Glenn BECK: REASONABLE QUESTIONS for AN UNREASONABLE TIME

www.glennbeck.com ^ | Monday, August 24, 2009 | Glenn Beck

[Yosemitest]

Reasonable questions for unreasonable times
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 18:05 ET

Am I hateful if I ask:



- Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion.
Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?

- We are in so much debt,
why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs
before we stop the flow of red-ink?

- The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN.
How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN
stimulate the economy?

- If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill
before they even had time to read it
why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?

- Bush said
he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them,
how exactly does that work?

- Why won’t member of Congress read the bills
before they vote on them?

- Why are citizens mocked and laughed at
when they ask their congressman
to read the bills before they vote on them?

- Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy?
Did it accomplish either?

- How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist
become a special advisor to the president?

- Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs
when he named him special advisor?

- The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—
why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?

- If politicians aren’t writing the bills
and aren’t reading the bills,
do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?

- If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good
why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?

- If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—
why do they spend so much time talking
instead of listening?

- Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings
complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted.
Does that mean
we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since
every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give
is scripted?

- Why would you want to overwhelm the system?

- Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress
what Rahm Emanuel meant
when he talked about not letting a crises go to waste?

- What are the czars paid?
What is the budget for their staffs/offices?

[Bigg Red]

One of these days, I’ll get a DVR....

[JasonC]

Substance, my lad, substance. Heavy breathing says nothing. State a point or let the adults talk.

[Quix]

Have read lots of their published agendas since 1965.

Will check your link out.

Thanks.

[JasonC]

See, hysterical nutjobs peddling conspiracy theory crap about mass hypnosis . Here is a clue- if this is what passes for "thought" on the populist right, it will never have political power and doesn't deserve any.

[Quix]

There's no

THEORY

to the conspiracy stuff.

If you'd studied it since 1965 including tons of their own documents, you might have at least a microgram of a clue.

Ignorance about it . . . huffing and puffing about it inanely

will not make it go away.

Goldwater was at last somewhat awake:

http://bluelori.blogspot.com/2009/08/we-should-listen-to-barry.html

What's your excuse for being blind and clueless yet full of proud pontifications?

Sounds like you believe the Main Stream Media for your source for the TRULY TRUEST TRUTH.

I hope someone in your family has more of a clue than you seem to.

[tacticalogic]

And no, benefits are not going to foreign anyone.

You can't make a living moving money from one pocket to another. Once the government is involved, it's costing you money just to do that.

By all means, let's reduce wasteful spending, stop growing an inefficient welfare state, and pay for the services we actually use.

Why? How can it be a "wasteful spending" if it's going to Americans? By your logic, there's no net loss in that equation. Where's the "waste"? If we're paying for stuff we aren't actually using, it's all good as long as we're buying it from ouselves, right?

[Quix]

So, how much Neuro-Linguistic Programming techniques and methods did you study at a PhD level?

Perhaps you can document your proof that OThuga did NOT use such in the Selection campaign so we can compare it with the better experts than I who have documented that HE DID USE IT.

I love it when naysayers make such foolish jokes of their erspectives.

I’m beginning to think you don’t even have a clue what NLP is nor what percentage of the general population is most succeptable to manipulation by it.

Perhaps you’re part of that percentage.

LOL.

[mo]

“....sometimes you have to BUILD a PROOF.”

BINGO!!!And only then will rational and reasonable people rally....

[Quix]

I suspect you need to take the

‘kill’ violence aspect out at the end of your post.

We simply cannot allow such to remain on the forum and even hope to be in existence long enough to do some good.

I’d suggest an apology to the mods and JimRob and submitting the post without that.

It doen’t really add much anyway.

All the FREEPERS who are likely to take heed about such already have long ago.

[Quix]

And, it’s not really attractive form to accept an invitation into someone’s living room and then procede to rail at them about how dumb etc. they are . . . particularly when they’ve been doing a brilliant job for a long time—well appreciated by the rest of us in the living room.

[Toddsterpatriot]

You misspelled Admin Moderator.

[Admin Moderator]

Take a day off to sober up...

[JasonC]

We make our livings by our actual productive work and not by any financing of or transfers accompanying it. No one can possibly be under any delusion that they "make their living" collecting a social security check. But it can't bankrupt us, either.

On the next, spending isn't wasteful because it cannot happen or destroys money in existence. Economy does not consist in the avoidance of all spending, nor is it a global zero sum constraint. It consists in moving resources where they do the most good. When instead one spends on indifferent non-necessities, one gives up the gains available from more prudent use of the same resources.

I can give chapter and verse examples taken from the contrast between Bush and Fed approved items from last year and what the Dems have been doing since, core treasury operations excepted. Here is a hint - the banks are repaying everything invested in them with interest and giant positive externalities to the whole economy, while we will be lucky to see 25% of the sums spent on the auto companies again. That doesn't mean the latter was destroyed, it means it was given as an indirect handout to UAW members as expensive welfare, to support men earning salaries several times the national average without having produced that much in value themselves.

If we just wanted to give away money to support those directly hurt by the smash, there are harder and more deserving cases than UAW workers. If we care about the maximum impact and about actual return on the investment, then the financial sector stuff was vastly superior. The first did not add net value compared to its debt costs, the second certainly did.

[JasonC]

Please get on to the parts about the Templars and the protocols of Zion and "dem joos". Don't forget a few blood libels and secret human sacrifices. The space alien lizards and orbital mind control lasers are optional.

[Quix]

WRONG again! LOL.

You seem to be as ignorant about me as you demonstrate yourself to be about globalism.

I ask again, which planet are you from?

Hint, a more fiercely positive supporter, than I am, of Israel and Jews is probably not around these parts.

For the reading challenged, I’ll restate it. I’m probably the strongest or one of the strongest supporters Israel and Jews have on FR.

[tacticalogic]

No one can possibly be under any delusion that they "make their living" collecting a social security check. But it can't bankrupt us, either.

We've got a whole bunch of people under the delusion that collecting and redistributing money is "productive work". And we can indeed go bankrupt doing enough of it because nothing productive is actually getting done.

[wolfcreek]

“the Templars and the protocols of Zion”

Are you saying these things are hoaxes?

I believe the Knights Templar are historically factual and the Protocols have been used to cause misery and death to millions of Jews.

http://ddickerson.igc.org/protocols.html

[JasonC]

CFR - Bilderberger - Bavarian Illuminati - "dem joos" - new world order - Masonic secret money conspiracies ruling the world with mass hypnosis to impose socialist tyranny when they already own everything and run everyone is a transparent hoax too laughable to take seriously. It is a linear successor of backstairs crackpot propaganda literature from the 19th century, very modestly updated for each piece of major history since. Protocols originated as just such propaganda and so did essentially every other variant in common circulation.

As for the Templars, it an an Umberto Eco reference to lunatics always getting around to mentioning them, as the Ur-conspiracy theory. The banal historical reality was merely that a violent unprincipled king wanted to rob a rich corporation so he did so, trumping up show trial charges, invented by torture in stalinist form to excuse and justify the theft.

[JasonC]

$14 trillion in annual income says otherwise.

And if the reference is meant to cover finance as well as government, it is false and shows a complete misunderstanding of the nature of economic action, and what actually adds value and causes economic growth. Ordering resources to more productive away from less productive use is accomplished precisely by finance; it is its function and the reason is adds more value than any other single sector of the economy.