Your Moment Of Glenn: Dubai Make U.S. Look ‘Amish’
Amidst the spectacle of Tiger Woods‘ car crash and the Salahi’s White House party crash, was the equally spectacular (and arguably more important) story of the Dubai economy crash. For those of you interested in a detailed, business-minded background on what went on and what didn’t, Andrew Ross Sorkin has penned this piece in the New York Times For those of you interested in the shorter, slightly more spectacular view, there is Glenn Beck.
Beck took some time on last night’s show to explain the Dubai crisis, as well as put it in perspective. American perspective. Beck described Dubai (fairly accurately) as “Vegas on steroids” and says that the country — which has constructed man-made islands built in the shape of Dubai’s emblem — “is the only country in the world that makes the United States look Amish.” Also, fairly accurate. However! Before we start feeling too good about our comparably modest national lifestyle, Beck wants to know: if Dubai’s economy and lifestyle was modeled after America’s, and their fall has been so spectacular, what should the United States expect? Short, chalkboard answer: California. Video below.
6 comments
Nachi says: Brilliant words of wisdom from our resident alcoholic, drug-addicted Mormon Android. Perhaps his sin-resisting long underwear is too tightly binding??
ImNotBlue says: Ugh… how much more of this angry intolerant racist do we have to deal with?
Oh… just in case it wasn’t clear, I was talking about Nachi. Beck’s point here seems to be pretty much agreed upon across the board.
germ says: I am wondering if an English as a second-language student wrote the title.
ImNotBlue says: germ says:
December 1, 2009 at 3:30 pm
“Mediaite headlines… so easy, a caveman could do it.”
marigrace says: Mr. Beck’s example of the U.S. being like the Amish in comparison to Dubai is interesting. Obviously Mr. Beck knows very little about the Amish. Their simple lifestyles and mode of transportation fools many. In some aspects the Amish are far more progressive, in comparison to main stream America. They have their own healthcare system among themselves. They have a system that takes care of people from cradle to grave, without any help from the government. They don’t have unemployment. They don’t take from the government such as, welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, fuel assistance, reduced housing, free school lunches, grants, etc. They have been living “green” before “green’ was ever in. Their kids only go to school for eight years, yet are better educated than some high school grads.
There will be those who say they don’t pay taxes, but that is far from the truth, they pay all the taxes as the rest of America, except Social Security, which they don’t collect, either.
Sunnyr says: WTG, Glenn Beck! Keep on making the LibTards foam at the mouth! Love it!
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