*************I don't listen to Rush,**************

I liked Rush when Clinton was in office and Rush was telling his audience that he was "just entertainment."

Then he started to take himself so very seriously and the pompous factor ruined it for me.

On occasion I hear him being interviewed (I don't listen to talk radio ever) and I really like what he's got to say.

Mind you: I'm one of those people who harbor a deep mistrust of government. I've read histories, studied European and ancient history formally in college as a major critical component of my education and I've come away with a sure knowledge that government is a horrible thing when it gets too much power. At no time in history has any government resisted the temptation of s continual acquisition of power. I view government as a dreadful and necessary evil.

I understand that the Constitution is built to limit and restrain government by people who well understood what all governments throughout all history have done and saw it as a terrible evil that needed to be restricted and limited.

Government by definition is the centralization of power. Concentrated Power by definition creates an imbalance. The people end up being ruled. The USA was built so that the government serves and never rules. The Founders created a Constitution that elevated the individual and vest the person with rights that stand as a check against government excess.

We are tossing all that onto the trash heap of history and are creating for ourselves an imperial government with absolute power over every microscopic aspect of life.


Look at how granular the Fed has been in the past telling people that they are FORBIDDEN to grow food in home gardens.
supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/h..._ZS.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn
www.oyez.org/cases/1940-...942/1942_59/
Read it. A farmer wanted to grow wheat to feed his pigs which he slaughtered for his own family's consumption and the Fed stepped in and ordered him to desist. This was done under the Commerce Clause.

www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/s...ndex.html
Study this with especial attention to the commerce clause.

That's what government can do with anything at all that is traded in interstate commerce - OR - might possibly in your wildest dreams have some impact on interstate commerce - as did farmer Filburn's itty bitty wheat crop.


Then ask yourselves how much more power the Fed will have when it has a vested interest in your personal health and hygiene all the way down to your mental state.
What invasions will be possible when the Fed can simply reach out and control every single thing about your life to the food you eat the music you listent to the exercise you get and can force you to surrender all your pribvacy to give government the power to regulate and manage everyting about you.
tribes.tribe.net/america/t...890eeb36bb

Think about unintended consequences.

*********i can't get past his sententious, histrionic presentation enough
to be able to listen to what he says for longer than a few minutes**********

When he first came i on the air I laughed at him and dismissed him as a lightweight clown, as a know nothing moron who would have a hard time signing his own name without a cue card.

He has since found a serious voice and has something important to say.

Now the man is saying exactly what is going on in my mind. He is looking at too much power being sought by too few people and for reasons that appear too alien to everything that is American.

When I hear him now, I cheer.

****************I think you are so mentally ill that you are utterly beyond any sort of help.
Either that or you are the crudest jokester who ever lived, a buffoon so intent on posting ridiculous nonsense that you have no interest in whether or not anybody pays any attention to what you say.*******************

See what I mean?

The mere mention of the name Glen Beck has sent you into a frenzy of pointless name calling and unfocused rage.
You are not capable of forming a cogent thought or reply so instead you simply lash out with all that ugliness.