Every weekday morning, about 6:00 A.M., I get into my car and turn on Glenn Beck. Cruising the Richland bypass on my way to the Hanford site, I sometimes listen to ten minutes more or less of Beck. I say more or less, because sometimes he acts like a two year old and makes no sense whatsoever.


One minute he is a rational, thoughtful man, espousing what is right with America and the next he is the biggest Chicken Little the nation has ever seen. If you believe the right wing pundits then the Democrats want to destroy the nation. By providing the poor and the hungry with food, shelter, and health care, we are conceivably ruining the nation formed by our ancestors.

Now little mention is made of the fact that many of our forefathers employed indentured servants and owned slaves. Health care was essentially a thing only the rich could afford and even then bleeding by leeches was not exactly cutting edge technology. The forefathers made little mention of real equality, the doctrine of all men are created equal pales when the aforementioned servitude is realized. They created a Republic and not a Democracy for the good of the rich, who could not stomach the thought of a poor uneducated person voting for something they could not understand.

Both of our political parties are mean spirited, corrupt, and blind. Neither party has the best interest of the people at heart. What they care about are the corporations, the lobbyists, and the rich who fill their coffers with money.

In the same vein, the talk show hosts are beholding to the same corporations and rich. Would Bill O’Reilly exist without the Fox Network? Would Rush Limbaugh survive if he were not beholding to the rich conservatives? Glen Beck touts the benefits of owning gold. How many Americans can invest the kind of money it takes to acquire gold? By hawking the merits of gold, Beck has pushed up the price, thereby insuring his holdings increase in value as do the stocks of the companies who support him.

Make no mistake, the politicians and talk show hosts only care about feathering their beds and lining their pockets. This is nothing new; it has been this way since at least the aftermath of the civil war. Our politicians and corporations have succumbed to greed and pilfered our manufacturing jobs, sending them to foreign countries and they will not come back. In my mind, they have committed treason for the worst of reasons. Treason for ideological beliefs is a reason I can understand, even if I do not believe it is the way to change. Treason for money is an affront to God. When the worship of money supersedes the needs of your countrymen and you prosper off the misery of the masses, then you are evil, through and through.

However, some would have us believe that the rich earned their money the good old-fashioned American way, by screwing the other guy and getting ahead and they should be worshiped. Punish every corporate CEO that moved a viable, functioning, profitable company, to another country, for their own financial gain. Strip them of their riches and deported to the countries that they seem to like better than us.

That will never happen though, the rich own the legal system, they own the politicians, they own the talk show hosts. The downfall of this nation that Glen Beck assures us is near, started a long time ago. It began with the notion that money, not God, not good, not honor, not family; money was the end all that has to be gained at all costs. Jesus had it right when he said it is easier for a rich man to go through the eye of a needle then it is for him to get to heaven. He did not say it was impossible, just very improbable.