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Progressives passed the 16th amendment to get the income tax, new deal and great society. now obama seems to be taking it to new lengths with obamacare. americans understand the states are where the laboratory of innovation, states should be out competing this book is about freedom. greta: there s some vignettes that struck me, a member of your party, former speaker hastert, even though he s not a member of congress right now he is out lobbying according to you for corporations and foreign government that we taxpayers are paying $40,000 every month for an suv, cell phones, it may not seem like a lot of money talk tack greta: it is a lot to someone in my hometown trying to make it through the year. you take the cost of a ....
1200, they were gonna send to texas, that s nonsense. we have a 1200 mile border. 12 of the 1800 miles in texas. that s where you ve gtta focus the work and the people and the resources. greta: have you been able to reach out to president obama on this issue? i know you passed him a note in texas on the tarmac. this president knows what is going on. reaching out, we reach out, we reach out. hopefully, the american people reached out last tuesday, and sent a clear message we don t like the direction you re headed in this country. if you want to have a chance to serve again, you best start listening us to. one of the things really important to americans is their safety. that border with mexico needs to be secured. greta: do you think he ....
Border before you really understand we need boots on the ground, law enforcement presence, national guard troops, predator drones flying in the air technology that those pieces of equipment have to give real-time information to law enforcement, we know how to secure the border, this administration and this congress have been abject failures. and have been for many years now. we re seeing our citizens being killed. this is unacceptable. greta: it is interesting, the big fight seems to be whether we seal the border and have comprehensive immigration reform at the same for do it in two steps. does it matter? in the process of debating we are getting nothing done. think it does matter. i don t think the american people trust congress to do them together. they expect them to see that border secure. they want to see the law enforcement presence. they want to see drug cartels ....
Like me. but they need to be open-minded they need to work with the new speaker, speaker boehner. people are tired of this bickering between political parties. going back to the last two years, what we did with the health care bill, which i was opposed to, cap and trade, some of these other things. eric cantor was talking the tax cuts. let s work on the compromise. let s do a couple year extension of all the tax rates so we don t raise rates in the middle of the resection. those are the things the american people want us to work on. greta: what democratic or anything you have supported on the democrats what makes you a democrat? i supported the stimulus. i thought the economy was going down the tubes. we were in tatters, we needed to stabilize the economy. we needed to give the largest tax cut in the american history which was this the ....
Fed up! governor perry went on the record. welcome to our nation s capital. it is a fun place to visit. greta: there s a lot going on. a lot of hot topics. i suppose you have seen the site in the house of representatives over who is going to be minority leader. they will get it sorted out. my focus is on getting those number elected member of the legislature to really go to the front not have to go to the back. there is a powerful message sent tuesday. we want you to get the spending under control, get in government pushed back into that box we call the constitution and allow the states to be the laboratories of innovation and competition. greta: do you think the republicans will be able to achieve that more easily or less likely if speaker pelosi is the minority leader? speaker pelosi has been a lightning rod. ....