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GLENN BECK PROGRAM
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GLENN: All right.
Let's go to Pat Buchanan. Pat, welcome to the program. I
have to tell you, you have been called everything from
political genius to a hate mongering racist but more and
more it seems like more and more people will start calling
you absolutely right because what you have been talking
about for years and years is now showing up in everyday
living rooms and people are saying, wait a minute, this is
bad news. Now you've come out with some new information. You
say America might be over.
BUCHANAN: Glenn, what I'm saying is congratulations on your
book.
GLENN: Thank you, sir.
BUCHANAN: What I'm saying is I see a nation which used to be
one nation and one people even though we were segregated in
the 1950s and working to end that, I see America decomposing
and deconstructing, deconstructing, breaking down along the
lines of race and ethnicity and class and different
moralities and I think America's becoming what Theodore
Roosevelt warned us against, which is the squabble of
tangling nationalities.
GLENN: Yeah.
BUCHANAN: And I think that's happening for a variety of
reasons. One is the culture of war we are in which has
divided us so terribly. Another is the mass immigration from
peoples, from countries and continents who have never before
been assimilated. The third is the complete collapse of the
melting pot that brought our grandparents and
great-grandparents and sort of forced us all together to
become something new called Americans. I see all these
things happening and I think all of us see them out there.
And what I'm pointing out in the book "Day of Reckoning" is
we've got a perfect storm of crises ahead and that is one of
the biggest.
GLENN: I have to tell you, Pat, I said this 18 months ago. I
posted on my website and said it on TV and I've got to tell
you, I got hammered for saying that there is a perfect storm
coming. And everybody always pulls it apart and says, oh,
we're mark, we'll survive. And I said, we've never faced
this many huge problems. Any of these by themselves we could
deal with, but they are all coming together at the same
time, and most Americans do not see this storm that is
coming, and it is truly frightening if you care about our
country.
BUCHANAN: We could just list a few of them. The dollar is
heading in the direction of the Mexican Peso. We see it
every day. You've got the United States involved in two wars
and the chairman of the Army chief of staff says our Army is
breaking. We're committed to defend 50 or 60 countries
around the world and we're adding to it when our Army is
half the size of what we had in the peace time years of
Ronald Reagan. We see Social Security and Medicare, they are
headed right down the road toward us.
GLENN: Let me ask you a couple, let me ask you a couple of
pointed questions, Pat. First of all, I look at Social
Security and Medicare and I've seen the table of pain that
Secretary Snow put out and was the reason why he was kind of
brushed to the side of what it is going to take to be able
to survive this economic crush that is coming our way. When
you look at that and you know the realities, how is it these
politicians can add prescription drugs and then on top of it
be talking about healthcare? With the dollar going down, it
is almost like it's being orchestrated.
BUCHANAN: Well, you know, you sound like me, Glenn.
GLENN: I know, and that scares the bat crap out of me.
BUCHANAN: 10 shows this morning I've been saying exactly
that. Look, we've got Medicare, Social Security going to eat
up the entire budget. And we add prescription drugs and now
we're going to add national health insurance. Look, all this
is going to eat up the entire budget of the United States,
you'll have to double taxation. We don't have the money
anymore.
GLENN: It's not only that we don't have the money. If you
take, if you went house to house in America and say,
America, I'm going to convince you, give me all of your
stuff, if Americans gave all of their stuff to the
government, we still would not be able to cover what we're
already on the line for.
BUCHANAN: You know, I think I saw it, David Walker, he is
head of the accounting office of the comptroller general.
GLENN: It's amazing, isn't it?
BUCHANAN: You are talking about $57 trillion in unfunded
mandates that you are going to have to pay. Where are they
going to get the money for this? You can't tax everything.
GLENN: You know, Pat, I tell you we tried to get this guy on
for a while and the policy has always been, GAO doesn't talk
about things, but this will show you how freaked the people
who are not connected to the politics of this thing really
are. Here's the guy who does the numbers crunching and he's
now starting to say, to hell with it; I've got to tell
people about this.
BUCHANAN: Exactly. He is walking around. He is like a
Cassandra walking around warning us. But I'll tell you,
Peterson did a book a number of years ago right down this
line on Social Security. There are others that have done it.
There are others, even journalists who are saying, what are
you going to do about this. And obviously, look, the
politicians, they don't want to say, well, you know, we may
have to raise the age of retirement, we may have to cap
benefits, we may have to do this or that. And that's just
Social Security. And as I list in my book, Medicare makes
Social Security look like a little bookkeeping error.
GLENN: Oh, yeah, absolutely. Let me real quick, because I'm
running out of time and I know we have a half hour with you
on television tonight. Do you believe, do you believe in the
conspiracy theory that we have forces in our government, we
have forces in global corporations and we have forces
outside our country that are trying to take our sovereignty
and push us all together in one European Union style
government?
BUCHANAN: Sure. I think it's wide open, I think it's right
out in the open. I think the corporations all consider
themselves global. They don't like the idea of borders, they
don't like the idea of different laws. They want the United
States, Mexico and Canada united the way European Union is
so they got one big economic market. All is economics.
You've got Mexican president Vicente Fox who is out of
office now is open about the fact that he wants a basic
merger of the United States and Mexico much like the
European countries have been merged together. I think this
is on the table. I think it is ongoing. That is the greatest
single threat to American sovereignty. And Glenn, while the
tremendous battle has been fought by the American people to
defeat this amnesty bill and to demand action on the border,
that great coalition sort of dissolves, they go back home
and these guys are working night and day on K Street and
other places to move us in that direction. Half of the
largest economic entities on Earth today are not
governments. They're corporations.
GLENN: Yeah.
BUCHANAN: Global corporations.
GLENN: The "Day of Reckoning" and it is here, my friend. And
Pat, you'll join me for a half hour of television tonight
and we'll get into this and so much more. I wish you the
best and thank you for having the courage to stay the course
and speak your mind and speak out for as long as you have. I
think Americans are starting to see more and more how right
you have been. Pat Buchanan, thank you, we'll see you
tonight.
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