EDITOR'S NOTE: Originally broadcast on 10 July, 2012, on The Mike Church Show on SiriusXM Patriot

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio and Transcript - Please don’t say "nobody" or "no one".  You’re talking about semantical arguments, the nomenclature of “The One,” that being, of course, President Obama -- he is, of course, “The One” -- and the way that he uses the words.  This is very common amongst liberals, to use the terminology ‘us,’ ‘we.’  ‘We’ is the one I hate the most.  Someone should write a book with a giant ‘We’ on the cover.  You could even use the ‘we’ from Gouverneur Morris’ script of “We the People” on the original version of the Constitution and put the Ghostbusters strikeout symbol over it.  I don’t want to hear ‘we’ anywhere.  Who’s ‘we’?  We?  We?  Who conscripted me in this?  How did I get involved in the ‘we’?

Begin Mike Church Show Transcript

Caller:  I just wanted to talk a little bit more about this.  I know we’ve been beating this horse to death, the Obama speech.  I listened to it several times and it really struck me as odd, the way he talks about taxes and financial situations within the government.  He acts like -- it’s kind of like a dark look into the soul of what Obama really believes, that all of the money in the United States, all the money in the world belongs to him and it’s up to him to dole it out to us as he sees fit.

Mike:  Right.

Caller:  When you look at the way he uses the words in his speech, it’s really striking to me how he says it’s going to cost us trillions in taxes, when that’s not the case.

Mike:  Yeah, who’s ‘us’?

Caller:  Exactly.

Mike:  The people that have the wealth confiscated to them and whose children have to pay all the debt back, that’s who ‘us’ is.

Caller:  Right.  It’s just funny that -- his ideology is so engrained that he can use words like that and it passes and nobody pays attention to that stuff.  Well, I won’t say nobody.

Mike:  Yeah, please don’t say nobody or no one.  You’re talking about semantical arguments, the nomenclature of “The One,” that being, of course, President Obama -- he is, of course, “The One” -- and the way that he uses the words.  This is very common amongst liberals, to use the terminology ‘us,’ ‘we.’  ‘We’ is the one I hate the most.  Someone should write a book with a giant ‘We’ on the cover.  You could even use the ‘we’ from Gouverneur Morris’ script of “We the People” on the original version of the Constitution and put the Ghostbusters strikeout symbol over it.  I don’t want to hear ‘we’ anywhere.  Who’s ‘we’?  We?  We?  Who conscripted me in this?  How did I get involved in the ‘we’?

Caller:  ‘We’ is a socialist term.

Mike:  Well, ‘we’ is a collectivist term.  In most instances, you don’t have much of a choice of joining the collective.  Let’s just say that we had a voluntary collective.  Let’s just call it the Knights of the Dude.  As you and I, Mike, as Knights of the Dude, let’s say we made it our goal to eradicate consumption of less than four dollars per six pack of beer for men that were employed.  You like this cause, don’t you?  I like it, too.  Let’s just say then, for pooh-poohs and giggles, that in order to accomplish our goal, we had determined that we were going to need, let’s say $2 million, just to do it in the State of North Carolina.  If ‘we’ were actually trying to judiciously do this without compulsion, then ‘we’ would then be responsible or would then have to go and get people to voluntarily give us the funds needed to get to the $2 million mark.  Then ‘we’ could distribute the booty, so to speak, to those men who were consuming sub-four dollars per six pack beer on weekends.

In that instance there, at every step of the chain, there was voluntary action, what Dudewig von Mises would call human action.