A Moment Of Clarity: The "We Can’t Afford It" Lie: Why America Doesn’t Have to Choose
The Michael Steele Podcast
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🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Is the government actually "broke," or is that just a convenient excuse? Michael Steele dismantles the myth that the U.S. must choose between national security and the survival of its most vulnerable citizens. While the White House claims we can’t "do it all," history tells a very different story.
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| 0:00.0 | And now for a moment of clarity. |
| 0:05.0 | It's not possible for us to take care of daycare. |
| 0:10.0 | Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things. |
| 0:14.0 | They can do it on the state basis. |
| 0:15.0 | You can't do it on a federal. |
| 0:17.0 | We have to take care of one thing. |
| 0:19.0 | Military protection. |
| 0:20.0 | We have to guard the country. |
| 0:23.0 | The White House posted that video to their YouTube, by the way. |
| 0:26.2 | The White House does say that the video was taken out of context. |
| 0:29.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:30.4 | We'll let you be the judge of that. |
| 0:31.6 | Yeah, taken out of context. |
| 0:32.9 | So just real quick on that, last point the president made about, |
| 0:37.3 | oh, we can't do it all. |
| 0:38.9 | We can't feed the poor and keep them healthy. |
| 0:42.5 | What Tupac say? |
| 0:43.2 | And go to war at the same time, right? |
| 0:46.9 | Well, wait a day. |
| 0:47.7 | Do you all remember the Vietnam War at the height of the Vietnam War? |
| 0:51.3 | This country created Medicaid, Medicare, and guess what? |
| 0:59.0 | Child programs, right? We took care of the children. We took care of the least of those amongst |
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