Glenn BECK: REASONABLE QUESTIONS for AN UNREASONABLE TIME

Thank you, Glenn Beck, for putting this together.
Please, please, get a very good voice recognition program to transcribe these shows and post the transcripts for history's sake.
It REALLY IS ... THAT IMPORTANT.

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Van Jones

"Giving 'Pookie' a job!

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SOME of the questions from today's show

PLEASE WATCH ALL OF THESE VIDEOS AND TELL YOUR FRIENDS TO WATCH THEM.
IT'S THAT IMPORTANT.

Why? To put America at the government’s mercy. (Less long winded explanation than the above.)

Like geometry,

sometimes you have to BUILD a PROOF.

That’s what all socialists in this real world want, as seen empirically. It’s hardly needed to “prove” that; observation suffices. If proof in a radical sense is needed, it needs to look in a different direction — the spiritual. (Ping to Quix)

Glenn Beck asked

"Am I hateful if I ask... "

NO!!!
But you have to remember a liberal's reprobate mind.

As some great poster once said:

To anger a conservative
tell him a lie.
To anger a Liberal
tell him the truth.

The spiritual has much more going on.

I remind you

And thou shalt become an astonishment,
a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations
whither the LORD shall lead thee.

Addressed to the Jews.

Beck did an excellent job with this show, and I am determined not to miss any of the series. (Wish he was on a little later.)

God bless and keep Glenn Beck.

Are the questions rhetorical or do you want actual answers?

"Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?"

Since every dollar paid by any of them goes to an American, it is impossible for them to bankrupt us. My left pocket and my right pocket cannot bankrupt both by moving bills from one to the other. Middle class entitlements are *transfers*, not net sunk costs.

If we don't want to pay them then we just don't receive them; if we do pay them then we also receive them. Either leaves us with the same net worth - whatever our own efforts can produce.

If we want to continue them, it is easy to fund them rationally instead of irrationally. There is no reason for a retirement age of 65 when people live to be 85. There is no reason for COLAs faster than CPI, adding real economic growth on top, as we do now. There is nothing magical or sacred about the breakpoints in the security security formula, and any and all of them could be gradually adjusted any way we like.

On medicare, only the government could possibly think the way to control the cost of something is to provide giant trillion dollar a year subsidies to it out of general tax revenue. Everywhere in the universe, subsidizing something makes its costs go up, not down. It does nothing to expand supply, it is pure demand thrown at the sector, and it predictably results in galloping prices.

To change that is easy, you means test and restrict everything above the means test limit to a catastrophic health care policy instead of paying for every aged person's every swab and tongue depressor. The only reason we do it the dumb way it is done now is to grab as many votes as possible by telling everyone the rich taxpayers will pay for their medicine. Of course the middle class pays for its own medicine, all we are dickering about is how many middlemen and how ridiculous a price.

"why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade"

Um, cap and trade is a tax increase, not a spending item. Sure we shouldn't raise taxes in the middle of a recession; the proposal is stupid top to bottom. But not because of debt. This kind of exasperating non sequitur drives me to distraction.

"How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?"

It doesn't, it rewards political supporters. All of the dem priorities are political not economic. Would that republican priorities were economic; instead they are ideological-purity driven and populist nonsense. The only grown up left in the room since Bush left is Bernanke, so naturally all the brat kids throw food at him.

"why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?"

Because bridges have lead times. All the actually required actions fast enough to matter were put in place by Bush or the Fed, or happen automatically as men owe less in taxes and receive more in relief and transfers, whenever the economy turns down.

"how exactly does that work?"

Bush has saved capitalism and the financial system, and it will lead to economic recovery this year. All of the slander and sniping directed at him is unjust and politically suicidal. It is mere populist doom mongering in a rear view mirror.

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

Because they are too complex and have to be in detailed legal language in this nation of lawyers and sniping partisan hacks. They have professional staffs for it. Another meaningless populist smear.

"when they ask their congressman to read the bills"

Because they show themselves rubes with no comprehension of what law is. They might as readily ask why presidential candidates don't receipt entire law libraries on the stump. It is a professional task that requires trained lawyers, dividing up the work to complete all of it.

"Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy?"

Neither, it was meant to curry a little public favor and provide some desparately needed respite for the flat-on-its-back auto sector. The return on investment involved is pretty puny - I got about 3% running typical numbers on it - but it isn't an outright loss.

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

Who can possibly care? But the answer is, obviously, to give an ear to his watermelon green-red ideology, since it is shared by plenty of those who voted for the president. Asking presidents not to listen to those who vote for them is more than a bit silly.

"why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?"

All bills are typically written by the industries directly concerned in them, coordinated and edited by professional staffers on the hill. The industries have the actual subject matter expertise. Only in a few of the "harder" and more technocrat bureaucracies is there anything approaching the same level of subject knowledge anywhere in government, and only in the executive branch. Meaning places like the pentagon, the Fed, the government labs. There is nothing remotely new in a particle of that, again it is just rubes being surprised at how the world actually works and always has worked.

"do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills"

Of course. Their staffers present them with position papers and options, explain the trade offs and which constituencies want what, and the pols then have to hash out detailed deals with each other to get a majority for anything. You might as readily ask why the president doesn't know at all times where all his colonels are and what they are doing. The staff exists to put principles in the know and condense decisions to managable terms. It is the same in every complex business, every CEO has to act the same way.

"impose on the American people?"

Freely elected representatives listening quite attentively to feedback from their constituents are not "imposing" anything. The rhetoric here is ridiculous. I hear people on FR routinely speak of "tyranny" and "totalitarian" this and that, and it is all utter rot and makes those engaging in it look like hysterical nuts.

"If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good"

It is of course a path to single payer which the left very much wants, both for political base-building reasons and also because they honestly think that a monopoly can control costs but the present half-way house of private provision and blank-check public fundng cannot. I'd rather reduce that funding, but their motives in all of it are perfectly clear.

"why do they spend so much time talking"

Because they have this silly notion that they might be reasonably informed about all of the issues, and think they have heard from and tried to balance hundreds of different concerns in the matter, which is their job. If anyone thinks that 400 constituents would all tell them the same thing they haven't a clue what politics is. They might even all agree on a negative, but it doesn't mean there is anything that would satisfy half of them.

Should pols listen to voters? Sure, and they do. But pretending being a grass roots voter magically confers virtue and expertise on any man off the street is the same mushy nonsense that talks of wise latinas and thinks it sufficient qualification for a life appointment to a high court. The average voter doesn't know diddly squat about the technical issues in health care. Some know more than the pols - doctors e.g. - but that is not what Beck is pretending here.

"every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?"

Go ahead, stay home. You vote because it is in your interests, not theirs. They don't need to beg you to vote, it isn't a favor.

"Why would you want to overwhelm the system?"

Referenceless non sequitur.

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

Certainly, he also meant get through needed reforms when the pain of bad institutions or laws is fresh in people's minds. To take a simple example, now is the right time to insist on exchange clearing for derivatives in financial markets. Emanuel may have the wrong policy objectives, but his appreciation for how things get enacted is purely pragmatic, and correct as a description of when and how change happens. If you don't want any changes, use that information accordingly, but don't pretend the remark is anything but an intelligent piece of tactical advice.

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

Who cares? What matters is whether they are qualified and do their jobs well. If their policies stink, would you be happy to put up with crap policies that don't work because those implementing them took only a dollar a year? If their policies are brilliant and help millions of people and save hundreds of billions of dollars, are you going to pout and cry about it if they earn a living doing it?

This class war crap isn't any more attractive when right-populists engage in it, than when the socialist left did.

There are a half dozen reasonable arguments lurking in that mass of snide, but Beck either hasn't found them or can't stick to them. I've no doubt he thinks he is being oh so witty and clever in all of it. But all he makes me think is that urbane argument is as dead as William Buckley.

Advocating killing on FR is strictly against site rules...

bumpage

Thanks...
What I want to know who is "America's News Now" and why they will be launched in Oct. 09'
My Guess?

This is a another Glenn Beck Project, a You-Tube Alternative?

I’m not an economist, so help me out here, please.

If our National debt is over 11 Trillion and growing by the second, aren’t we already banckrupt? It seems to me that all that remains is to sign the papers and surrender to our debtors.

THANK YOU!!!

AWESOME POST!

Not certain what you might be asking of me.

I think the long analysis by the Russian is accurate if a bit . . . conservative.

The globalist satanic oligarchy

ARE DELIBERATELY SETTING UP THE CRISES, THE CHAOS.

They deliberately WANT chaos and death. Those goals serve their larger goals of globalism precisely.

Their literature is rife with causing a crisis and using the crisis--extreme crisis--to force a change in structure. And the structure they are determined to foist on the world is tyranny of an unprecedented level, degree of ruthlessness, degree of genocide the world has never seen before and will never see again. Scripture is clear about that.

And A-mils, ?Pre-mils?, Post-mils, Preterists, run-of-the-mils and whatever other REPLACEMENTARIANS and other willfully blind clueless sorts of "Christians" are about as blind and ignorant as the folks at DU if they think the above is not true.

The hand writing is more than on almost every wall.

The super murderous genocidal globalists have stated plainly from Alinsky and a list of others including OThuga's ?own? writings . . . under his name anyway . . . they've told us what they were going to do for at least 100 years. They've been diligently and increasingly effectively doing it for at least 100 years.

Now they are at the point of bringing it all together in a series of horrific engineered cataclysms.

And still the people waltz along rearranging chairs on the deck of the Titanic . . . congratulating one another at how wise, erudite and wealthy they were to book passage . . .

Some of my dearest friends on FR are blathering routinely about how the Great Tribulation already occurred or is centuries off or some other pile of stinking ignorance or pile of stinking willful blindness.

Supposedly the world is getting better and more Christian with temporary hicups along the way.

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

THE WOLF IS MORE AT THE DOOR OF THE ENTRY TO THE GREAT TRIBULATION INFINITELY MORE THAN IT EVER HAS BEEN. ANYONE WHO THINKS IT'S NOT LOOMING ON THE NEAR HORIZON IS CLUELESS--WILLFULLY CLUELESS. I can't explain it any other way.

The evidence is increasingly STARK day after day.

Folks I love and respect hereon very highly with great wonderful brilliant minds are blathering along in the most ignorant, wasteful, useless fashion vainly trying to insist that things are not really that bad . . .

The Pope will help foster a resurgence of wonderfully redemptive Christian Truth In Love and all will be well.

The Christian Church will continue to advance and increase the number of saved souls until critical mass is reached and we've created Heaven on Earth.

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!

SCRIPTURE IS CLEAR. There is no doubt. None. A time is looming close at hand which will be worse than the world ever has known and worse than it ever will know thereafter.

Scripture is not just whistling Dixie in that statement, folks. That's worse than the worst of Gengis Khan. That's worse than the worst of Atilla the Hun. That's worse than the worst of any of the Mooselymb Hoards. That's worse than Hitler. That's worse than Mao. That's worse than Pol Pot.

HINT: WORSE THAN THOSE CHARACTERS IS NO SUNDAY PICNIC, FOLKS!

PRAISE GOD HE HAS A PLAN AND WE ARE OVERCOMERS by the Blood of The Lamb and the word of our testimony. He IS OUR REFUGE, OUR HIGH TOWER; OUR ALL SUFFICIENCY.

But this rant is not about Christians walking close to God. This rant is in behalf of those still sleep-walking--the walking dead and stubbornly ignorant, the stubbornly blind.

WAKE-UP!

Trim and fill your lamps with the oil of Holy Spirit. WATCH WATCH WATCH FOR THE BRIDEGROOM--TO THOSE WHO LOOK FOR HIM, EXPECT HIM, WATCH FOR HIM, HE IS COMING.

To those who think that some belt tighening here; some driving more economically there; a few more pots of beans in the week; less on make-up; less on movies; less on Big Macs; more puttering around the house and less trips to the mall . . . to those who think THAT'S going to see them through this 'moderately difficult time' . . .

YOU DON'T GET IT! WAKE UP!

To those who think that a sufficiently large enough march on DC;
a sufficiently large enough fax/phone/email campaign to Congress;
a sufficiently large enough prayer vigil;
a sufficiently large enough tea party;
a sufficiently large enough bumper sticker and billboard campaign;
a sufficiently large enough screaming town hall meeting . . .

will see us through this 'rough spot' . . . will eventually win the day and restore the Constitution and restore AMERICA TO AMERICANS.

WAKE UP! YOU DON'T GET IT!

None of that will work. It's all well and good to do it and to stand up and be counted vigorously and courageously acting and standing on the side of God and the Republic. Well and good. And none of that will do more than slightly delay the looming traumas.

That's NOT a resignation to cowering in the corner whimpering and whining.

That's a declaration that ONLY WHAT'S DONE FOR CHRIST WILL LAST. THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN TRUE. IT'S NOW MORE TRUE THAN EVER. Almost all else is wasted unless it's supporting one enough to be able to do things for Christ.

NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!

I have experienced this week that the satanic enemy is more ruthlessly out to get ALL AUTHENTIC CHRISTIANS more than even I suspected. He will try every devious, underhanded, untrue, and whatever other ways he can.

We must walk in the whole armor of God and in His will. We must walk in the unity of HIS SPIRIT, HIS BLOOD, HIS TRUTH, HIS PURPOSES.

That does not mean that we mamby pamby compromise with WHOLESALE DESTRUCTIVE untruth and UNBIBLICAL, RUBBER BIBLE'D NONSENSE. However, we would be wise to see folks as Jesus see them and love them regardless. It may be that we can love some closer to God; more into God's will; into The Kingdom etc. Regardless, behaving in Christ-like ways is to our credit, to our account, to our treasures in Heaven regardless of the other side's behaviors, motivations, attitudes. However, behaving like Christ can also involve driving the money changers out of the Temple in one way or another. THIS IS NOT A TIME FOR DILLY DALLYING AROUND.

[Joya just put on Focus on the Family . . . Tony Evans from a Promise Keepers 1995 sermon--TITLED: NO MORE EXCUSES--the daily broadcast for today at Focus on the Family.]

GOD IS STILL IN CHARGE AND GOING TO BE MORE OVERTLY IN CHARGE IN INCREASING AREAS OF LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE. However, between here and Armageddon, the . . . stage. . . is going to be very messy, tortured, confused and littered with corpses. That includes coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

Walking with God and GOD ALONE will be essential to life and survival. Walking intimately with God and His Spirit will be super essential to accomplishing anything of any lasting value.

WAKE UP. QUIT PLAYING GAMES. GET BACK IN THE SADDLE. PREPARE. WATCH. BE EAGER TO HEAR AND OBEY YOUR LORD. AND DO GREAT EXPLOITS FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.

Tony Evans' Focus on the Family message today is well worth hearing and much in line with this rant.

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/popups/media_player.aspx?LatestDaily=1

AT Focus on The Family:

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/

IF you're not behaving in an overcoming KINGDOM BUILDING way enough to annoy the enemy and brazenly delcare who's side you're on, you might need to check out your mirror and your Christianity very searchingly and candidly.

LIFE even in America is NOT going to go on indefinitely as usual. OThuga is 'merely' the loudest alarm continuously going off. He's 'merely' the most destructive stooge overtly on the public stage. The satanic destructive rot has been going on under the table a long time. The rot is rushing to the surface. Pretending otherwise is ignorant cluelessness. A far more destructive character is diligent behind the scenes already and champing at the bit to jump onto the world stage to fulfill the horrific prophecies about him. OThuga is preparing the way. And the red carpet will be blood, not deep plush pile acrylic.

All the religious platitudes . . . all the rationalized blather . . . all the vain pretense . . . all the proof texting . . . all the RUBBER BIBLING . . . all the prissy denominational distinctives . . . will account for nothing . . . worse than nothing.

WAKE UP, FOLKS.

And time itself seems almost to be speeding up.

IF you really are clueless but want to wake up, the quotes of our leaders from the last 100 years might be a good place to start. Lay those along-side a lot of OThuga's writings and words; goals and aims and ponder deeply, prayerfully. Lay both along side the satanic ten commandments on the Georgia Guidestones and ponder prayerfully. Here's a clickable link from my tagline:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81

NONE of us have promise of living through tomorrow. We must walk uprightly and powerfully today while there is still light.

Yes, we must rest IN HIM AS we run the race. YES we are to fear NOT. YES we are on the winning side. YES we are to walk and run IN HIS PEACE AND PROVISION AND IN HIM WHO IS OUR ALL SUFFICIENCY.

And many MUST WAKE UP.

Otherwise, the looming tanks of a totalitarianism worse than ever before or after will grind them uselessly and wastefully into the hard pavement of looming reality.

WAKE UP.
WAKE UP.
WAKE UP!

“Since every dollar paid by any of them goes to an American, it is impossible for them to bankrupt us. My left pocket and my right pocket cannot bankrupt both by moving bills from one to the other. Middle class entitlements are *transfers*, not net sunk costs.”

They why do we pay so much interest to the Chinese? Its because we aren’t taking from the right pocket and giving to the left. We are BORROWING and PRINTING money we don’t have.

Post 16. This is good stuff. BTTT.

Post 16.

See www.cryfromthewall.com

http://www.cryfromthewall.com/