Today at the training I am particpating in-I walked out into the lobby so as to be re-united with my cell phone.
On the TV was a worthless douchebag Glenn Beck talking to some cherry picked guest about how America was become the Western Hemisphere’s version of the Soviet Union. If I had a dollar for every time Beck uses the word socialist or facist, I would be rich man.
Does he even know what the word means?
By those definitions the government would own most of the property in the USA. And if you listen to Glenn Beck, you would think that was the case.
There is only one problem-its not true.
Take a look at how far gone we are:
“The hot-pink portion of this pie chart is the percentage of listed American business assets that have recently been nationalized by the American government (ie, General Motors). Obama’s version of socialism is so sneaky you can hardly see it! “
The hardest part about listening to the nonsense that passes for informed discourse these days is not losing your temper while you hear it. However slowly, but surely I am learning to breath in and breath out-and go hunt down the facts.
Won’t change Beck’s mind though. He’s making money by being a jerk-and he knows it.
Uh, Skippy?
Look at the amount of “property” owned by the USG. Also consider the “property” that is “managed” by BLM and DoI and DoD. I think you’ll find that the USG does own/control vast tracts of land–none of which is available to provide any revenue whatsoever to the poor beleaguered states.
Yes, but that did not just happen this year.
Have you asked yourself why such an insignificant part of the economy was deemed too vital to fail and into which we, the taxpayer, were forced to inject hundreds of billions of $? I thought not. Only faggots and 14 year old gurls ask questions like that.
ja ja. ja ja.
That was pretty funny and as classy as anything you’ll see on TV and I get to explain the “joke” just like Letterman for any tools too stupid to see the humor of what I wrote.