try to help, prioritize and use common sense. john: i m moving to something we agree. you are a hunter. we talk about if you want to save tigers, eat them isn t exactly true. it s been shown that conservation efforts have not worked but where people have allowed to own tigers and tribe allowing them to allow tourism. then the local people work to fight the poachers to preserve the animals. do you agree with? that you had really good points in that chapter about conservation. you gave the good example about the bison also. such and endangered species, once we were able to privatize the management of that species they are now relatively speaking in abundance. this is the point i wanted to argue a little bit because as a
liberty in the social sense you have to be for individual liberty in the economic sense. if you want to lead your life as you choose you ought to be able to spend your own money you choose. i try to put this package together for so long, close to hundred years now we ve had people think there is economic liberty and social liberty and two different groups defend each half and i don t think it will work unless we put it together. john: let s talk about economic security. our biggest program is medicare going broke and social security, too. president obama said we would not be a great country without them. what wo do you say? we re going to be a broke country with it. if you are broke brother it s not a great country. what we are witnessing the country is broke and nobody wants to admit it and that is why why they are fighting over a pie that is shrinking. john: you said you would cut a trillion dollars right now and
my understanding it was done with lobsters but it s tougher in the ocean. in the meantime, we have to make sure that government has some appropriate resource to manage until we figure out a better way to get people to not abuse a resource or abuse the environment. how is it that we re going to allow governmental to efficiently use a limited resource that woof, that is tax dollars? we do that by electing people who engage in common sense and keep wasting money on burdensome overreaching aspects which i say is about 90% of what the federal government is engaged in. john: governor palin, thanks for reading my book. it s an excellent book. let me sum up real quick. one sentence that you wrote in people need to understand. your intuition tempted all to
and spend $10,000 in mail but we got a list. they spend $300,000 on mailing garage out. tax guys spend $387,000 among he was promoting himself taking a stand on wasteful spending. [ laughter ] nobody has the money to counter that. even if you had a challenger, that challenger doesn t have $400,000 to send out a mailing explaining this wasteful spending. that is your money spending out their promotional material. its government funded promotion scheme. we re doing this great stuff. nobody is there to tell the other side of the story. john: you have raised $12 million so far. any success? yes. we ve had two races we ve one an election and driven one incumbent out by releasing poll results. when the incumbent found out
i am a college student and my roommate is a liberal. whenever i bring an argument but government fails but individuals succeed. he recites the example of europe. they have larger government and lower poverty, better health care and better education. what would your argument about europe is bigger government and potentially they have more prosperity in that sense. john: i would say they don t have more prosperity. america is more prosperous than europe. we are much more diverse and we create many new jobs. some of the benefits people in europe have, say the free healthcare they get because they free load off our free market system. a lot of new drugs. they have artificial knees they got from us. europe is now breaking down. it s unsustainable. america is unsustainable but greece we ve seen it. spain and portugal, it will