Flexing The ‘Goodness Muscle’: Beck Delivers Powerful History Lesson About Herbert Hoover
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After much anticipation, Wednesday marks the beginning of Restoring Love, the culmination of Glenn Beck’s three-year series of events focusing on courage, honor and charity. People are traveling to Dallas, Texas, from all over the country to attend this multi-day event. On his Monday evening broadcast, Beck invoked an important lesson from Herbert Hoover, who, rather than provide people in need with a government hand-out, called on the goodness of the community to provide for each other.
Recalling how then-Commerce Secretary Hoover earned the moniker “the great humanitarian,” for his handling of the massive, Mississippi Flood of 1927, Beck explored the motivations behind this great American — motivations which likely led to his claiming the presidency just two years later.
Hoover’s very first step during the crisis was not to hand-out government assistance, rather, he asked the community to donate their own resources and skills to aid each other in time of turmoil. Why would he call on the army when he could call on Main Street, Beck recalled.
At the end of the day, the public ended up donating more than double what the government did. Hoover knew that “America is great because America is good,“ but also that goodness ”is a muscle,” Beck qualified. “And when it is not used it will atrophy.”
This is an era in which we are going to need to “flex that muscle” because ”America has been trained not to use [it].”
Watch Beck deliver this important history lesson below:
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nattybrooks
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 1:14pmnot sure bringing up the floods of ‘27 was very bright since blacks were rounded up and forced to work under threat of death, men and women of color were beaten and forced from their homes and into servitude. statements and actions allowed by hoover were contradictory at best.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 3:40pmhate is the food that progressives eat.
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 2:07pmGlenn Beck’s WORDS… SAY “love”
Glenn Beck’s DEEDS… SUPPORT Romney (THE OPPOSITE):
Leftist judges
Supports redistributed wealth for student loans
Supports NDAA
Bain wrecking ball, manufacturing jobs overseas
Bankrolled by the SAME TOP bailed-out CONTRIBUTORS AS OBAMA
Touchback Amnesty
Dream Amnesty
Hired illegal alien criminals (and DAMN WELL knew it).
Mandated Purchase of Romneycare (HALF-funded by feds – unconstitutional)
Romneycare-funded illegal alien criminal healthcare
Undeclared Nation-building
Supports the 4th-rejecting “Patriot” Act
Global warming (when politically useful)
Supports abortion (when politically useful)
Instituted sodomite/lesbian “marriage” (and tried to blame courts)
Supported TARP
Supported the Brady Bill and Assault Weapons ban
Notorious Flip-flopper
Supports Private Federal Reserve
Supports Assassinating citizens without Due Process
BY THEIR DEEDS, you will know them.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:58pmDamn, you’re an idiot. Beck (and I) supports Romney because we already know what we get with Obama. If you vote for Obama – directly or indirectly – then you can bet that he will gain more executive power than he already has. Romney is nowhere near perfect but he never ignored bills from the House and Senate while threatening the Supreme Court.
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:16pm@v15. May that comfort you, after YOU have REELECTED Obama, by cheat-nominating Romney… same as when YOU elected Obama by cheat-nominating McCain.
We have Ron Paul. WE HAVE HIM NOW! FOUNDING FATHER MATERIAL!!!!! NOW!!! IF Beck believes .0005% of what he says… he would be 100% behind ELECTING Ron Paul.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 9:19pmRon Paul has unrealistic ideas and I think his followers are just as removed from reality as Paul is. I’m not stoked about Romney but voting for him is a step in the right direction.
Report Post »stopspendingourmoney
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:20pmI know your upset Brother, I don‘t really like my choice’s either but Romney is without a doubt the lesser of the two evils we cannot afford to have Obama in the white house for 4 more years, we need to ban together to get this guy out. In this case it is voting for Romney, I would rather have Ron Paul, but I will have to settle for Romney, unless somehow Ron P gets the nomination.
Report Post »The-Real-Enrico
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:36pmYou need help brother. You are have been blinded. Where are you trying to lead people?
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 12:01am@stopspendingourmoney
FALSE:
“Romney is without a doubt the lesser of the two evils”
TRUTH:
Rombama is IDENTICAL to Obamney
FALSE:
“we cannot afford to have Obama in the white house for 4 more years”
TRUTH:
A Romney 4 is the same as an Obama 4.
FALSE:
Report Post »“we need to ban together to get this guy out.”
TRUTH:
We need to band together to get Rombama and Obamney out. Conservative Ron Paul is the perfect pry bar.
v15
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 3:51amThere is a huge difference between the two except you don’t want to see it. Can’t you see that Obama represents religious persecution, social justice, dividing our nation, anti-capitalism, anti-Constitution, snubbing our allies, etc? While Romney is a man of faith, believes in capitalism, believes in American exceptional-ism, Pro Military, and not a man that is willing to sit down at the table with our enemies? To me, there is a huge difference. You can argue that both men will cripple this nation, but the difference between the two is that Obama is destroying our country on purpose.
Report Post »Chrono_Sleuth
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 5:02amOh there’s a difference Brother Winston. One is a flash fryer (Obama), the other is a slow boil (Romney). Ultimate end-goal is the same, but the visions are slightly different between secular progressives and faux-religious neo-cons. Progressives do not care who ends up with the ultimate power, and prefer out and out socialism which eventually leads to a form of communism (at least the non-idealogues who understand insane ideal socialist philosophy is economically and sociologically impossible). The elites for this group have no care about their ultimate destination, so America can be pulled into the dumps in every way.
Neo-cons are pro fascism, aka, national socialism. While the main difference between communism and fascism is the economic powerhouses are out in the open in fascism, but wearing party colours and uniforms in socialisms (treated as indistinguishable in public display), there are others. One being a distinguished view of country, and therefor ultimate military power. The elites in this group actually care where the power structure resides and those in the US typically want the US to maintain military dominance and public independence (so they can keep up nationalist sentiments).
End result is a totalitarian state that gets rid of the classic liberal philosophy that dominated the mid-1800′s and saw the greatest growth in personal achievement, business growth, and personal wealth (middle class, lower wealthy classes).
Report Post »Brother Winston Smith
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 2:00pmGlenn Beck SUPPORTS the LEFTIST GOP.
Glenn Beck SUPPORTED LEFTIST Santorum.
Glenn Beck SUPPORTS LEFTIST Romney.
Glenn Beck REJECTS CONSERVATIVE Ron Paul.
Glenn Beck REJECTS the Constitution Party.
Glenn Beck REJECTS the Libertarian Party.
That’s all I need to know. KEEP your “lesson,” Glenn Beck.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 3:32pmhave you ever listened to yourself.
Report Post »jackact
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:35pmIt didn’t just take Herbert Hoover to place America in the economic and social malaise that we are suffering.
Report Post »Woodrow Wilson, FDR, Bill “not so slick willie’ Clinton and Barack Kardashian also assisted.
bluegrandma52
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:36pmHoover did everything he could to keep us out of this mess. Coolidge, FDR, et al., were the ones who grew the problems with their inability to trust the people to manage their lives without govt interference.
Report Post »Todd Decker
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:05pm@bluegrandma52 — Um, Calvin Coolidge was a big time conservative who shrank government to very small levels which we haven’t seen since. The results of his and Harding’s policies were the “Roaring 20s,” and though there was the crisis in 1929, Hoover was the one who made it worse by implementing a lot of Progressive policies — higher taxes on the rich (nearly a 200% hike on their taxes) and make work government stimulus programs for others. Hoover’s policies failed, just like Obama’s, though the difference is that Hoover actually believed they‘d work while Obama knows they won’t work as advertised, but will work to cut America down to size.
Report Post »Miss Anne
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:24pmYou mean Glenn is hosting an ENTIRE series about which Presidents he feels were the most charitable? OMG how patriotic and fabulous! Where do I sign up?
Report Post »blackbean
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:45pmProgressives/liberals/marxists have been way too successful to tear apart and destroy neighbor helping neighbor. They are rapidly replacing it with an all powerful central government that can dictate to its citzenry how to live. The term is tyranny!
Report Post »Ella
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:36pmThis says it all. For those of you who remember the theme song from the Archie Bunker’s Place, will recall some of the words like,” We don’t need no welfare state“ and ”Mr. we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.” Check it out on u -tube. It speaks volumes. Herbert Hoover was a president who was the opposite of Obama- a true American, not a Communist trying to destroy this country.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:00pmThe truth isn’t in a TV theme song, but it is found the history of Hoovervilles and Hoover’s use of the US Army to break-up protests of WWI Veterans asking for the bonuses they were promised.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:36amRevisionist History has made the Good guys look Evil.
An the truly EVIL Presidents look like the Good Guys.
Woodrow Wilson was one of the Evilest Men to ever Live.
an Put America into WW I after running on a platform that
He would NEVER do that.
Followed By Harding an Coolidge the Roaring 20′s.
Peace an Prosperity,lowest Unemployment.
Herbert Hoover (Republican) Ushered in the Depression
an Refused the make Government the Solution.
Which gave US FDR Worsened the Depression an made it longer.
Got US in WW II (not entirely a bad thing) Gave US the New Deal
an Social Security ( The biggest Ponzi Scheme EVER ) .
Worst President Ever until Jimmie Carter replaced Him
Now Barack Obama has Replaced even Carter as the worst ever.
We have been going through these; Government is the Answer .
Report Post »Government is NOT the Answer it’s the PROBLEM
for over a hundred years. It took Jimmie Carter to give US
Ronald Reagan.
Maybe Obama will give US the next Smaller Government
President (OK maybe Not) But a least he’s not a Marxist.
an He does Believe in Free Market Capitalism.
That’s Something.
Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 12:57pmIt wasn’t Wilson who put the US into World War I, it was the Germans. After promising to stop illicit submarine attacks on civilian shipping, they had reverted to the practice, not only sinking Allied vessels that happened to have Americans on board–as with the Lusitania two years earlier–but even, in 1917, sinking American ships. I suppose Wilson should simply have tolerated these attacks? But you might note that he did not take us into war on his own, or through the back door, like subseqent presidents. Instead he polled his cabinet and influential leaders of both parties, went to Congress and asked for a proper war declaration. In effect, Germany had already declared war on the US, so what was the alternative?
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 3:55pm@ Lloyd Drako
Thank You for Your Response
Yes I knew most of that But
My point was He Ran for President
Promising not to go to War
An declared War a few Months Later.
My point wasn’t that WW I was Evil
But Woodrow Wilson Was .
You may Disagree but I have read an
Researched on All of the Presidents of the 20th
Century. An Most Were/Are Progressives
With very few Exceptions.
(Reagan, Truman, Hoover, Harding an Taft)
An it ALL depends on who writes the History Books.
When You look at History NOT through a Revisionist Veiw
Report Post »A whole different Story Emerges.
An this Battle for Smaller vs Larger Government is nothing New.
It’s just that Both Sides have Moved towards Larger Gov.
Just different Party in Control of Spending More an More Money.
Personally I like the Idea of LESS Spending an More FREEDOM
That‘s Why I’m a TEA Party Conservative .
Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 4:47pmThank you too! Wilson’s campaigning in 1916 did not promise to keep us out of World War I, it merely stated the fact that he had kept us out of the war so far, and left the voters to draw their own conclusions as to what he might do in a second term.
It’s really time to banish the word “evil” from our arguments about American presidents! Not even the most foolish and misguided, like Buchanan, were truly evil. Of the ones on your list,
Taft was conservative only in the context of 1912–he favored a progressive income tax, for example.
Harding favored an equal rights amendment for women and civil rights for blacks in the South, putting him way ahead of most Republicans as well as Democrats in the early 1920s.
Hoover tried to pressure business into maintaining wages, bailed out banks and insurance companies, and raised taxes.
Truman advocated a “Fair Deal,” in which he included national health insurance, though he did not get it.
Reagan left income taxes lower, but other Federal taxes higher, than when he took office, and utterly failed to balance the budget.
But why did you leave Coolidge out? He was the only really consistent conservative of the 20th century, with a truly minimalist conception of what the presidential office should be.
Report Post »Getoffthecouch
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:33amEncinom, I understand that you write here to get attention, the previous observation that you read what you want to read and hear what you want to hear I am sure suits you fine. Get your thinking cap on and understand there is a revisionist bent to most history you learned in high school and college. The founding fathers warned us of these types of things happening, this is the reason that they integrated the laws of nature into the declaration, these laws cannot be changed by the whims of men as they attempt to control the masses. Good luck in your research you may find out the teachers and professors did not have your best interest at heart but their own narrative.
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 1:06pmHoovervilles and the crack down of Bonus army with the US Army didn’t happen? There is nothing revisionist about the truth, the truth is second only to Nixon, Hoover was one of the worst Presidents in US history. Hoover’s pro big business policies and his lack of willingness to address the issues concerning the poor and the great depression are proof that Beck has no understanding what he is talking about. Hoover was the President that began to lose the African American vote for the GOP when he failed to live up to his bargain with Booker T. Washington or failed to protect them after the floods from lynching mobs.
Report Post »Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:31amBeck is doing some choice cherry-picking here. According to today’s conservative orthodoxy, Hoover as president was a progressive who, instead of doing nothing as Harding had during the depression of 1920-1922, could not resist meddling, thereby setting a bad precedent for FDR and all the horrors of the New Deal. Hoover tried to pressure business leaders into maintaining high wages. He signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff bill. He bailed out big banks and insurance companies instead of letting the free market do its work. He committed the unforgivable sin of raising taxes. He even said that, if forced to remain in office a few more days, he would have confiscated all gold and closed the banks–exactly what FDR did.
Report Post »Silvertruth
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:51amI find it amusing that in an area about ‘Restoring Love’ some poor souls have to comment with nothing but hate. I guess it just shows who is really in need of some love.
Report Post »markcooper
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:41amWelcome to Restoring Love!
I suggested an alternative title which was rejected:
Restoring Your Money To Glenn’s Bank Account!
Report Post »netmail
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:49amAnd how much of what you make do you give to charity? Exactly what good are you anyway?
Report Post »pdw
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:28amWelcome to your restoring HATE
Report Post »netmail
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:40amWith possibly 114 million Americans paying $1,600 more in taxes next year, the prospect of less giving and more taking seems a lot more likely. Thanks though for shining a disinfecting light Glenn and keeping hope alive in spite of it all.
Report Post »cja23
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:18amHey Netmail: Markcooper is good “for nothing”.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:38amthings must be bad , Glenn is already passing the hat
Report Post »pdw
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:30amWhere? maybe it would help someone in need? or is that against your PRINCIPALS ??????????????
Report Post »encinom
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:34amPresident Hoover, the President that instead of using the federal government to help during the depression, allowed shanty towns with his name on them to take over city parks across the nation. President Hoover, the President the sent MacArthur and the US Army to crush the Bonus Army, an Army made up of WWI vets looking for Bonuses that where promised to them at the end of the Great War. Is that the man Beck holds up as an example of Christian Goodness and Charity, a President right out of the Great Gatesby, one that care more about protecting the wealth of the Rich than helping the poor.
Report Post »Steelhead
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:51amE- Glumm knows a little history , only the part that suits him though.
Report Post »v15
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 8:03pmEcinom, how would YOU handle things if you were POTUS? You seem to have the answer for everything so let me hear your solution. Let’s hear it.
Report Post »BCanook
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 8:35am@ENCINOM
“…looking for Bonuses that where promised to them at the end of the Great War.”
You’re leaving out the part where the bonuses were not payable until 1945. Its all in the history books. Congress was working on changing the World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924. Hoover was against it because it was over $3 billion dollars, which the government didn’t have at the time and the depression was everywhere.
It wasn’t Hoover that marched on Washington. It wasn‘t Hoover that didn’t use our political process. It wasn’t Hoover that used violence to force a political end. It was Hoover that ordered the end to violence. Its all there – stop picking minute points and spinning them. Try some honesty and integrity in your posts.
Report Post »markcooper
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:32amBeck has been fear-mongering about hyper-inflation of food prices for nearly 5 years.
He is full of crap.
Report Post »Silvertruth
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:47amActually, food prices are skyrocketing, check your supermarket shelf price over the last 5-6 years of the exact same item. We are more than double the price for nealy all goods. I submit that the rise of that time IS hyperinflation. It’s mostly a function of fuel costs, insurance and regulation, but it’s a nasty trio that is showing no signs of backing off. Beck is correct on inflation and it will only accellerate from this point if they keep printing money, and it’s not just food.
Report Post »cja23
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:21amYou’re full of bull, as usual. Guess you haven’t seen our grocery bill lately, or do you shop at the elite posh organic shops anyway.
Report Post »netmail
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 11:27amI work for a food manufacture. Our prices have went up about 20% in the past year and the packages contain 25% less product. They‘ll try to fool people for as long as they can but it’s bad and getting worse.
Report Post »HumbleCitizen
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 7:09pm@Markcooper
I am a mother of 6 and teach science. I shop (literally) four different grocery stores and travel a great deal to know prices in other states. I know flea markets, second hand stores and corner fruit/veggie stands as well. I can coupon with the best and buy fresh produce in bulk to homecan. I know my grocery prices.
I have, currently, in my pantry evidence of packaging changes to a smaller size by weight, in some packages up to a 50% reduction to maintain the near same price. On can goods that did not change packaging the prices have went up substantially. Within the past 3 months a can of my dd’s fav soup(s) went from .49 to .95. I stocked my pantry with can goods priced 3 for $1.00 just last year that are now 1.00 each. Canned beef with gravy went from 2.49 to 3.99. Ground beef that regularly sold for .99 lb. is now 1.99 and a .99 lb sale is rare. Paper plates went from .99 for 100 to .99 for 50 (plates). Dinner napkins stayed the same price but the package is half as large as just a few months ago. I could go on and on with proof about smaller packages and/or higher prices for groceries and I ‘m confident that I am not the only person who can prove grocery prices have inflated.
Bottom line, proof is in the evidence and the evidence clearly shows prices have skyrocketed in a short amount of time, hence, the cra.p is all yours.
Report Post »BCanook
Posted on July 25, 2012 at 11:43am@MARKCOOPER WOW!! You either don’t go to the grocery store because someone does it for you, or you‘re on food stamps and handout and don’t pay attention. Which one is it? In my world, food prices have increased significantly. Please pull your head out.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 24, 2012 at 10:26amAnd so history repeats itself; we have forgotten to a degree, as a nation, what charity means, and now we see it coming again to the fore.
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