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How many of the attendees do you think were there that received Medicare or Social Security?

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

Have you seen this, Thorny?

How MLK, a true Man of Honor, fits into Loon Becks chalkboard

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

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How many of the attendees do you think were there that received Medicare or Social Security?

Some, many, most: who cares?

The fact is it was a great crowd, and everyone of them is going to vote Republican; and some of them are going to take 3 or 4 more with them to the polls.

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I would have gone just to point and laugh.

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ORIGINAL: thornhappy

I found an article about Beck's rally:

"Mr. Beck’s themes were ones he returns to on his radio and television shows, and people in the crowd echoed his ideas, saying that “progressives” were moving the country toward socialism and that the country must get back to a strict interpretation of the Constitution, which would limit the role of the federal government and do away with entitlement programs."

How many of the attendees do you think were there that received Medicare or Social Security?  Does strict interpretation of the Constitution mean you don't believe in the amendments too?  Do they recognize that women and slaves were disenfranchised?

some more stuff...

“The federal government is only to offer us protection from our enemies and help us when we need it,” said Ron Sears, 65, who came on a caravan of three buses from Corbin, Ky. “The states are supposed to control education and everything having to do with their citizens, except when they need federal help.”"
So they really want government help.  Does that include entitlements? Low cost loans to rebuild after disasters?  Where were these guys when No Child Left Behind was passed?  And they expect federal help for the states.
"“My role, as I see it, is to wake America up to the backsliding of principles and values and most of all of God,” he said. “We are a country of God. As I look at the problems in our country, quite honestly, I think the hot breath of destruction is breathing on our necks and to fix it politically is a figure that I don’t see anywhere.”"

Which God?  Usually these guys mean a fundamentalist or Evangelical Christian God, and any other God is a cult or false.

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Can you post links to those stories? Most of what I've found indicates the rally stuck to its promised tone. I read several quotes from people who attended, but cannot find either Beck or any of the speakers taking an obviously political tone. Re that to read one that used the opportunity to beat liberals about the figurative head and body.

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While the crowd at Dunbar was mostly African-American, the audience at Mr. Beck’s rally was overwhelmingly white, though a number of speakers and performers were black.

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ORIGINAL: MsNightShade

I dont consider my self a Becker head, Rush baby or any other moniker when it comes to politics. Government should be and was intended to be a simple matter. I dont think government has nor should have the ability to social engineer. No one person or entity has the right to tell me what to do with my body, who I sleep with, how much money I can make, how much money I can spend what I say or the manner in which I say it, etc. Where I differ from this is with Social Security and Medicare. I think not only should be personally responsible for our retirement, I also think we as a society have a responsiblity to look after our elderly. It's just the right thing to do and I dont personally need a law to tell me that.

Much of the problem with this country is that we, as a society, have moved away from personal responsibility for a great deal of aspects in our lives. Its always someone/something elses problem, somebody else will deal with it, somebody else will clean it up..etc. A great example is the way we have put alot of the education of our children into the hands of publically funded schools. To which there is written proof, that public schools were intended to train the public to be just educated enough to work in the factories for those that ran/owned them. They were never intended to be the breeding grounds for the next scientists, doctors, business people etc.
Additionally, why should I as a person that doesnt have children, be responsible for paying school taxes? Why am I required to pay for your children to go to school?

These are just my opinions and thankfully I still have the right to express them.

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

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How many of the attendees do you think were there that received Medicare or Social Security?

Some, many, most: who cares?

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster
Have you seen this, Thorny?

How MLK, a true Man of Honor, fits into Loon Becks chalkboard