Common Sense, 5, Part 1, The Cancer of Progressivism

The Author encourages you to read it, keep it with you, and pass it on.

http://www.amazon.com/Glenn-Becks-Common-Sense-Control/dp/1439168571/ref=sr_1...

http://www.glennbeck.com/

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Glenn
• Beck
• Common
• Sense
• Audio
• Book
• Progressive
• Teddy
• Roosevelt
• Woodrow
• Wilson

[JessicaBelle81]

I think Wilson was right that democracies and socialism are one in the same, which is why America was founded as a Rupublic.

[asderathos]

@davefgranger Russia for starters, They had progressive taxation, went to a flat tax and increased revenue, its a rule of economics. Look up the Laffer Curve & Hauser's Law, IF you watched Beck you could see Dr. Laffer explain it himself.

Bush's tax cuts raised 11% of the middle class into the upper class. ACORN extorted banks into lending to unqualified minorities (the fodder for speculation) CAUSING the Mortgage bubble; a significant contributing cause of THE RECESSION. Who's rambling now dumy

[asderathos]

We can agree to disagree but reading dissent shouldn't be out of the question for anyone. 

[asderathos]

So, now you use romanticized imagery, [in ad hominem], & campaign rhetoric of "Getting things done" in the name of "The Little Guy" and then turn around and use a pejorative synonymous with 'lil guy'.

Color Me Not Convinced.

How about giving a little bit of thought to the notion that given equality under the law, men don't need kings [no matter how short their possession of the thrown] to arbitrarily enforce their conceptions of "Justice".

Read John Locke, FREEDOM isn't a "daydream".

[Strollmanx]

@asderathos you feel that you have a reasonable viewpoint and I respect that. Truth be known as long as a year ago I felt Beck was losing it. I remember Dennis Miller saying the same thing and I thought yep.....Beck has slipped his rails.You see T.R. as a dictator and I see Beck as Looney Tunes.....Let's agree to disagree.

[Strollmanx]

@asderathos When T.R. went to the Dakota territory, the Badlands he often headed out for days alone, slept under the stars and loved when the cold rain poured down on him. Even toughened cowboys were amazed. He saw first hand the squalor of the slums of New York and never forgot the experience. He brought real change to America. You resent the man that actually gets things done while others dream of utopias and philosophical musings best suited for daydreaming Lilliputians.

[asderathos]

Goals are not Means, confusing them allows politicians to make the same promises without delivering, or deliver at exorbitant cost to liberty. For starters read "Myth of the Robber Barons" & "Free To Choose"

[India's grinding poverty is relenting exactly because of increased market freedoms.]

Glenn Beck used to absolutely LOVE Teddy Roosevelt, until he read into it more.

The Meat Inspection act was only a statist response to a false communist polemic.

[asderathos]

"Effect" is not the same thing as "Perception". I'd like to know the "Strong Man" who didn't claim he was for the "common man".

"Useful Idiot" is not just some solely interchangeable pejorative, but a historic term for those who support the STRONG MAN to the detriment of Individual political power & rights.

[Strollmanx]

@asderathos So let me see if I understand this clean food, safe medication, eight hour work days, womens rights to vote, land preservation are all bad things?Do you really think that tenement slums, child labor and safe working conditions are all A-okay and not the presidents business? Do you really believe that the trusts could be relied upon to do the right thing out of the kindness of their hearts when GREED was the law of the land? Sounds like Haiti or India to me.

[Strollmanx]

@asderathos Funny thing calling T.R. a dictator when in the 1912 election the G.O.P. in complete disregard and utter distain for "the little guy" gave the Republican nomination to William Taft despite the fact that "the little guy" overwhelmingly voted for Roosevelt in all states that held primaries except one. I am guessing by your name-calling that you failed to find a legislative example to back your claims? Still sticking with generalizations. Good luck with that.

[asderathos]

"Statism" is a broad term & modern colloquialism; of course there is no mention of the word itself.

The Meat Inspection Act, The 1905 Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, The Pure Food and Drug Act, & The National Forest Service, but I haven't really done my homework yet, [& you don't want 'Anti-Trust' evidence of Statism].

I'd wager [if i was a gambler], that the vast majority of his major political actions were statist, being the expert, I'd ask you to name something he did that Wasn't!

[asderathos]

Benevolent dictatorships don't destroy freedom any less because they're well meaning [toward the 'little guy']. The man had no respect for the supremecy of the law, demonized "the wealthy", he was a strong-man Dictator who claimed he would uphold justice equally, after deciding HE WAS The Law.

Dismissing any criticism of your beloved leader as "Labels" makes you nothing short of a 'useful idiot'.

Being against property rights means being in effect against 'the little guy'.