up being diverted into the life of the people will call a conservative critic for commentator, they were wrong again. his life, were, proved them wrong. . . . .

of bigotry and said things about muslims he rude things after 9/11 about islam about radical islam that some of the more sensitive people in the islamic community if you want to call it that and canada took offense to. so they took him for three different human rights conditions. we in the united states might find this baffling as we enjoy the freedom to be able to criticize and call other people out when they think they are doing wrong.

in canada they have a human rights code that says you are not allowed to talk about a group, a person or a group in a way that would subject it to hatred or ridicule or so forth. so this group said mark stein is making people think bad things about muslims so they brought him up in front of the conditions and each time it was thrown out. this is what i loved about mark stein. when it was thrown out of the condition, when they set look nothing he said here rose to the level of being something we can lock him up for our sins are his writing for also in canada i think it is kind of frightening that there is such a thing as a human rights condition that does have the power to come as the people who brought him up to the commission wanted to direct him and his publication. they tossed it out and he got

mad and said i wanted to lose. i wanted to lose so you would take it to court with real wally is so we just put this notion to rest and we could free the people of canada. that is the kind of person that he is. that's the kind of human rights activism i think is so critical and important today and that you are about to your a lot about so with that puts please welcome works fine. [applause] >> thank you very much. it's wonderful to be here in

what the hell state are we in again? new hampshire. it's weird. i never recognized the bit with indoor plumbing. we were supposed to be getting that in my part of the state under the stimulus package but it fell off the back of the struck so we never did. he mentioned drew in his introduction and i used to introduce opera on the television a long time ago and a neighbor of mine of north who does sugaring i notified him that the offer they were making was a rare appearance in the company in lebanon believed to lebanon, and hampshire so he thinks because he's like in the once this is all about and we get a couple of tickets and he is on his way down there in his

pickup truck with his wife and he gets pulled over by the called for speeding and he asked the driver for a license and registration and he opens glove box and three guns fallout. it's not in there. he pulls up in the middle and he pulls out another and it's not -- he says i know it's around here somewhere. so he plows around the back seat causing another five or seven guns over on top of his wife eventually the cop says okay for get it. so get to the police station and whatever it is the next seven days. by the way where are you going in such a hurry? and he goes to the opera. [laughter] know, you laugh. it makes sense. if you ever been at the first night in mullen, those arguments can get serious. i want to say something before we get going to night in new

hampshire and you listen to me very, very, very carefully you may just here a very, very faint trace of just amol smidgen of something in the accent that might lead you to believe that i am not a granite state native. i don't want you to worry about it. it is a malfunction in the system. we spent all afternoon trying to fix it. the work on it nonstop but we couldn't do anything about it. if you go home and you catch this speech when it's shown on your television you will find that it's being a digitally remastered in my country so there's nothing to worry about. i don't want to distrust any of you tonight. i discovered this state by accident and i thought it was beautiful and i figured it would be nice to get a little condo for maybe a couple of ski

weekends and perhaps a vacation in the winter months. who was asking when they wound up in new hampshire just before we came in. so it would be nice. i walked in and walked out 20 minutes later with a 200-year-old farmhouse that needed about 200 years worth of work. but i fell in love with the land and i never stopped loving it. it never ceases even after all this time to take my breath away. so i fell in love with the land and then i fell in love with a system of government and i saw what alexis de tocqueville saw he saw them two centuries ago self-reliant citizens governing themselves in their own townships. atoka fell was smarter than me. he certainly would never buy a house, believe me. he probably got the ski condo fully serviced. he is there a few every february.

on the ski report when they talk about fresh powder they are referring to his wig. there's a lot of sports bars the tocqueville shtick just dies, believe me. [laughter] and so i came to this sweet land and stayed for the liberty which kind of snuck up on me and it is what i'm going to talk about this evening. my book is called after america get ready for armageddon. so we are a little way from little house on the pretext of. i was going to say it is available in all good bookstores but i see most of them have closed down. this very day i believe borders has gone out of business. normally the only stock my books in the back at leg of the table for all gore's de vv box asset "and inconvenient truth colin code the director's cut." but this time around the borders

is reluctant to carry the book at all. they take in the proportion of coming out of business. if you go to the borders and today is the last i don't know if they are keeping the 10:00 as they might have decided up in concord for the first time ever my book is in the front window because even the losers didn't want it. [laughter] when you are launching a booked you always want a bit of a publicity boost. somebody in the news cycle that gives you a lift and a lot of my books about the fiscal collapse. today's before the official release date s&p downgrade america from its aaa status to the first time in history. if you are in author you can't buy publicity like that. i mean you can if you have $15 trillion you are willing to toss it down the hole in the federal treasury. but other than that it gets

pretty expensive. with what my america might be and that is chapter 5. it's called the new diprete city and two days before my book was published in the united kingdom the mob of the british welfare decided to reenact chapter 5 of my book on the streets of london by burning have the city to the ground. you can't buy publicity like that. drew mengin i used to be a musical theater critic. concrete into the orchestra but it was. but the news cycle moves on and by the end of the week everyone was all about the body was koppel, the presidential candidates and congressman -- congresswoman michelle bachmann has gone up and down the state, and she wins the i was straw

poll and then she quotes my book on meet the press. between the downgrading of the blonden riots and michelle bachmann i had a good opening week publicity. if you have red the ultimate chapter with its big nuclear finale, you might want to be out of town when we do the publicity for that. [laughter] they called after america because he wanted to happen. you write it in order to prevent it happening. total societal collapse is not in my interest. if you are an author, the destruction of the banking system makes it much harder to catch the royalty. so i want to prevent the dawn of the post american world and i hope you do, too. if you are in favor of the post american world, if you are a tenured professor at american college campus i don't think you will enjoy it as much as you'd think you will. i'm often asked by fellow

conservatives wireline being such a hysterical queen about the whole business because if you recall president obama's now forgotten that commission i don't know whether you remember them very bipartisan in the blue ribbon just a few months ago they produced a report will dramatically and emblazoned the moment of truth. and after that dramatic title the proposed such compulsive course corrections as raising the age of social security eligibility to raising the age of social security eligibility to 69. by the year 2075. [laughter] so what we got calls like that we can easily been for another half a century, right? [laughter] but some of us have been here before. we know the smell.

we've lifted and when we get the with of it in our nostrils in america today that is a very worrying sign. we have an advantage for the canaries in the coal mine we know that small means. let me quote another foreigner who spends a part of the year in massachusetts last year michael ferguson, a professor at oxford and harvard joint such eminent thinkers at aspen ideas festival else barbara streisand and james rowland and a professor told a barbra streisand, quote, having grown up in a declining empire i do not recommend it. it's not a lot of fun actually, and of quote. and he's right. it's not. it really isn't. you don't want to go. we are well on the way deep in decline and heading for the fall and one healthy fall. like greece or portugal or ireland or iceland this deal is

entirely different. no one uses the key word trillion in lisbon or dublin. that word is unique to washington and when a multi tralee another catastrophe slides off the cliff it lands with a much bigger fund in iceland or portugal. one of the saddest aspects of the debate is the assumption that american decline will be as comfortable for americans as british decline was for britain when the tax britannica yielded to the tax americana after the second world war. that was the smoothest transfer of the global dominance in history. and it isn't going to go that smoot next time around and next time around is already underway. by 2016, according to the imf, the leading economy will be a communist dictatorship. that's in five years' time. think about that if the imf is right, the guy that you electronics to november will be the last president of the united states to preside over the world's leading economy.

and instead, the preeminent economic power will be a one-party state with a communist bureau presiding over a largely pleasant population with no genuine market, human rights, no property rights, no rule will fall, no freedom of speech, no freedom of the oppressed, a land whose legal political and cultural traditions of our as alien to its predecessors as could be devised and it wouldn't mark the end of the two century anglophobe economic dominance. but even more, civilization of the startling. unlike the americans and the british and the dutch and italian thank you them, the leading economic power will be a country that doesn't even use the roman alphabet. it's very silly to assume that this is just a matter of dollars and cents and debt to gdp ratio. when money trains, power drains remorseless flawlessly. the week before my book came out, everyone was very excited about whether we would reach a

so-called deal on the debt ceiling before the clock chimed midnight on august 2nd. what was the big fuss about this? its looming, it's approaching. august 2nd at midnight if we didn't reach a deal on the debt ceiling, the coach would turn back into a pumpkin and air force one would turn back into a large zucchini with two wings of president obama's beloved arugula as it tried to get. i may be over extending the metaphor a little bit here. this is classic nonsense. the debt ceiling deadline was irrelevant. the problem is not the ceiling it is the debt. and negotiating to extend the midnight deadline to maintain the illusion until 2 a.m. does not offer that thinks that it is an illusion. to put that into perspective it was a dispute between john boehner and the congressional

budget office about the so-called scoring of his band. speaker boehner said his plan called the $7 billion of the cuts of the 2012 budget, the cbo said the plan only produced a 2012 budget by a billion dollars, which of the numbers is correct? who cares? the $7 billion that john bowen recalls, quote, a real and forcible cut to the financial year 2012 represents what the government of the united states currently boroughs every 37 hours. in other words, between now and the time in the end of the week, we will have barletta back every dime of those painstaking negotiations savings. if the cbo scoring is correct that it would use as the 2012 deficit by just $1 billion, then the cut represents with the united states boroughs every five hours and 20 minutes. in other words, in less time than it takes to drive from my pad of state from the time it

takes to watch harry potter and the deathly hallows part one and two with a bathroom break in between all of the savings of the painstaking negotiated plan would have been borrowed back. 7 billion or 1 billion. who cares who's right. that is the choice between dead or deader. the white house really enforceable cut of one to $7 billion. let me give you some numbers that are rather more relevant. within a decade, the united states would be spending more of the federal budget on its interest payments than on its military. that is to save more on the debt service than on the armed services and according to the cbo's long-term budget outlook by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 to 20% of its revenue and defense spending will be down between 14 to 16. so america just to get this in

perspective, america is responsible for 33% of the world's military expenditures. within a decade america would be spending more on debt interest and this is not paying of the principal this is like when you get your mastercard at the end of the month you can't pay off any of the debt all you can do is stay current with the monthly interest charge. our monthly interest charge will be more than the combined military expenditures of china, britain, france, russia, japan, germany, saudi arabia, india, italy, south korea, brazil, canada, australia, spain, turkey and israel. you add up all of the military budgets that is our interest charge on the debt. by 2015 -- by the way, that is the current historic low with a were to return to what they were, what they've averaged in the last 20 years about 5.7%, america will be spending more than the planet's entire

military budget on the debt interest. by about 2015 we will be covering the entire cost of the people's liberation army of china. that's what you guys have to pay for. small businesses in bedford. suburban homeowners and nashua will be paying for the entire budget of the chinese military. no precedent on that anywhere in history. the roman empire felt pretty students last year's but they didn't say to the roman taxpayers that as a matter of policy are going to have to pick up the bill not just for the roman military that for the military as well. in give even if they had it wouldn't have been so bad because the military budget was mostly just held. [laughter] so they still would have gotten a better deal than we do. permanence is the illusion of every age.

we are not just outsourcing the economy. we are outsourcing power. and as american power fades, its outsourcing the future to a very dangerous planet. this is bleak and i understand it is a depressing scenario. i don't want to give away the ending of my book, but when we do do the musical version that they seem to be encouraging, we will focus the focus group finale and out of town previews and we will change it to a happy ending in which michelle bachmann sees the error of her ways and joe biden has a community organizer the ground a vacation in chicago. it will warm your heart. [laughter] but until we close the deal with disney on that particular project, let me say being a grim it starts with of the money but it never stops there.

let me spell out where the post american world leads. we spent too much. it's not a revenue issue it is spending issue. the united states joined the rest of the western world in voting itself a lifestyle it wasn't willing to pay for. and indeed it can never pay for because when you spend $4 trillion but you only take $2 trillion which is the federal government model you can never close that down with revenue. when the government spends on the scale washington has gotten used to it isn't a spending crisis it is a moral one. there's nothing virtuous about caring, compassionate progressives demonstrating how caring and compassionate and progress of the hour by spending money yet to be earned by generations yet to be born. we are losing the future to bribe the president. indeed we have looted the future to such an extent it is no longer clear we have one and that is what the so-called fiscal conservatives often miss. it isn't a green issue. increasing dependency, this

incentivizing self-reliance of solving the citizenry from responsibility for their actions but the multi trillion dollar debt capacity is not the problem but merely a symptom and this is where i disagree with mitch daniels and some others. it's not about balancing the books. it's about rebalancing the jury structures of society. or is for redistribution. leftists often talk about redistribution of wealth. when you are we distributing from the present you are redistributing wealth that is not yet been created. weld that does not exist. meanwhile, day-by-day in this republic we see an unprecedented transfer of resources from the protected class to the obstructive class. to government, to regulators, to bureaucracies. so if much of this does not yet exist, what exactly are we redistributing? we are redistributing liberty. we are delivering a self-governing republic to rule by regulators, bureaucrats and social engineers.

just this week, the formerly golden state of california, a broker jurisdiction whose rapacious government and dependency class of driving what is left of the productive class of the borders the state announced that its burning priority is that it needs to regulate bed sheets and motels and hotels. it will be illegal under the california regime for motels and hotels to put long fitted sheets on their beds. and so there will be a sheet regulatory regime with the sheet regulatory enforcers kicking down the door of the room 73 of the orange grove motel to check their in compliance with the california sheet regime. you can try to resist but they will take the sheet out of you. [laughter] [applause] there is a apocryphal or will quotation to describe the way

pacifists, even pass the tests assume desultory to defend in the realm. quote, people sleep in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because the state agency of sheet regulation stands ready to do violence to the innkeepers with mauney last decade it sheets. by the way, if there is a ku klux klan member because i know you tea party guys -- i know what it's really about. so if there is any ku klux klan members here tonight, you are planning on flying in for a large meeting with a grand rheedlen california you will need a fitted sheet, okay? [laughter]

when craig canada decriminalized sexuality pierre said the state has no place in the bedrooms of the nation. but california says yes we do if you are consummating your same-sex marriage on and on compliance sheet. [laughter] and so it goes. i was talking to an undocumented immigrant from tijuana, and he says that california is already a bayh worksheet government. these are not trivial things. they represent the remorseless redistribution of liberty. seven-year-old julie was selling lemonade in portland oregon when the two officers demanded to see her temporary restaurant license which would have cost her $120. when she failed to produce it, these officers threatened her with a 500-dollar fine.

she's a seven-year-old girl. they also made her cry. now when i read these stories there's another one in the paper just the other day. u.s. fish and wildlife, an 11-year-old girl in virginia, shiloh, had rescued a woodpecker and spent a few days nursing it back to health before releasing yet and agent of the united states department of fish and wildlife arrived with an escort of virginia state troopers to deliver a 535-dollar fine to a little girl who rescued the woodpecker for the federal crime of transporting a protected species of woodpeckers. she transported out of the mouth of the cat who was eating it. serve the cat with a $535 fine for transporting, illegally transporting the woodpecker.

these are not small things. two officers, two officers shakedown the seven-year-old girl for the 500-dollar lemonade stand find. officers from two agencies, federal and state made the 11-year-old girl cry for rescuing the woodpecker. a day should be ashamed of themselves. this is not a small thing. they do not understand the relationship between the citizen and the state. when i read these stories i'm always reminded of saudia arabia's religious police. the commission for the promotion of virtue and prevention of vices. except in this case our religious beliefs, their religion they are enforcing is state power. perhaps like the fierce and bearded men, the skulls of the stand could be issued with the centers in the street the way

that they do in her iyad and jeddah. when the life hands you lemons you make lemonade and then watched state enforcers turn it back. ask yourself this: it's exactly the same thing with gun control. gun control is not about guns it's about control. woodpecker control isn't about woodpeckers it is about control. lemonade control is not about lemonade. it's about control. if a second grader can no longer sell homemade lemonade in her front yard without $500 worth of permits what aspect of your life can the government regulate? more and more americans more has been supplanted by the regulation. a governing set of rules not legislated accountable to the people but invented by an activist bureaucracy much of which is well to the left of either political party. you may remember that congress's strict provisions for the end of life counseling, the so-called

death panels out of the obama camp, but kathleen sebelius, the secretary of health and human services put them back on her say so. why shouldn't she? the new law contains 700 references to secateurs come up with, shall another 200 to the secretary, quote, may and 139 to the sector, quote, determined. so the secretary may yet shall determine pretty much anything she wants. but at random, quote, the secretary shall develop all health care components that shall include troop levels surveillance, and of quote. troup level surveillance. that phrase is a known to human history. [laughter] but it's in obamacare. george never went in for the troop levels surveillance. if the stories about george washington's lowden t for true, that would have killed the american revolution right in there and then and i'm not sure

that colonel ghadafi goes in. from the denture servitude in the mirror quarter millennia. [applause] in a is for monopoly. i mentioned a moment ago that the aspen ideas festival has great thinkers like barbra streisand. so i would like to thank another great thinker george harrison and the people. in 1969 in the course of a wide-ranging ramble briefly detour out of the lsd into some remarks about the monopoly commission which is the british version of the u.s. antitrust provision. and he goes you know, this is the thing i don't like. it's the monopolist condition. if somebody is cleaning up the market with film, the monopoly condition, the government send them in there and say you're not allowed to monopolize. jet when the government is

monopolizing who is going to send in the monopoly commission to sort that now? that is one of the most brilliant observations on the government that has ever been made. there was an old joke in britain at the time. why is there only one monopoly commission? [laughter] it is in fact and incisive observations on the nature of government. we wouldn't like it if there was only one automobile company or only one breakfast cereal but by definition there can only be one government, which is when's tecum -- as a george's words when the government monopolizes it should do so in limited areas and that is particularly true for the national government and the nation's the government are more than 300 million people disposed of three continent. but i think it gets worse than that because it is not just the monopoly of power. right now we have ruled by the monopoly of ideas, which is the

most dangerous monopoly a fall into the kind of monopoly of the gray matter as it were. take for example hour so-called meritocracy. we are ruled buy effectively not technocrats, not america autocracy but the conform who impose essentially the sturgell monopoly of the outmoded ideas. remember the day after president obama's nomination michael beschloss held him as, quote, probably the smartest guy to ever become president come in dove quote. why would you say such a thing? i mean, other than an impressive talent self-promotion what has he ever done? evin as a legendary figure, what our original thought has he ever expressed in his entire life and yet, he is, quote, probably the smartest guy to become president since michael beschloss and he's the presidential historian says he should know because he is a smart guy, too and lending the hand on another smart guy the

house conservative of "the new york times" hailed the incoming -- hailed the incoming administration as a collection of super smart eggheads provincial further help. if a foreign enemy attacks the united states during the harvard yale game any time over the next four years, we are siggerud, and of quote. [laughter] he was right over a quarter of obama's political appointees with ties to harvard, over 90% have advanced degrees and yet were swound anyway. how did that happen? what kind of super smart guy all of thinks the same thing? we are governed by the conference cruts who live in the self reenforcing bubble. we have a ruling class that thinks alike and cannot concede that anyone other than the racist and a terrorist or mentally ill lunatic like my sometimes colleague of fox news juan williams when he got fired from npr for accidentally wandering off the reservation

for 30 seconds what they're doing in the soviet union they say we're just going to send you to the sanatorium lie down here you will soon be feeling much better. "the new york times" ostentatiously recruits its by sending its editors to hire people at the african-american convention. the women's journalist convention, the hispanic journalist convention, the gay lesbian bisexual and transgendered journalist convention and recruits on the basis of diversity of race, diversity of gender, diversity of orientation. every diversity accept the only one that matters, diversity of ideas, and if anyone could use some new ideas right now, it's america's wretched elite ruling class. [applause]

a es for arteriosclerosis which is really the shortest answer. yes, we can. no, we can't. have you tried to? the zone in the kennedy, the environmental impact study. try putting that on the end of the yes we can. america is seizing of. i thought the most obvious example in my book the tenure colin the ground in lower manhattan that should shame everyone of us here because destroying those buildings is something american enemies did to us. lady the hole in the ground for a decade is something we did to ourselves. the empire state building which was the tallest in the world back then was put up in 18 months during the depression. where is that spirit today? what can you do in 18 months today? if that tenure hole in the ground in lower manhattan is profound and eloquent in what it is telling us about american sclerosis.

ugs for global retreat. as britain and other great powers which we learn the price of the big government at home is an ever smaller presence abroad, first comes the reorientation, the shrinking of the horizon. after the in prior britain turned inward. between 1951 and '97 the proportion of the government expenditure on the defense fell from 24% to 7% while the proportion on health and welfare rose from 22% to 53%. and as before tony blair's newly fer government came around in 1997 to widen the gap even further. and i'm sure, you know, for that 53% welfare spending you saw what a bang for the buck they got in the tv screen this last week. when they spend that within memory the city in flames on our tv screens every night governs a fifth of the earth's surface in the quarter of its population.

if than inverted its priorities and spend all of that money on its nanny state charges at home with what spectacular results you can see if you had made the mistake of booking a trip to historic london and the next six weeks. good luck with that. that is the same trajectory every great power embarks upon in the retreat because you can have the entitlements with the global reach abroad but not both. and you can see it already in our cities and in libya. i don't know how many of you remember the war like it was and all of the papers for about 48 hours. it's still going on out there apparently and then it fell off of the radar screen and i believe it is in the guinness book of records for the fastest quagmire. so there is that to be said for it. the president spent the first month of the war telling the american people you don't need to worry we are not running this show we are just along for the ride we don't go to the

meetings. the point of the war is on the need to know basis and we don't need to know. it's not a war it is a scope limited action and they eventually announced reluctant or the to have anything to do with of the scope limited action but the eventually announced the new supreme allied commander of the kinetic scope limited action was general brochard, a canadian general. i canadian. i didn't even know we still had generals. [laughter] but i said on fox news that week as much as i like the idea of the canadian randomly in beating the muslim nations, really feel it should have gone to a mexican general because after all, president obama had pretty much spent the previous month insisting this is a job americans want to.

[applause] war is held but kinetic scope limited action as predatory. putin and the kremlin and in beijing will let in tehran, they are all enjoying this glimpse of the post american war and lydia right now. the world in which the global order made in the last 60 years not only counts but no longer makes any serious attempt to do so. they are looking forward to that. e is for engineering, and the ideological homogeneity and social engineering of our education system would be regarded as child abuse i think in any other age. aside from its other defects it diverts too many americans into frivolous and productive activity while our competitors get on with the real work. in 1940 a majority of the u.s. population had no more than a grade eight education.

by 2008, 40% of 18 to 24-year-olds run roldan college and to the world in which the typical americans are almost twice as old by the time he completes his education as he was in 1940. he spent over twice as long in the classroom and he got twice as much attention from his school because the people to teacher ratio is hard to do to half of what it was a century ago. education is the biggest single structural defect in the united states right now. no country needs to send a majority, never mind all as president obama's and shanta all is going to college and no country should. not every has the attitude to benefit and not every child who has the aptitude wants to go or needs to. and for most who wind up their college is a waste of time and money and life. they pretend to teach, slackers pretend to learn and employers pretend it is a qualification. we have a trillion dollars.

american individuals hold a trillion dollars of justin college. that's the equivalent of a g7 economy. just in one small boutique niche markets of debt. we recall that before she had sent over the first lady michelle obama worked for the university of chicago hospital. she wasn't a nurse or doctor or even a janitor. she was taken on by the hospitals to run, quote, programs of the community relations neighborhood outreach, diversity and minorities. she was a diverse booming industry in eletes america. in 2005 just as her husband was coming into the national prominence, by the strange the incidence, the happy dhaka residence with which the ruling class in chicago are often blessed she received an impressive $200,000 pay raise

and was appointed vice president for community and external affairs in charge of managing the hospital's business diversity program. mrs. obama famously complained that america is, quote, just downright mean. and you can see what she's getting at. she has to do with a $16,962 plus benefits for a job so necessary to the hospital that when she quit to become first lady they didn't bother replacing her. [laughter] these corporate america that is what she boasted she did, yes indeed it makes sense. we've corporate american and get a job as a diversity in force that officer. that's where the big bucks are. go over the river to the neighbors and vermont and if you go to any of the college and talk to the students, the invention of most of them is to work for a, quote, non-profit. it sounds nice, doesn't it? the entire state of vermont is a

non-profit. [applause] bin and gerry is used to make a ton of money selling ice cream and then they became a non-profit and it worked out so well by the anglo-dutch multinational i can't remember when but the improved the deal and jerry didn't like. but the one who did like it say the subsidiary it's something like that. and the other just to get on with all of the nonprofits. so the entire state of vermont is a nonprofit. when you're $15 trillion in the whole you are the all-time champion of the nonprofit. president obama now wants the rest of america to follow in his and michele's footsteps. this is the diversion of too much human capital into wasteful

and self indulgent activity. they don't do it in china or india and eventually those differences will help which is my next match it. that formula, the government of more and more of our people, the recipe for disaster admired in dependency and decline much of the united states will be on the fast track to latin america where there is a privilege, corrupt elites presiding over a vast swamp of poverty and that leads to the next stage d is for disintegration. weakening the highly singular united states of america. no advanced society tried to direct rule for 350 million people. will it work or is it more likely that increasingly incompatible jurisdictions and social groups will conclude the price for keeping them in the flag is too high and the prosperity in america is going

to franchise. i don't just mean on ethnic lines where you will have millions of white americans and black americans on the one hand and there is no job for either. the cultural attention it isn't clear to me that when this country is no longer the world's leading power, but the mullahs of dearborn what they call michiganistan will want to stay in fire island. they might go it alone but there is something more basic. if you take a retired federal bureaucrat in her early 50s, retired on the fantastic unsustainable pension benefits and health benefits the early years of what is a holiday weekend she lives at 26 on street, the guy at 24 went to the same school as her but he doesn't get the 30 year holiday weekend.

he has to go to work of his hardware store every day until he drops dead to fund the benefits of his neighbor and the retirement that he will never know. those people cannot coexist in the same streets any more than they can in athens or london. what's left of american youth will be taxed to pay for the retirement and medical care of the baby boomer generation who enjoyed the life of american prosperity that their kids will never know. look at the flash mob, look at the wisconsin state and ask yourself whether there will be more or less of that in the post persnickety america. open season, i said earlier if you find it hard to imagine a world without america but the russians, the chinese and the law are making plans for it. for 60 years the american security umbrella has observed the wealthiest nations on the planet for paying for their own defense and they've gotten used

to it. the united states army in germany if you like the german welfare system as maybe americans to, good for you because you are paying for it. because you've read the german military budget so they could beat their swords into welfare checks. now we've decided we would like to live like the belgians but without a sugar daddy to take care of us as we took care of europe. we live on a planet in which north korea is assisting them with the delivery systems and the and iranians are promising to share their nukes with sudan. north korea has an undetectable gdp. it doesn't just have a low gdp. it has a gdp that isn't statistically measurable when you compare it. there is no gdp. alt-a export or the nuclear technology and the knockoff viagra. you cannot measure number three as the fight gdp but it is a nuclear power. we face the prospect of which

the wealthiest society in history from norway to new zealand or incapable of defending the borders for the basket cases. how long do you think that arrangement is going to last? and on that kind of planet it isn't hard to figure out what comes next. i just giving you -- i just spelled out letter by letter the thesis of my book. as for addiction, or is for redistribution come in this for monopoly, a is for arteriosclerosis comegys for the global retreat, he is for educational social engineering, d is for decay the disintegration, o is for open season, n as for nukes away, put them all together in this bill is speed.

from state regulator lemonade sales to nuclear devastation to the fiscal room to planetary room and nothing. if you don't want that to happen you need to get serious and demand your candidates get serious. it's not about putting john kerry on the super committee to report back about raising the age of medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 in the year 2015. there isn't going to be 2050 is that is the best john kerry can do. the best he can do for america is to win nantucket's in that yellow spandex. [applause] fact got a bigger cheer than the de tocqueville phos-check o shtick. don't be cruel to john kerry. he thinks that spandex does wonders for his figure.

[laughter] i think that he should do nantucket until 2015. he's doing the least damage out there. let's not make them make landfall until 2015 and we might get out of this. those of us on the receiving end of john kerry need to understand that it's not about the century it is about the mid decade about right now. the united states is still different. you know this. in the wake of the economic meltdown france rye get it over the most modest proposals to increase the retirement age. elderly students in britain attack the heir to the throne's car over the attempt to constrain bloated wasteful and pointless university. everywhere from iceland to bulgaria the mobs are demanding the same thing. why didn't you, the government, do more for me? america was the only nation in the developed world where millions of people took to the streets to take the states i can

do just fine if you control the status would shove your non-stimulating stimulus, jobless jobs bills and multi trillion dollar and just say the hell out of my life and out of my pockets. [applause] that's the america that has a chance. even as american outspend us not only america's ability to pay for it but with some measures the plan at. even as it follows pretend into the trans generational dependency and failed education system unsustainable entitlements, even if it makes less and less in its future to its rivals for the chinese trinkets, most americans including far too many of my friends on the right simply because the american they are in

the consequences i have this in my friends from fox news last week when i said you couldn't seriously argue that we didn't deserve the downgrade from seriously arguing that this nation was trouble a with $15 trillion of debt and my friends on fox news the most right-wing in the american media said what do you mean? of course we are aaa. we are better than aaa. we should have a quadruple category for the lows are countries in the aging countries in the aaa category. the loser nation can't compare with us. we need to understand. we are not aaa. when you've got 15 trillion debt you can't be. when you have ten times that in the liability you can't be aaa. the great actually it was agreed in a realist and a pleasant man but he left one memorable o i forgot where i was for a minute there. i have to remember the atoka

bill shtick got such a big cheer in new hampshire it gets big cheers when you are in south africa i have to remember. [laughter] i took the long assimilation bill before i walked off. the deplorable british imperialist distilled the assumptions of the generation when he said it could be born and englishmen was to win first prize in the lottery of life and on the eve of the great war and his house he turned around to the ruling passed too self-absorbed to see what was coming. do you think, he wrote, the law of god will be suspended in favor of england because you were born there? in our time to be born a citizen of the united states is to win first prize in the lottery of life. and as burton said in the state, too many americans assume it will always be so. do you think the law of god will be suspended in favor of america

simply because you were born in it? think carefully about that question. when you live in the north country, when you live in a state where them whether spends six months of the year trying to throttle the life out of you one thing you understand is the fragility of civilization. back in the spring i was walking on an abandoned clause six road behind my house with my two boys one morning when we noticed a huge mother bear in the tree is just off to our left and then just ahead of us we noticed one of little cub and behind us another little cub, and we were in the middle. and my boys were excited. [laughter] but a little scared. and that's the way i feel as we embark on this critical half decade. i feel excited about a little scared, and i wondered if of our society still has the survival

instinct of that mother bear protecting her cubs. if you disagree, don't wait for the messiah to descend from the heavens on a tuesday morning in november. we tried that in 2008. we entrust the world petroleum dollar enterprise for the guy that's never created a dime of wealth in his life and then we were surprised that for some reason i didn't work out. this time is up to you. ordinary citizens need to do this year and next year as they did in 2009, 2010 and moved the public discourse. in my book i quote maudlin friedman. milton friedman says don't elect the right people to do the right things. create the conditions whereby the wrong people are forced to do the right thing. every time that deserve such a cheer. [applause] there should be nothing controversy all because every

time you see obama bill and give a speech and someone has taken the precaution of loading up some lame boilerplate about how we need to get our fiscal house in order and we need to control the deficit the only reason he's even pretending to care about it is because the meter of public discourse was moved in 2000 - 2010. he's the wrong person being forced to pretend that he wants to do the right thing. let's keep changing the discourse until the right people are not truly forced to do the right thing. milton friedman is right about that. when i first moved to new hampshire i carelessly assumed the general staff and said live free or die before some black lawyer. i thought it was the charge, a touch of the old henry the fifth routine. then i discovered our state's

great revolutionary war hero had made this decades after the cessation of hostilities in the butter regretting that he would be unable to attend the dinner. and in a strange way i found that even more impressive because in the extreme circumstances many of us can rouse people to rediscover the primal impulses and the way the brave men on flight 93 did the took off on what they called a commuter flight and when they realized it wasn't they went into general start mode and cried let's roll. but it's harder. it's harder to maintain that live free or die spirit when you are facing not only the media crisis but a slow and seizing a ratchet effect, which is in stable societies on threatened by the revolutionary war within the borders always the way that liberty to trade away incrementally painlessly all but in perceptively. live free or die sounds like a battle cry to dalian honorable

death but in fact it is statement of the obvious of the reality of our lives in the prosperous. you can live as free men. but if you choose not to come in your society will surely die. live free or die its new hampshire is choice, it's america's choice, so make the right call because the fate of our world depends upon it. thank you very much. [applause]