Hello everybody, welcome to my home, I'm Dennis Prager and just about every week of the year we have

what I call a fireside chat because I'm by a fireside. It's a real fire by the way, I am really me,

it's a real chair, it's my really my house, it's really my office, it's all pretty real,

completely unscripted, just a way to talk to you about what is on my mind and take your questions.

And apparently a lot of people feel it's worthwhile, I certainly want to make it worth your time

by saying things that can touch your life. So I always begin with a certain subject and I think

what I'd like to begin with is the president's speech and the whole issue of immigration,

some thoughts, obviously this is something that could be talked about for hours,

but I don't really think the basics really need hours, I think it's, they're pretty fundamental things.

If you love your society, you want to protect it, if you love your society, your country,

you want to maintain not its race, not its ethnicity, but its values, if you have distinctive

values, America has very distinctive values. My problem with mass immigration is not ethnicity or

race, I couldn't care less, it's all values. See, America has distinctive values, one of them is

liberty is dependent upon small government, the bigger the government, the less the liberty.

It's so obvious that I don't understand how common sense can suggest anything else.

The less that there are people constraining you, the more freedom you have. Now that might mean

you even have freedom to do bad things, that's a very real issue and the founders of the United States

had an answer. Their answer to the problem of well, if the government isn't strong, what will keep

people from doing bad things like killing each other and stealing from each other and kidnapping

and so on is that they have a very strong sense of obligation not to government but to God.

That's what America was founded on. Now you may be an atheist, but you have to admit it's pretty

darn logical because you're going to, you have to feel accountable to someone other than yourself.

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