you don t need money for a great education. you need desire. you need a good book. we need to give control of the schools back to the parents and the states. best way to do this is abolish the department of education. we certainly don t need to be giving them more money. i m ben stein. the department of education does not teach one child how to read or do arithmetic. it needs to go. goodbye, department of education. glenn: it s time to take on the defense budget. roll up your sleeves, here we go! the united states spends approximately $102 billion to maintain our troops around the rest of the world. watch this. this is the complete around the world, bases overseas. $102 billion on overseas defense.
everybody off. we sayre say we re going to spread democracy. we get into bed with day care day care taters and bow to saudi princes only when it s to our advantage. what sense does that make? george washington wanted us to be like the swiss. enemy of none, friend to all. places like germany. you know what, germany? i m going to trust you with your own army. i think it s straightened out there, you need to take care of yourself. you re on your own. we re not staying. we need to get out of the korean peninsula. japan, we love you. thank you for holding our bonds, but we can t be the world s loiterers anymore. you states spends approximately $102 billion to maintain our troops around the rest of the world. this is for our fleets, the
bases overseas, $102 billion on overseas defense. add to that about $148 billion just on iraq and afghanistan. that s $250 billion. why? why? half of the world s expenditures. why? here s the deal. i m tired of being the world s policeman. we can t do it anymore. but in most cases we re not the world s policeman, we re loiterers, we need a no loitering policy. that comes from the progressives. republicans, they say we re going to send the green helmets in and nation build our way to global security. be more like us. the liberals, democratic progressives say we ll do it through the united nations, send in the blue helmets, which which pay for. this doesn t work. the idea of take our arleny he
everybody off. we sayre say we re going to spread democracy. we get into bed with day care day care taters and bow to saudi princes only when it s to our advantage. what sense does that make? george washington wanted us to be like the swiss. enemy of none, friend to all. places like germany. you know what, germany? i m going to trust you with your own army. i think it s straightened out there, you need to take care of yourself. you re on your own. we re not staying. we need to get out of the korean peninsula. japan, we love you. thank you for holding our bonds, but we can t be the world s loiterers anymore. you states spends approximately $102 billion to maintain our troops around the rest of the world. this is for our fleets, the
bases overseas, $102 billion on overseas defense. add to that about $148 billion just on iraq and afghanistan. that s $250 billion. why? why? half of the world s expenditures. why? here s the deal. i m tired of being the world s policeman. we can t do it anymore. but in most cases we re not the world s policeman, we re loiterers, we need a no loitering policy. that comes from the progressives. republicans, they say we re going to send the green helmets in and nation build our way to global security. be more like us. the liberals, democratic progressives say we ll do it through the united nations, send in the blue helmets, which which pay for. this doesn t work. the idea of take our arleny he