Glenn Beck Speaks to Audience of West Point Cadets, Promotes Socialism

[AnnieBW]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-rodda/glenn-beck-promotes-socia_b_785797.html

On his show last Friday, Glenn Beck did something quite unusual for a guy who makes his living scaring people into thinking that America is on the road to communism -- he promoted an idea straight out of the Paris Commune of 1871, an idea considered by the Commune to be a necessary stepping stone in the transition from capitalism to socialism to communism. And, to make it even more special, Beck did this before a studio audience of West Point cadets and faculty members.

Now, the fact that West Point allowed a group of uniformed academy cadets and faculty to be used as props by Beck is a serious matter in itself, and I'll get to that in a minute, but Beck, in his zeal to slam Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, unknowingly promoting a core step towards socialism is just way too ironic to pass up. And what is this step towards socialism that Beck, in all his ignorance, was so enthusiastically promoting? That government employees and officials should never be paid more than what the average citizen earns.

In a 1911 speech about the Paris Commune -- a movement lauded by Marx as "heroic," and said by Lenin to have been "a practical step that was more important than hundreds of programmes and arguments" --Lenin pointed out the Commune's (and apparently now Glenn Beck's) position on government salaries: "And, as if to emphasize its character as a truly democratic, proletarian government, the Commune decreed that the salaries of all administrative and government officials, irrespective of rank, should not exceed the normal wages of a worker ..." I think maybe that crack research team (or research team on crack) that Beck is always boasting about should have done a bit more research for this show.

[mistertrickster]

1. And since Army officers are gov't employees, it was stupid on many levels. nt

[Scuba]

2. He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[classysassy]

3. Obama need to get rid of Gates

The C.G or super at West Point should be replaced and Gates fired.

[enuegii]

4. Well, I think that radio and/or television blowhards...

should never be paid more than what the average citizen earns.

Or, better yet, considerably less.