neil: are they really? yeah. nobody is happy. everyone is frozen. they re hoarding cash, whether it s businesses hoarding cash or individuals hoarding cash and they re really thinking way too much about everything. should i buy that shirt, go to that restaurant. forget about should i buy a house? the big ticket, you re stuck with it ten years item. it s overthink because of a lack of confidence, they re all frozen. well, i do see with the crowd you hang out with, i look at them, but the crowd you hang out with, they have a lot of money. and they can blow a lot of money. but they re not so predisposed. why not? go engi again relates back to, the government throwing incentives here and there, 8,000 home buying credit. neil: that doesn t make a difference? no, none of that makes any
deal of 2-1 in terms of spending cuts versus revenue raising, but what we see on the street is the hollowness of that policy and the wickedness of that policy. these are people who have no understanding that human self-worth and dignity comes with getting up in the morning, dressing, going off and doing a day s work and providing for your loved ones. that is a lost world to these people. neil: i m just wondering if you re president obama or any of the ruling parties in washington and looking at these demonstrations and saying, look, we ve got to make some tough cuts, tough decisions or at least curb the growth of some of the programs that people have come to expect even though the money isn t there, for them to expect. that they might hold back for fear that it gets just like that here? yeah, absolutely. i ve got a chapter in my book that deals with just that scenario and i quote the gerald ford line, a government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take awa
you have. but the problem is, that there s an intervening stage, that a government big enough to golf you everything you want isn t big enough to persuade you to give any of it back when times are tough. wh what we see in madison, wisconsin is the selfishness of the so-called dependency community culture in the end when times get tough, people say no, i want my pension, no, i want my benefits, no, i want to retire at 53 no matter if it bank rupts the state. when you and we see all of the protesters in all of these countries, are they speaking for the majority or missing the silent majority, spiro agnew and richard nixon and