Glen Beck At CPAC Condescending and Contemptuous Attitude Toward Fellow Americans
The following is an excerpt from Glen Beck’s speech at the 2010 CPAC conference:
“We believe in the right of the individual…. But I’m not going to pay for your mistakes, and I don’t expect you to pay for my mistakes….What we don’t have a right to is: health care, housing, or handouts. We don’t have those rights. Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are. When you give up your right to struggle… you’re giving more of your freedom away.”
This is an argument in defense of feudalism and serfdom. A rich person is making a condescending speech to his intellectual inferiors in defense of the status quo, and for a move further down the road towards a two tiered America.
Glen doesn’t want to pay for your mistakes (i.e. buying a home when your lower class or lower middle class position doesn’t entitle you to one). Glen believes we working class peasants don’t have the right to health care, housing or handouts.
Glen is making the mistake of applying the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to the level of compensation employers pay their workers. It’s not a matter of rights it’s a matter of fairness. I may not have a constitutional right to be paid a minimum wage, but the free market will not stand unless I get it.
Glen, put your copy of the Constitution back in your pocket because I’ll decide what rights I have. You either give them to me, or I’ll drag the whole free market down with me. And when I say me I’m talking about the majority of Americans who will not accept feudalism within the richest country in history.
What we need and have a right to fair compensation commensurate with the tasks being performed. That compensation includes health insurance. Fair compensation means being able to buy food, pay for shelter, and health insurance. These are the basic necessities that allow people to stay alive.
Glen Beck would deny us the very things we need to live. He believes that starvation and the inability to get medical help is a great motivator. Motivated to do what Glen? Apply for that non-existent job, or motivated to rioting and crime. The jobs just aren’t there so the latter scenario seems the most likely result if Glen gets his way.
Ten years ago we had a balanced budget and the country was fiscally sound. George Bush irresponsibly cut taxes and drove up the annual budget deficits to unsustainable levels. The country is going bankrupt mainly because of those tax cuts and the refusal the increase taxes to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
George Bush and Glen Beck got what they wanted. And even though it created this financial crisis they want more government cut backs. They want to fill the gap created between government receipts and expenditures by punishing the working class. And they want us to vote in the assassins to cut the government’s throat (as if there weren’t enough of them in office already).
When it comes to the free market we have no rights other than the ones we fought to achieve. We need to fight harder now to keep what we have won in past battles. The owners of capital have launched an all out assault on workers and those who the free market cannot currently employ. It is not the fault of the working class that we are in this crisis even though Glen Beck wants to blame the victims of unregulated capitalism.
But I, a mere working class peasant and a victim of Wall Street, will not accept responsibility for this mess. And as much as Glen does not want to pay for my mistakes, I in turn do not want to pay for his. Glen’s faulty ideology played out in the Bush tax cuts, (i.e. tax cuts without offsetting cuts in expenditures) are one of among many he made. Smaller government and tax cuts at any cost were a big mistake.
Loss of freedom does not come from asking for health insurance reform. But I will surly lose a lot of freedom when forced into bankruptcy because reform didn’t pass. Glen Beck is the ultimate oppressor/tyrant. He’s advocating the oppression of his fellow Americans who have been displaced by a broken government and criminal corporate behavior.
I object to Glen’s condescending and contemptuous feelings towards my fellow Americans. We would better off with heath care reform than a lecture on how being driven to destitution by eliminating safety net programs is good for us.
