Beck and his wife made a stop at a local Walmart and decided to pay off all of the layaways to the tune of $27,000.
North Richland Hills is the Ft. Worth area not the Dallas area
It’s a miracle! I thought Beck was dying and in financial ruin. The money from “Mark Levin”’s TV cured him.
that’s a lot of soccer balls and teddy bears!
“Lay away” - wow, haven’t heard that term in four or five decades. That was the poor-man’s credit vehicle before credit cards were invented. Except you had to pay it off BEFORE you got the goods. With credit cards, you pay it off AFTER you get the goods.
I swear it read “Glen Beck Pays Off All _Lawyers_...”
Glenn Beck takes to heart that admonition in Matthew’s gospel:
“Don’t do your good deeds publicly, to be admired by others, for you will lose the reward “.
What?. Oh. Nevermind.
He thinks he is being noble by tossing out money without any distinctions, investigation, or demonstration of need. The government sometimes does this.
Clearly Walmart is encouraging this “charity.”
As de Tocqueville discovered when comparing Madrid (? or another Spanish city) to Birmingham, England, there were no beggars on the Spanish streets, yet Birmingham was full of them.
Tocqueville wondered how the British could be so cruel until he realized that the Spanish don’t offer charity in the streets while the British did, which meant that the Spanish streets were empty of beggars but those in Birmingham were flooded with them to take advantage of the “charity.”
I thought he was broke?
EXCEPT that, those of us who choose to pay as we go and live within our means get no reward.
Beck and his wife made a stop at a local Walmart and decided to pay off all of the layaways to the tune of $27,000.
This is the 3rd time I’ve read of this. I’m betting the layaway departments are jammed to the rafters in the next couple of weeks - and next Christmas too.
Why didn't I think of that.
He got the idea by reading about Tyler Perry’s extraordinary effort in ATL. He paid of $450,000 at multiple Walmarts
And, boy, they had to brag about it.
PR stunt for his latest?
When you really think about it, Beck was not helping “people in need,” but profligate spenders that cannot control their spending. They may or may not have needed this stuff on layaway. People in need are walking the streets, looking for food and a place to sleep, and refuse any help. How do you help them?
I hope Walmart didn’t take a check from him for the payments!
IOW:
“Look at me! I did a good deed! Ain’t I great?!?”
I’ve read similar stories of other people doing the same, and never seeking publicity and preferring to remain “unknown” Those people did it out of the kindness of their hearts, not for publicity or for self-aggrandizing or self-adulation.
Charity is a wonderful thing as long as you don’t make it into a publicity stunt.