Glenn Beck - Arguing with Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government

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Just the Facts, Man

PAGE 1 * is the system I represented. Forrest McDonald, Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon, (Frederick, MD: Beard Books, 2004), http://books.google.com/books?id=eHjcrOi2hZkC. * In 1881... named Thomas Edison. Forrest McDonald, Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billion-aire Utility Tycoon, (Frederick, MD: Beard Books, 2004), http://books.google.com/books?id=eHjcrOi2hZkC. PAGE 2 * market value of over $3 billion Death of an Era, Time, July 25, 1938, www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883008,00.html. * estimated to be $100 million Death of an Era, Time, July 25, 1938, www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,883008,00.html. * on their cover in 1929 Samuel Insull, Time, November 4, 1929, www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19291104,00.html. * planet to extinction The Declaration of Cuman: Capitalism Threatens Life on the Planet, rabble.ca, April 24, 2009, http://rabble.ca/news/2009/04/declaration-cuman-capitalism-threatens-life-planet. * eight cents in his pocket Forrest McDonald, Insull: The Rise and Fall of a Billionaire Utility Tycoon, (Frederick, MD: Beard Books, 2004), http://books.google.com/books?id=eHjcrOi2hZkC. PAGE 3 * List of items from 1949 Sears catalogue, Mark J. Perry, Young Americans: Luckiest Generation in History, Carpe Diem: Professor Mark J. Perrys Blog for Economics and Finance, March 13, 2009, http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/03/good-old-days-are-now.html. * List of items purchased in 2009, Mark J. Perry, Young Americans: Luckiest Generation in History, Carpe Diem: Professor Mark J. Perrys Blog for Economics and Finance, March 13, 2009, http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/03/good-old-days-are-now.html. PAGE 5 * It has to end. Nasser Karimi, Venezuelan Leader: Capitalism Needs to Go Down, breitbart.com, April 3, 2009, www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D97B37LO0. PAGE 6 * just six of them were complete John Stossel, Chris Kilmer, Sarah Netter, Wal-Mart, Private Sector Moved Faster After Katrina Than FEMA, ABC News, October 15, 2008, http://abcnews,go,com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=6031025. * up and running within ten days John Stossel, Chris Kilmer, Sarah Netter, Wal-Mart, Private Sector Moved Faster After Katrina Than FEMA, ABC News, October 15, 2008. http://a.abcnews.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=6031025. * surpassed the $1 billion mark Charisse Jones, Local Charities Fear Hurricane Relief Will Siphon Donations, USA Today, September 19, 2005, www.usatoday.com/money/2005-09-19-charities-donations_x.htm. * According to a GAO report... paid for by FEMA Jeff Jacoby, FEMAs Follies, Boston Globe, June 18, 2006, www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2006/06/18/femas_follies. * did not appear to meet legitimate disaster needs U.S. Government Accountability Office, Hurricane Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: Improper and Potentially Fraudulent Individual Assistance Payments Estimated to Be Between $600 Million and $1.4 Billion, gao.gov, June 14, 2006, www.gao.gov/htext/d06844t.html. * Counting Down the Fraud U.S. Government Accountability Office, Hurricane Katrina and Rita Disaster Relief: Improper and Potentially Fraudulent Individual Assistance Payments Estimated to Be Between $600 Million and $1.4 Billion, gao.gov, June 14, 2006, www.gao.gov/htext/d06844t.html. * debit cards worth $762,000 Jeff Jacoby, FEMAs Follies, Boston Globe, June 18, 2006, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/
articles/2006/06/18/femas_follies. PAGE 7 * Instant Win Card, Charles Murray, Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980 (New York: Crown, 2008), 8, http://books.google.com/books?id=WVOwye55tlwC. * Government should not support the people. Grover Cleveland, George Frederick Parker, The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland,