Glenn Beck: Reasonable questions for unreasonable times

August 24, 2009

Am I hateful if I ask: 9 Min Video                    Click here: U.S. Debt CLOCK

– Our unfunded liability for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid is close to $100 trillion. Is there any way to pay for these programs without bankrupting America?
 
– We are in so much debt, why spend more borrowed money on cap-and-trade and healthcare programs before we stop the flow of red-ink?
 
– The stimulus package funneled billions of dollars to ACORN. How does giving billions of dollars to ACORN stimulate the economy?

– If it was so important for congress to pass the stimulus bill before they even had time to read it why has only a fraction of the stimulus money been spent 6 months later?
 
– Bush said he had to abandon free market principles in order to save them, how exactly does that work?
 
– Why won’t members of Congress read the bills before they vote on them?
 
– Why are citizens mocked and laughed at when they ask their congressman to read the bills before they vote on them?
 
– Was the cash-for-clunkers program meant to save the earth or the economy? Did it accomplish either?
 
– How did Van Jones, a self-proclaimed communist become a special advisor to the president?
 
– Did President Obama know of Van Jones’ radical political beliefs when he named him special advisor?
 
– The Apollo Alliance claimed credit for writing the stimulus bill—why was this group allowed to write any portion of this bill?
 
– If politicians aren’t writing the bills and aren’t reading the bills, do they have any idea what these 1000 page plus bills actually impose on the American people?
 
– If the ‘public option’ health care plan is so good why won’t politicians agree to have that as their plan?
 
– If town hall meetings are intended for the politicians to learn what’s on our mind—why do they spend so much time talking instead of listening?
 
– Politicians are refusing to attend town hall meetings complaining, without evidence, that they are scripted. Does that mean we shouldn’t come out and vote for you since every campaign stop, baby kiss and speech you give is scripted?
 
– Why would you want to overwhelm the system?
 
– Is using the economic crises to rush legislation through congress what Rahm Emanuel meant when he talked about “not letting a crises go to waste”?
 
– What are the czars paid? What is the budget for their staffs/offices?

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Glenn Beck – Know Your Czars: 20 min clip

Glenn Beck – Current Events & Politics – Glenn Beck: America Senses Something’s Not Right

Please Click the link for the 20 minute video clip from August 6, 2009 – 5:00 ET: Glenn Beck – The One Thing 8-6-09

I’ve always wanted to be in the mob and now I am. It’s fantastic: the drugs, the women, the town hall health care protests.

Here’s The One Thing: This isn’t a GOP mob or “manufactured anger.” America — Democrat, Republican and independent — senses in her gut something isn’t right.

According to the latest polls:

• 65 percent say President Obama is taking on too many issues

• His approval rating is at 50 percent (worse than Bush was after six months)

• He’s fallen 7 points with independents (45 approve, 45 disapprove)

• 52 percent now oppose how he’s handling health care — only 39 percent approve

• More than 3 out of 4 think Obama’s plan will add to the deficit

Why the decline? Because Americans know something isn’t right. Since when are we rushed like this? Since when are politicians the ones who guide our ethics and morals?

We had the AARP on the other day. They said, oh no, we don’t see anything hurtful to seniors in there — it looks great.

Hey Glenn! I just found out I’m related to a Nigerian prince! He’s going to wire me $10 million. All I have to do is give him $10,000 and my bank account number!

Wait! That’s a scam! Stop!

No, you stop! It doesn’t say anywhere in the e-mail that it’s a scam. Plus, he made a pinky promise.

How many times have politicians promised us the moon and given us Detroit? No offense, Detroit, but you keep voting the same people in and your median home price is $7,500.

In 1965, the politicians said Medicare — something progressives see as a stepping stone to universal health care — would cost $9 billion by 1990. The actual cost: $66 billion — whoops, only off by $57 billion.

Obama’s current plan is about $1.6 trillion. If it goes as well as the other government medical programs we’ve tried — or say, “cash for clunkers” — it will only cost us $13 trillion. Unless the government makes up the gap with higher taxes on coffins, we can’t afford universal health care.

I want to ask you a very important question: That $13 trillion number is an actual number based on the errors of the past; would an $8-13 trillion error cause an emergency in this country? You decide, but hold your answer for a second.

Here’s why I ask: When we’re short money, the government has to decide who gets what. Who in government will be influencing and making those life and death decisions? The organizers, the advisers and the “czars.”

AARP members, you must demand that the organization that claims to be looking out for you answers these questions. Who makes the life and death decisions?

Well, one of the people currently advising President Obama on health care policy has come up with his own “cost saving” health care methods. His name is Dr. Ezekial Emanuel, he’s the brother of Rahm Emanuel and he wrote in January of this year:

“When implemented, the Complete Lives system produces a priority curve on which individuals aged between roughly 15 and 40 years get the most substantial chance, whereas the youngest and oldest people get chances that are attenuated… The Complete Lives system justifies preference to younger people because of priority to the worst-off rather than instrumental value.”

But even more disturbing is this chart (above) that Ezekiel added into that article.

Another “czar” the media has ignored is Cass Sunstein, who wrote in the Columbia Law Review in January 2004:

“I urge that the government should indeed focus on life-years rather than lives. A program that saves young people produces more welfare than one that saves old people.”

I want to make it very clear: What these people are talking about is how to ration in case of an emergency shortage — shortage of kidneys, hospital beds or flu vaccine.

What we all need to remember is that universal health care creates another shortage: a shortage of money. And when we are out of money, these are the people making the rules governing your health care.

I don’t know if Obama believes any of this crazy stuff, but I also don’t know why if he didn’t he would appoint at least three people that do.

Never in my life would I appoint people who believe things like this. Why has no one in the media told you who these people are? And why hasn’t AARP brought them to your attention?

Maybe that manufactured anger isn’t manufactured. It’s just Americans across the political spectrum sensing in their gut that they’re moving to fast.

Why? Because something’s not right.

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