Comments on: Principle 7 http://glennbeckreport.com Deconstructing Glenn Beck Lies Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:19:08 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://glennbeckreport.com/the-9-principles-deconstructed/principle-7/comment-page-1/#comment-80 admin Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:48:52 +0000 http://glennbeckreport.com/?page_id=123#comment-80 Thank you for your comment, Bless. The intention of this "principle" is to deny several real principles that ought to band us together as a nation by instead espousing the principle of greed. It denies that people do not have social and economic justice. For example, it's in the news today that salaries in the financial industry are going to be higher this year than ever before, just months after Goldmann Sachs and others took taxpayer money by the billions. Now I know these folks at Goldmann and Aetna and GE at the top of the ladder who have destroyed the nation's economy and slashed jobs by the millions and salaries by 50% in some cases, I know they believe that they "earn" their money while they sit in their offices and plot by the hour how to screw the rest of us. (Believe me, I've sat in meetings where that was the topic). But their puffed-up opinion of their own importance doesn't actually mean squat. It's the people down at the bottom of the ladder who actually work. Long hours, for crummy money, doing hard jobs that tear up our bodies and when we can't do it any more they throw us on the scrap heap. This "principle" really galls me as someone who saw the corruption of corporations first hand, saw how they schemed against labor. And Beck, with his $18 million a year which could be classified as "money for nothin'" thinks he ought to take that all to the bank without paying taxes. Screw you, Glenn. I hope the tax rate for your bracket goes back to where it ought to be, 75%. Thanks again for your comment, Bless, I will be updating this page as time permits. Thank you for your comment, Bless.

The intention of this “principle” is to deny several real principles that ought to band us together as a nation by instead espousing the principle of greed. It denies that people do not have social and economic justice. For example, it’s in the news today that salaries in the financial industry are going to be higher this year than ever before, just months after Goldmann Sachs and others took taxpayer money by the billions.

Now I know these folks at Goldmann and Aetna and GE at the top of the ladder who have destroyed the nation’s economy and slashed jobs by the millions and salaries by 50% in some cases, I know they believe that they “earn” their money while they sit in their offices and plot by the hour how to screw the rest of us. (Believe me, I’ve sat in meetings where that was the topic). But their puffed-up opinion of their own importance doesn’t actually mean squat. It’s the people down at the bottom of the ladder who actually work. Long hours, for crummy money, doing hard jobs that tear up our bodies and when we can’t do it any more they throw us on the scrap heap.

This “principle” really galls me as someone who saw the corruption of corporations first hand, saw how they schemed against labor. And Beck, with his $18 million a year which could be classified as “money for nothin’” thinks he ought to take that all to the bank without paying taxes. Screw you, Glenn. I hope the tax rate for your bracket goes back to where it ought to be, 75%.

Thanks again for your comment, Bless, I will be updating this page as time permits.

]]> By: Bless http://glennbeckreport.com/the-9-principles-deconstructed/principle-7/comment-page-1/#comment-79 Bless Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:48:19 +0000 http://glennbeckreport.com/?page_id=123#comment-79 "I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to." Only someone who thought the world owed him something would make that comment. Hard work does not guarantee choosing what is done with the product of one's labor. Actually talk to some African Americans, preferably that you've never met, about what we expect in return for slavery. Really, don't guess or prejudge, but go talk to some of us and learn from the descendants of some really hard working people and I bet you'll come away with more respect for us as a people then you've been conditioned to regurgitate. “I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to.”

Only someone who thought the world owed him something would make that comment. Hard work does not guarantee choosing what is done with the product of one’s labor.

Actually talk to some African Americans, preferably that you’ve never met, about what we expect in return for slavery. Really, don’t guess or prejudge, but go talk to some of us and learn from the descendants of some really hard working people and I bet you’ll come away with more respect for us as a people then you’ve been conditioned to regurgitate.

]]> By: SwampOgre http://glennbeckreport.com/the-9-principles-deconstructed/principle-7/comment-page-1/#comment-28 SwampOgre Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:34:20 +0000 http://glennbeckreport.com/?page_id=123#comment-28 > 7. "I work hard for what I have" and never mind that the environment in which I work, the tools with which I work and any customers for my work exist as the result of others. I don't live in a vacuum or on a desert island. I live in a community and a country with government units that do for me some things I can't do for myself, and it's only fair and right that I pay TAXES to make my society work. I would rather charitably give to the poor directly or through taxes than be mugged or see people beg and starve in the street. > It should be noted that a key element of Christianity is humility. Those who claim to be Christians should feel that everything they have, from their health to their job, wealth and privilege, is due to God's goodness, not their own efforts. To say, "I work hard for what I have" implies both the capacity and the opportunity to work hard, and also of course profitably. My father, a farmer, worked one lousy year for about zero net income. I worked for a year with a foreign maintenance crew who, if they did the same work where they came from, would earn maybe $20-30 per month. Hard work per se doesn't bring about the expected pay. So it's very inappropriate for someone who boasts that America is good and that he's such a devout Christian to think that his earnings are due to his own efforts and spew blanket disparagement at the way our Caesar (govt) makes spending decisions. That's not what his Messiah and the Apostles taught. As a preview of principle 9, we Americans are supposed to be our own Caesar. > 7. “I work hard for what I have” and never mind that the environment in which I work, the tools with which I work and any customers for my work exist as the result of others. I don’t live in a vacuum or on a desert island. I live in a community and a country with government units that do for me some things I can’t do for myself, and it’s only fair and right that I pay TAXES to make my society work. I would rather charitably give to the poor directly or through taxes than be mugged or see people beg and starve in the street.
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It should be noted that a key element of Christianity is humility. Those who claim to be Christians should feel that everything they have, from their health to their job, wealth and privilege, is due to God’s goodness, not their own efforts. To say, “I work hard for what I have” implies both the capacity and the opportunity to work hard, and also of course profitably. My father, a farmer, worked one lousy year for about zero net income. I worked for a year with a foreign maintenance crew who, if they did the same work where they came from, would earn maybe $20-30 per month. Hard work per se doesn’t bring about the expected pay. So it’s very inappropriate for someone who boasts that America is good and that he’s such a devout Christian to think that his earnings are due to his own efforts and spew blanket disparagement at the way our Caesar (govt) makes spending decisions. That’s not what his Messiah and the Apostles taught. As a preview of principle 9, we Americans are supposed to be our own Caesar.

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