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Well most Tuesdays I can't say every Tuesday but most Tuesdays the second hour of my show is the ultimate issues hour because if you get the ultimate issues right

You will be well on your way to a healthier life and to making the world a better place.

The ultimate issues are the issues not discussed enough. People are not prepared for the horrible ideas

they will get in college and that's part of our crisis. So today's topic is one I

have touched on but I don't think I've ever devoted an ultimate issues hour to it.

The idea sounds so, not trivial, but not particularly significant. It is the root of the American experiment. It is almost never

discussed. Certainly not on the left which has utter contempt for it. The whole basis of the left is to

undo this ideal of the American founding and yet this is the ideal that makes almost everything good possible.

And it sounds so, as I said, almost insignificant. It's almost everything.

And that is limited government.

And how many people get stirred by the term limited government.

I want to die for limited government, actually.

If you will die for any ideal that's as good as any.

Limited government. That is what America was founded on.

Because as I came up with this doctrine and we made a bumper sticker of it,

the big of a government, the smaller the citizen.

Either government is great or people are great.

Can't have both.

By great, I mean great in significance, not great.

You can have great individuals with a big government. That's beside the point.

It is amazing, it is never taught. This is an example of the worthlessness, indeed the destructiveness

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