Glenn Beck Keynote Speech At CPAC

Last year Rush Limbaugh addressed CPAC, Conservative Political Action Conference, and this year's speaker was Glenn Beck. Here is an opportunity to listen to a man, self-made, self-taught, and who is a student of history.

Part 1

Part 2

Hello, my name is the Republican party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government...

Part 3

40% say they are conservative... 36% say they are moderates... 20% say they are liberals. How are they making 76% feel like they're the minority?

No one is guaranteed happiness!

Part 4

... as I read the Constitution... really the only job of the United States government is to save us from bad guys, protect us from bad guys...

Americans don't need to be taught how to give... how to take care of each other... or how to be charitable... in 2008 the American people gave $307 Billion dollars in charity... second year in a row... per capita, that is 10 times the giving power of France... don't tell me we need to be more like Europe, Europe should be looking over here...

... please stop teaching my children that everyone will get a trophy, just for participating

Part 5

Coolidge took the 77% tax rate to 25 and cut spending by 50%, and following that the Roaring 20's was the largest expansion of the middle class ever

Henry Morgenthau, close friend to FDR, secretary of the Treasury and instrumental in the New Deal said: We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

Part 6

... we need to learn from our own history... grow a spine and stand for the right things... if we don't stand up now and recognize, it's going to get much much worse...