Glenn Beck - Stand Up Against Pork and Earmarks - Feb. 26, 2009

[rleary1]

Earmarks are 1/10 of 1% of the national budget. A Representative's job is to get money for his district. Now that all of these fearful dumb asses are swearing off earmarks, they are phoning earmarks in i.e. calling someone & saying if you don't get me 1 million for our states schools, I won't suppport you. Earmarks are nothing compared to our wasted war mongering expense. Beck is a dumb ass as usual. Yes, Glenn, we are that stupid but not as dumb as you. Go cry...

[Democrate4Life]

This man is an idiot

[buckmastr123]

Earmarks are misunderstood. If your representative does not put earmarks into a bill, the money will still be spent by someone else. So if you do not like earmarks, that is fine, but continue to pay taxes and get none of the money back in your state. Earmarks make up like 1% of the budget. That is hardly the problem in this country. You pay taxes...get as much of it back to your state as you can. You don't like the spending? Bring the troops home and close the bases all over the world.

[Alidor76]

@buckmastr123 That's exactly the point. Remove earmarks and use that money to pay off debt, OR, lower the taxes because you do not need that money anymore. Give back the money taken from Americans.

[buckmastr123]

@Alidor76 I don't like earmarks either, at all! HOWEVER, what most people don't understand is that if you don't put them in, it is not going to save ANY money! In the current system, if your Rep doesn't put earmarks in, that money just goes to someone else to be spent (Exec Branch). Pay off debt? I really wish they would but it's more like fund another bomb to send to overseas. Change policy and you can get rid of them for the better. Not supporting them in the current system is idiotic.

[Alidor76]

@buckmastr123 I have done quite a bit of research as to the earmarks function and have come to realize that you're correct in your post. It is indeed a systemic problem. I even venture to say that in some cases are valid, but like anything, it's subject to abuse and frequently is.

 My new question is "Is there a difference between earmark and pork barrel projects?"

[buckmastr123]

@Alidor76 This is my understanding: There are certain bills that can be called earmarked expenditures for a number of reasons. However, for these earmarked bills to pass the House there has to be some sort of incentive for Reps to vote for it.  "Pork" gets added to the bill to buy votes for the big project. The problem is that sometimes so much pork gets added to ensure it passes that the pork that was inserted to buy votes cost more than the original project. That's my understanding.

[silverpizza100]

waste and abuse of the tax payer. STFU you liar's! Bull shit! I can't take it ! My ears! My head. Trust this government? Never! Bunch of crooks! Yes Glenn a lot of americans are very stupid! That is why we dont really educate people on their rights. Wast your time learning the useless crap they teach you in school. I dont know what...They brain wash people to believe the lies. They think we are their slaves. Most of you are. Not much more than animals.

[silverpizza100]

Who put's these unethical crooks in jail? Seems like it's a free for all. Nothing get's done and the people get taxed and screwed. No wonder government is big business. But But I thought they where of the people and for the people? So arent we doing it to ourselves? They guy is right when the people don't care about spending in Washington. Because we dont see a connection. Most people dont have time to care becuase the bills need to be payed. Its hard being a slave to the White mans system

[alt2jones]

I still find it sad that no one is laughing at "Over 9,000". Come on, it's an internet meme!

[alt2jones]

"There are over 9,000 earmarks"

WHAT? NINE THOUSAND!? That's impossible, there's now way that could be right!

[mjdietle]

lot earmarks r wrong but so is glen beck

[ericarocks2]

gagz won myspace?????????????

[ericarocks2]

who the fuck is GAGZ WON ?????

[EVOKIN]

Liberal backed mainstream media will never tell you any of this. They're in with them.

Glenn Beck is the man. He show the real truth about our politician. Keep up the great work.

[MiamiIndianTribe]

He's a faggot

[08carnage08]

I'm normally not a fan of FOX News or especially of Glenn Beck but I do think he's got it right this time. 9000+ earmarks are outrageous. Hopefully this is a one off thing and our president can get his act together otherwise i'd be very sad that Hilary Clinton didn't win...

[SuperUsaPatriot]

@ 08carnage08 -- Whether you like Glenn Beck and/or FOX, the truth is, they are the closest to fair and balanced that we can get right now. And the vast majority of the time, they present the truth. THAT is why the Obamanistration is trying to discredit them so hard.

As a Self Proclaimed Progressive, Obama is doing exactly what he and the Progressive Jerks want done, regardless of what americans want, or whether it is good for the country.

[chrismead87]

why arent journalists reporting the news instead of idiots

[comotose762]

Glenn is a bad ass!!!

[RigatoRoboto]

Glenn Beck is a FAT STOOOPID LYING SACK of TEA-BAGGING DOG-SUCKING SWINE-FLU-SPREADING CHILD-MOLESTING BIGOTRY-LOVING Racist Nazi Pig.

[comotose762]

Prove it?

[GaryFoxyFox]

Hang in there Glenn...MILLIONS TRULY LOVE YOU and UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU STAND FOR...DOING THE RIGHT(CORRECT) THING!

[ISayNukem]

And these are the people that are supposed to be holding big business accountable for it's wild spending. These are the people that are playing Robin Hood with taxpayer money. This administration is going to spend the next 4 years having a field day in a playground of our money, and the savior Obama isn't going to do a thing about it, and wouldn't know where to start even if he wanted to. He's not a President, he's a movie star.

[kostyshankles]

The little rodent pissant glen beck is leaving out facts. The earmarks that he is blaming the dems for was approved by republicans way before the 08 election. The dems did not insert any pork in the budget.

[AccountabilityNow]

And you're not leaving out facts, eh? Spoken like a true liberal hypocrite. You know *nothing* about Glenn Beck and what he stands for and you've proven that quite well here. Thanks for showering us with your ignorance.

[silverpizza100]

@kostyshankles what fag? Is he wrong or you just stupid?

[salsalot]

I apologize. I thought it was just a Kennedy building. Now I see it is a nationwide building swindle to reward local contractor contributors *bribers*. Stop the taxpayer funding of those building and lower the natioal debt and our taxes.

[cicero747]

Look at the number of views in this video. 1000. Obama's video get millions of views (e.g. Obama girl - 13 M views). The age of common sense has given way to hype and popularity. RIP GOP

[GaryFoxyFox]

I know...it's it makes me SICK. We truly need to pray for Glenn AND our Country AND our leaders

[channel270]

We need to pray for our troops, this holiday.

[utmost11]

the money for these earmarks/special projects has already been stolen from us in taxes. at least the earmark accounts for what the money is being spent on. getting rid of earmarks wont solve overspending in congress. we need to abolish the tax code...

[seekanddestroy09]

i think we need hulk hogans opinion brother

[JamesLambert25]

Fox News' Glenn Beck strikes ratings gold by challenging Barack Obama

By Matea Gold

March 6, 2009

-From the Los Angeles Times

"We still have 90 seconds -- why don't you tell me about last night's ratings?" he said to his producer in the control room upstairs. The word came back through his earpiece: 2.2 million viewers, more than CNN, MSNBC and HLN combined at that hour. A grin spread across Beck's face.

"Wow, we're closing in on O'Reilly!" he exclaimed jovially. "I'm coming for him!"

[akamola]

Yeah, o'reilly and beck should be really proud for capturing the retarded and senile ultra-conservative bible hugging, confederate flag waving, racist old people demographic !!! You'll find tonnes of those people, i don't know, IN TEXAS AND ALABAMA !!!!

[DABIGRAGU1]

I think of the old story of the frog and the scorpion; Why did you sting me? Now well both die"? "Because Im a scorpion and thats what I do.

These are politicians and this is what they do.

[avkpierce]

nakeder .... there is a difference between President Obama SAYING he is not allowing earmarks and him actually not allowing earmarks. He can say it all day long, but an $8 billion magnetic train from Los Angeles to Las Vegas is a freakin' earmark! Why should people in Colorado, Texas, and Florida have to pay for an EXPERIMENTAL train that isn't even designed, much less a legitimate possibility.

[njpat65]

Can you read nakeder? The stimulus bill is all earmarks/port. You believe what he says? Do your homework, if Obama's mouth is open, he's lying. Read the Chicago papers/back issues.

[akamola]

You do realise that all the earmarks have been inherited from the bush administration and if Obama didn't sign the bill, the government would partially shut down, because most of the funding from the bill goes to domestic agencies. The bill would therefore have to be re-written, and that whole rigmarole would take at least another 4 months.

[ISayNukem]

So instead of spending 4 months cleaning up the QUAGMIRE & starting down the path of *responsible* spending, we should just pass it all now and forget it because, it would take TIME to fix it. And if anybody says anything about it, we'll point fingers at Bush and blame him.This is sounding familiar.I don't think *all* the earmarks were inherited from the Bush admin.I must have heard and read it wrong, so I'll just look the other way and point fingers at someone else. Glad we saved that 4 months.

[nakeder]

Big ignorant Glen Beck. He does not no the difference between the stimulus bill that has NO EARMARKS and the left-over bill from Bush's time that has the 9,000 earmarks. That bill with 9,000 'earmarks' is an unfinnished business from last year.

Obama is not allowing earmarks on his watch.

[DABIGRAGU1]

nakeder:Perhaps you missed the video and the point. Obama and gang were busted, their 2008 earmarks were revealed on the new bill, then Obama's name was removed as the creator of the earmark. An earmark is an earmark, change the word if you will, or should we say: if you must.

BUSTED

[oldmanpoo]

nakeder, you are beyond ignorant. Another mindless Obama sheep.

[BullshitArt101]

nakeder

you suck at life.

[njpat65]

Can you read nakeder? Obviously you didn't read the stimulus bill. IT IS ALL PORK and earmarks.

[uncleburley]

What's happening in our government right now is utterly reprehensable. Thank you Glenn for exposing the truth.

[kirstenannfondren]

Indeed!

[InvestigatorDave]

Name them all, Glenn. Name them all, so we know who to blame, and who NOT to vote for in the next election.