Back to New York, this budget cut business, the favorite word, favorite word: under-funded. "We are under-funded, under-funded on virtually everything!" Can pose a new -- of course I can because I'm host and it's my show. Let me pose a new perspective on this, a different way of looking at this, and it builds upon a brilliant point that I made earlier. I guess New Yorkers are really worried that we have a problem with terrorism, despite their continual ridicule -- liberal New Yorkers, ridiculing -- Bush and the administration and Bush lied and this isn't necessary. Bush created the terrorists. Bush is this. Bush is that. The one guy in the country trying to do something about terrorism is the one they criticize, and now all of a sudden when they get slashed 40% of their security budget from homeland security they act like they're really at risk for something up there.
You have to get it straight. We're either at risk or we're not. But here's the added angle, ladies and gentlemen. Why isn't this a civil liberties issue? I mean liberals, New York and everywhere, get all upset. They just go into a tizzy when we intercept enemy communications or when we try. They get upset when we put potential terrorists in prison and interrogate them to trying to find out when the next attack might be -- and they want to put in jail any members of the military who mistreat prisoners. Any effort that this country makes in an intelligence gathering way, in a surveillance way to try to find out when the next attack is going to be so that we can prevent it, why, the liberals, bloody murder, they start screaming!
All hell breaks loose, and they accuse Bush of spying on Americans, and they do what they can to get the ACLU and other groups, and they get motivated and mobilized to stop all of this, and yet they have no problem growing the federal government if it means sending money to states to prepare for an attack. So intelligence gathering is bad. To go out and learn who might be planning another attack, how and when and where, we can't have that. Why, that's a civil liberties violation, civil liberties! You can't spy on the American people! Bush is a criminal! Bush is Hitler! Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So what do we do instead?
We make sure the federal government gives us money so that we can prepare for the next strike. And if we don't get the money, then we're not prepared for the next strike. Now, what really, folks, makes more sense. Having a really robust intelligence-gathering operation to try to find out who's going to do what, where, when, or just start spending money crazily and wildly in a bunch of places in hopes that when the attack comes, we'll be able to deal with it a little bit better. So I guess preparing for the attack and getting ready to deal with it is preferable to preventing it. Does this make sense to anybody? I mean, this is just chock pure liberalism through and through, when you get all panicky or so-called budget cuts, when real efforts to prevent attacks are undercut, sabotaged, and prevented. You libs, I'll tell you, you are whacked out.
You are just blinded with rage and hatred and other kinds of emotions here, and you fail to see things that are just commonsensical. You really think that an additional 40% of what you're supposed to get is going to ensure that you don't get hit? Because here's the question. Ask yourselves this honestly. Can we ever be fully prepared? Is it possible to ever be fully prepared? Meaning that no matter where an attack is we're ready, be it at a port, it be at a train station, be it at a bus station, be it at an airport, be it in a city, are we ever, ever going to be fully prepared? On the other hand, with an adequate intelligence gathering operation combined with proper preparations on the ground to deal with an attack on in a city where we might learn an attack is going to happen, mobilize, to stop it from having, have first responders up, does it make sense to slice out fully half of this equation? Because I'm telling you the American left has done everything it can to sabotage the key element in preventing another attack, and that's intelligence surveillance. They're doing everything they can to sabotage on the basis of civil liberties, and Bush is spying on the American people. And is this is why these people cannot be trusted at this time in this nation's history to lead it.
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