Politicians promised big government could make our lives better from cradle to grave – they lied. Bob Barney explains how in this 7 minute 11 second reality check!
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Hi, it’s Bob Barney. It’s 7:11 in the morning broadcast on theplaintruthtoday.com brought to you by The Plain Truth.
I’m maybe a little older than I want to admit sometimes, or how I feel, but I remember a time when the majority of the people in my hemisphere and my sphere of influence so to speak did not really believe that the government could do everything for you. It was the promise. I remember in 1964, I was only nine years old, but I remember LBJ telling everybody about the Great Society and that every school child was going to get a great education. Well, we ended up spending more money in America per child for a great education than any other part of the world at all. Then to find that 50 years later, we have the worst schools of anywhere in the world.
(0:56) I remember when learning in school how FDR had made a prompt promise to the American public during the Great Depression that Social Security would be the end all be all to older people. See, back in the day before Social Security, older people had to depend either on their life’s savings, which many did not have, or they had to depend on their family for support and help as they grew older. They didn’t have the means to live well, or so we are told. So, the Social Security was enacted by FDR, who said that this would stop poverty among senior citizens. That was 80 years ago.
(1:39) I remember learning in college how Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats at the time proposed an income tax. It would only be levied on the top two or three percent of the population. The working person back then, it’d be the working man, would never pay a dime into any income tax. It was only a tax on the people who could afford it. That was a hundred years ago.
(2:14) I remember when FEMA was founded, that the promise out of Washington was that whenever there is a disaster, it’s never going to be like the 1930s or 40s or 50s when hurricanes and tornadoes and weather events would decimate total communities, and no one was there to help them. Another lie, by the way, because there was plenty of people there to help them.
But that was 70 years ago, 60 years ago, or something like that.
So here we are today.
It’s 2024.
(2:46) What did the Great Society of President Johnson give us? He gave us poverty in the suburbs. He gave us poverty in the cities. He gave us black families without fathers, because in order for women to get welfare in the Great Society, the man had to leave the house. We are talking about this affecting a whole race of people, the black Americans who in the 1920s and 30s and 40s always had a man in the house and were very moralistic people. In fact, I told you in a previous broadcast that during the Great Depression, when white girls wanted to go to speakeasies, they chose Harlem because they would be safer than going to an all-white speakeasy because there was no crime in Harlem at the time.
(3:32) What happened to the promise that income tax would only be levied on the ultra-rich? Well, we still hear Democrats today saying we’re only going to make the rich pay their fair share. Are you paying income tax? I bet you are. I agree, 49% of Americans are not paying income tax, but they do in different ways. It’s called inflation.
(3:52) Or how about the promise of FEMA? This is what I wanted to talk in the few minutes I have left for today’s broadcast. This is a short broadcast for the morning compared to usual. Actually, our 7:11 a.m. broadcast may be short from now on, and our main broadcast will happen at noontime. We’re still planning all of that. But what I wanted to talk about is, I remember telling people when Katrina decimated New Orleans back in, what was it, 2005? I remember saying the biggest problem that everybody had was, where is FEMA? I remember Geraldo Rivera standing on a bridge crying that these people were left to die. By then, the public, the media, and the politicians all had promised that the government could get you out of everything. Well, turned out with Katrina, the government could do nothing for you during a disaster. In fact, the government, the local government, the local mayor, the local governor of the state actually caused the deaths that happened in New Orleans and the destruction, because they did not prepare the people for what was going to happen with that hurricane.
(4:58) We fast forward 20 years, and guess what? We have two hurricanes within two weeks and what do we see? A FEMA, which is supposed to have been created to take care of all these problems become absolutely impotent to do anything. That’s the problem. We depend on the government to do things and yet the government will constantly let you down.
(5:22) Who is actually helping the people in North Carolina right now? The churches. It is the independent businesspeople who are using their own money, their own helicopters, and their own everything in order to save people and bring food and clothing and supplies to the lost people of North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia, and probably in Florida. Then again, last night, with Milton going through Florida, what was the difference between what happened in Florida and what happened in North Carolina? I will give you a one-word answer. DeSantis. He is a governor who knows what the heck he’s doing, versus a Democratic governor in North Carolina who stayed in Raleigh and waited for FEMA to show up two weeks later.
That’s the problem when you decide to depend on your government.
America, it’s time that you grow up and learn that you have to stand on your own two feet, and the only two people you can depend on is you and your God…and that’s it.
(6:24) Why? Because your government is always going to let you down.
That’s the plain truth moment.
This is what I wanted to stress to you today.
(6:32) It’s time that we vote for a government of the people, by the people, and for the people and not for big business, big media, and a big Democrat Party.
I’m telling you, if we don’t get back and being self-sufficient, we’re all going to end up like the people in North Carolina, waiting on the government to help us.
That is something that will never, ever happen in your lifetime, in my lifetime, and it won’t happen all the way up until the day Jesus Christ returns. It is actually Jesus Christ who will bring you a government that can help you!
Well, this is Bob Barney for my 7:11 Minute broadcast at 7:11 saying thank you for listening. I appreciate you all very much. Goodbye for now.