Glenn Beck: In 10 Years, The U.S. Will Be Either Libertarian Or A Third World Country

[low preference guy]

From an interview with Human Events (http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=38365):


In the first part of his exclusive interview with HUMAN EVENTS, media personality Glenn Beck predicted that America will be fundamentally different over the next decade, for better or for worse. “Ten years from now, this country will not look anything like it is now,” he said. To Beck, “we will either be a Third World country that looks more like Latin America or we will have totally reinvented ourselves” into a “smaller, faster, more mobile” country. “We’ll just be a tighter, libertarian kind of community,” Beck assessed, or “we will be Third World.”

YouTube - Glenn Beck: 'America Will Not Be the Same in 10 Years' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOKxRQLuorE)

[Ekrub]

heavenlyboy: SNAKE!! :mad::mad::mad:

Slutter McGee: Beck is coming around :cool:

danno: Sheeple!

Did I get it right?

[MRoCkEd]

very interesting

[low preference guy]

I think Beck is correct on this prediction.

[heavenlyboy34]

heavenlyboy: SNAKE!! :mad::mad::mad:

Slutter McGee: Beck is coming around :cool:

danno: Sheeple!

Did I get it right?

nah. I consider Beck irrelevant to the libertarian movement. He will die away soon enough, like every other over-hyped trend.

[noxagol]

I think for once Beck is right.

[mtj458]

This is fearmongering. You don't need need a completely free economy to grow, it just won't grow us as fast. We aren't literally becoming a socialist country, were just moving in that direction. By the worlds standards, we will still have one of the freer economies. I bet a lot of people hear would agree with this prediction if it were made in 2000 or 1990 too.

[low preference guy]

This is fearmongering. You don't need need a completely free economy to grow, it just won't grow us as fast. We aren't literally becoming a socialist country, were just moving in that direction. By the worlds standards, we will still have one of the freer economies. I bet a lot of people hear would agree with this prediction if it were made in 2000 or 1990 too.

Spending $1.6 for every $1 one takes in isn't sustainable whether your economy is relatively free or relatively restricted.

As for your claim, " lot of people hear would agree with this prediction if it were made in 2000", I say a lot more people would agree with it now. In the 2000s there wasn't a tea party movement, and one of the reasons that movement was born were the bailouts. We didn't have trillions openly being robbed to cover the losses of banks in 2000.

[t0rnado]

I agree with his prediction. Consider the dangers of hyperinflation or deflation and you'll realize why the US might be fucked in the next 10 years.

[mtj458]

I never said it was sustainable. There is a difference between saying we are on an unsustainable path and that we will be a third world country in 10 years. We have far too much capital in place here to believe that everyone will be dirt poor in 10 years. The massive government spending isn't helping, but we don't know for sure that it will continue at this rate, and the main driver for economic growth is economic freedom rather than government spending. The country does plenty good enough job protecting property rights, ensuring free trade, and allowing business freedom to still have economic growth with a bloated public sector. Obviously these areas could improve, but I think people here greatly underestimated the amount of stupid government policies a free market can deal with. Unless the government literally takes over the means of production, I doubt were going to drift into poverty over one decade.

[low preference guy]

Obviously these areas could improve, but I think people here greatly underestimated the amount of stupid government policies a free market can deal with.

That's where we disagree. I think you're overestimating the amount of government a relatively free market can deal with. It's enlightening to look at Argentina (http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=781), which used to be among the 10 richest countries in the world. At some point no one could imagine Argentina could become a really poor country, and it happened in a few years.

All that is required for the U.S. to collapse is an event that causes panic and a run on the dollar. Then a huge fraction of the wealth is going to evaporate overnight, and the country will get in chaos. Remember what happened in Germany after they had hyperinflation. It's not guaranteed that something as bad will happen here, but I would bet that such crisis in which the country has to decide what to be will happen within 10 years. Let's post again in 2020 and see what happened.

[Humanae Libertas]

I'm surprised you are all taking Beck so serious. He's an admitted comedian/entertainer. He's no different than Rush 'Oxycontin' Limbaugh.

[mtj458]

I'd bet against a complete collapse of the dollar over the next few years for a lot of reasons. If this is going to happen, I think it will be from putting off social security and medicare for too long rather than anything going on right now. I don't see us as anywhere near Argentina's level of problems either, but I guess we'll see. Our representatives are idiots, but I don't think they're on Peron's level and I think our central bank is a disaster but still more stable than theirs was during hyperinflation. I'd predict stagnation at the worst over the next decade, but realistically I think we'll probably grow despite all of these bad policies.

[Slutter McGee]

heavenlyboy: SNAKE!! :mad::mad::mad:

Slutter McGee: Beck is coming around :cool:

danno: Sheeple!

Did I get it right?

haha. Nice. I am actually not a huge fan of Beck. I just don't see the point of calling him the devil everytime he says something like this.

But I will humor yall.

Hey guys, Beck might be coming around. Don't count him out.

Sincerely,

Slutter McGee

[Koz]

I think we will be nearly identical to Venezuela.

[low preference guy]

I think we will be nearly identical to Venezuela.

it won't be that bad. more like uruguay.

[Vessol]

I think that it's a pretty easily made prediction.

[Koz]

it won't be that bad. more like uruguay.

At the rate we are headed it might be like the USSR.

[farrar]

I'm not really much of a Glenn Beck guy, but I've been starting to respect him a little more as he has slowly began to cool down... he even gave Ron Paul a pretty fair interview awhile back. I still don't like him for his fearmongering... but I don't hate him anymore, like I once did.

[low preference guy]

At the rate we are headed it might be like the USSR.

nah. way before that the whole system will break down and at least a few states will go back to the small government tradition of the founders.

[YumYum]

Bill Gates said we will be a third world country. It will be like the Darfur region of Sudan. 13.5 trillion dollars in debt and still climbing and we're supposed to turn into a libertarian society? Ha!!