"Today I'm going to outline for you the idea that I outlined on television last night. Somebody has to pick this up. It's not going to be me. But somebody has to pick this up. Somebody needs to go because I'm telling you, the government will have no place to go. They will have to do these things. There is no reason why our congressmen and all these people in Washington make $175,000 a year as their starting wage. There's no reason for it. "Oh, but they have to have two homes." Really? Well, have them go live in the barracks. We'll put them up at Andrews. Why not? "Oh, well, they have all these pensions." Why do they have the pensions? They can get all their healthcare at the V.A. medical centers from hereon out. Congratulations from that. You get exactly what our soldiers do. Our armies, our soldiers in the Army, they make about $22,000 a year. And if any of these clowns in Washington want a free education, I'll consider it. They need one. But they shouldn't get any better benefits than our military does. And why are they making $175,000 a year? Are they taking a bullet to the face? Are they risking having their limbs blown off? I don't think so. Are they in worse combat than our soldiers? Nope. Congress should never make more than $22,000 a year. That's what our soldiers make; that's what they make. Wherever our soldiers go get their medical care, that's exactly where they get medical care. As far as federal employees go, that's exactly what go to the V.A. hospital. Congratulations on that. Oh, you love the V.A. hospital so much? Do you? Really? Yeah, it's the best, isn't it? Yeah. You go ahead. Federal employees? You now get all of your treatment at the V.A. Medical Center. Anything the soldiers get you can get. Congratulations on that.
How come the average worker in America makes $50,000 a year and the average federal worker makes $75,000 a year? The average federal worker makes, I think it's $110,000 with all of the benefits. No. No. The average federal employee should never make more than the average American, ever. Period. All your benefits, you get them from the V.A., period. Congratulations on that. Oh, you don't like that? Washington, you don't like that? Here, I'm going to fix security for ya. I'm going to fix security. This is in Broke. Read about this one. Push it. Push it because they'll have no place to go. Who in Washington, if this was a movement, who in Washington could say "No, I'm not cutting my $175,000 salary down to what our military makes." They couldn't. They couldn't say no. Ya got em. Get em! Who could say no to the federal employees making the same as the average worker?
Look, the average worker, their salary starts to go up? Congratulations. Everybody's salary can go up. Until that time, no. Who can say no to that? Do you know that jobs over $150,000 have doubled, have doubled since Obama became president? Why? Has the private sector? Has that happened with the private sector? Somebody needs to pick that up.
Now, I'm going to help you with security because they'll say, well, that's too expensive; we can't keep two homes, we can't fly back and forth, we can't no, we'll fly you on a military transport plane. That's not a problem. You can fly exactly like our military does. When our military family has to go back and forth, don't worry about it. You can just catch the next military transport plane. Now, you may have to make four connections but you'll get home. Don't worry about it. Congratulations on that. Oh, you don't like it? Well, then maybe you shouldn't be in session so much. Maybe you should be like our founders had you. You're only in session for a few days every year. Maybe you do it like Texas does. You're only in session every other year. Congratulations. You like it now?
You know what I'm really concerned about. I'm concerned about security in Washington. I mean, look. Think about this. We have a plane, God forbid we have some nut job from the Middle East take a plane and run it into the capitol while everybody is in session. What happens? We wipe out everybody in congress? That's a nightmare. For security reasons they should all stay in their districts. For security reasons they should all remain at local offices, close to the people. That way continuity of government. You can't wipe everybody else out. What? They can't get on the Internet and talk to each other? They can't pick up the phone and do all that business? Oh, you know what would be really tough is you'd break up J Street. No. You'd break up K street. No. Would that be bad? Oh, gee, all those big huge lobbying firms. What they would have to do is they would have to spend all of their money going from city to city, state to state trying to lobby people and those people would still be at home with their families. They would still be in their communities. Wouldn't that suck? But I'm just doing it for security reasons. I'm just worried about their security. I just think for continuity of government they should stay home. And it would also save us an awful lot of money. And it would be a lot easier for them to do their job at $22,000 a year instead of $175,000 a year, and they'll know where their local V.A. center is.
America, pick it up! Do it. Demand it. They have no place to go. They have no place to go. Pick up their salaries and make the argument. Pick it up. Who could possibly argue that and win?"
