Glenn Beck and Sue in NH
This morning one of our best activists spoke to Glenn Beck on air. Being a native of Puerto Rico, she wanted to talk to him about yesterday’s vote on legislation that would allow Puerto Rico to decide to either completely break with the USA or to become the 51st state. She explained that she grew up in Puerto Rico and had a sister who still lived there and talked about how the progressive party in that country were pushing for the passage of this bill.
The New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (NPP) (Spanish: Partido Nuevo Progresista de Puerto Rico, PNP) is a political party that advocates for Puerto Rico’s admission to the United States of America as the 51st state.
She and Beck then had a discussion about ideologies. Beck affirmed the idea that progressives are in BOTH parties and are for big government while tea partiers are NOT for big government. It’s not left or right, he asserted, but the size and scope of government with respect to the role in our lives that determines where you stand. He offered that some liberals in NH who hate big government might even be candidates for joining the tea party.
While we agree with him on the idea that progressivism is a disease that inflicts both parties here in this country, I disagree that PR’s progressives are liberals, (they are actually PRs conservatives) or that liberals in NH would be able to join the tea party. NH’s liberals are under much more of a progressive influence than Beck might realize. Progressivism is the driving force of our liberal population here.
Now if there is anyone who understands how the “foundations” of wealthy elites are destroying America with their multitude of intertwined astro-turfed groups, it’s Glenn Beck.
Beck’s been doing a standup job of educating people about wealthy foundations such as Tides and others and how they use ‘astroturf’ to wield power and influence and especially take advantage of their direct connection to those in the White House.
However I don’t think he understands just how badly they have affected our government right here in NH at the state and local levels, or what the ‘progressive’ tag means in PR.
NH has a few libertarians who are liberal on social issues and want less government interference, but we do also have a huge progressive influence, funded and fueled by the very foundations Beck exposes on his show nightly. These are the people who run the Democrat party locally.
An example of outsider money being used to change the laws at the town and state levels is that sometimes they appear at town meetings pushing for income taxes, and sometimes they are invited in by tax and spend progressives who took control of the legislature in 2006, to help these Representatives legislate more taxes.
When Rep Susan Almy held a ‘tax summit’ last year, she called in the ITEP and other foundation-funded outsiders to make suggestions about how to raise our taxes, without even considering inviting long-time NH-based taxpayer advocacy groups like CNHT or NHAC. When CNHT arrives at a town meeting to help the citizens who have called them, they often hear complaints that they are an outside group from Concord who has no business there. Fact is, CNHT is a group with an office in Concord, but who is independently funded by small NH donors and whose mission it is to serve local taxpayers. They get no outside or government funding. However, you never hear complaints about groups that are funded by the Rockefellers or Soros who have infiltrated town meetings and who entice locals to submit warrant articles for rejecting the no-tax Pledge, for example.
When Almy was accused of using big Soros money to lobby for more taxes locally for NH, and of not calling on the advice of true taxpayer advocacy groups like CNHT, Almy counterattacked by stating that conservatives have access to mysterious benefactors with unlimited funds who bring lawsuits to ‘disrupt’ local governments.
Let’s face it, locals who might cobble together the funds to challenge a corrupt local town or county government cannot possibly compete with the billions of dollars that fund huge networks of progressive organizations such as the ones Almy invited to her summit, and whose groups are working to destroy NH, by pushing for more taxes and working to smear small government advocates…
Almy is an elitist who doesn’t get it. On average she donates between $68,000 and $78,000 per cycle to the Democratic party and its candidates. This is more than most of make in two year’s time. But she admits she is working hard to raise your taxes, in any way she can.
These are the kind of out of touch, hypocritical NH Representatives that need to lose their jobs in 2010.
Listen to Sue on Glenn Beck this morning…