Government wants your 401(k)
Hearings set on plan to require Treasuries in 'automatic IRA'
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Posted: August 26, 2010
11:03 pm Eastern
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2010 WorldNetDaily
The Obama administration appears to be proceeding with a novel way of financing trillion-dollar budget deficits by forcing IRA and 401(k) holders to buy Treasury bonds by mandating the placement of government-structured annuities in their investment accounts.
The requirement to invest private retirement assets has been cleverly buried within plans to create "automatic IRAs" that would mandate employer groups enroll all employees in 401(k) or IRA plans.
The U.S. Department of Labor released yesterday an agenda for an upcoming joint hearing with the Department of the Treasury scheduled for Sept. 14 and 15 on whether government life-time annuity options funded by U.S. Treasury debt should be required for private retirement accounts, including IRAs and 401(k) plans.
WND reported in January that Assistant Labor Secretary Phyllis C. Borzi and Deputy Assistant Treasury Secretary Mark Iwry are planning to stage a public comment period before implementing regulations that would require private investors to structure IRA and 401(k) accounts into what could amount to a U.S. Treasury debt-backed government annuity.
In a 2010 budget blueprint unveiled Feb. 26, President Obama proposed that employers sponsoring 401(k) plans or other defined contribution plans should be required to offer automatic enrollment in these plans, or in direct-deposit IRAs, as steps that would change the nation's voluntary retirement plan into a government-mandated nationalized program.
With the Treasury needing to sell another $1.4 to $1.5 trillion in government debt to finance the anticipated fiscal year 2010 federal budget deficit, the Obama administration is obviously scrambling to find ways to sell government debt without having to raise interest rates.
Under ERISA, the Department of Labor regulates approximately 700,000 private pension plans, with approximately $4.7 trillion in assets.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Death Threats Force FreedomWorks to Move
Death Threats Force FreedomWorks to Move
Thursday, 26 Aug 2010 03:45 PM Article Font Size
By: David A. Patten
The grass-roots conservative FreedomWorks organization has received so many death threats in the run-up to the midterm elections that the organization is moving its headquarters.
"Yes, it's constant, and we are going to have to move up to Capitol Hill," FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon tells Newsmax.
The threats are coming in via phone and e-mail, and have escalated to the point that the organization has decided it must move into a high-security building near the Capitol building.
Editor's Note: See the Newsmax interview with Dick Armey below.
Many of the threats are said to involve high-profile FreedomWorks Chairman and former Rep. Dick Armey, who has become a de facto spokesman for the tea party movement.
Sources tell Newsmax some threats are veiled, while others are explicit. Many are profanity-laced telephone calls, and some imply the use of weapons
"It's not like we think there's an imminent threat coming tomorrow," Brandon tells Newsmax. "It's that it just doesn't stop, and we're concerned that somebody someday is going to have a screw loose."
FreedomWorks officials expect the intensity of the threats to increase as the November elections draw near. But the organization, which has played a central role in nurturing the various tea party organizations, is putting off its move until after the elections to avoid any disruption of its activities.
In addition to moving to a more secure building, Brandon says the organization also may hire additional security guards.
Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report's Washington Whispers blog reports some calls the group has received even target conservative radio hosts.
One recorded message stated "we are going to destroy and obliterate Rush [Limbaugh] and Sean Hannity," said another. "Those two guys are dead."
Brandon comments: "We've all kind of just gotten used to it to an extent. You just let it go to voicemail and then you move on."
Thursday, 26 Aug 2010 03:45 PM Article Font Size
By: David A. Patten
The grass-roots conservative FreedomWorks organization has received so many death threats in the run-up to the midterm elections that the organization is moving its headquarters.
"Yes, it's constant, and we are going to have to move up to Capitol Hill," FreedomWorks spokesman Adam Brandon tells Newsmax.
The threats are coming in via phone and e-mail, and have escalated to the point that the organization has decided it must move into a high-security building near the Capitol building.
Editor's Note: See the Newsmax interview with Dick Armey below.
Many of the threats are said to involve high-profile FreedomWorks Chairman and former Rep. Dick Armey, who has become a de facto spokesman for the tea party movement.
Sources tell Newsmax some threats are veiled, while others are explicit. Many are profanity-laced telephone calls, and some imply the use of weapons
"It's not like we think there's an imminent threat coming tomorrow," Brandon tells Newsmax. "It's that it just doesn't stop, and we're concerned that somebody someday is going to have a screw loose."
FreedomWorks officials expect the intensity of the threats to increase as the November elections draw near. But the organization, which has played a central role in nurturing the various tea party organizations, is putting off its move until after the elections to avoid any disruption of its activities.
In addition to moving to a more secure building, Brandon says the organization also may hire additional security guards.
Paul Bedard of U.S. News & World Report's Washington Whispers blog reports some calls the group has received even target conservative radio hosts.
One recorded message stated "we are going to destroy and obliterate Rush [Limbaugh] and Sean Hannity," said another. "Those two guys are dead."
Brandon comments: "We've all kind of just gotten used to it to an extent. You just let it go to voicemail and then you move on."
STOP this outrageous bullying.Attorney General Eric
Liberty Counsel
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
8/26/2010
I have a shocking story to share with you about
how the Obama administration is now turning its
intimidation tactics directly against ordinary
citizens like you and me. Please see below and
take action with us to STOP this outrageous
bullying. - Mat.
Paul,
I just directed our Liberty Counsel defense team to represent
a pro-life American who is one of the latest targets of the
Obama Justice Department's Chicago-style intimidation.
Here's what happened...
For the past 20 years, Mary Susan Pine has counseled women
about the physical and emotional tragedies of abortion. She
counsels from her own personal experience. Pine never
obstructs anyone and denies she has ever hindered any
vehicle from having access to a "clinic" at which she
is demonstrating.
In most respects, Mary is just like you and me. She represents
tens of millions of pro-life Americans who respond courageously
and compassionately to the tragedy of abortion.
Now, Mary is facing the full force of the
United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
In a politically motivated case, Attorney General Eric
Holder has filed suit against Mary. Actually, Mary's case
appears to be part of a "crackdown" on pro-life demonstrators
promised to pro-abortion groups after Kansas late-term
abortionist George Tiller was killed in 2009. Using the
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) for cover,
Holder alleges that Pine "obstructed" a car entering a
Florida abortion clinic nearly a year ago, on November
19, 2009.
Holder's suit alleges that Pine poses an immediate threat
and therefore must be fined the maximum penalty of $10,000.
But it doesn't add up: If Mary's alleged offense is so
egregious that it must be immediately and severely dealt
with, why wait for over nine months to file a complaint?
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
8/26/2010
I have a shocking story to share with you about
how the Obama administration is now turning its
intimidation tactics directly against ordinary
citizens like you and me. Please see below and
take action with us to STOP this outrageous
bullying. - Mat.
Paul,
I just directed our Liberty Counsel defense team to represent
a pro-life American who is one of the latest targets of the
Obama Justice Department's Chicago-style intimidation.
Here's what happened...
For the past 20 years, Mary Susan Pine has counseled women
about the physical and emotional tragedies of abortion. She
counsels from her own personal experience. Pine never
obstructs anyone and denies she has ever hindered any
vehicle from having access to a "clinic" at which she
is demonstrating.
In most respects, Mary is just like you and me. She represents
tens of millions of pro-life Americans who respond courageously
and compassionately to the tragedy of abortion.
Now, Mary is facing the full force of the
United States Department of Justice (DOJ).
In a politically motivated case, Attorney General Eric
Holder has filed suit against Mary. Actually, Mary's case
appears to be part of a "crackdown" on pro-life demonstrators
promised to pro-abortion groups after Kansas late-term
abortionist George Tiller was killed in 2009. Using the
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) for cover,
Holder alleges that Pine "obstructed" a car entering a
Florida abortion clinic nearly a year ago, on November
19, 2009.
Holder's suit alleges that Pine poses an immediate threat
and therefore must be fined the maximum penalty of $10,000.
But it doesn't add up: If Mary's alleged offense is so
egregious that it must be immediately and severely dealt
with, why wait for over nine months to file a complaint?
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Islam is a religion of Hatred to all but thier own. Only Religion that requires it governs absolutely and tyrantically! Sharia!
Put this in our history books instead of thwe glorification of Islam!!!
Did everyone forget that they told Hitler he was not exterminating Jews ...fast enough..they would help!
By RASOOL DAWAR, Associated Press Writer Rasool Dawar, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 26, 4:48 pm ET
MIR ALI, Pakistan – The Taliban hinted Thursday they may launch attacks against foreigners helping Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the country's history, saying their presence was "unacceptable." The U.N. said it would not be deterred by violent threats.
The militant group has attacked aid workers in the country before, and an outbreak of violence could complicate a relief effort that has already struggled to reach the 8 million people who are in need of emergency assistance.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq claimed the U.S. and other countries that have pledged support are not really focused on providing aid to flood victims but had other motives he did not specify.
"Behind the scenes they have certain intentions, but on the face they are talking of relief and help," Tariq told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location. "No relief is reaching the affected people, and when the victims are not receiving help, then this horde of foreigners is not acceptable to us at all."
He strongly hinted that the militants could resort to violence, saying "when we say something is unacceptable to us, one can draw one's own conclusion."
U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said the U.N. remained committed to helping flood victims in Pakistan.
Did everyone forget that they told Hitler he was not exterminating Jews ...fast enough..they would help!
By RASOOL DAWAR, Associated Press Writer Rasool Dawar, Associated Press Writer – Thu Aug 26, 4:48 pm ET
MIR ALI, Pakistan – The Taliban hinted Thursday they may launch attacks against foreigners helping Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the country's history, saying their presence was "unacceptable." The U.N. said it would not be deterred by violent threats.
The militant group has attacked aid workers in the country before, and an outbreak of violence could complicate a relief effort that has already struggled to reach the 8 million people who are in need of emergency assistance.
Pakistani Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq claimed the U.S. and other countries that have pledged support are not really focused on providing aid to flood victims but had other motives he did not specify.
"Behind the scenes they have certain intentions, but on the face they are talking of relief and help," Tariq told The Associated Press by telephone from an undisclosed location. "No relief is reaching the affected people, and when the victims are not receiving help, then this horde of foreigners is not acceptable to us at all."
He strongly hinted that the militants could resort to violence, saying "when we say something is unacceptable to us, one can draw one's own conclusion."
U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said the U.N. remained committed to helping flood victims in Pakistan.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Subj: Obama's classmate on Obama - Overwhelm the system
Subj: Obama's classmate on Obama - Overwhelm the system
In case you haven't figured out what's happening, here's a wrap-up of the program:
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Overwhelm the system
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT
Barach Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Obama is my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.
In case you haven't figured out what's happening, here's a wrap-up of the program:
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT: Overwhelm the system
WAYNE ALLYN ROOT
Barach Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within.
Barack Obama is my college classmate ( Columbia University , class of '83). As Glenn Beck correctly predicted from day one, Obama is following the plan of Cloward & Piven, two professors at Columbia University . They outlined a plan to socialize America by overwhelming the system with government spending and entitlement demands. Add up the clues below. Taken individually they're alarming. Taken as a whole, it is a brilliant, Machiavellian game plan to turn the United States into a socialist/Marxist state with a permanent majority that desperately needs government for survival ... and can be counted on to always vote for bigger government. Why not? They have no responsibility to pay for it.
-- Universal health care. The health care bill had very little to do with health care. It had everything to do with unionizing millions of hospital and health care workers, as well as adding 15,000 to 20,000 new IRS agents (who will join government employee unions). Obama doesn't care that giving free health care to 30 million Americans will add trillions to the national debt. What he does care about is that it cements the dependence of those 30 million voters to Democrats and big government. Who but a socialist revolutionary would pass this reckless spending bill in the middle of a depression?
-- Cap and trade. Like health care legislation having nothing to do with health care, cap and trade has nothing to do with global warming. It has everything to do with redistribution of income, government control of the economy and a criminal payoff to Obama's biggest contributors. Those powerful and wealthy unions and contributors (like GE, which owns NBC, MSNBC and CNBC) can then be counted on to support everything Obama wants. They will kick-back hundreds of millions of dollars in contributions to Obama and the Democratic Party to keep them in power. The bonus is that all the new taxes on Americans with bigger cars, bigger homes and businesses helps Obama "spread the wealth around."
-- Make Puerto Rico a state. Why? Who's asking for a 51st state? Who's asking for millions of new welfare recipients and government entitlement addicts in the middle of a depression? Certainly not American taxpayers. But this has been Obama's plan all along. His goal is to add two new Democrat senators, five Democrat congressman and a million loyal Democratic voters who are dependent on big government.
-- Legalize 12 million illegal immigrants. Just giving these 12 million potential new citizens free health care alone could overwhelm the system and bankrupt America . But it adds 12 million reliable new Democrat voters who can be counted on to support big government. Add another few trillion dollars in welfare, aid to dependent children, food stamps, free medical, education, tax credits for the poor, and eventually Social Security.
-- Stimulus and bailouts. Where did all that money go? It went to Democrat contributors, organizations (ACORN), and unions -- including billions of dollars to save or create jobs of government employees across the country. It went to save GM and Chrysler so that their employees could keep paying union dues. It went to AIG so that Goldman Sachs could be bailed out (after giving Obama almost $1 million in contributions). A staggering $125 billion went to teachers (thereby protecting their union dues). All those public employees will vote loyally Democrat to protect their bloated salaries and pensions that are bankrupting America . The country goes broke, future generations face a bleak future, but Obama, the Democrat Party, government, and the unions grow more powerful. The ends justify the means.
-- Raise taxes on small business owners, high-income earners, and job creators. Put the entire burden on only the top 20 percent of taxpayers, redistribute the income, punish success, and reward those who did nothing to deserve it (except vote for Obama). Reagan wanted to dramatically cut taxes in order to starve the government. Obama wants to dramatically raise taxes to starve his political opposition.
With the acts outlined above, Obama and his regime have created a vast and rapidly expanding constituency of voters dependent on big government; a vast privileged class of public employees who work for big government; and a government dedicated to destroying capitalism and installing themselves as socialist rulers by overwhelming the system.
Add it up and you've got the perfect Marxist scheme -- all devised by my Columbia University college classmate Barack Obama using the Cloward and Piven Plan.
Thursday, August 19, 2010
planned mosque near New York’s ground zero on Wednesday refused to rule out using funds from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran
Ground Zero Mosque Developers Refuse to Rule Out Using Funds From Iran and Ahmadinejad
Thursday, 19 Aug 2010 10:18 AM Article Font Size
By: Jim Meyers
The developers of the planned mosque near New York’s ground zero on Wednesday refused to rule out using funds from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran to build the $100 million project.
Mosque spokesman Oz Sultan was asked specifically whether the project’s fundraising would include Iran and Saudi Arabia.
“I can’t comment on that,” was Sultan’s “not-ruling-it-out” reply, the New York Post reported. “We’ll look at all available options within the United States to start.”
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the Park51 mosque project planned for a site two blocks from ground zero, has told officials he would raise money for the mosque and community center from local Muslims, foundations and the sale of bonds.
But earlier this year he admitted to a London-based Arab newspaper that his fundraising would also extend to Muslim nations around the world. Rauf is now touring the Middle East on behalf of the State Department.
The Post observed: “The possibility of tapping the radical rogue Islamic state of Iran for funds comes as the United States just last month stepped up sanctions on the regime in retaliation for its support of terrorism and what is feared to be an illegal nuclear weapons development program.”
Meanwhile a Siena Research Institute poll released on Wednesday showed that 63 percent of New York State voters now oppose construction of the mosque near ground zero, up from 61 percent two weeks ago.
And a Time magazine survey found that 61 percent of Americans oppose the mosque, with 44 percent agreeing that the project would “be an insult to those who died” in the 9/11 attacks.
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Thursday, 19 Aug 2010 10:18 AM Article Font Size
By: Jim Meyers
The developers of the planned mosque near New York’s ground zero on Wednesday refused to rule out using funds from Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Iran to build the $100 million project.
Mosque spokesman Oz Sultan was asked specifically whether the project’s fundraising would include Iran and Saudi Arabia.
“I can’t comment on that,” was Sultan’s “not-ruling-it-out” reply, the New York Post reported. “We’ll look at all available options within the United States to start.”
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader of the Park51 mosque project planned for a site two blocks from ground zero, has told officials he would raise money for the mosque and community center from local Muslims, foundations and the sale of bonds.
But earlier this year he admitted to a London-based Arab newspaper that his fundraising would also extend to Muslim nations around the world. Rauf is now touring the Middle East on behalf of the State Department.
The Post observed: “The possibility of tapping the radical rogue Islamic state of Iran for funds comes as the United States just last month stepped up sanctions on the regime in retaliation for its support of terrorism and what is feared to be an illegal nuclear weapons development program.”
Meanwhile a Siena Research Institute poll released on Wednesday showed that 63 percent of New York State voters now oppose construction of the mosque near ground zero, up from 61 percent two weeks ago.
And a Time magazine survey found that 61 percent of Americans oppose the mosque, with 44 percent agreeing that the project would “be an insult to those who died” in the 9/11 attacks.
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Friday, August 6, 2010
'Glenn Beck': Stand Up, America
'Glenn Beck': Stand Up, America
Friday, August 06, 2010
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How far we have fallen...
This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," August 5, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GLENN BECK, HOST: You know, I'm just sitting here, looking at something — because I ran so late — look at this. This is from the Democratic Socialists of America, all these people involved with the DSA.
Just look at this. Where's camera 3 — there it is. Look at this: "The alternative to capitalism is Democratic socialism." Is that the change you were hoping for, America?
I want to have a conversation with you here. Gosh, I don't know why people watch this show. This is the weirdest show in history, but it's just you and me.
I've been getting mail from people telling me they are afraid to come to 8/28 because they're hearing, you know, there's going to be trouble with the Black Panthers there or whatever. I get it. That's what they wanted.
You know, one of the reasons we started the 9/12 Project? Is so people can come together and overcome their fears and they could stand on principles.
I went back and I looked at the 9/12 mission statement. Ask yourself these questions:
Do you watch the direction of America has been taking and feel powerless to stop it?
Do you believe your voice isn't loud enough to be heard over the noise anymore?
Do you read the headlines every day and feel an empty pit in your stomach as if you're alone and you're seeing your neighbor's house burn down and there is nothing you can do?
Add fear to those three questions. Are you afraid? Do not be. There will be so many others like you on 8/28 or wherever you are going to go and join, all joined in a common bond, with a common pledge to take a peaceful stand for their country.
This is the time to stand. Edmund Burke said, "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fail, one by one."
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Fear is the way they get you to do nothing. It's a tool. They terrorize you. They call you names.
Many of these people are nothing more than terrorists — economic terrorists, free speech terrorists, religious terrorists, racial terrorists. They are attempting to silence you through terror.
They haven't gone through a flight school or strapped bombs to their chests or anything like that, but they are terrorists just the same. I have no problem with them — I have no problem with this. You think this is the answer? Good. Let's debate that. But they — they won't actually come out and tell you the truth. You don't have to put up with it any longer.
You surround them. Stand up peacefully. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your rights. Stand up for your way of life. Stand up for liberty.
Martin Luther King knew one thing — if you — if you want to succeed you must have faith in the American people. Because when you put hatred and violence and fear side by side with faith and determination, people become as strong as the mountains. And you put those two things side by side and the American people will always pick this — always, every time.
I know it's tough. I know it's tough to stand up in the union halls to your union leaders. You're not the bad guy here. You're in the union. You know — I know you. You don't condone the strong-arm tactics. You don't condone them giving all their money to these — to these politicians, left or right. You do not agree with the beat downs that they're administering, like the one in St. Louis.
Stand up like they did in Missouri to the politicians. Continue to do it and if they don't listen to you, do it again. You stand up and you talk, even if no one will listen. You talk to your family and friends. You get down on your knees, most importantly, and you pray. You beg forgiveness for our country. You beg forgiveness. You beg for understanding. You beg for inspiration. You beg for protection on our president, on our Congress, on our land.
And then you reach out and lock arms with fellow Americans. You are not going to agree with people on everything. You are not supposed to.
The progressives are going to go crazy over this monologue. I don't care. They will scream and whine about me calling them terrorists, despite the fact that they do it to you and me on a daily basis.
They'll scream that there is nothing wrong with what Congress has done or what the president and administration has done so far. Well, let's see.
In America I don't think we take over the auto industry. We don't take over health care. We listen to the people.
They've taken over the banks and other institutions. They've completely changed the way money flows through the system and you don't know it yet or your neighbors probably don't.
They have given themselves the ability to seize any institution they deem a threat. Meanwhile, exempting the government-sponsored entities most responsible for the mortgage meltdown — Fannie and Freddie — don't even look there.
They have taken control of the student loans.
They have, through regulation, not legislation, set up a system to take control of energy in our homes.
They are circulating memos in the administration that would effectively grant amnesty to illegals, again, without Congress.
They have radically altered our relationships with our strongest allies, our longest allies, our only allies.
They have, as promised, fundamentally transformed our country.
We do not need to transform. All we need to do is restore our principles.
And I don't care what Washington does. I no longer care what they say. I know the truth. Two plus two equals four.
Will you promise yourself and your family that you will never answer five or six or two? Will you?
Back in a minute.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BECK: I'm asking those of you who have not stood yet to stand. We do not need to transform. We need to restore principles.
I found something that we're going to share on tomorrow night's show and I want to show it to you now. It's from an Air Force training manual from 1954 — I'll show you the actual manual tomorrow night:
"The idea uppermost in the minds of men who founded the United States was that each and every human being was important. They were convinced that the importance of the individual did not come from any grant of the state, that the importance of the individual did not come from any position that he had achieved nor from any power he had acquired nor from any wealth he had amassed.
"They knew that the importance of man came from the very source of his life. Because man was made in the image and likeness of God, he had a destiny to achieve. And because he had a destiny to achieve, he had the inalienable right and the inherent freedom to achieve it."
That was in our Air Force manual in 1954. How far we have fallen.
Look, I don't know what your destiny is. I don't know. Maybe you are supposed to achieve it while you are poor or rich — that is meaningless stuff. But you are here for a reason and it isn't to sit on the sidelines and it isn't to get violent.
We've been transformed. When we talk about taking our country back from the left yells: Oh, from a black man? I could care less what color he is. Content of character. It's not even worthy of a response anymore.
We're not taking the country back from Barack Obama. I was saying these things under George W. Bush. I couldn't care less.
We are taking it back from the transformers, the progressives who have been slowly but surely redirecting our path for 100 years. Obama is just the latest in a long line — maybe the boldest.
Do you realize that you are living in historic times? Do you realize that? Do you realize your children and grandchildren will ask about this time? The time to sit on the couch and to do nothing and watch "America Idol" has passed.
So now what? What do you do? What do you do? I'll help you with that. I want to show you something that sits in my office now that I look at every day, next.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BECK: A couple months ago, when the flotilla was going on, I spoke about the defense of Israel and the defense of Jews having the right to live. And I did two shows on it and pretty alone and got a lot of heat.
But somebody — he was writing on a biography of a guy name Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I've never heard of him. He is a hero on the left. But they look at his politics; I look at his character.
This guy — he sent me a box and I opened it up. It now sits in my office. And I brought it into the studio because I want you to see it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer — you need to read about this guy. He was unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.
He was a Lutheran minister in Germany. And in 1933, he was on the radio when Hitler took office and seized power. And he said, this is wrong. There is something wrong here. And they shut him off. They took the radio station off the air before the end of hour.
He lasted almost until the end of war. It didn't end well for him.
He was one of the first people to say — stand up. He tried to get preachers to gather together and put their differences aside and stand up with the Jews. We have to.
During that two-day period when I was talking about the Israeli flotilla, I told you then that you're not going to be held guiltless if you don't stand up. And I said, you know, people think that they can stay silent and then they're not involved, but their silence is speech.
I got this two days later:
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
I look at this every single day. We are teaching our children. We are teaching — every time you watch this show and you are screaming at the TV, "he's right!" but then, you don't do anything.
Every time you say — you come home — you think your kids aren't listening and you talk about the union bosses you work for and you say, "This is wrong." But you just keep the job because you need the money.
Look, I understand. I understand. I understand. But it's the next generation that is going to redeem us. What are we teaching our kids? What are we doing?
It comes back again to 8/28. Don't teach your children that you are powerless. You were born at this time for a reason. Your kids have been born at this time for a reason. Show them what that reason is.
Stand up. Come and join me, arm in arm, the steps of Lincoln Memorial, 8/28. Leave your signs at home. Bring your children.
Friday, August 06, 2010
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This is a rush transcript from "Glenn Beck," August 5, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
GLENN BECK, HOST: You know, I'm just sitting here, looking at something — because I ran so late — look at this. This is from the Democratic Socialists of America, all these people involved with the DSA.
Just look at this. Where's camera 3 — there it is. Look at this: "The alternative to capitalism is Democratic socialism." Is that the change you were hoping for, America?
I want to have a conversation with you here. Gosh, I don't know why people watch this show. This is the weirdest show in history, but it's just you and me.
I've been getting mail from people telling me they are afraid to come to 8/28 because they're hearing, you know, there's going to be trouble with the Black Panthers there or whatever. I get it. That's what they wanted.
You know, one of the reasons we started the 9/12 Project? Is so people can come together and overcome their fears and they could stand on principles.
I went back and I looked at the 9/12 mission statement. Ask yourself these questions:
Do you watch the direction of America has been taking and feel powerless to stop it?
Do you believe your voice isn't loud enough to be heard over the noise anymore?
Do you read the headlines every day and feel an empty pit in your stomach as if you're alone and you're seeing your neighbor's house burn down and there is nothing you can do?
Add fear to those three questions. Are you afraid? Do not be. There will be so many others like you on 8/28 or wherever you are going to go and join, all joined in a common bond, with a common pledge to take a peaceful stand for their country.
This is the time to stand. Edmund Burke said, "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fail, one by one."
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Fear is the way they get you to do nothing. It's a tool. They terrorize you. They call you names.
Many of these people are nothing more than terrorists — economic terrorists, free speech terrorists, religious terrorists, racial terrorists. They are attempting to silence you through terror.
They haven't gone through a flight school or strapped bombs to their chests or anything like that, but they are terrorists just the same. I have no problem with them — I have no problem with this. You think this is the answer? Good. Let's debate that. But they — they won't actually come out and tell you the truth. You don't have to put up with it any longer.
You surround them. Stand up peacefully. Stand up for yourself. Stand up for your rights. Stand up for your way of life. Stand up for liberty.
Martin Luther King knew one thing — if you — if you want to succeed you must have faith in the American people. Because when you put hatred and violence and fear side by side with faith and determination, people become as strong as the mountains. And you put those two things side by side and the American people will always pick this — always, every time.
I know it's tough. I know it's tough to stand up in the union halls to your union leaders. You're not the bad guy here. You're in the union. You know — I know you. You don't condone the strong-arm tactics. You don't condone them giving all their money to these — to these politicians, left or right. You do not agree with the beat downs that they're administering, like the one in St. Louis.
Stand up like they did in Missouri to the politicians. Continue to do it and if they don't listen to you, do it again. You stand up and you talk, even if no one will listen. You talk to your family and friends. You get down on your knees, most importantly, and you pray. You beg forgiveness for our country. You beg forgiveness. You beg for understanding. You beg for inspiration. You beg for protection on our president, on our Congress, on our land.
And then you reach out and lock arms with fellow Americans. You are not going to agree with people on everything. You are not supposed to.
The progressives are going to go crazy over this monologue. I don't care. They will scream and whine about me calling them terrorists, despite the fact that they do it to you and me on a daily basis.
They'll scream that there is nothing wrong with what Congress has done or what the president and administration has done so far. Well, let's see.
In America I don't think we take over the auto industry. We don't take over health care. We listen to the people.
They've taken over the banks and other institutions. They've completely changed the way money flows through the system and you don't know it yet or your neighbors probably don't.
They have given themselves the ability to seize any institution they deem a threat. Meanwhile, exempting the government-sponsored entities most responsible for the mortgage meltdown — Fannie and Freddie — don't even look there.
They have taken control of the student loans.
They have, through regulation, not legislation, set up a system to take control of energy in our homes.
They are circulating memos in the administration that would effectively grant amnesty to illegals, again, without Congress.
They have radically altered our relationships with our strongest allies, our longest allies, our only allies.
They have, as promised, fundamentally transformed our country.
We do not need to transform. All we need to do is restore our principles.
And I don't care what Washington does. I no longer care what they say. I know the truth. Two plus two equals four.
Will you promise yourself and your family that you will never answer five or six or two? Will you?
Back in a minute.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BECK: I'm asking those of you who have not stood yet to stand. We do not need to transform. We need to restore principles.
I found something that we're going to share on tomorrow night's show and I want to show it to you now. It's from an Air Force training manual from 1954 — I'll show you the actual manual tomorrow night:
"The idea uppermost in the minds of men who founded the United States was that each and every human being was important. They were convinced that the importance of the individual did not come from any grant of the state, that the importance of the individual did not come from any position that he had achieved nor from any power he had acquired nor from any wealth he had amassed.
"They knew that the importance of man came from the very source of his life. Because man was made in the image and likeness of God, he had a destiny to achieve. And because he had a destiny to achieve, he had the inalienable right and the inherent freedom to achieve it."
That was in our Air Force manual in 1954. How far we have fallen.
Look, I don't know what your destiny is. I don't know. Maybe you are supposed to achieve it while you are poor or rich — that is meaningless stuff. But you are here for a reason and it isn't to sit on the sidelines and it isn't to get violent.
We've been transformed. When we talk about taking our country back from the left yells: Oh, from a black man? I could care less what color he is. Content of character. It's not even worthy of a response anymore.
We're not taking the country back from Barack Obama. I was saying these things under George W. Bush. I couldn't care less.
We are taking it back from the transformers, the progressives who have been slowly but surely redirecting our path for 100 years. Obama is just the latest in a long line — maybe the boldest.
Do you realize that you are living in historic times? Do you realize that? Do you realize your children and grandchildren will ask about this time? The time to sit on the couch and to do nothing and watch "America Idol" has passed.
So now what? What do you do? What do you do? I'll help you with that. I want to show you something that sits in my office now that I look at every day, next.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
BECK: A couple months ago, when the flotilla was going on, I spoke about the defense of Israel and the defense of Jews having the right to live. And I did two shows on it and pretty alone and got a lot of heat.
But somebody — he was writing on a biography of a guy name Dietrich Bonhoeffer. I've never heard of him. He is a hero on the left. But they look at his politics; I look at his character.
This guy — he sent me a box and I opened it up. It now sits in my office. And I brought it into the studio because I want you to see it.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer — you need to read about this guy. He was unbelievable, absolutely unbelievable.
He was a Lutheran minister in Germany. And in 1933, he was on the radio when Hitler took office and seized power. And he said, this is wrong. There is something wrong here. And they shut him off. They took the radio station off the air before the end of hour.
He lasted almost until the end of war. It didn't end well for him.
He was one of the first people to say — stand up. He tried to get preachers to gather together and put their differences aside and stand up with the Jews. We have to.
During that two-day period when I was talking about the Israeli flotilla, I told you then that you're not going to be held guiltless if you don't stand up. And I said, you know, people think that they can stay silent and then they're not involved, but their silence is speech.
I got this two days later:
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."
I look at this every single day. We are teaching our children. We are teaching — every time you watch this show and you are screaming at the TV, "he's right!" but then, you don't do anything.
Every time you say — you come home — you think your kids aren't listening and you talk about the union bosses you work for and you say, "This is wrong." But you just keep the job because you need the money.
Look, I understand. I understand. I understand. But it's the next generation that is going to redeem us. What are we teaching our kids? What are we doing?
It comes back again to 8/28. Don't teach your children that you are powerless. You were born at this time for a reason. Your kids have been born at this time for a reason. Show them what that reason is.
Stand up. Come and join me, arm in arm, the steps of Lincoln Memorial, 8/28. Leave your signs at home. Bring your children.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
A Message to Conservatives & Tea Party Activists
From Lloyd Marcus of the Tea Party Express
If you've been watching the news media lately, you've no doubt seen the press stories where the NAACP has been attacking the tea party movement as racists. They've even tried to turn conservatives and tea party activists against each other.
It's something I saw coming from a mile away. When I wrote the "American Tea Party Anthem" I included the following line in the song:
"So when they call you a racist, because you disagree, it's just another of their dirty tricks, to silence you and me."
And guess what: it's not going to work, and we are NOT going to be silenced.
The fight for our country's future is so important, and there is so much work that needs to be done by each of us.
I got involved in this tea party movement as a proud American (not a hyphenated-American, just a regular American like you and every other proud patriot) because I love this nation and what it was founded on. There is no other country in the world that celebrates and empowers the freedom of the individual as the United States does.
Our Founding Fathers left us a legacy of freedom that each generation must work to protect and uphold.
Sadly, corrupt politicians have sold us out and taken away some of those freedoms in recent years. They've grown the size and intrusiveness of the federal government. They've strapped us with massive amounts of debt. Our children and grandchildren will be dealing with these problems if we don't take action now.
Now here's the good news: Despite the media and the Left's attempts to derail this tea party movement over the past two weeks, the tea party movement has grown stronger, not weaker. We here at the Tea Party Express have had some of our strongest fundraising pushes for two of the U.S. Senate candidates we have made a priority: Sharron Angle in Nevada and Joe Miller in Alaska. During this time we've raised more than $200,000 to support their campaigns, and I want to thank you for that great support.
So how do we best push back against the attacks from the media and the Left? We work even harder. We fight with even great zeal and determination. And we realize that the ONLY reason we've come under so much fire from our opponents is because of how successful we've been thus far.
So, again, let's keep it up. We raised $200,000 the past two weeks helping conservative Sharron Angle defeat Harry Reid and conservative Joe Miller defeat RINO (Liberal Republican) Lisa Murkowski. I challenge you all to help us do even better for these next two weeks!
So please, help support our campaign for Sharron Angle in Nevada by making a contribution - HERE.
From Lloyd Marcus of the Tea Party Express
If you've been watching the news media lately, you've no doubt seen the press stories where the NAACP has been attacking the tea party movement as racists. They've even tried to turn conservatives and tea party activists against each other.
It's something I saw coming from a mile away. When I wrote the "American Tea Party Anthem" I included the following line in the song:
"So when they call you a racist, because you disagree, it's just another of their dirty tricks, to silence you and me."
And guess what: it's not going to work, and we are NOT going to be silenced.
The fight for our country's future is so important, and there is so much work that needs to be done by each of us.
I got involved in this tea party movement as a proud American (not a hyphenated-American, just a regular American like you and every other proud patriot) because I love this nation and what it was founded on. There is no other country in the world that celebrates and empowers the freedom of the individual as the United States does.
Our Founding Fathers left us a legacy of freedom that each generation must work to protect and uphold.
Sadly, corrupt politicians have sold us out and taken away some of those freedoms in recent years. They've grown the size and intrusiveness of the federal government. They've strapped us with massive amounts of debt. Our children and grandchildren will be dealing with these problems if we don't take action now.
Now here's the good news: Despite the media and the Left's attempts to derail this tea party movement over the past two weeks, the tea party movement has grown stronger, not weaker. We here at the Tea Party Express have had some of our strongest fundraising pushes for two of the U.S. Senate candidates we have made a priority: Sharron Angle in Nevada and Joe Miller in Alaska. During this time we've raised more than $200,000 to support their campaigns, and I want to thank you for that great support.
So how do we best push back against the attacks from the media and the Left? We work even harder. We fight with even great zeal and determination. And we realize that the ONLY reason we've come under so much fire from our opponents is because of how successful we've been thus far.
So, again, let's keep it up. We raised $200,000 the past two weeks helping conservative Sharron Angle defeat Harry Reid and conservative Joe Miller defeat RINO (Liberal Republican) Lisa Murkowski. I challenge you all to help us do even better for these next two weeks!
So please, help support our campaign for Sharron Angle in Nevada by making a contribution - HERE.
Glenn Beck: Stimulus in action
Glenn Beck: Stimulus in action
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GLENN: $554,763 spent on replacing windows on a visitor's center in Washington State that closed its door three years ago. Your stimulus dollars at work. $762,372 was given to the University of North Carolina Charlotte for dance draw. What ?
PAT: What's dance draw?
GLENN: Dance draw. It's like YouTube of dance or Dance Tube.
PAT: Okay.
GLENN: This will allow choreographers to explore interactive dance without having a full cast of dancers present.
PAT: Oh. Now the country's fixed.
GLENN: $762,372.
PAT: That will help the economy.
GLENN: We don't have steel mills anymore. We don't lead the world in any kind of industry anymore. We don't make refrigerators or televisions because we're going to do all the paperwork. We're going to be the finance people. Oh, no, we're not going to do that anymore. I think we're going to lead the world in dance tube.
STU: Really ? Because I was planning a run for a Constitutional amendment on choreography, but I think this pretty much takes care of it.
PAT: Does it? Do you think this is enough?
STU: I don't think we need to do more.
GLENN: We've got more. $62.5 million for a light rail tunnel under the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Do you know why? Go on. Ask me why.
PAT: Why, Glenn?
GLENN: Really? Do you want to know? This is a stimulus this is going to change people's lives.
STU: I want to know.
GLENN: All right. I'm going to tell you, then. They want to connect sports stadiums to the casinos.
PAT: Oh, I love of that.
GLENN: Uh huh.
PAT: I love that.
GLENN: That's going to fix America. That is fixing America. It's the light rail that I'm for. Usually I think a light rail is just a bunch of hogwash. I'm for this because of the jobs it creates and saves.
PAT: Yeah. An think of the convenience of going right from a PNC park directly to the casino.
GLENN: $73 million for two fire stations in San Antonio. $73 million for two fire stations in San Antonio. $11.2 million to convert a tiny closed down train station into a museum.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: $1.9 million to fund the study of ants.
PAT: Those are exotic ants.
GLENN: Not just regular ants. Oh, exotic ants, like the one that's living here illegally and we don't deport?
PAT: No. Glenn Beck baselessly accuses the government of studying just regular ants. No, no.
GLENN: No. You said exotic ants. They're from another country.
PAT: No, no.
GLENN: Okay. $90,000 for new sidewalks in Boynton, Oklahoma, to replace five year old sidewalks, five year old. They're five years old $90,000.
PAT: You don't want ---
GLENN: Well, the sidewalk also leads to a ditch.
STU: Yeah, but the ditch is in good shape.
GLENN: $40 million for upgraded office space and indoor parking for Kansas law makers, $40 million. $50 million for WNBA practice facilities in Connecticut. I didn't even know that the WNBA was still -- $15.8 million no bid contract to
PAT: Halliburton. Is it Halliburton? No big contract. Halliburton. Another no big contract for Halliburton.
GLENN: No, it's not Halliburton, no, but it's $15.8 million no bid contract to clean up the environmental mess that they helped create…. 762,372 to a Georgia Tech professor so he can study improvised music.
PAT: That's good.
GLENN: Improvised music.
PAT: That's great.
STU: That's creating a job, because he had a job and now he has two jobs. So
GLENN: What's great is it's improvised music. If we can take that $762,372 and combine it with the same amount to the University of North Carolina Charlotte for the dance draw, maybe we can get improvised music and dance tube
STU: Well, Glenn, if you've said it once, you've said it a thousand times. The problem with this country is preplanned music. You have to start improvising music.
GLENN: Can I tell you something?
STU: It was Woodrow Wilson who created preplanned music. He's the one that did it.
GLENN: When did the player piano start? Exactly right. Around that time period
PAT: If not a little bit before.
GLENN: Because music anticipates what's coming. Do you see what I mean? They're artists. They know.
STU: Yep.
GLENN: They know. The bees know. Where's the hit the sound.
STU: Yeah. That's what happens when he says the bees know.
GLENN: And I think, really, if we're going to do the bees know, don't we all have to say the bees know
STU: That's the plan, but you didn't warn us.
GLENN: They know it and
ALL: The bees know .
GLENN: It doesn't really work. okay. Here we go. Now, this one's not going to piss you off, America. We're just going over stimulus package and how the money has been spent. $144,541 to get monkeys high on cocaine to see how they respond.
STU: That's interesting.
PAT: I didn't know.
GLENN: Is there a problem with monkeys?
PAT: You want the know what's going to happen if you get your monkeys stoned.
STU: You don't want to get them high. You don't want to do that.
GLENN: I know people get their babies stoned. I've seen the YouTube videos. I haven't seen the Dance Tube on it, but I've seen the YouTube individuals where people take they babies they should go to jail for this and blow the smoke of pot or something in the baby's face, which is always so cute when you've done that to an infant. But is somebody wasting their cocaine on their monkeys?
STU: Happens all the time. A huge problem in America.
GLENN: I mean, as a former cocaine user, I wouldn't have shared my cocaine with my best friend. And by the way, my best friend was Pat --
PAT: He never asked.
GLENN: I wouldn't have shared it. In fact, he would have probably called the police.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: $497,893 to quit smoking and get a Smart Phone. What is that?
STU: They were buying Smart Phones for people so when they felt like they might smoke, they could call someone and they could tell them not to smoke. So, that's a Smart Phone.
PAT: That's a good smoking campaign?
STU: Yeah. I think so. Maybe not the most effective.
GLENN: Why do they hate kids? Why do they hate kids? Why do people in Washington hate kids?
STU: What do you mean?
GLENN: They raised the smoking tax to be able to pay for insurance. So, everybody would stop----- smoking hurts the children.
STU: That's true.
GLENN: Why do they hate children?
PAT: That's a good point. I think you're going to like this next expenditure, though?
GLENN: $199,862 helping Serbians lobby Russian policymakers.
PAT: Siberian.
GLENN: Oh, Siberian.
PAT: It would make sense to have Serbians to lobby Russian policymakers. You want the Siberians to lobby the Russian policy maker.
GLENN: Why do we care? How is that helping our economy? Is there a plot?
STU: Creating jobs for Siberians.
GLENN: $298,543 to help predict the weather. Right now you're going well, that might be really let me finish the sentence. To help predict weather on other planets.
PAT: What are you, a planet phobe? What are you? A Zeta planet phobe? You don't want other people on other planets to anticipate what they should be wearing that day?
GLENN: Why do you hate the red planet?
PAT: Yeah. Why? Good question. Glad you brought it up.
GLENN: That's why I hate it. I hope they just cover this on TV because, you know, I only watch TV once a while in the morning and they will say, if you're traveling to Atlanta, it's going to be hot, 98 and a chance of a thunderstorm. If you happen to be going to Mars, it is, of course, going to be very cold, with a chance of really cold.
PAT: Low about 250 below zero. The high today around 219 below.
GLENN: Now, we can't tell you for sure, but we have this new technology to predict the weather on other planets.
PAT: 312 on Venus today.
GLENN: $456,663 to Cal Berkley to study global circulation in the atmosphere of Neptune. You can't make this up. 712,883 goes to scientists who are trying to create a joke machine.
PAT: I think they've already done that.
GLENN: It's called Congress.
PAT: Uh huh, uh huh.
STU: A joke machine? I totally want a joke machine. That's the best thing they've spent on it on so far.
GLENN: $500,000 to Dayton, Ohio, for microchips to track citizens' use of recycling bins. Let me tell you something, you put one of those recycling bins on my porch or moon my curb, you're not going to need a chip to track it because it will be in your ###. You can look for it there.
STU: It would be difficult.
GLENN: Oh, it might be difficult for you to keep it there, but it won't be hard for me to shove it up there.
STU: So, you wouldn't list yourself as pro recycling? I'm just trying to clarify.
GLENN: No. I just read that off of a piece of paper that was just spat out by my joke machine.
Audio Available:
August 4, 2010 - 14:59 ET
Glenn Beck's Common Sense
Available in book stores nationwide...
GLENN: $554,763 spent on replacing windows on a visitor's center in Washington State that closed its door three years ago. Your stimulus dollars at work. $762,372 was given to the University of North Carolina Charlotte for dance draw. What ?
PAT: What's dance draw?
GLENN: Dance draw. It's like YouTube of dance or Dance Tube.
PAT: Okay.
GLENN: This will allow choreographers to explore interactive dance without having a full cast of dancers present.
PAT: Oh. Now the country's fixed.
GLENN: $762,372.
PAT: That will help the economy.
GLENN: We don't have steel mills anymore. We don't lead the world in any kind of industry anymore. We don't make refrigerators or televisions because we're going to do all the paperwork. We're going to be the finance people. Oh, no, we're not going to do that anymore. I think we're going to lead the world in dance tube.
STU: Really ? Because I was planning a run for a Constitutional amendment on choreography, but I think this pretty much takes care of it.
PAT: Does it? Do you think this is enough?
STU: I don't think we need to do more.
GLENN: We've got more. $62.5 million for a light rail tunnel under the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. Do you know why? Go on. Ask me why.
PAT: Why, Glenn?
GLENN: Really? Do you want to know? This is a stimulus this is going to change people's lives.
STU: I want to know.
GLENN: All right. I'm going to tell you, then. They want to connect sports stadiums to the casinos.
PAT: Oh, I love of that.
GLENN: Uh huh.
PAT: I love that.
GLENN: That's going to fix America. That is fixing America. It's the light rail that I'm for. Usually I think a light rail is just a bunch of hogwash. I'm for this because of the jobs it creates and saves.
PAT: Yeah. An think of the convenience of going right from a PNC park directly to the casino.
GLENN: $73 million for two fire stations in San Antonio. $73 million for two fire stations in San Antonio. $11.2 million to convert a tiny closed down train station into a museum.
PAT: Wow.
GLENN: $1.9 million to fund the study of ants.
PAT: Those are exotic ants.
GLENN: Not just regular ants. Oh, exotic ants, like the one that's living here illegally and we don't deport?
PAT: No. Glenn Beck baselessly accuses the government of studying just regular ants. No, no.
GLENN: No. You said exotic ants. They're from another country.
PAT: No, no.
GLENN: Okay. $90,000 for new sidewalks in Boynton, Oklahoma, to replace five year old sidewalks, five year old. They're five years old $90,000.
PAT: You don't want ---
GLENN: Well, the sidewalk also leads to a ditch.
STU: Yeah, but the ditch is in good shape.
GLENN: $40 million for upgraded office space and indoor parking for Kansas law makers, $40 million. $50 million for WNBA practice facilities in Connecticut. I didn't even know that the WNBA was still -- $15.8 million no bid contract to
PAT: Halliburton. Is it Halliburton? No big contract. Halliburton. Another no big contract for Halliburton.
GLENN: No, it's not Halliburton, no, but it's $15.8 million no bid contract to clean up the environmental mess that they helped create…. 762,372 to a Georgia Tech professor so he can study improvised music.
PAT: That's good.
GLENN: Improvised music.
PAT: That's great.
STU: That's creating a job, because he had a job and now he has two jobs. So
GLENN: What's great is it's improvised music. If we can take that $762,372 and combine it with the same amount to the University of North Carolina Charlotte for the dance draw, maybe we can get improvised music and dance tube
STU: Well, Glenn, if you've said it once, you've said it a thousand times. The problem with this country is preplanned music. You have to start improvising music.
GLENN: Can I tell you something?
STU: It was Woodrow Wilson who created preplanned music. He's the one that did it.
GLENN: When did the player piano start? Exactly right. Around that time period
PAT: If not a little bit before.
GLENN: Because music anticipates what's coming. Do you see what I mean? They're artists. They know.
STU: Yep.
GLENN: They know. The bees know. Where's the hit the sound.
STU: Yeah. That's what happens when he says the bees know.
GLENN: And I think, really, if we're going to do the bees know, don't we all have to say the bees know
STU: That's the plan, but you didn't warn us.
GLENN: They know it and
ALL: The bees know .
GLENN: It doesn't really work. okay. Here we go. Now, this one's not going to piss you off, America. We're just going over stimulus package and how the money has been spent. $144,541 to get monkeys high on cocaine to see how they respond.
STU: That's interesting.
PAT: I didn't know.
GLENN: Is there a problem with monkeys?
PAT: You want the know what's going to happen if you get your monkeys stoned.
STU: You don't want to get them high. You don't want to do that.
GLENN: I know people get their babies stoned. I've seen the YouTube videos. I haven't seen the Dance Tube on it, but I've seen the YouTube individuals where people take they babies they should go to jail for this and blow the smoke of pot or something in the baby's face, which is always so cute when you've done that to an infant. But is somebody wasting their cocaine on their monkeys?
STU: Happens all the time. A huge problem in America.
GLENN: I mean, as a former cocaine user, I wouldn't have shared my cocaine with my best friend. And by the way, my best friend was Pat --
PAT: He never asked.
GLENN: I wouldn't have shared it. In fact, he would have probably called the police.
STU: Yeah.
GLENN: $497,893 to quit smoking and get a Smart Phone. What is that?
STU: They were buying Smart Phones for people so when they felt like they might smoke, they could call someone and they could tell them not to smoke. So, that's a Smart Phone.
PAT: That's a good smoking campaign?
STU: Yeah. I think so. Maybe not the most effective.
GLENN: Why do they hate kids? Why do they hate kids? Why do people in Washington hate kids?
STU: What do you mean?
GLENN: They raised the smoking tax to be able to pay for insurance. So, everybody would stop----- smoking hurts the children.
STU: That's true.
GLENN: Why do they hate children?
PAT: That's a good point. I think you're going to like this next expenditure, though?
GLENN: $199,862 helping Serbians lobby Russian policymakers.
PAT: Siberian.
GLENN: Oh, Siberian.
PAT: It would make sense to have Serbians to lobby Russian policymakers. You want the Siberians to lobby the Russian policy maker.
GLENN: Why do we care? How is that helping our economy? Is there a plot?
STU: Creating jobs for Siberians.
GLENN: $298,543 to help predict the weather. Right now you're going well, that might be really let me finish the sentence. To help predict weather on other planets.
PAT: What are you, a planet phobe? What are you? A Zeta planet phobe? You don't want other people on other planets to anticipate what they should be wearing that day?
GLENN: Why do you hate the red planet?
PAT: Yeah. Why? Good question. Glad you brought it up.
GLENN: That's why I hate it. I hope they just cover this on TV because, you know, I only watch TV once a while in the morning and they will say, if you're traveling to Atlanta, it's going to be hot, 98 and a chance of a thunderstorm. If you happen to be going to Mars, it is, of course, going to be very cold, with a chance of really cold.
PAT: Low about 250 below zero. The high today around 219 below.
GLENN: Now, we can't tell you for sure, but we have this new technology to predict the weather on other planets.
PAT: 312 on Venus today.
GLENN: $456,663 to Cal Berkley to study global circulation in the atmosphere of Neptune. You can't make this up. 712,883 goes to scientists who are trying to create a joke machine.
PAT: I think they've already done that.
GLENN: It's called Congress.
PAT: Uh huh, uh huh.
STU: A joke machine? I totally want a joke machine. That's the best thing they've spent on it on so far.
GLENN: $500,000 to Dayton, Ohio, for microchips to track citizens' use of recycling bins. Let me tell you something, you put one of those recycling bins on my porch or moon my curb, you're not going to need a chip to track it because it will be in your ###. You can look for it there.
STU: It would be difficult.
GLENN: Oh, it might be difficult for you to keep it there, but it won't be hard for me to shove it up there.
STU: So, you wouldn't list yourself as pro recycling? I'm just trying to clarify.
GLENN: No. I just read that off of a piece of paper that was just spat out by my joke machine.
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