Why is it whenever we elect a President, someone always loses their mind? When we elected Bush, Michael Moore became an unhinged idiot- and now that we've elected Obama, Glenn Beck has apparently become unhinged, evidenced by the following:
He's out of whack on point #1. If I'm funding a bank- and more to the point if there's a bank that needs government help, someone ain't doin' something right up at the top. I don't think we should limit executive compensation for the idiots who run their banks into the ground and then have to take our money and throw massive Super Bowl parties (that's right, Bank of America. WE KNOW ABOUT THAT!) Personally, I think we should fire 'em all and start over. Or make government aid conditional on getting rid of the damn fool CEOs that got these banks into the position their in to begin with. It PISSES me off hearing about all these CEOs whining about limited executive compensation. YOU F-----D UP, BUB! Why do you deserve that bonus?
Point #2 about the Employee Free Choice Act- I don't think we should get rid of secret ballot elections and I have a sneaking suspicion that the EFCA's attempt to implement card check elections to organize unions is about making union bosses more powerful that helping workers.
On S-Chip, well, yeah- I think the bill probably got a little idiotic at some point, but it's Congress we're talking about here. Obama should grow a pair, send it back and tell 'em to send him something that actually helps kids not all and sundry, you know? Then I'd be fine with S-Chip. I just hate it when good ideas become Christmas trees for every fool we elect and send to Washington.
But, making all of these not entirely unreasonable points into 'a COMRADE UPDATE' and equating it to 'SOCIALISM'? Hmmmm... someone left a few train cars behind at the station is all I'm saying. And Socialism DOES NOT EQUAL communism!!!! I don't know why people in this country can't get that idea through their heads. Not that I'm an especially big fan of socialism, but ignorance bothers me.
And finally, don't give me all this crap about how 'our country is at stake' and it's times like theses 'in emergencies' when leaders can 'ram down a radical agenda on us all and turn us into good little commies.' No less a President that George W. Bush took advantage of another such emergency (9-11) to launch 8 years of fiscal irresponsibility, the largest expansion of government since the end of World War II and started not one, but two wars.
Suddenly, a typically bloated bill that provides insurance to kids doesn't seem like that radical of an agenda after all, does it?
In short, Glenn Beck, you can suck it!
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