Congressman Massie Interview with Glenn Beck — Part 2
Part 2 of the Glenn Beck interview: spending, surveillance, the Constitution, and what it takes to stand alone in a 435-member chamber.
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- so we are looking at another 6.5 million Americans who have lost their jobs or applying for unemployment this week
- we are probably right now Thomas at another probably between twelve and fifteen percent unemployment when we see
- the numbers in the first of May and it doesn't seem like it's going to get any better and they're still talking about four to eight weeks you know under lock
- and key the Congress says they want to give more I've been talking to people that are losing their restaurants are
- losing everything have not been able to get in line for loan because the money is all gone should the government be making these loans we should be doing it
- because we are encouraging the governor's to keep doing what they're doing which is to shut down the economy they're going to end up starving people the governors are you're already seeing
- people committing suicides they can't get medical help or they're locked down the bill that Pelosi once she wants a 15% increase in snap 100 billion to
- local governments and 150 billion to hospitals I think so she wants to add another quarter of a trillion to this but the problem you know it sounds like
- it's humane and it and it's the right thing to do is to give all this money away but it doesn't crease it doesn't make the food grow it doesn't get the factories running we're going to run out
- of things that support life on this planet so how do you how do you balance
- this because if I you know I understand that kind that that to me is critical infrastructure farm farming you know slaughterhouses food processing all of
- that that's critical infrastructure but I I wasn't the one who shut my business down the government told me to shut it
- down doesn't the government have a responsibility to reimburse me for all that I lost three weeks ago I was having the best year of my life
- now I don't know if I can even open my business again do I do I get anything back from the government don't they have a responsibility constitutionally even
- that's a great point but here's the problem it's the governors who have shut things down and it's the federal government who's trying to make you whole there's no feedback
- loop the governors are not suffering the MAL effects of their policy and so we are we are sustaining their malice s and
- so we put them in this moral hazard so governor's like Ron de santé he had to fall in line like the day after this stimulus thing passed he had no other
- options and so that's the problem we're in and we're just pushing these governor's to keep doing it if the governor's had to make people whole for
- what they are doing they would they would start coming up with sensible policy instead of staying stuck on stupid so aren't there places like New
- York that should be shut down that and that is up to the governor of New York and they that you know whatever happens
- there they have to sustain that in New York every state every governor has got different policies Kristi Noem has got it as a policy that's suitable for her state the problem is the feds are
- proposing one policy if there's a role for government Glenn I think it's been getting these masks out there it's in getting the tests out there it's been
- publishing the data it's interacting this disease that's all right I don't yeah I don't know if you're you're at like Chernobyl or where you are but let
- me ask you one one question talking to congressman Thomas Massie I cannot get an answer on the way down and I can't
- get an answer now on the way out what are the tripwires what has to happen for these states and government
- to start recommending that we all go back to work you know the numbers are all trending in the right place okay great we don't want to come back too soon I get it but can you please find
- out what the tripwires are Thomas because no one will give it's all arbitrary I asked dr. Fauci that question a few days ago he said it was
- hospital admissions when they start to flatten out but the problem is as soon as they start to flatten out the ease off of this mitigation phase and some players up
- there going to shut it all back down again alright Thomas Massie congressman from from the great state of Kentucky and one of the congressmen that actually
- has some balls Thomas Massie thanks for being on