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‘Fundamental Transformation’: A Message From Glenn for 2011

America is at a crossroads. We have known this for 10 years now but after each tragic event or “bubble” America has gone back to sleep because we wanted to believe that we could have it all and “it just isn’t as bad as they say.” Our gut however, has told us that it was time to wake up and use what used to be known as “common sense.” It is what Americans from all points of the political compass meant when focus groups gave every politician the presidential campaign slogan, change.

After spending years, and thousands of man-hours, in research, reflection, and prayer, my team and I have come to realize that a “Fundamental Transformation” is required. While it is just as powerful, it’s also the polar opposite of what President Obama touted last election. President Obama and the progressive ruling class of both parties believe in the collective planned society. I believe America’s answers are to be found with, by, and in the individual American honestly pursuing happiness not in 2,000 page bills.

If one is looking for a “collective” based solution it can be found in the phrase: America is great because America is good. When we look for our answers in Washington we ask our politicians or parties to “make us good.” They cannot. But we can, must, and will. The secret our Founders understood was that America is good because individual Americans are honest, just, thrifty, responsible, educated, charitable and God fearing.

“America is great because America is good” is not just some trite slogan. It is a deep and well thought out philosophy that has over 200 years of evidence of its truth. Yet we are being told on every level from our classrooms to our newsrooms that America is not good and never was great.

We cannot as a nation survive much longer. We must take a page from our own history at the Alamo and “draw a line in the sand.” We must decide who we are, what we are capable of and look to the heavens to chart our course. Do we return to the ideas of the past or do we continue West to the yet unrealized and unfulfilled promises laid out in our Founding ideals? We must choose as individuals and then put those choices into action. We must demonstrate to our children, neighbors and to ourselves that it is not policies or politicians but people that make this nation what it is for better or for worse.

This year, I as an individual and private citizen stand at those crossroads and boldly declare my choice. I will not accept that America’s best days are behind Her, that there is no such thing as American exceptionalism. Nor will I stand by silently as the most charitable nation in the history of mankind now needs the IRS to act as our charitable collection basket. I refuse to believe that Eric Holder is right when he states that we “are a nation of cowards” when it comes to issues of race.

I will admit our wrongdoing, but I will not be a constant apologist for our nations mistakes. However, I will also look for historical context. I choose to believe that while many Americans may be ignorant of even the basics of our own history, Americans are waking up in record numbers educating themselves. One of the first things they will find is that History tells us when this happens Americans change the world.

I will no longer look to others for leadership or answers. I will lead my family and teach them to be independent, honorable, educated and charitable. With firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence I choose to ReFound this amazing nation by rediscovering within myself, and my own circle of influence, the principles and ethics that defined American exceptionalism.

In 2011, my wife and I will dedicate significantly more of our personal resources to what some call charity but as you and I will show is nothing less than “investing in people.” I have also charted a new and exciting course for my company Mercury Radio Arts. I currently have plans on hiring more than 40 people as I expand many of our operations as well as creating new divisions such as one that will be known as “E4 Experiences”.

Over the next 12 months, all Mercury divisions, radio, television, books, digital and stage will focus on what I call “The E4 Solution.” The four “Es” consist of: Enlightenment, Education, Empowerment and Entrepreneurship. We will challenge ourselves and those who choose to chart this course with us, to find what we as individuals really believe, challenge what we think we know and dig deep to find out what we are each capable of.

Today, I call out to those who are tired of feeling powerless. Commit to become the person you were meant to be, not who you have allowed yourself to become; the Father, mother, sibling, friend, businessperson and American. As the old story goes:

A man decided that he would change the world.

But, he wasn’t successful.

So he decided to change the country.

But, he wasn’t successful.

So he decided to change his community.

But, he wasn’t successful.

So he decided to change his street.

But, be wasn’t successful.

So he decided to change his family.

But, he wasn’t successful.

So he decided to change himself.

AND HE WAS SUCCESSFUL.

AND HIS FAMILY CHANGED AND THEY AFFECTED THEIR STREET.

AND THE PEOPLE ON THE STREET AFFECTED
 THEIR COMMUNITY.

AND THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY AFFECTED THEIR COUNTRY.

AND THE PEOPLE OF THE COUNTRY AFFECTED THE WORLD.

Today, I ask you to take the first step in your success. This is part Enlightenment and part Empowerment (E1 and E3 of the E4 Solution). One of America’s premiere psychiatric minds, concerned American and good friend Dr. Keith Ablow has been working with me on a project called “The 7.” Together we have developed 7 steps that can help you change your life, I know because they are the 7 steps that I used to change my life. This book meant for those who are tired being less than happy, fulfilled and want to be a part of a life that is bigger than they can currently imagine.

In the next 12 months, I challenge each American to come to the place where they can say without equivocation “YES, I CAN.” I believe strong, educated, charitable individuals who can stand on their own two feet, because they know who they are, will be remembered by future historians as those Americans who once again answered the call and changed the world again.

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  • Reagan/DeMint.deciple
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:41am

    Excellent words by an amazing man… Perfect.
    I‘m just waiting for the Broker 101’s and the Beckisnuts morons to chime in on how insane Beck is… The truth is that, even they can‘t argue with this logic but I’m sure they will try, because that’s what liberal/progressives do…. Thank you once again, Mr. Beck for another great motivating speech, and may God watch over you and your family.. Yes, I say speech because as I read it, I can actually see you saying it to US…

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    • WBOB
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:43am

      Yup,…right on que….everytime. LOL

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    • rfycom
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:43am

      Yes amazing what a man will do for money. Me like me a real man and don’t let another tell you how to think. We don’t need more submissive Americans.

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    • Oh, God!
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:47am

      Beckisnuts has already left his two cents worth. Not much though in his thinking, just spewing hate…

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    • omigosh
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:03am

      Great response, however the morons of whom you speak have no intentions nor ability to respond with anything other than remarks to disparage, diminish, and belittle. They don’t deserve even to be recognized.

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    • omigosh
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:06am

      Great comment, however the morons of whom you speak have no intention nor ability to respond with any comment other than to disparage, diminish, or belittle. They do not deserve any recognition.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:33am

      You’re right. There is much in there that no one can have a problem with. I mean, who is not in favor of honesty and thriftiness or justice and national pride? But if we are at a crossroads because the country has many serious problems, then we need specific solutions that do not mischaracterize reality but correctly state them and address them. Beck offers none of this, and that is a shame. People with a large audience have a great responsibility to say something useful beyond the trite and obvious. He fails on this score miserably.

       
    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:58am

      @ABC–
      “…who is not in favor of honesty and thriftiness or justice and national pride?”

      Simple: liars, spendthrifts, the corrupt, and globalists.

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    • DarKangelAZRAEL
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:09pm

      ABC, just because there is not a specific problem he is pointing to with ideas on fixing does not mean these thoughts and practices will not lead to solutions. Were Wall Street tycoons and healthcare people and most definitely POLITICIANS to think and practice such would we not need all the hocus pocus good intentions warm feeling fixes they propose these days? If such things were never abandoned just think where we would be. The only thing is the PEOPLE still have these traits, yes I believe you and nuts have them as well, but those that move UPWARD have forgotten them. Whether they be rich capitalists or rich leeching politicians they have abandoned these things and the every day schmuck like me along with them.

      So I argue that returning to these as a whole as ONE NATION or as a collective, as you all love to espouse, NOT help find real solutions to our problems. Might take too long for some but I am willing to put the work in if it pays in spades.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:17pm

      Glenn Beck’s words do this.

      http://www.liquida.com/blog-news/12398630/tides-foundation-byron-williams-glenn-beck/

      The man is too stupid to be insane.

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  • BeckIsNuts
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:40am

    E4. Look out world! Here comes Glenneth with his recycled “AMWAY” message.

     
  • WBOB
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:39am

    The beauty in Glenn’s message is in its simplicity. Makes complete sense, is logical and puts our trust in the one who is really in control….GOD!.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:29am

      His team did their marketing research very well. By targeting the Christian fundmentalists, he is going after the group easiest to dupe with pat solutions and simple messages. He knows he couldn’t pass this crap off on educated folks with a habit for critical analysis.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:36pm

      I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:36pm

      ABC, you are exactly on target with that observation. Amway used/uses the very same tactic. So do TV Evangelists. Tax them and watch them give up preaching faster than Glenneth can turn on the tears.

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  • Diamondback
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:38am

    Didn’t Chavez just get something pushed through his legislature the last couple of weeks doing the same thing?

    I’ve been telling folks that time was running out.

    Time has run out it appears.

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  • mdlwoods
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:38am

    Two word: Defund and Impeach

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  • BeckIsNuts
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:37am

    One question Glenn: Will you still be hammering on The 12th Iman, George Soros, Obama and the socialists, etc.? Not so much huh?

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    • QuietRiot
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:46am

      We will be addressing the needs of a nation and others through faith hope and charity that so many of you missed out of in the first place.

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    • luvtheright
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:19am

      Glenn has awoken WE THE PEOPLE to the corruption in our own government and WE THE PEOPLE will stay on top of the corruption like you have NEVER seen before! American loving patriots will defeat the evil that exists to destroy American exceptionalism — you on the other hand can go back to your sOROS paid for spin-media.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:25am

      That is exactly what I was wondering. And I would imagine yes, since temperance and humility and knowledge of one’s fallibility were not among the virtues he listed in his 2011 message.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:12am

      Nobody funds my posting activities. I wish someone would. I’m always up for stuffing more cash in my pockets. If you have any suggestions on how I can make some bucks from my work here, feel free to pass them along.

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    • Ghandi was a Republican
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:16pm

      bin — If you aren’t getting day paid for your idiotic posts, you are a bigger fool than your posts suggest. What the heck do you think the acorn/seiu nuts are doing on off live protest days?

      They are exploited for their crack habits and ‘day paid’ to keep them in the pipeline (no pun intended)..

      You can even even keep collecting unemployment, food stamps, housing assistance etc etc because it is day paid off the books Soros’ money..

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    • stopspendingourmoney
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:37am

      beckisnuts why do you care? just wondering.

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  • missaudrey
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:36am

    AMEN! Only with God’s help!

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    • Reagan/DeMint.deciple
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:41am

      @BECKISSANE… LOLOLOLOL…. Burned I OWNED YOU and now you pick on spelling ? perfect little liberal you are they’ve taught you well.. You’re nothing

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    • Reagan/DeMint.deciple
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:51am

      Though, it is funny that you know exactly what word it is, even though it’s spelled incorrect…. LOL can‘t debate what I’ve said, so attack my spelling… Whats that, Alinsky’s rule number 5 ? You lost, all of you morons did.. what are you going to do now that you idiots have to follow what WE say from now on?
      No more socialistic utopia.. Lmao, all gone what are you going to do ? I know, lets pick on Glenn like the little children that we are…

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  • BeckIsNuts
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:33am

    This bold step will really help you move that new ghost-written book Glenn. Great tie in with the merchandising. Can you hear those cash register bells ringing? CHA CHING!

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    • Diamondback
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:44am

      We are, in fact, capitalists Becksnuts!

      Your side is going to lose!

      BWahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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    • Reagan/DeMint.deciple
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:48am

      @BECKISSANE … You mama’s calling you.. She needs you to go to the store for some milk, to finish making your pancakes… Loser !!

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:49am

      You just can’t unite on common principles, can you?

      Where you gonna go for you Con commentary that isn’t trying to hock something? Hell- even your local radio guys have promos they do during commercial breaks.

      Get over yourself and stop being a hampering force!

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:53am

      I am a capitalist as well, just not a whore like Beck is.

       
    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:10am

      Deciple, the voice in your head may actually be your second grade teacher calling you back for all the spelling lessons you missed.

      It’s D I S C I P L E goober. Spell it right.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:21am

      That is why Beck has a team. Money makes the world go ’round.

      I am a capitalist too, so I don’t mind that he makes money off of it. But there is a difference between paying the inventor of a new biotech drug a ton of cash for adding value to society, versus giving it to the snake-oil salesmen who says nothing useful…ever. And it sickens me that so many people cannot tell the difference between life-saving medicine and snake-oil. With our cars and cell phones and jet planes, we feel we are superior to people living 300 or 3,000 years ago. For many people, this is totally unjustified.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:04am

      Wash1776, why did you put “nasty” in lower case letters? I almost feel slighted.

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    • Jabber
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:22pm

      Does George Soros pay you to read this site and post in opposition?

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    • sotuo
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:17pm

      BECKISNUTS, how is it that you can complain about people forcing Christianity on you, even as you reply to every single person who mentions God in this forum and tell them how wrong they are. Are you not trying to force atheism on them by saying their faith is foolish? If you have been watching/listening to Glenn Beck for any amount of time, his most common message is for people to do the research and decide for themselves! I don’t agree with every word Glenn says. You have to use your head, accept what you know to be true and bag the rest. No one can force you to believe anything. Stop tearing down people just because they believe in God! You’re just as bad as they are!

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    • Jabber
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Beckisnuts-

      (By the way, I laugh every time I read your nickname because my neighbor’s name is Becki….it paints quite a picture and not the one you intended)

      Here’s a question for you and ABC to chew on.
      Let’s say that there is what would classify as empirical evidence, that MOST people who believe in a “supernatural” power act in certain ways because of that belief/faith in a higher power.

      For example-let’s say Christians who own guns believe that God allows them to defend their property and family, even to the end that it results in the death of someone else, without impunity. Let’s also say that SOME of these people also believe that God does not allow them to randomly shoot anyone they wish to without personal threat towards them, and that such behavior would result in God’s just punishment upon them someday.

      Now-someone like Beckisnuts comes along and begins to undermine belief/faith in God. In destroying what SOME of these people use as a foundation for their determination of what is right or wrong, you also by default destroy the “divine authority” of the being/entity/power they worship, which can be interpreted as you destroy BOTH their hope in good, positive rewards in the future AND their fear of bad, negative punishments in the future.

      What does the empirical evidence on human behaviors demonstrate about people who have no moral compass? Who have no fear of punishment? Who believe that they answer to no one other than themselves?

      In more plain terms-Mr. Beckisnuts-if you convince someone who actually is deranged/delusional that there is no higher authority than himself, and that his/her actions have no ongoing or eternal effect-on himself OR you-you just might be removing the only reason that this person had for not eliminating you and others.

      Be very careful in your quest to destroy what other people believe in.

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    • HillsGal
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:07am

      Again, you are such a bitter person so you are either a plant put here to disrupt this blog site and are paid to do it or you have no life, but blogging. In either case it is a waste. Is George Soros paying you to come on here and belittle people, Beck, God, religion, government? Frankly, you are not worth anyone responding to you so I encourage all of you who believe in the goodness of man, in God, in respect for others – PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY RESPONSE TO THIS PERSON – leave him be – alone.

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  • Abigail
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:31am

    I believe that the Almighty God, the only True God is moving over this world and waking up men & women to be ready for the last and greatest of all revivals. We are watching Bible prophesy come to pass in front of our eyes, as if we are reading a newspaper. I will stand strong with you and keep you in our prayers as we all take back our country and our faith.

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    • forestnomad
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:13pm

      Do you mean the Mormon White Horse prophecy, where a Mormon will arrive to save the Constitution as it ‘hangs by a very thread’ and teach those Christians which religion is true?

      Is that the prophecy you are talking about?

      http://www.mormonwiki.org/White_Horse_prophecy

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    • THSWarrior
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 3:25pm

      If any Christian currently living on planet earth believes that Glenn Beck is some kind of special annointed “Morman (who) will arrive to save the Constitution” the only advice they need is to stop worshiping idols and return to The Word.

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  • Oh, God!
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:30am

    I have come to the place, now in my life, and realize that Obama will do anything to get what he wants done. Most of his followers will not see anything wrong with what he is doing. In fact, I believe they will think it is the right course. They will only see the light when it is too late and they are left behind, poor and misguided. They will be confused, then angry. I do not plan on being anyone of them, nor my family.

    We, as a family can change our course in life. I now know the reason I have not found a job since April 09. There are other plans for me, I just can’t see what they are yet. In time it will come, but for now I keep moving forward educating myself and my kids. From this education, we have formed a book club for my 10 year old to try and teach these kids the facts about history, truthful facts whether it be good or bad. So this is my journey, and somewhere or somehow it will affect someone else and they in return will affect someone else. This is my part for now, in time it will change and I look forward to that change for once.

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    • bedra1958
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 6:12am

      I, too, have been unemployed since early this year. Being over 50 years of age doesn’t help the job search either. Like you, I feel I have a purpose somewhere, but it up to the Lord where and when that will be. Let’s keep all ourselves in prayer, humble ourselves before God and seek His face so we can be healed.

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  • gopsnativeson
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:30am

    Thank you Glenn, for everything you do.

    Its all true, Our country has gotten away from God, honesty, integrity & self relliance in favor of the personality ethic.

    The character ethic is what has made this country great, & as individuals, we must all strive to return to the character ethic, where honesty & integrity where paramount in our daily lives & everyhting we do.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:46am

      A step away from the supernatural is a step towards reality. Live in the real world, it’s the best place to find real solutions to real problems. Follow delusional people and you may not like the destination you find yourself in.

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    • forestnomad
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:22pm

      “Our country has gotten away from God”

      I wonder if that is what people said when the earth was thought to be round and revolved around the sun?

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  • 4wheels
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:29am

    Oouuurrraaahhh!!!

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  • Reasonabiliy
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:28am

    These, of all things, are the things we need to do. Then we trust GOD for the outcome.

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  • TRONINTHEMORNING
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:28am

    Watch what happens when people make the decision to use their gift of life for the purpose it was given..To glorify God. Seek the Kingdom of God and all things shall be added unto you. Makes perfect sense to a simple guy like me.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:04am

      Says who? You? What gives you the authority to make claims like that? You superstitious religious types are an arrogant lot.

       
    • wash1776
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:25am

      @BECKISNUTS. YOU ARE SUCH an ARROGANT JERK. WHO GIVES YOU the AUTHORITY TO TELL EVERYONE ELSE ON THIS SITE TO THINK AND RUN THEM DOWN?

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:41am

      Wash1776, take a few deep breaths. You’re in risk of a major melt down. Off you go now.

       
    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:35am

      Tron, you are free to believe that the highest purpose in life is glorify God in the way that you see fit, and Nuts is free to do the opposite. You do not need to like him, nor he you. But he is not getting angry about the disagreement, while you clearly are. So I wonder who really is uncomfortable with living in a world where people legitimately disagree. Don’t pretend that he is forcing his ideas down your throat while all the while you become apoplectic merely because he disagrees with your religious viewpoint. Try his viewpoint on for size. You might find it more comfortable. But even if you don’t, please do not imply (through your anger) that we should all believe in God because you do…

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:23pm

      ABC, again you didn’t pay attention to what was actually said. TRON did not reply it was another poster altogether. We religious types, for the most part, don’t give a fig what you believe one way or the other as we are comfortable in our position. Wash1776 was the one who got irrate, and not without reason. There are posters on this site who will attack our faith at every opportunity. I don’t see people demanding that you find God, but posters like Beckisnuts attacks every chance he gets whether someone is addressing him or not.

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    • patriotdale
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:39pm

      Beckisnuts

      Why are you so quick to cut down anyone who disagrees with you especially when it concerns faith?

      Thou I am Christian, as I believe most of our forefathers were, I do not condemn you for your lack of faith, in fact I want to believe that you are an honorable American with only a different point of view.

      However, when you judge someone as stupid or ignorant you only show you true arrogance and this is where I choose to disagree with you.

      I, unlike you, do not have all day to sit in front of a computer and judge people for the sake of stirring emotion and because I see your posts in so many places I find myself thinking, maybe believing that you are a member of the opposition to freedom and free thought. Truth is I think you are obsessing over that which you cannot control. (BECK, FOX, GOD, THE TEA PARTIES and ME)

      Now go ahead and slam me I am ignorant, I am illiterate, I am Christian, I am stupid, I am whatever you want to call me. But I still believe in this country and I am a free and productive member of society.

      Simply put I think you are a fraud, paid to sit at your computer, to stir up hatred.

      I will pray for you, because you need it and because you hate it!

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    • DarKangelAZRAEL
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:50pm

      Thanks a lot PATRIOT. I have called nuts out on that at every turn. When it gets to a certain point you cannot help but get the idea in your head that he is here to subvert the conversation and point fingers. I have stopped replying altogether with him as I feel he is being paid, or receives non monetary payment, to do what he does here. It is also. beyond a pale, obvious that his motivation is HATRED of all religion no ifs ands or buts.

      As to the rest. There are many varying forms of socialism/marxism/statism nations out there to be a part of. I argue that America was NEVER MEANT to mirror ANY of them and to be something completely different, affording it’s citizens the utmost of personal liberty possible. I am tired of the progs trying to make this country what it never was meant to be. They have plenty of choices if they really want a nation that offers those things and are perfectly free and may even find a program that will give them money to move there.

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    • bedra1958
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:23am

      @beckisnuts…

      Are you just waiting to jump on any Believer who proclaims Jesus as their Lord and Savior? In Jesus Name, the Lord rebuke you.

      Just so you know, Jesus died for YOU too. We are all sinners and have come short of the glory of God. The Lord loves you in spite of your hatred for Him. I pray the Holy Spirit opens your heart and eyes to Him in a dramatically life-changing way.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:30pm

      bedra, one cannot hate something that one believes is nonexistent. Your freedom of religion doesn’t extend to my inclusion in your fantasies about the supernatural. That’s a very easy statement to understand. I continue to be amazed that you and the others just cannot wrap your minds around it.

      Also, feel free to pray/chant to yourselves as you see fit.. It certainly doesn’t bother or affect me any more than the bark of a dog lost in the wilderness. However, when someone uses the phrase “I’ll pray for you” in a snarky, mean-spirited manner, you’re being a hypocrite. What would your Jesus say about that type of behavior? He certainly wouldn’t approve of it.

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  • QuietRiot
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:27am

    To all the Senator and Congress men and women and especially the Tea Party winners, What Are You Prepared To Do? A video message ….
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jsKLXqA0g

    You will be defied by decree of a president that wants to skirt around you with his authority and his beurocratic deptmental decrees. people not elected making decisions that give our wealth to other nations and along with that the soul of a great nation. All the while spending us into oblivion. Whipe out every possible bastion of progressivism from these lands. Investigate Soro’s other like minded people and organizations. Destroy the 17th ammendment making Senators elected officials vs state appointed officials. The list goes on and on , but the question remains. ” What Are You Prepared To Do?”

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jsKLXqA0g

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  • Darren
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:25am

    Looks like E4 is on the go!

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  • Country
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:25am

    Fear not. This country has been living in fear the last few years. No one is taking any chances. I am.

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    • Miguelito
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:56am

      To all the members in congress that are believers remember Psalm 23:4. Washington is surely the valley of death! God Bless you Glenn!!!

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  • JBKathy
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:23am

    Beautiful Glenn. God Bless You Always.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:56am

      We have serious problems in this country that lead every 70 year old I know to say that they have never seen the US in such bad shape during their lifetimes, with the brief exception of the early part of WWII. These problems are: 1) persistently high unemployment rates; 2) massive debt levels at the individual and governmental level; 3) exceptionally poor educational attainment that leaves firms and government unable to fill skilled positions; 4) persistently lower annualized productivity gains; 5) rates of inflation around health care and higher education that far outstrip median wage growth; 6) massive wealth inequality that historically has led to economic volatility and social unrest; and this list is clearly incomplete.

      Now, I have read and re-read Beck’s message for 2011 and find little in it that provides answers or even the beginning of answers to any of these issues. He takes his pot-shots at Obama by reducing his world-view to communism or collectivism or whatever buzz word is required to boost his ratings with his Republican audience. And he throws out his requisite platitudes about how wonderful America is and how great its citizens virtues are (honesty, justice, thriftiness, etc.) Who could argue with that? Heck, even a liberal like me is in favor of those. But this kind of discourse is totally devoid of useful information or commentary. There are serious problems to be solved, and the solutions may not fit neatly inside the preconceived ideologies of either Beck or Obama. I for one will want those solutions regardless. Hopefully, others who love their country more than their ideology or favorite pundits or preferred politicians will feel the same.

      I do agree with the sentiment that people should start with themselves. But to know whether they are changing for the better or the worse, they’ll need empirical data and consistent logical analysis. If you continue to insist that Obama is not a US citizen, it is time to change yourself. If you think that cutting tax rates, unless increasing spending, doesn’t widen the deficit, then it is time to change yourself. If you think that thousand-plus page bills are inherently bad if they modify health care delivery but are good if they describe the Patriot Act, then it is time to change yourself. If you cite deficit reduction for curbing entitlements but refuse to reduce military spending or pay for unfunded wars abroad, then you need to change yourself.

      Here are two short resolutions for the new year. Empirically correct. Logically consistent. If every American strove to be those two things and those two things only, the world would be a far better place.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:19pm

      ABC, I’m just now catching up on the proceedings here. I have to tell you that I enjoy your intelligent, thoughtful and factual comments immensely. They’re quite a contrast to what I usually read here and are a pleasure to read. Thanks for taking the time to share your ideas and intellect. I would very much enjoy communicating with you further in the future somehow. If you have any ideas on how we might be able to do that, I’d be very interested in discussing them with you.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:27pm

      Beck is nuts, sure. Just create a yahoo or gmail email with beckisnuts as the moniker, and I’ll shoot you a message.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 8:10pm

      ABC, try beckisnuts77@yahoo.com. Thanks.

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  • Alexandra1214
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:22am

    Yes I Can….. Amen!!!

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    • Lynne Neal
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:07am

      I agree! Thank you Glenn for educating American Citizens for years now & we appreciate you and your team for starting this news source. I start everyday listening to you on the radio & reading the real news.

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:21am

    Collective solutions never work, but to the elite powermongers. Support and enable the individual, not the government, and our country will heal. But it will be difficult any way you slice it.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:59am

      If collective solutions do not work, then why does the military insist on a chain of command? Why are corporations, with internal command pricing, in existence rather than simply departments running on an internal market? Why is it that all the major infrastructure projects in the world, like our own interstate highway system or the German Autobahn, all built by governments? Why is it that every major technological advance, from penicillin to semiconductors to the internet, the result of government investment? This black and white, government is bad and private sector is good mythology, has to stop. It ignores reality and history and common sense. And the mindless parroting of this by Beck’s audience is really the true travesty.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:01am

      I agree. Socialism never works. Other people can never use your hard-earned money as well as you can. The problem with Glenn is, if you can’t pass the god test, you’re not welcome to be an American. That‘s Beck’s Achilles heel.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:15am

      Wrong. Socialism exists in many forms, from an unemployment check or GI Bill to North Korean style communism. To talk about it as though it has only one form is really rather silly. And to say that unemployment checks or GI Bills were unsuccessful programs is also very silly. Educate yourself, then speak. It serves your audience better and reflects better on you.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:46am

      ABC, forums of this nature are best suited for general discussion of ideas and not minutia. I believe it’s understood that when discussing socialsm, we’re all referring to the general concept. Your points are valid but not really pertinent to the immediate converstaion.

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:52am

      @ABC–
      Granted. Of course, there are some things government must do (e.g. the military, roads, etc.– things on which the private sector cannot reasonably make profit), but these are not examples of philosophical socialism, merely a practical “socialism” (i.e., necessary social costs).
      Collective solutions do not work because they diminish individual motivations (something which the military is immune to because of patriotism). I am going to work much harder for my own improvement than I will for society’s, and therefore indirectly improve society more than I ever could consciously working for societal improvement.

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    • Dandylyon
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:55am

      When you two debate and quit ridiculing people like so many progressive’s you present some valid points to research.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:04am

      Nuts, so forums of this nature are useless if you do not discuss things except in useless generalities.

      Komponist, there is a proper role for non-market solutions. These are usually called market failures or externalities. There are many examples that conservatives and libertarians ignore, since they hurt the simple narrative they seek to expound. Education and health are public externalities that often require state funding since the benefits cannot be completely captured by the private investor. Pollution is the classic negative externality that requires government regulation and taxation. Of course, conservatives like to make stupid arguments about how private market solutions are the only ones to pursue in addressing health care, although it is precisely these solutions that are causing the inflation in the first place. And when they are not legitimately blinded by their ideology, they make up silly slogans to hide these truths that anyone studying Econ 101 should know, like when they blast the “tax-and-trade” system even though it is the most efficient way to curb unwanted emissions. You need to do more than listen to Beck or read Rand unquestioningly. there is no question that markets are a great and powerful thing, but they are hardly a pancea for today’s problems. Afterall, given our long experience with free markets, if they were the solutions, then the problem would have long disappeared.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:06am

      ABC, you’ve made some valid and interesting points. I admire your efforts.

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:26am

      But, I contend that you must prove — beyond any doubt — that government intervention via cap and trade, or an individual mandate is absolutely necessary, and would prevent demonstrable harm to someone’s life and/or property.

      In other words: Ockham’s Razor—do not assume something if you can do well enough without it, and we certainly can do well enough without government intervention in the instances of health care and cap and trade.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:01pm

      ABC, the military has a diffent purpose than the general population. I’m not sure how you equate chain of command with collectivism, but i am willing to concede the point for argument’s sake. The general has the overall control of how the battle is to be fought, his vision must be followed or chos will reign, and the battle will be lost. There is no goal for society. We are all individuals living our lives as we choose. The president is not a general directing the plan of our lives.
      On another note, the GI Bill is payment for services rendered, unlike unemployment or farm subsidies, therefore not socialism. The GI Bill put me through undergrad, now i am in med school, and will provide my services to the military when i am finished, so the investment paid off.
      Also the feds are mandated by the constitution so support the advancement of science. It is one of the few things they are mandated to do.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:07pm

      Komponist, so that is now a different question, which I will address shortly. But first, allow me to point out that we have moved beyond the anyone-who-proposes-something-other-than-free-markets-is-a-bloody-communist schtick that works so well for Beck and his sheep blogging here. Throw away the labels and ideology and focus on the facts, keep the logic tight and be prepared to be wrong…often. That is a much better way to live, although it sells far fewer books and generates fewer ratings. But this is not surprise. The latest research at HBS shows that the most colorful and charismatic leaders, although ever popular, are far inferior as business leaders. Likely true in the media and politics also.

      As for the “proof” that you require. In the case of global warming, the first point to make is that you have to understand context before setting a burden of proof. When the patient with a stopped heart is rushed into the emergency room, we don’t go looking for lots of proof, we act to save a life. When we fear that the USSR is putting nukes on our doorstep in Cuba, we have a quicker response than otherwise. This is prudent. Similarly, if the known and predicted risks associated with climate change involve global conflict and famine, then we do not have the luxury of waiting forever for a high burden of proof. The “conservative” solution is actually to act because the risks of unwarranted action (wasted resources) are less than the risks unwarranted inaction (losses of many, many lives).

      Now, as for proof that action is needed, I would advise that you visit skepticalscience.com first to see that all the arguments on the other side are mostly wrong and there is ample data there proving it. The three most recent surveys of research on climate change show that well north of 95% of all qualified experts have concluded that global warming is manmade and a very serious threat that needs addressing. The degree of threat and range of responses is beyond the scope here, but suffice it to say that the burden of proof a rational person would set in light of the evidence and risks is low enough to merit much action right now.

      You also mentioned individual mandate for health care. The need for this mandate relates to the economics of insurance and risk pooling. You need young payers that are likely not going to use much health care to subsidize the payments of old people who will likely consume more than they can pay for. This is the very definition of insurance, where the unlucky are subsidized by the lucky. The difference is that we don’t know who is going to be lucky or unlucky but we know who is young and old. The problem, of course, is that the young will become old and will want subsidized health care not having paid in at the outset. And this is the justification economically for such a mandate. The legal justification, to be tested in the courts, is that it is not forcing consumption (hence mandate is a misnomer) but a tax to make the system work, like social security or corporate pensions.

      My point about health care goes beyond this mandate, however. The fact is that health care delivery is not like soda pop delivery. It has many more market failures associated with it. There are information asymmetries and emotional duress inherent in the purchase that don’t exist in the Coke-versus-Pepsi purchase. There are also bad incentives for drug companies to sell drugs we don’t need that pay rich dividends while ignoring other medical problems that pay less but are of greater social value (e.g., orphan drugs). There is also the problem of fee for service amongst doctors, who continue to show no correlation between the cost of service and quality of outcomes. These market failures cannot be solved by the market, since in every case the market is the problem. That is not to say that all non-market solutions are better, but certain regulations and government programs can achieve a better solutions. Just look at France, Germany, Switzerland, Japan or Korea for examples.

      The key point is to not become a prisoner of ideology and think that you know the solution to a new problem just because you are “armed” with the knowledge that Socialism is Bad or American is Good. This is not how solutions arrive. And those peddling such solutions are really peddling something else that is very lucrative to them but not worth much to the rest of us…

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    • komponist-ZAH
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:44pm

      Well, I wasn’t actually refering to the validity of anthropogenic global warming but rather of the idea that cap and trade would be the best way to combat it.

      I am hardly a prisoner of ideology, I just have a healthy respect for the power of Reason, and have used that power to develop ideas of the proper role of government, which I would share with more fully but: a) they are still somewhat embryonic; and b) I don’t quite have the time at this moment.

      (Sorry to cop out, would really love to continue the debate, so will come back when I can.)

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:52pm

      ABC you can have all of the social programs you want, at the state level. What works for one state doesn’t work for all. The federal govt was made very weak by the constitution for that very reason. The feds have been overstepping their bounds for over 100 years. It needs to be reigned in. Big govt programs always fail because of political games and self serving politicians. State run programs eliminate the problem of size and place control closer to the individual, where it belongs.
      10,000 years ago there was a glacier where i now sit. The earth warmed, and it melted. Was that man made warming? How fast did the earth warm, then? Why is it man made warming now that we can measure the change?

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:06pm

      Tony, I have no problem with federalism. It works better than having just a bunch of weak states (the EU) or a single strong state (the USSR). I never made any comment to call that into question. As for global warming, the existence of natural fluctuations in CO2 concentrations and temperature changes does not logically preclude the potential for much faster and bigger ones that man creates. So you really haven’t disproven anything that science is warning us about. I truly hope you see that. Especially since so many people amazingly do not.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:11pm

      Tony, the GI Bill came as a grant in addition to the salary of servicemen. Before it’s introduction, military personnel were paid an amount, which did not change after the introduction of such a benefit. So it was clearly a subsidy from non-military personnel or military personnel not going to college to those who chose to go. Hence, it was another example of (gasp!) wealth redistribution.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:48pm

      Still a payment for services rendered. There are service requirements to get the benefit, not just the mere act of enlistment. I had to pay $1200 + $600 for my benefits plus serve 36 months activ duty.

      Does an ice core really give an exact measure of atmospheric gasses from 100000 years ago? Where is the control? Does precipitation =ice thickness = temperature accurate to .01C? Again, where is the control?

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:09pm

      Tony, thanks for the reply. I wasn’t aware of the payments, but they are less than the cost of the education received, so it is a partial subsidy, which is a subsidy nonetheless. So it’s still a transfer of wealth. Now we‘re just talking amounts but it’s still “socialism” in the Glenn Beck-is-afraid-for-America sense of the term. As for the “control” for climate change, there are many things that science studies without the lab control you unreasonably demand. We made predictions about black holes based on our theoretical knowledge of physics that were later proven true in nature. We did not have a “control” when we did nuclear testing, but merely ran the equations and built the bomb. Incidentally, the mathematical models and computers used for nuclear testing are the very same ones used for climate modelling. And the climate models are more faulty in that they have underestimated the warming rather than overestimated it. It seems unlikely that the methods that gave us knowledge of black holes or nuclear bombs or even airplane wings are suddenly unworkable for climate modelling and predictions that flow from them ought to be respected more than they are by the lay person.

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    • TonyDarrington
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:58pm

      The impasse here is that you fail to distinguish between payment for services rendered and a government handout. A federal employee who gets money from the government is being paid for services rendered to the government. A farmer who is given money to NOT plant crops is getting a handout.

      As for global warming, science is being fueled by money and politics. Anytime money and politics are mixed with science, science loses. The government stands to gain control over industry, and investors (Al Gore) have made money and are poised to make a truckload of money if global warming is proven true. It would take some serious evidence to convince me human CO2 release is having any impact on the global climate. Sell me some oranges from the north pole and I’ll be a believer.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:40am

      The above, with the exception of the Benrush comment, is one of the best exchanges I’ve read yet on this forum.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:24am

      dandylion exempted from the compliment too

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    • abc
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 2:07pm

      Tony, I know the difference between pay and handouts, but when the amount handed out far exceeds the market rate of pay, then it becomes a handout. The amount you will pay for college is tiny compared to the rate others pay, so the rest is a grant from the gov’t. Now, you say that this is payment for service, but it is nearly as much as the market rate of pay for personnel in the military. This cannot be pay. It is over pay, so it has to be viewed as a subsidy. This is not a difference of opinion, but an inability for your to incorporate market rates into your argument. It would be like the government doubling McDonald‘s workers’ salaries and then not calling that a gov’t subsidy. Paying double the market rate is a subsidy when the govt is doing it.

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  • Alexandra1214
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:21am

    Amen!!!!!!

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:20am

    Awesome.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:16am

      There are very big problems in this country: 1) protracted and high unemployment; 2) massive debt at among individuals and governmentals; 3) exceptionally poor educational attainment; 4) persistently low productivity; 5) health care and higher education inflation that outstrip average wage growth; 6) massive wealth inequality that historically has led to economic volatility and social unrest; etc.

      Now, I have twice read Beck’s message for 2011 and find little in it that provides answers to any of these issues. He takes his pot-shots at Obama by reducing his world-view to communism or collectivism. And he throws out his requisite platitudes about how wonderful America is and how great its citizens virtues are (honesty, justice, thriftiness, etc.) Who could argue with that? Heck, even a liberal like me is in favor of those.

      But this kind of discourse is totally devoid of useful information or commentary. There are serious problems to be solved, and the solutions may not fit neatly inside the preconceived ideologies of either Beck or Obama. I for one will want those solutions regardless. Hopefully, others who love their country more than their ideology or favorite pundits or preferred politicians will feel the same.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:19am

      I do agree with the sentiment that people should start with themselves. But to know whether they are changing for the better or the worse, they’ll need empirical data and consistent logical analysis. If you continue to insist that Obama is not a US citizen, it is time to change yourself. If you think that cutting tax rates, unless increasing spending, doesn’t widen the deficit, then it is time to change yourself. If you think that thousand-plus page bills are inherently bad if they modify health care delivery but are good if they describe the Patriot Act, then it is time to change yourself. If you cite deficit reduction for curbing entitlements but refuse to reduce military spending or pay for unfunded wars abroad, then you need to change yourself.

      Here are two short resolutions for the new year. Empirically correct. Logically consistent. If every American strove to be those two things and those two things only, the world would be a far better place.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:35am

      ABC…And to fix the problem, you have to go after the head of the snake – and that would be The Obumbler, and his Marxist ideals, and his minions, such as yourself, who spew the party line. Progressives dumbed down America on purpose, progressive big gov’t created the welfare state, and as for the rich, they had a good idea and ran with it, but you would confiscate their wealth? You are a moron of the highest order. And you are full of it to think the Gov’t built ANYTHING or created ANYTHING, it was an individual that invented the auto, light bulb, polio vac, and individual companies that built our infrastructure, NOT THE GOV”T! But you are so far up the ass of the progressive, you are brainwashed and ignorantly schill for them!

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Sgt, lots of problems factually with what you write. First, Obama is not a marxist. He has power over the military and is not calling for or even trying to begin a revolt of the proletariat. Go read Marx and you will see how silly you sound. Second, the blame for dumbing down America can be passed around widely, from liberal reforms in the 70′s, to the widening of opportunities for women that took away a captive group of really smart teachers, to the infiltration of colleges with big-money sports (thanks capitalists at Budweiser!), to the total abdication of parents on the left and the right of their responsibilities to have their kids learn how to write, do math, think critically and the like. You offer no proof that this is merely the fault of liberals, but cling to that misguided belief like a high school drop out. Very sad.

      Third, the rich are not just the people who had good ideas and ran with it. It also includes the folks at Fidelity or Capital or Oak Tree or KKR that have not beaten the market ever but have still collected $30M per year for a decade and paid only 15% tax on it. It also includes the trust fund kids who never worked a day in their lives but live high off the hog. It also includes people who have stolen assets in Mexico or Russia and now can buy sports teams in America or influence elections. It also includes lottery winners who can jump or putt really well and get paid millions for doing something rather trivial (compared to our soldiers in Iraq or our doctors at NIH). It also includes actual lottery winners. The point is that I am tired of listening to people lionize the wealthy and claim that they are job creating machines if we’d just lower their taxes another 200 bps. This is a fiction. It needs to stop being repeated.

      Fourth, taxes are not confiscation. They are payments for the use of public roads, reliance on water safety testing services, and protection from fire, police and military. Theya re also payments for insurance (both social and health related). They must be paid because we are using the public goods and services. And many of these goods and services cannot be supplied by the private sector, so enough with the rhetoric about how I can use my dollars better than the government. Go build the high speed rails that China now has without your dollars. They are a great investment because they enhance productivity massively, but not a single private person or firm will undertake them. only the government can. But you don’t know that because you are still too busy blindly maligning the government.

      And finally, the last time I checked, there is not species of animal known as the :government“ or ”state.” Those are human-created organizations, just like private corporations or churches. The things that they accomplish are similarly done by human beings. But sometimes the best way to organize humans to accomplish something is via a government. And proof of that is all the things that the governments have built, but which you deny. Examples: Darpa built the internet; NASA funded basic research on microprocessors and computer softward; the military provided justification for the interstate highway system that only the government could build; and I could go on, but you get the idea…assuming you have a brain and a willingness to learn. None of this is ideology. These are facts. And while you can dismiss ideologies as much as you want, you are not entitled to your own facts. Those should be heeded.

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    • FIREDUDE
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:34pm

      ABC??????

      So you agree with the left that if you MAKE your money that you should give it back????

      I am sorry you where born into the wrong family? or adopted into the wrong family????

      How can anyone in there right mind ( I say that loosely) think that if I go out and start a company or inherit money that I should pay a big percentage of the money to the gov????

      You throw all this history around when you should try to go make some money and pay that redicules tax that you so proudly want instead of sitting on here getting your jollies off telling the people they are stupid……

      If you and the rest of the BECK haters dont like it???? Its AMERICA go somewhere else or start your own blog elswhere…….

      But I understand this site is where you actualy learn the truth so you stay here…. Its ok you can admit it………

      The fact that Glenn talks about FAITH in God, Everyone believes in something….

      You choose to believe in the dirt and the earth to get your rocks off???? We choose to believe that JESUS CHRIST will come back someday and save us from this mess that eve created when she ate the apple… Its called FREE WILL

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:25pm

      FireDude, I’ll stick to teh tax stuff since the rest of it was uncomprehensible. Taxes are necessary. They pay for all the public goods and services in society that you and all of us use. That we as a society are demanding and using these public goods and services means that they need to be paid for. To argue against paying taxes is to advocate theft. You cannot demand public goods and services without intent to pay for them. OK, so now we have to admit that a tax rate, above 0% is necessary, but what rate? Considering that the rates were north of 60% under Nixon, it is hard to argue that moving the top rate from 35% to 39% is a huge increase. Further, such an increase didn’t hamper economic or job growth under Clinton, so it is doable. It is also necessary to close the structural deficit. Unless the GOP can find cuts in spending worth about 7-8% of GDP (which is around $1T, rough numbers), then you will need to raise taxes up to the Clinton rate to close the structural deficit and start paying again for the public goods and services that we are all using, but which conservatives consider a sin to pay for. Apparently, they like theft (from our creditors or grandchildren) instead.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:16pm

      ABC, then I take it you’ve never read Dreams From My Father have you? If you had, you would see for yourself what the Marxist thinks. Go read it.

      And I will continue to pray to Jesus Christ, that he will come into your black heart and save your soul, brother in Christ!

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:20am

    Yes, this is good. I have been thinking this for some time, we all have. WE have permitted the enemies of America to drag us down with our “tolerance” of their lies, their propaganda, their attempts to alienate us from our roots, and from each other. Love your neighbor, practice Christian charity, serve God, and you will be saved.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:42am

      Amen. One of the most important places we need pay great attention to are the children. The propagandists for the progressive socialist movement are at war with people who have a sense of individual salvation , as it does not play into their vision of collective salvation and social justice. They want/need our children to rally their cause and they will turn our kids against us if they can, to use as tools in the destruction of our great country.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:12am

      Not tolerance of lies and propaganda. Compromise of positions within a democracy in which people with legitimate differences of opinion agree to live and let live. Your vision allows no democracy to occur, whether you admit it or not.

      By the way, the lies exist on both sides. And if you doubt that, check out the Birthers.

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:02am

      ABC, most poeple are not birthers. Most people are not truthers. Most people don’t fall into these categories at all. I have proof that the educators at my childs’ school are trying to indoctrinate him into a collective progressive mindset almost every day when he comes home from school and we discuss his day. He is not (thank God) one of their mindless automatons who absorbs everything he is told without question.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:13am

      Kate, according to the latest poll more than 25% of Americans do not believe that Obama was born here. That is more than 50% of the Republican Party. That is a fact. Also, please state specifically what your child’s teachers are teaching and then we can address the issue. If you say I fear that they are trying to do such and such, when the reality is very different from what you say, then you are no better than the 25% of America that admits to being a Birther.

       
    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:42am

      ABC,
      I didn’t say you fear anything, you came up with that accusation all by yourself. As for what my child is saying about the things he is learning in school, it is not just what he is being taught but what is being left out. There is not much talk about American exceptionalism, more about the evils of capitalism, the evils of the white man and the righteousness of the European model. He never heard of American citizens being placed in camps because the government feared the people. He is not being shown how Europe is tearing itself apart over austerity measures. There is too much stuff to go over in totus, but you surely get the idea .

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    • untameable-kate
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:34pm

      ABC there you go, you did it again.
      “but to demand that schools teach only what you believe does your child a grave disservice.”
      You have to stop translating what I WRITE into what you want to read. I did not say anyplace on my post that I only want my child taught the things I agree with I want all of the truth told not just skewed points of history. You will not debate without distortion, I am finished with you.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:03pm

      Kate is truly untamable. She complains about things taught in her school, but won’t accept my logical inference that she wants them not taught in her school. So if she doesn’t want certain things taught, then how far of a logical stretch is it to claim that she only wants taught there what she wants taught there? Should I have said “mostly” rather than “only”? Is that closer to the truth? And why won’t you clarify whether it is okay to teach all the bad things we and the Europeans did to the Indians or the English did to the South Asian Indians? Why will you not clarify whether it is objectionable to teach about japanese internment camps as well as jewish concentration camps? Why will you not respond to the legitimate reasons why teaching capitalism should examinations of its failings and weaknesses? Like others here, it is far easier to dismiss factual evidence or intelligent questions and to continue the mindless rant about liberal bias in the schools–all while VA and TX have clearly shown in their most recent textbooks that they are teaching untruths and lies. What a joke. But remember. Your children will pay for your ignorance. They will grow up knowing less than the Chinese, Finns, Koreans or Germans. And if you think that this will not hurt America, because Jesus will save you, then think again.

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    • sybilll
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:30pm

      ABC, surely you have enough cranial cognition to recognize that neither Kate, myself, nor anyone at this site will be “converted” to your Progressive ideas, regardless of how long your diatribes are. We are here to save our Country. I would assume the ilk of your kind are missing your voice in the echo chamber. And, isn’t 11PM circle jerk time at the Mutual Admiration Society? I wouldn’t want you to miss it.

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:36pm

      ABC you do realize the US is not a democracy, or do you? It is a constitutional republic. Do you know the difference? I eagerly await your response.

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    • abc
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 9:50pm

      Sybill, what you say is often likely true. And that saddens me. You are essentially stating that no matter what I say, what facts I cite or what I logically and empirically prove, you will still believe what you believe. There were perhaps people that would remain flat-earthers even if you took them up in a space shuttle and showed them the earth is round. The problem with this stance, if you really are going to take it, is that it is indistinguishable from being crazy. As the great Patrick Moynahan used to say, you are entitled to your own opinions but not your own facts. The fact is that Kate objected to certain things being taught in her kids’ school, which is her opinion. But you cannot maintain that those things are “incorrect.”

      JD, don’t be silly. A republic means a democratic republic, which means that we vote for representatives who make decisions for us. This is still a democracy. I learned of this distinction in grade school. Hopefully, this will help you with the issue too.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 6, 2011 at 1:33am

      @Kate,

      I believe what you are saying. If you truly believe what you are saying and care about children you must get them away from the TV set, Cartoons and all the rest to save them. This stuff they are selling is planted in all the themes. Unless it is from a Christian producer then don’t trust it. Animated titans like Pixar and Disney are pushing their emoted crap out there and its the same stuff we all watched growing up. Its the stuff that is trying to get you to be an activist for whatever their pushing. Watch closely. Its all through TV. Even Oprah see’s TV as crap today and does not even watch it. Shes launching her own propaganda TV network and it will be aimed at more thoughtful programming. We’ll see.

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  • TXPilot
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:18am

    Truly words to live by……thanks Glenn

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    • @leftfighter
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:46am

      Seconded.

      I know Glenn has his own books he’s reccomend we read, but I‘ve found a wealth more and I’m voraciously digging into them!

      Here’s my book list:
      The Real(s… Washington, Jefferson, Franklin)
      Sacred Fire
      The 5000 Year Leap
      The Making of America (Skousen)
      First Family (Ellis)
      John Adams (McCullough)
      Robert Morris (Rappeleye)
      The Life and Slected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Koch)
      Alexander Hamilton (Chernow)
      Benjamin Franklin (Isaacson)
      My Dearest Friend (edited by Hogan and Taylor)
      Abigail Adams: A biography (Levin)
      Abagail and John (Gelles)
      Samuel Adams (Puls)
      Samuel Adams: a Life (Stoll)
      Madison and Jefferson (Burstein and Isenburg)
      Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution (Maier)
      Founders (Raphael)
      Founding Faith (Waldman)
      The Ascent of George Washington (Ferling)

      It’s a *lot* of reading, I know, but it‘s a list of books I’d definitely reccomend if you want to get into the collective heads of the Founders and understand who they were and what their vision for the nation was.

      THAT vision (not the Obama Fundamental Transformation) is what made this nation great! We need to know it to understand it!

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:57am

      leftfighter, Skousen was a crackpot that the Mormon Church even distanced itself from. Glenneth is way off base with his recommendation of his vile works. You owe it to yourself to check into that author further.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:18am

      Leftfighter,

      I hope you read carefully. If you did, you would see that the “Founders” were by no means a single-minded group of freedom robots. Many of them were lawyers, and would have no sympathy for the Tea Party’s simplistic fundamentalist reading of the Constitution (see, for example, Madison vs. Hamilton on the National Bank). Also, almost all of them were very explicit about the need for the separation between church and state–yet somehow that tends to get left out of the “founding principles” rhetoric. Oh well.

      “This country has been much. I wish is may do more; and annul every narrow idea in religion, government, and commerce.”
      John Adams, Letter to Mordecai Manuel Noah, 1818

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    • Brad Wesselmann
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 1:01pm

      Publius, please read what you yourself quoted, “annul every narrow idea in religion, government, and commerce.”

      The operative word in that sentence isn’t religion, government or commerce, it is the word “in”. Annul every narrow idea IN religion, government and commerce, is the meaning in Adams’ words. The founders were more concerned about protecting religion FROM government, not the other way around, but they also recognized that every institution set forth by man was inherently corrupt.

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    • middleclassprophet
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:38pm

      The man is an idiot.

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    • PubliusPencilman
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:04pm

      While I appreciate that primer on prepositions, I’m afraid your reading had a lot more to do with your preconceived notions than the text at hand. Hmmm… “in” = protect religion from government, not the other way around… A bit of a stretch!

      I’m also pretty sure you have no idea of the context of this quotation, which I will admit I did not provide. Nor was I attempting to prove anything specific with this quotation–I just thought it was a nice sentiment. However, that did not stop your clever “reading” based far more on David Barton’s lunacy than anything else.

       
    • Jsh1284
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:54pm

      The key word is NARROW! He was talking about removing narrow thoughts from religion, government and commerce. The fact is Adams was saying he wanted people to think logically and to avoid narrow or foolish thought. He believed that such ideas would corrupt all three.

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    • Jsh1284
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:54pm

      Completely taking the quote out of context.

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    • Jsh1284
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:58pm

      Also, when he said COUNTRY he wasn’t talking about Government. He was talking about the PEOPLE! When he made that quote he was worried about the nation. He believed that if narrow (or foolish) ideas were implanted in religion .. AND government .. AND commerce .. we would probably falter. If however good, thoughtful ideas filled all three we would be prosperous.

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  • poverty.sucks
    Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:17am

    Thank you Mr Beck for sharing your vision and constructive criticism of our government. I hope your readers will be encouraged to motivate their elected to follow in pursuit of happiness.

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    • Reagan/DeMint.deciple
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:44am

      @BECKISSANE.. <<<<< SEE folks ? I was writing as this moron was… I knew it wouldn't take long for jacka$$es like this to chime in… Whatever moron, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM, AND WILL BE DEFEATED…

      one years food ration like glenn says  
    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 9:55am

      Deciple, don’t melt down on us. Why do you Beckites get so emotional when you encounter ideas that differ from your own? It never fails.

       
    • Shane the Golden
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:08am

      Probably because the policies of Mr. Obama and his ilk (useful idiots like yourself) are destructive. How is socialist Europe fairing? Not so well if the news reports are to be believed. Bless your heart, I will pray for you and all you poor, misguided progressives.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:17am

      We have the inititive, we have the desire and the drive with each individual united for the cause of saving the nation. The task is not an easy one, and indeed will take time, yet the progress we make now and in the time to come lays the restoration of the founding principles of the nation for the children to follow to continue upon.

      Nothing truly great and worth having is ever done easily, or safeguarded easily.

      Let us go forward now; we are winning, We will Win.

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    • wash1776
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:20am

      @BECKISNUTS: No he is not but YOU ARE. YOU ARE DETESTABLE!

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:36am

      Wash1776, you’re becoming unhinged. Please collect yourself before your hatred causes you a detrimental physical reaction.

       
    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 10:54am

      Aha! Right on cue, Shanethegolden spews out the snotty ChurchLady line “I’ll pray for you” dripping with hate and contempt. The hocus pocus crowd never fails to give me a satisfied chuckle.

       
    • Non-sequitur
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:04am

      “No he is not but YOU ARE. YOU ARE DETESTABLE!”

      Next up: I am rubber, you are glue, probably followed by Yo momma.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:12am

      To Deut22, ABC and ISNUTS – Cuba, Iran, Russia, N. Korea and China are really good destinations for folks like you, and BTW, try to speak your minds there! Take the long walk off the short pier friends, you are Godless, jack leg socialists and leeches of the underbelly of our society.

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    • poverty.sucks
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:33am

      But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.

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    • TrueGrit
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:48am

      WHY DO YOU GUYS LET ‘BECKIS’ and OTHERS LIKE HIM(HER)
      SUCK YOU IN TO AN OBVIOUS VITRILOIC SET-UP?

      Please use your heads and try and ignore the obvious hate ‘baiters’.

      It‘s like bottom fishing and all the ’regulars’ take the bait.
      GGGHHHHEEEZZZZZzzzzzzzz!

      Wolverine

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 12:15pm

      @truegrit

      “Hate-baiters” are worse than the actual haters? is that what you’re saying?

      these Christo-fascists are the REAL threat to our republic. just look at them here; foaming at the mouth, loading their guns, storing their food ready to attack anyone who differs, calling for the murder (in veiled euphamism) of their fellow citizens because the don’t like their politics/religion/skin color. frightened rabbits the whole lot. they are taking their masks off and revealing their evil ugly totalitarian natures.

      you should tremble for your country if this lot isn’t calmed down and put in check.

      they really put the FEAR in god-fearing and they‘ll put it in you too if you don’t do as they say!!

      dark days.

      MrButcher  
    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 2:00pm

      BeckIsNuts…

      Because saving this country is very important to us, and we get emotional when talking about the future for our kids.

      We know why you are here and we don’t care. We will save this country without your help, so sit back, watch, and whine, while we do the heavy-lifting for you!

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    • forestnomad
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:19pm

      Shane The Golden asks: “How is socialist Europe fairing?”

      Actually, the less-religious countries are doing quite fine. It’s the ones where Catholicism/Christianity run rampant that are having issues. I’m not making any judgements, please do your homework and I’m positive that you will come to the same conclusions I have.

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    • missionarydad
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 3:20pm

      Beckisnuts, you are a total mocking moron. God Bless Glenn Beck he is one amazing person. Glenn Beck is absolutely right in his new undertaking and is putting his money where his mouth is. It will not take everyone to join him to be very effective and transforming. People like Becisnuts will always be on the sidelines mocking and that is all he is a mocker and moron much like those who mocked Jesus as he went forth doing many good works and changing the world. As each of us individually decide to change ourselves for the better and press forward doing what we can looking to Our Heavenly Father for our strength we can turn this nation around and we will. Thanks for you input Beckisnuts, but you are wasting your time and energy with your comments here. Most of those who read The Blaze are not in any way persuaded by the likes of you. You have no credibility, you are as chaff that is blown into the wind.

       
    • taskmaster78
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 4:14pm

      BeckIsNuts I don’t think your as important here as you think, along with your thoughts and comments. I wouldn’t waste much energy melting down with your ideas, they don’t impress me nor should anyone spend more then a second of their time responding. Good luck to you, and please please chill your ego, you have as much importance in life as the next man or woman on the bus you take, not much and like all men you’ll be forgotten a week after your passing by all who came across in you life , giving you a view of the value you hold. If your of Christ you have value, if not within this conversation your and outsider and have no room to comment on people of faith.

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    • wash1776
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 5:13pm

      @BECKISNUTS: Funny how your labels for me and others fits you so well.

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    • ringostore
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 6:22pm

      BECKISNUTS is a very lonely man. No hope and way too much time in his basement. Whenever trolls come on here A LOT, it is usually some guy who has never kissed a girl.

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    • Jsh1284
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:20pm

      Beckisnuts, why are you far leftists so sniveling and weaselly? Furthermore, why do all of you detest anyone who disagrees with your own skewed point of view? You “people” talk of tolerance, equality, etc however it only applies when folks agree with you. I see this all the time! WE are ignorant, WE are hateful, WE are angry, WE are this WE are that .. why? Because we don’t agree with liberal/progressive/socialist views. It’s hilarious! You come in here and ask Disciple why us Beck supporters get so angry when people come with different viewpoints .. however the thing is most of us read about what the other side is doing MUCH more often than you libs do.

      You folks wouldn’t turn off the Huffpo or MSNBC if your lives depended on it. The only reason you are HERE is to troll stories. I doubt you even READ the stories, to be even more blunt! The fact is we don’t get angry when folks come and state their opinions (even if they are different) .. what we DO get angry about is when little ****** like you come over here and get sassy and start being obtuse simply because you know we have a different point of view. Therefore, you try to get us riled up because you KNOW we will defend ourselves!

      You folks are a bunch of godless, statist, hypocrites. I don’t expect a reply.

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:30pm

      Why do even the first one of you bother to waste the first micro-byte on people like Beckisnuts and ABC? They are clearly the sheeple of the left, mere followers of their self anointed leaders. They are simple folk who have never had an original thought yet went through school doing, saying and dressing like their hippy trends so they could claim to be “individuals” and “of revolutionary thought.“ They are the clay Cloward and Piven use to make the bricks of their ”ivory towers of enlightenment” and the walls for their own concentration camps. They are squigly light bulbs that Van Jones turns on and off with a clap of his hands like the clapper.

      Friends, rather than spend a moment trying to educate a mindless robot, spend time building your faith in America and fight back with knowledge and truth. Join together daily and pledge, “With a firm reliance on the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge our Lives, or Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.”

      They have no honor and nothing to them is sacred which guarantees our victory!

      JD Carp  
    • Jsh1284
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:47pm

      JD, I do it because none of the regressives here ever reply to logical arguments. They only have enough ammunition to be dangerous when they post their propaganda. These peons aren’t smart enough to debate facts and logic. I will continue to challenge them until one of them actually replies with something logical.

      I post about the ridiculous scientific and mathematical odds of a RANDOM creation. No response. Why? Because they have no answer for it. They believe in something ridiculously impossible. The reason? They don’t want to believe in something ridiculous and impossible.

      I post about the hypocrisy of the left and point out the obvious weakness and flaws in their arguments. No response. Why? They can’t defend themselves using logic or facts.

      These folks recite the same nonsense over and over. It come from their secret liberal play book. It’s complete with ten whole pages of liberal propaganda.

      What do I say when someone says this? “A) Run Away. B) Blame Bush C) Say something hateful and derogatory. Maybe make a joke about how stupid they are for having belief in God. OR simply take their words out of context and spin it into something you can use.”

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    • Pericles
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:54am

      This is so ridiculous. This is nothing more than lame dramatic rhetoric. So now it is going to take 12 months to “fundamentally transform” our country. What happened to doing it in 40 days? Wait it almost sounds like Beck is just stringing you puppets along. We don’t need some gimmicky E4 crap. We only need to look to the Golden Rule, you know that concept Christ taught. That is it. We don’t need 40 days, we don’t need E4, we don’t need the 7; we only need compassion

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    • Deuteronomy22
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 1:30am

      Jsh1284
      Posted on January 4, 2011 at 11:47pm
      JD, I do it because none of the regressives here ever reply to logical arguments. They only have enough ammunition to be dangerous when they post their propaganda. These peons aren’t smart enough to debate facts and logic. I will continue to challenge them until one of them actually replies with something logical.

      I post about the ridiculous scientific and mathematical odds of a RANDOM creation. No response. Why? Because they have no answer for it. They believe in something ridiculously impossible. The reason? They don’t want to believe in something ridiculous and impossible.—————————————————–Here’s my response. The existance of God is based purely on faith and most of the faithful recieve their information about the beigining of the universe from books , The Bible, Torah, Koran, etc, that are thousands of years old. Where as those who believe otherwise choose to believe years and years of scientific study, observation and experimentation conducted by the most brilliant minds on the planet. As far as statistiacl odds in an infinite universe odds of 1:1 vs1:1,000,000,000,000,000 are statistically irrelevent. I have no clue where all of this stuff of existance came from or of it’s begining. Quantum physics studies this and it is out of my level of understanding but rather than choosing a magical creator based on 2000 year old folk lore which I fiind immpossible to believe I simply admit I don’t know how things came about. Heck maybe ther was a vreator but not the mythical God that promises salvation. I’m of the belief that when you die that is the end.
      So you may say things like the progressives post nothing thoughtful and troll but ABC spent a lot of time trying to write some thoughtful things with a resultant wave of scorn from the Beckites.
      What will really be funny is when progressives who read these replies satrt posting more and more. I think I’ll hype this idea at Huffington Post. I’d like to actually see some real debate about our totally opposite world views. Jsh1284 I salute you for your replies. I will debate “fact” or ideology anytime.

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    • Lantern
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 1:43am

      Mr. Beck, I am here in Washington DC attending my brother-in-law’s swearing ceremony as a congressman from Ohio. Speaker Boehner is going to have him and the other members of Ohio walk with him as the new people get sworn in. I am hoping this is just a first step of change in our government. Maybe that first step will start to change people’s perceptions of the Republicans and find that they really are the good guys here. Hopefully, they will stick to their pledge to America and start the Obama HC repeal process.

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    • GBMBulletsSKNRD
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 3:01am

      Dear Mr. Beck, or may I call you Glenn?

      You are just a man.

      One amazing man!

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    • suttonea76
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 8:36am

      @Tony Darrington –
      So true about the major distinction between “socialism” and the GI Bill. ABC doesn’t understand that when you invest in your country to provide freedom, the military will invest in you to provide you a easier path to education. The government consistently sets up grants and handouts to those who DON’T invest in our country but still reap the rewards regardless. It’s like calling the 401k plans we have subsidies because we put little in and get more out. Yes, I know that 401k’s are private but the same argument could be made for that also. On average our servicemembers make vastly less in their first 2 tours/terms (up to 8 years) than that of their counterparts in the civilian world. This also falls under our DOD budget which is rightfully large to preserve our freedoms. Try asking ABC why Clinton closed dozens of bases to meet his fiscal challenge of balancing the budget for one year of his 8 years in office…reaching at straws for credibility there dontcha think? I served through those years and saw a rapid decline in our force which set us up for 9/11 regardless of what you believe. The false sense of security was exploited by terrorists because Clinton wanted to idiotic utopia of peace that will never exist and has never existed. Also ask ABC why we have a system where people freely join our military without the need of a draft for the last 40+ years. After 9/11, people joined the military by the tens of thousands to fight against the enemy and did so on their own accord. Conservatives don’t need to provide a system that works as it was already in place, while liberals complain about the system with no fix to transition to. Again, the ones that complain the most are the ones that do the least.

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    • diannalynn1
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 10:58am

      Dude ,,, get a life! You know ,,,,one that YOU work hard for and EARN,,,,not someone elses!
      YOU WILL BE DEFEATED,,,,,,GOOD ALWAYS PREVAILS!,,,,,remember that.Always.

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:46am

      I liked it when he unplugged the famed red phone. We have to move forward but just exhorting people to claim values they have never practiced will not do it. These values each and everyone of them come with real challenges for those who practice them. Standing on ones principals come with a cost esp in todays society that only pays lip service to values. I like the stand and direction he is taking, but turning around this ship of State must be done through fire at this point. Unfortunately that is the ebb and flow of all civilizations including our own. We lost the cultural revolution of the sixties what is the impetus for people to turn around now? Is it because they might lose their money, standard of living. Please. People will go on living the high life to the last minute. Our mindset is beyond the judeo-christian values that made this country. We are so far from that today that people esp ypoug believe believe that if you don‘t have superhuman powers you ain’t nothing and that dogs really can talk and fish do believe global warming is real.

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    • JD Carp
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 11:49am

      JSH, Deuteronomy & others: I understand your passion for America and The Constitution but you are wasting so much energy on the mentally constipated. The only laxative that will work on their frontal lobes is our continued efforts and our eventual success as custodians of the America forged by our forefathers. Look forward, study the past, remember our history and make sure we don’t let this happen again.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 12:14pm

      ISNUTS and butcher, I am praying very hard for you two boys, Jesus loves you too.

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    • Jabber
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 2:07pm

      Logic lesson-
      Posters like Beckisnuts, ABC, and forestnomad propose that X, Y and Z are all human behaviors that intelligent, sensitive people agree are stupid, wrong, inflammatory, bad etc. and that anyone who acts in those ways should not be agreed with or given any credibility.

      They also propose that because THEY believe that Glenn Beck has done X, Y, and Z he therefore should not be agreed with or given any credibility.

      Then without fail, for at least 11 pages so far, they openly and observably engage in X, Y and Z- which if their initial proposals were TRUE, makes it therefore completely irrational and illogical to agree with them or give them any credibility.

      And yet somehow we’re the blind ones….you gotta love it.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:23pm

      For a number of days in December, I was very critical of Glenn Beck. I put a spotlight on his fear mongering, his agitating, his paranoia about grand conspiracies and his claims about an impending end of the world and collapse of our nation, among other things.

      Now we have the “new and improved” Glenn Beck. Glenn is now espousing his new doctrine of the “Four E’s.” He even disconnected his red White House hotline phone, which was a failed and transparent attempt at elevating his own importance.

      This all begs the question: if I was so wrong about Beck and his tactics, why did he suddenly discard them like a pair of filthy old farm boots? Glenn’s abrupt “Fundamental Transformation” is certainly very interesting.

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    • 338lapua
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:45pm

      Missionarydad Daniel:2

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 5:57pm

      Yes Pov.Suks … Thank you Mr. Beck for making us aware of who really makes the problems !

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/4252802456/in/photostream/

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    • Jabber
      Posted on January 5, 2011 at 7:38pm

      To Becky’s nuts-

      That you see and equate Glenn‘s change in course of action with Glenn actually changing his mind about what is wrong with this country only proves you don’t really listen to Glenn Beck at all.

      He’s done being the “bell ringer” because the time for warnings is over. He’s moving on into the action phase, and we’re all thrilled that he is. You probably won’t be for long. But it will be fun to watch you deal with it.

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    • mercylover
      Posted on January 7, 2011 at 12:31am

      Amen Glenn

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