been Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. 568 00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:46,680 Speaker 2: Visit Dennispragger dot com for thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, 569 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,560 Speaker 2: courses in classic radio programs, and to purchase Dennis Prager's 570 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,920 Speaker 2: Rational Bibles.