If you live in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000 is the number to call. Dish in thein any mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. The recent column appeared in yesterdays wall street journal. The era of Big Government is back is the title. To show you some of what they wrote. Conversations with a broad crosssection of political figures suggest there is little reason to expect a return of the status quo on federal spending, or the prevailing attitude toward the proper role of government. The era of Ronald Reagan is over a democratmanuel, who served as the mayor of chicago and president obamas first chief of staff. An echo came from the other. Ide, from Stephen Bannon it is not relevant. That is some of the thoughts from yesterday from gerald cy vance john mccormick. This when itte comes to mr. Trump. Saying, long before when this crisis struck, trump had been moving the party away from its embrace of traditional conservative precepts. The Trump Administration declared that the government would pay. Leastppeared to offer at a glance and nodded toward the medicare for all system long advocated by the democratic leftwing. Mr. Trump explicitly favored borrowing. You can find this piece online. A couple of polls take a look at this topic as well. This is from the Washington Post about the role of government. The majority of americans saying restrictions on appropriate. At the topic of restrictions on public gatherings. 64 say it is an appropriate role. 22 saying it not restrictive enough. When it takes a look at the larger government role, cnbc released a poll. Congress lookss to build on the largest spending plan in u. S. History, 63 percent of registered voters say they approved the governments expanded role. That say they about driving up deficits. Worried theentage government would extend too little money. This idea of Big Government they they talkedat about, what do you think about that . If you live in the eastern or central time zones, it is 202 7488001. If you live in the mountain and pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. Include your name, city, state. If you do that, we may read some of them. Stephen starts with a post from our facebook page. When it comes to this idea of Big Government, we will need the help, consistent financial assistance, but why Big Government . We dont need departments to regulate departments as it was in the past. Wallace adding fear of government who tells you they know better than you do on how to live your life. Texass in houston, starting us over starting us off. Good morning. What you think about this idea . Have 26 Million People unemployed. You have 700,000 people in texas, restaurant workers, underemployed. You have rent coming up. They have bills to pay. These were hardworking people. And because of some stupid republican in the white house, who has pretty much destroyed this economy, it is going to take decades to fix this. Host what can government do at this time . Caller more money. More money. Hurry up. Host do you worry about the level of spending . Caller i do not worry about the debt. Raise taxes on the top 10 . Raise taxes on wall street transactions. Host doug, you are next up. Caller i would like to say all these people that colin need to show the proper respect to the president , whose name is not donald trump. Trump. E is host to the eye of Big Government, what do you think . Caller we cannot keep putting money. We need to reopen this country and put things back in perspective. If youre staying six feet apart, wearing a mask, and it is working, then you can do that and do jobs. State, virginia, he will let tournaments. O bass it is just Big Governments trying to move things to do what they want. Host do you think it is the role of government to offer assistance . Caller not to the extent that you will put the next 60 generations and dead generations in debt. Our country was not founded on Big Government bailing people out. The American People worked hard to build america, not the government. Host that is doug in newport news. He talked about the spending part of it. If you go to the wall street journal, it takes a look at the Federal Reserve. The reserve is redefining central banking by lending widely to businesses in breakingt to it is century old taboos about who gets money from the central bank in a crisis and what risk it will take about getting that money back. Knew programsnks will swell new programs will 10 trillion. According to calculations, the portfolio had reached 6. 5 7 trillion by april 22. This is from rich, hickory hills, illinois. Rich, good morning. The question of big risk is itat the responsible Big Government . I dont think we are in the era of responsibility. I dont think this coronavirus has been handled anywhere near appropriate or responsibly since the get go. Results and this is a of why we are in this massive lockdown, economy shut down. This stuff is a byproduct of how it was not handled properly. I think where this started and where it is going and where it will continue to go just shows that this is not responsible. Host what should responsible government look like at this time . Caller if you have a health they should have a game plan on how to stop this, treat this, ended this situation. To me, there is no end in sight with this. It is like we do not happen into what is going to stop this virus other than dont get it. I dont think that is a responsible solution. We have to take a look at what the virus is, what the virus does, how we treat the symptoms. I do not see that game plan, but maybe im not looking. Host the piece is the era of Big Government is back. You may want to read it online. You can findit on the wall street journalwebsites. Good morning. I was thinking about the whole situation. When we first look at the whole thing, you have an issue where you are dealing with the cdc. Big government is hugely important. People want the military, but it does not just include the military. It includes the cdc, the who. You have those Different Things where you are including diplomacy and other things. Somebody should have been in china investigating. That same thing happened with the ebola crisis. That is why the ebola crisis did not get out of hand. They had people going to africa and helping out. There should have been somebody in china helping out. There are all types of peerreviewed articles that were going on is soon as the thing started. With that said, i am not going to say donald trump should have done this or shouldnt have done this. I do not always agree with any president. I do not take any side. But anything but some that could have been done they couldve ramped up supplies. The federal government could have done that. At is there any point where the federal governments role becomes too large . Caller if you look at the Great Depression and all the landmarks in our past i am a teacher there is not a point where the role becomes large in these aspects. There are times where they call it martial law. Everybody wants the military to defend them, the cdc to step in. How do you have those if people are not contributing to the government . Host he brings up the Great Depression. The authors of yesterdays wall street journal piece do as well. Depression led to increased social safety nets, new consolidated agencies. The 2008 federal financial meltdown led to actions by the Federal Reserve. And have accepted a sea of new reading of the federal deficit was heading toward 2 trillion annually. Nebraska. Are from hello. Caller nancy pelosi and mr. Schumer cannot wait to get their hands on enough money to try to bailout all these democratic spent and states that money over the last 30 years. Now thatngs things totally gone, they went all the americans to take their money and to bail them out on these retirement funds. The American People better watch them because they are just about ready to get there grubby hands get there grubby hands on that money. Just to watch them. Host the debate on capitol hill is whether a fourth stimulus package directly to state and local governments is going to be considered. Youre saying that should not be the case. Caller absolutely not. They are going to use that to build their own stupidity out. Bail their own stupidity out. Host Mitch Mcconnell said those sentiments about Pension Funds and the ability of states to declare bankruptcy in an interview last week. Theking of capitol hill, house and senate expected to return next week. Frontlinenell said workers are still on the job. He said it is time for senators to join them. Is in dire need of clarity. He said i look forward to seeing my colleagues. Steny hoyer of maryland told his colleagues they will be back. But what they will work on is still up in the air. Nancy Pelosi Said Congress is pony up the Money Congress has ponied up the money for workers. Law needs to go to localities. Back,a of Big Government the argument of the piece. Washington,olympia, you are next. Caller the United States is sitting on a huge reserve. Fort knox has for hundred 57 million ounces of gold. Bars would release 48,000 weighing 27. 3 pounds, it could pay off our National Debt completely. Completely. We could replace it with palladium, which is worth more than gold. But anyway, i think the United States ought to go into our reserves and use it. Host do you think that is the appropriate response at this time . Making those Funds Available . Caller sure. Then we would not have to pay the interest on that debt. The interest on that debt is exorbitant. If we do not have to pay the interest, then it can go towards getting our country back to cy. Mal sc to normal host richard posted. He says, if government is working, it is not a bad thing. With the absence of leadership, it threatens to enslave us. Gina saying, who needs individual liberty anyway so 1776. Baton rouge, louisiana, you are next. Believei want to say i tara reid. Joe is a sexual predator, always has been. Host as far as Big Government . Caller government is getting way too big. 2009 and 2010, there was a swine fluid epidemic. It caught us by surprise. For some reason, the administration back then did not stop it was necessary to to stockpile ventilators, gowns, masks, gloves, and we got caught again. It is time to move on. Open things up, move on. Let the private sector run its. The government cannot run anything. Does the government has averse have a responsibility as far as health and safety . Appoint toto a point. Host but you are saying theres a point where it is overreach. Caller generations from now, our greatgreatgrandchildren are going to be paying for this. Pick them out,o pat them on the back, and tell them that you are sorry for what we are doing to them. Host dock giving thoughts. We will hear from ben. Hello. Never Big Government is left. People blaming trump have to think back. It was back in the 70s where the government gave tax breaks to corporations to create businesses and other countries. This is why we have no supply chain. Host when you say Big Government is never left, it was continued by the president . Was going ont forever. The government was set up to be a part time job. Now these people are fulltime residents. They have been there for 30 years, 40 years. They created laws. They created a law that they are exempt from any law they pass. That is not right. Host when it comes to the pandemic, what role is too far . Caller i dont think any role is to partner too far. Anyone that has been there more than 30 years has created this problem. Kimberly. Where do you live . Caller i live up in mount shasta. When peopleamazed talk about the government being too big because the government is actually all of us. They just represent our voice. One of the things the other caller before me was talking are theenerations, we great grandchildren of the Great Depression. That is where we are at. I dont think you can possibly spend too much money. We are going to come up with a whole other way. Into thisonth or two pandemic and look at unemployment. Who knows if there is going to be another outbreak . It is not about blame, it is about what do we do. Host does it justify actions like the additional spending . Caller yes it does. I think the government needs to be taking to heart the health and safety first. The testing without complete testing and being able to not put all that stress on the individual states. There should not be eight this should not be a way to make money. Survival. Be about either we all survive or we die. It is not them versus us. It is about surviving this first sickness, and then we can worry about how do we go past that. Kimberly ins california about this idea of Big Government. She talked about the state level, particularly what is going on with testing. Administration put out a proposal for states to test up to 2 of their population. Here is dr. Deborah birx laying out some of those details. [video clip] the full capacity of the states, increasing testing platforms, increasing the ability to cut samples, increasing the ability of laboratories and making sure every client receives the tests they need. This is added with timely monitoring systems, systems were the ability toer diagnose the systematic and the symptomatic and work with individuals who we know are at higher risk. Seen that it occurs often and close settings among our native americans and in our longterm care facilities. An active monitoring program. Combining this with a third element, the Rapid Response program, relying on cdc to be working with state and local governments to ensure that every symptomatic case and every nonsymptom medication is tracked and trait traced. Host the era of Big Government is back, that is the peace we are referencing. We ask you the same question. This was in the wall street journal. This is what you will find when you go to the website to get your thoughts on it. Several have expressed their agreement or disagreement. Youre are welcome to do the same. 202 7488000 if you live in the eastern or central time zones, 202 7488001 if you live in the mountain or pacific time zones. Robert, hello. Caller i look at this deal. If you go back to when the doctor from china first announced this epidemic, it is did not really jump on it right then. We have lost months. Look at the military. Look at our ships that are docked. We are weak. Host so is government being effective or not at this stage . Not underrump trump. He does not even respect women. Host back to the topic at hand do you think generally administrations do well . Caller i would tell trump to get on his knees and beg the ambassador of sweden to teach him a lesson. Host ok. Alice from maryland. Good morning. Caller i do not think the government is big enough. I think we are having a serious problem here. We have all of our manufacturing outside the country and not in the country. I think we need bigger government for Healthcare Services and other things. So i think this is just showing us how weak we are in that respect. We do not have those things. Host when it comes to manufacturing, what could Big Government change . Caller they could change they could set a percentage of what has to be manufactured in the United States. Like all of our medicines are being manufactured outside the United States. Host what do you think the performance of your governor . You live in maryland. Do you think he is doing well . Caller i do think he is. I think he is doing what he can in this situation, but i do not really know what other governments would be doing. I think we need Better Health care systems, and even though he is a republican, i think he is doing a good job. Saying,mes on facebook what sense does it make for the government to appropriate funds to cover the cost of testing and refusing to implement universal health care . Illnesses pose similar challenges . Saying, themorning federal government gave us social security, medicare, the interstate system,. The government has the capacity problem, but the president does not understand this. The government tells me i do not life,ense to manage my pamela says. Facebook is available. Twitter as well. 202 u can text us at 7488003. Back. Big Government is there is no better poster than having to look at the federal student loan system. It is absolutely disgusting. Has become a big National Threat at this point. These loans are controlled it, almost 90 , by the federal government. They have removed constitutional protections like bankruptcy rates and also statutes of limitations and protections that exist for every other type of loan. Profiting 70 is billion a year on this program and since president obama federalized it in 2010. That was five years ago. Not, several swat teams started rolling up and taking people off for failing to pay their loans. Host where did you get that from . Caller thats a fact. Affectost a source where . Caller it was reported widely. Was aikens. Me host of all the aspects, why Student Loans . Are you paying Student Loans . Caller i am and so are other people. People aref these unable to pay their loans, or they are paying and their balances are going up. We have gone from 50 billion in National Debt to nearly 2 trillion today. It is a failed blending system. Preside