en-us http://www.intensedebate.com/users/354331 Comments by starsfan22 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/05/18/51809-when-does-joe-biden-say-something-foolish/#IDComment21800681 Easy answer: He's always been an idiot. During the VP televised debate Joe said, "The idea [Cheney] doesn't realize that Article One of the Constitution defines the role of the vice president of the United States, that's the Executive Branch. " No, ARTICLE TWO of the Constitution defines the VP role. (Article One is the Legislative.) But Joe always gets a pass. Tue, 19 May 2009 05:09:56 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/05/18/51809-when-does-joe-biden-say-something-foolish/#IDComment21800681 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/05/12/51209-has-the-spring-rally-run-out-of-gas/#IDComment21359591 Watch out for bonds as well: The ones that backed Chrysler are taking a 60% loss. I was diversified last year and lost 10% on bonds while the stocks were going down. There won't be many safe havens during the coming inflation spiral. Maybe commodities (like gold), but they're risky in other ways. No one has a crystal ball at this point. Real estate? T-bills? Who knows? Just hold onto your hat! Wed, 13 May 2009 04:13:24 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/05/12/51209-has-the-spring-rally-run-out-of-gas/#IDComment21359591 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955990 URL is "malformed" allegedly. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:21:23 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955990 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955939 HECK yes. I've purchased more books in past year than the previous 20. Not read them all but heading that way. Still HAVE to get "5000 year leap." The pressure is on! Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:20:13 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955939 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955862 Your comments about 'puppet masters' means NECESSARILY there has to be a 'central command' where all of these decisions are made and then orders given out to the minions to carry out. So where is this central command? NBC? GE? Trilateral Commission? White House? Congressional leadership? Exxon-Mobil board room? The UN? These are rather disparate scattered organizations. There is no one common link or 'master' to them all. I believe, and I think most agree, there is a general liberal agenda across the board. Some power centers are self-centered and are destructive in their agenda: GE and NBC. Others are self-centered but power-neutral: Exxon-Mobil (just profit motivated.) Others are power-centered without regard for effects: Pelosi-Reid. Put them all together and we see the overall effect: A socialist tendency as the government tries to rein in corporate profits (called "greed" for effect.) Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:18:16 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955862 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955088 I can relate to the younger American voters because I, too, was an idealistic 21-yr-old and voted for Carter. The parallel is stunning. Carter was the outsider and was the change we thought America needed to right our system from the previous 'evil' Republicans (Nixon-Ford). So the moral is: Education about how both the Reps and Dems are not necessarily reflecting what is BEST for US. The 912Project is an excellent forum to get people talking to each other and then to reach out to those who never thought about anything but what the MSM is telling them. Sun, 26 Apr 2009 16:02:31 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=1256#IDComment19955088 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=820#IDComment18472171 Regarding the suggestion to eliminate lobbyists: They are in DC because that is where the MONEY is. (Primary rule in crime: "Follow the money.") Once all regulatory powers are relegated back to the States, according to the 10th Amendment, then lobbyists will disappear from DC and have to spread out to all 50 state capitals. Dilution of power will dilute their influence. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:43:33 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=820#IDComment18472171 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=820#IDComment18472045 Historical note: It was only due to FDR's "emergency powers" and then the Great Society (with failed welfare programs introduced by the Democrats over the last 50 years) that we are spending trillions on any of these. "States rights" was a synonym for segregation in the 1950s, and that set back the move of most states to recover their powers after WW2. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:39:18 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=820#IDComment18472045 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=820#IDComment18472009 As long as we're wishing: 1. I WISH FOR THE TENTH AMENDMENT TO BE ENFORCED. It is so simple in its construction but sweeping in its vision. 2. Eliminate 90% of the Federal government and return control to the States. There is no basis in the Constitution for the following Depts: Education, Health/Welfare, Labor, Commerce, Agriculture, EPA, OSHA, FCC, etc. All of those functions belong to the States! 3. Once the programs are relegated back to the States, there won't be a need for such a large Federal budget. We're just sending money to DC so it can be sent back to the States with thousands and thousands of bureaucrats at the Federal level to filter it and regulate it. 4. Eliminate 90% of the bureaucratic regulations by putting 5-yr "sunset" provisions on ALL regulations at once. Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:38:22 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=820#IDComment18472009 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/04/04/another-no-vote-on-the-stimulus-plan-from-hugo-chavez/#IDComment18231232 YES, exactly. Get governments out of the way so the free markets can operate. Prime Example #1: Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were abominations to the housing market and subverted it, thus the pickle we're in now. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:08:32 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/04/04/another-no-vote-on-the-stimulus-plan-from-hugo-chavez/#IDComment18231232 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/04/04/another-no-vote-on-the-stimulus-plan-from-hugo-chavez/#IDComment18231119 Chancellor Merkel is a conservative and does not agree with Obama's principles. Interestingly, Germany and France have swung to the Right while Britain and US swung Left (ideologically speaking.) Germany and France are still more socialist than the US, but who knows what will happen to them in the next decade? Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:05:24 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/04/04/another-no-vote-on-the-stimulus-plan-from-hugo-chavez/#IDComment18231119 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/03/30/if-youve-read-the-5000-year-leap-then-you-know/#IDComment18230548 1. That is a good lead to where we might go as a movement. The two-party system & the primary election of the R & D candidates forces voters into two choices -- neither supported by more than 15% of the population in the first place. A third party has little chance. What happened to the "instant runoff" system so that primaries were unnecessary? 2. The other problem is the lack of serious media attention to anyone who isn't R or D. 3. You limited the choices to the R party, but I thought this platform was not ideological. 4. Why did you pick those five interviewers and why do they get the authority to choose? 5. How do we 'demand' anything? The R party isn't beholden to anyone but their own members. 6. I'm back to the third party angle. Isn't that the best route? 7. The real problem, though, is concentration of power at the Federal level. I would like to see the 10th Amendment actually enforced! Keep up the input, you are on the right track. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:44:16 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/2009/03/30/if-youve-read-the-5000-year-leap-then-you-know/#IDComment18230548 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=920#IDComment18229979 Too hard to read all caps, so I skip these. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:19:18 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=920#IDComment18229979 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=920#IDComment18229964 Too many problems with that, like inequality in how much is accumulated, why the assets can't be bequeathed to children, the uncertainty of how much the government can budget as income, and finally, how is the money invested so as to be sure of the 5%. I hope you don't trust the government to invest and return the money -- Social Security only returns 2% on average! Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:18:35 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=920#IDComment18229964 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=920#IDComment18229869 I'm very afraid we are heading down the same road as Venezuela -- with a popular President elected to his office for life after getting the country's Constitution changed to make it all nice and legal. There is currently pending a House Joint Resolution (#5) calling for repeal of the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution. (The 22nd amndmt limits the president to only two terms.) Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:14:07 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=920#IDComment18229869 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=840#IDComment18228781 Dont' give in to the greed of those who put forth such drivel! Taking from the Federal treasury is wrong no matter who gets it. By the way, the number are WAY off: I heard 40 million people would get $1 million each. That is 40,000,000 x 1,000,000 = 40,000,000,000,000 or 40 TRILLION dollars. The world's economy (GDP) is about $50 trillion so there isn't enough money in the world. It's a trick to get people thinking THEY deserve money from the treasury. It's nonsense. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:27:47 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=840#IDComment18228781 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=840#IDComment18228661 THIS particular mess we're in? The number one reason, in my book, is a powerful and out-of-control Congress. We need to take back our representation, end the Federal largess and restrict Federal power. The Tenth Amendment said it all and it has been trampled. 90% of Federal statutes and regulations should be unConstitutional. The Federal Reserve is a central bank and has separate powers to create money (by lending funds to its member banks.) We need to separate FISCAL poliices from MONETARY policies. They are totally different problems. The Congress taxes too much and spends too much. The Fed creates too much money and causes inflation. Or in the latest fiasco it is monetizing the Deficit -- which is a result of Congressional spending, so I'm back to that nugget. Cut the power of Congress to tax and spend! The US economy will then recover quite nicely, thank you. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:22:52 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=840#IDComment18228661 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=840#IDComment18228468 An historic note would be valuable here: The Fed did not exist before 1913. It was created to counter what caused the Great Depression of 1873 -- one that was superseded by the NEXT depression in the 1930's otherwise we would be studying it more often. The problem in 1873 was a constricted money supply. The American economy needs an expanding money supply in order for commerce to flow, esp. credit in the form of loans. The Fed filled that purpose by loaning money to banks. The money was simply created by the Fed. Not "printing money" -- there is no mechanism that could create enough money. The US Treasury does prints currency but that is not how funds are created in the Fed. Its operations are much more voluminous. Some will say we need to return to the gold standard. Most economists agree that is not possible now. However, the central banking system does many faults, one of which it is subject to whim and capriciousness -- and political force. Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:13:54 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/?page_id=840#IDComment18228468 http://www.the912project.com/2009/03/25/you-have-run-out-of-our-money/#IDComment17849469 Yes, many will agree with you. They will say the US was very, very bad to "destroy a country that had not harmed us." Many supporters of the war (Clinton, Biden, Pelosi, Reid among them) would like to reconsider that past action. Nearly all here say the US is a good country. The Iraq War can't be undone but must be finished. More importantly, let's talk about the PRESENT. Your recommendation NOW would be?? Yes, I thought so as well. You have no suggestions to move the country forward except to blame Bush for the past. Well, keep on blaming him, but go and do it somewhere else. Those gathering here want solutions for the problems we have now. Some of us see the current solutions being offered as harming our nation. We want to turn to PRINCIPLES to guide us. "Populist anger" is one thing. Demogoguery is another. To use the peoples' anger to gain power (the definition of a demagogue) is what is truly "shameful." I'm not angered over money, but how people are treated, plus the double standards and hypocrisy used to justify certain actions by the Fed govt. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 05:49:21 +0000 http://www.the912project.com/2009/03/25/you-have-run-out-of-our-money/#IDComment17849469 http://theglennbeck912project.com/9principles12values/#IDComment17122225 OK, no God. No debate about it. I have to ask: What do you base your life values on? The "Force?" Certain books? Your friends? I mean, we all have a 'god' of sorts we look to. TV stars? What is the center of your life? Look to your heart and find what matters most and what guides you. Many, many people have read the Bible and found something there that speaks to them. If you read Ayn Rand or Hemingway and found something meaningful, then perhaps it's there. "Heathen" or not, you do have a god that is the center of your universe. You haven't found Him (or Her.) It's never a person, by the way. Humans are falliable. We each need an anchor or a "home base" where we go when times are tough. I've lost a house (fire,) my first child at birth and then my wife died too soon. I never blamed God. Perhaps you need to keep searching. The PRINCIPLE is important because our Rights come from the Creator. Not government, not from other men. If they are Natural (Divine) then they can't be taken away by a government or by men. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:39:49 +0000 http://theglennbeck912project.com/9principles12values/#IDComment17122225