March 16, 2009

March 16, 2009 Episode of the Glenn Beck Program

By kristen

Before I begin on this episode, let me explain myself. I’ve decided to follow Glenn Beck on his crazy train. He’s a little nuts, but I can’t help it. I just love the guy. I’m also a Libertarian, so that helps, although I don’t really agree with him on everything as he leans a little right for my taste.

Anyway, I started watching the show from the beginning on Fox News. That was the first I heard of him. I don’t listen to his radio show because I don’t like talk radio, so this blog will cover just the Glenn Beck Program on Fox News.

The goal of this blog is to simply cover what he talked about on his show each day, and discuss what I think of it. I don’t know if anyone else will be interested, but it’s fun for me because I enjoy writing down my thoughts. Hopefully others will join the discussion.

OK, here we go:

Beck started out talking about the 912 Project. I love the idea of it, although I’m sure there will be some haters and crazies out there that attempt to destroy it. Beck said the site was so popular that it was shut down for 30 hours with 500 hits/sec. That’s great to hear! I just hope they were real people rather than bots.

Beck went on to talk about how Obama is starting to sound just like McCain on several issues, even though he had called McCain “out of touch” for saying the same things. His examples were that Obama said the “fundamentals of the economy are strong,” and that he plans to tax health care benefits. I have to agree on this one. He definitely sounds a lot like McCain and even Bush in some instances, even though he originally spoke out against those very same things when he was running. That’s politics for ya!

David Buckner (find on LinkedIn) came on to talk about spending in the stimulus bill for the RV capital of the world, Elkhart, Indiana, which is supposed to go toward an overpass. Yeah, I agree that some of the things in the stimulus bill don’t make sense. I just wish it never happened, and I’m tired of being reminded of all the stupid crap included that only affects a small portion of the nation.

Financial issues should all be handled at the most local level possible, starting with individuals helping each other and their communities, then communities, then cities, counties, states. The federal government should be the last resort for this stuff because all it sees are statistics, and so can in no way efficiently help out communities, much less individuals. I’d guess about 95% of our hard-earned tax dollars gets funneled through all the levels of bureaucrats, gets lost, gets stolen, or gets funneled into one of those departments with a nice name (to make you think it helps starving children or something like that), but which is not even set up yet and actually goes to a couple of idiots who sit there and collect money. 5% gets to where it’s supposed to go.

Liz Claman came on to talk about the bear market stock market rally. Neither of them think it will last, and I agree with them on that. They also mentioned how household wealth has fallen $11 Trillion dollars. That’s so much money, it’s hard to comprehend. I’m just trying to make a few hundred to pay all my bills. Crap.

They played a hilarious fake commercial about Beck’s “school girl blubbering,” and setting your Tivo to record the show and skip to the commercials to help the economy. LOL :grin: Here ya go (the “commercial” starts at about 4:08):