Glenn Beck "Normalizing" Poverty

[XanaDUer]

SNIP- Something serious is happening here with Glenn Beck. He is trying to get people to accept the new coming poverty by romanticizing it through color photographs of proud, yet virtuous Americans who struggled through the Great Depression, with qualities of self reliance hearkening back to the era of salt to the earth people who in log cabins survived and grew their own food without dependence on government. A strong European style social safety net would prevent this from ever happening again in America. There is nothing proud or virtuous about hunger or poverty. The truth is Americans should not let themselves been conned into needlessly accepting the coming poverty. Together we must speak out and build a European style social safety net in order to protect the American dream.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/12/5/925448/-Death-of-the-American-dream-why-I-left-America!-American-expats-tale-of-escaping-GOP-class-warfare


From DailyKos on an American Ex-pat who left the US to escape the GOP's war on the poor, working, and middle classes in the US.

[Jim__]

1. Right. It's noble to live like people lived 100 years ago. After you Glenn - n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. He is sick!

[madinmaryland]

3. What a douchebag. Like people 100 years ago had any choice in the

way they lived. They lived that way because they were FORCED to.

What a douche.

[spin]

4. Growing your own food is not always poverty ...

the food tastes far better than what you can buy in the stores and if you learn how to can it, you can have your home grown food year around.

There's no poverty in hunting deer, moose, or hog for meat in your freezer. Once again it tastes great (If prepared correctly. Many people I now actually prefer the taste to store bought meat with all the additives.

While it may be true that many people who live on the lower end of the income scale bay grow their own food and hunt to supplement or provide the meat they eat, they may be better off than the richer people who buy all their food from a grocery store or eat in restaurants several times a week.

But growing your own food and canning it takes work. The reward for the effort comes when you taste your own home grown tomatoes or sweet peas.

I would love to be self dependent. My family intends to move into the country and plant a garden, can the food, do some hunting and attempt to get off the power grid if possible by solar panels or wind turbines.

We are far from rich, but I wouldn't say we are impoverished.

[lonestarnot]

5. Did someone pump air into his head? Is that why it is so big?

Lunkhead?

[gort]

6. It's called Social Darwinism

It's the only time pricks like Beck agree with Darwin's Theory. They are rich because they deserve it. You know, there's a tax for that.

[OneGrassRoot]

7. "I don't know if this kind of poverty exists in America any more."

What a complete douchebag. Absolutely, unequivocally a perpetual douchebag.

:puke:

[Kalyke]

11. I guess he's never been to Appalachia.

Prick.

[Catshrink]

8. He's a tool, convincing people to vote against their best interests

and that up is down, etc. He is a puppet. Who owns his strings? Ailes is too obvious... Kock Brothers? I don't know, but he's definitely "working" for someone or some entity that wants to push the middle class willingly into poverty.

[felinetta]

9. While he does this, Rush plants the seed that poor people shouldn't have the right to vote.

[starroute]

10. Proud? I guess the "shame" part needs to get around more

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-12-02/living/dustbowl.photo_1_migrant-mother-florence-owens-thompson-picture?_s=PM:LIVING

The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and determination -- to her family. . . .

"She asked my mother if she could take her picture -- that ... her name would never be published, but it was to help the people in the plight that we were all in, the hard times," McIntosh says.

"So mother let her take the picture, because she thought it would help."

The next morning, the photo was printed in a local paper, but by then the family had already moved on to another farm, McIntosh says.

"The picture came out in the paper to show the people what hard times was. People was starving in that camp. There was no food," she says. "We were ashamed of it. We didn't want no one to know who we were."