actually in that case I don't that's why larry I'm not a lawyer and you're dean of the law school so
ah what do I know the franking privilege allows the
unlimited mailing of
%uh %uh letters by members of congress
right you sign your name
it gets sent out
and all i'm saying is if we're going to extend that expense that unlimited expense account
for mailing to all the costs of congress
and the return for that is does that include TV
hold on this is the cost of running congress we're not talking about the campaigns
and in return for paying all the costs of government
you can't take anything no free rides on planes I understand that but what about TV you want to go give a speech we the taxpayers
will pay for the going to give that speech
i don't think the supreme court
can argue that that violates the constitution no I'm no saying that is what would violate the constitution
i'm saying that if you attempted to set rules for how much television they could be
I'm going to say two things let you address both of them that's one problem
and the other one is something that
%uh i just
rail against and revile but it's the fact
supreme court cares not a wit for the preamble to the constitution it never has and it acts as
if the preamble doesn't exist
%uh well here's what i hope larry
i'm in the diagnosis of problems business not the solution business much easier business
i'm not a smart enough guy to be in the other business
but what i'm hoping to do here after laying out the problems in free lunch and showing
you through the lives of individual americans some of whom got rich some of whom got ruined
how you are being forced to pay taxes that government never gets to many many places
that
go to the pockets of rich people like warren buffet the walton family donald trump
how
we are destroying local businesses
and replacing competition with government handcuffing the invisible hand to the market
that adam smith wrote about
that will stimulate debate about what to do
now i offered a solution the extension the franking privilege to all the expenses of congress politician
finance reform instead of campaign finance reform
what i hope to do with that is to stimulate the kind discussion that you've raised here
and so lawyers who are watching this you know sit down get out a legal pad think about
okay how could I
create a set of rules
that this supreme court would have to approve
that will reduce the influence of the monied class
how can we do this
because larry i firmly believe there is only one thing
you can say or i can say that is
un-American
we can't do anything about this
the whole idea of the united states of america
is we don't need king george to tell us what to do
what a radical idea that was in the seventeen hundreds that we will govern ourselves
and so long as we stick to that belief
we can solve any problem we have if we want to you know we we got rid of slavery
it cost six hundred thousand american lives and we haven't cleaned up all the mess from it
but we got rid of it and we've been making progress
%uh perhaps were falling a little backwards in the well we judge people less today on
the content on the color of their skin
than the content of their character we're judging them too much on the content of their wallet
women somehow got men to give them the right to vote
the only way they got it was men voted it for them
and and we can solve this problem we can have a government responsive to the people as a
whole
which will make us a healthier wealthier more stable society
but we can't do it unless we start discussing well how are we going to accomplish this and
put the time into it and the fact that lots of people have to work two jobs
and we have lots of women working not because they want to but because they have to instead of raising
their kids
the fact that we have removed all sorts of
institutions from our society or reduced their size like for example unions that had
been an important force for promoting some balance in the debate that's a very important
point yes all of these things play a role and nobody ever said it was going to be easy