deal. that may be the longest chapter. all the information is necessary. does anybody really think this congress, this president is going to him itself? have they shown any evidence of that? this president comes to office massively expands spending, and quite frankly george bush expand spending under him with a republican congress. this is not republican or democrat. this is constitutional and originalism. the problem is under republican administrations in congress, under democrat administrations in congress, we have this massive explosion of the federal government. if we don t constitutionally limit that and how much of our private property they can take through taxation, we re doomed. because they are not going to limit it. ? you have an amendment to limit the federal bureaucracy. as you said, they re in every aspect of our life. the federal bureaucracy is the fourth branch of government. they issues 3,000 laws and rules a year. and the people have no say in
people an opportunity not just to vent but to interact with the person who represents them in washington. frankly, it s a government of the people. is it so disruptive, we heard before this research, j.c., that there was going to be groups organizing the disruption. at that point it becomes difficult. at that point, counter-productive? it does. it s not healthy for the process. but at the same time this is america and those people can do that. i used to have people during my campaigns, they would protest in front of my campaign office or my congressional office. i actually celebrated because they don t get shot or get their arms cut or or legs cut off or put in meat grinders because they disagreed with their congressman. the clip you showed, i don t
political appointee at the top appointed by president obama who is the decisions or telling them they needed to go after tea party groups. the thing that i think, maybe now we understand a little bit more why lois lerner pled the fifth. because what she is talking about, if you look at the time line, doesn t this right after this is when they started targeting tea party groups? isn t that the exact time line? you have to be a little suspicious of miss lerner since ten years before at the fec, george will wrote a column about this saying she told a republican candidate, either you drop out of the race or i ll pursue you. if you drop out of the race, we ll leave you alone. basically bullying, which is what my book is about, government bullies, people using the power of government to bully ordinary citizens. the irs has enormous power to bully people. that s why it should never be used for partisan purposes. i wonder if people fully understand. the fec, a lawyer used to work there.
republic. we re on board from the constitution. for 100 years the progressive movement, i call them the state us, have been chiselling away and chiselling away at the constitutional construct. and it is time for conservatives and other americans to say they succeeded. this is why we have top down government. this is why the government is involved in everything from selecting our toilets and our light bulbs and our ables and our toasters. now they re in our health care. they re collecting all kinds of data on us. and i m saying, i think it is time if americans want to remain free, to start reaquanicquainti ourselves with the constitution and specifically article 5. the amendment process. the framers thought, some of them in particular, that we might reach this point with an oppressive centralized government. you look at the constitution. it is written to prevent this but they feared that politicians would lack virtue and we would
information? in 1974 we passed the privacy act. government agencies even for good purposes aren t supposed to share things. originally the social security number was what? a social security number. it wasn t supposed to be used for anything else. now we have a lot of agencies sharing data and it is very concerning to me. i m a strong believer, we want minimal government. we don t want government everywhere in our lives. we want to impact our lives. we just had mark levin on. we ve had 27 amendments to the constitution passed but none have passed the other way that article 5 calls for which is through state legislatures. what do you think of that idea in. i don t have a problem with it. there are some people concerned about having a constitutional convention, run away. this wouldn t be a convention. so what i argue to them is, i ve testified in favor of a balanced budget amendment in my state legislature. the state legislature can actually write the rules and say, you can only