Glenn Beck - Tea Parties - Media Lies Exposed part 1 of 7

Glenn Beck hosts a special show on May 1, 2009 discussing the Tax Day Tea Parties held throughout the country and he explains what they meant and how the media and many Democrats completely missed the point about them. This is part 1 of 7

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

• Glenn Beck
• Tax Day
• Tea Parties
• Media Bias Exposed

[ghpatriot]

Capitalism= opportunity

Socialism= no opportunity

[lightsearcher1]

William, thank you for posting last night's program. The continuation of the discussion that was broadcast on the net was good, too.

[kdx200r]

THis comment comes to you from a linux computer.

Just in case you were wondering ;).

[kdx200r]

We live in a constitutional Republic.

Just some 411.

I'm talking about the govt doing what our constitution intended....staying out of our way and our lives.

[kdx200r]

The federal governments ONLY role under the constitution is to protect us from foreign threats. The rest of the responsibility lies with the states.

So YES we should cut FEDERAL funding of anything non-defense related and let the individual states run the other programs and tax their citizens for them.

The federal Govt has NO constitional right or obligation to provide services such as health care, education, ect.

[RBurns80]

Do you know what you have instead? You have several different companies that are all very secretive of their research because they want to eventually make a product that they can sell and get rich on. So there is no collaboration, and all the "great minds" of the field are all spread out because they are too focused on becoming rich and appeasing their investors, than making the world a better place.

[RBurns80]

If anything, we should spend more money on research than we do right now. You should look up the pathetic amount of money the government spends on alternative fuels and sustainable energy. How about battery technology? If we had better batteries today we would all be driving electric cards. And we could power our automobiles off renewable energy, because we would have the batteries to hold the powerful from non-consistent sources of power(wind/solar).

[RBurns80]

Maybe companies like Apple and Microsoft did help bring computers to the masses. Computers probably wouldn't even exist, and the internet wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the massive amounts of government funded research that created the massively and massively expensive original computers and the internet.

Nuclear power? Government funded research that would have been too expensive for individuals or small groups to pay for directly.

[RBurns80]

So, you take someone like Bill Gates. The creator of the PC? Not really. Without him we wouldn't be using computers now? Doubtful.

Bill Gates either bought from someone else(DOS) or outright stole(Windows) everything and then viciously monopolized the market and squashed new companies to further his hold over the markets.

If it wasn't for Bill Gates, we might all be using something like Linux right now. Which encourages Innovation and free thinking as well as individual productivity.

[RBurns80]

When I think of the fruits of capitalism, I think of the people that can go from nothing to everything. People like Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Sam Walton. Then I think to myself, well what if they never existed, how would our world be any different? Would it be better or worse?

Sam Watlon could debatedly be bad for our world(no one seems to like Wal-mart), and Warren Buffet is just an investor, overall he has made very little impact on the course of humanity.

[RBurns80]

I guess I think I am in disagreement about a social democrazy(such as ours) limiting the peoples human potential? Are you talking about an individuals right to make as much money as possible? Or are you talking about the potential for society to be innovative and productive?

[RBurns80]

Does this seem wasteful? Sure does. But thats one of the biggest problems. We have to have roads and we have to have military. So we have to tax the populous, and since we tax people. They will always be fighting for their piece, and as long as that happens we will always have wasteful spending. Its a symptom of the system.

On the other hand, there are things we could get rid of that is more of a philosophic point of view.. health care, eduction, assistance to other countries. But should we?