Glenn Beck announces plans for Independence, USA

[baseline bum]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/...233854956.html

Right-wing rabble-rouser Glenn Beck recently announced that he wanted to "go Galt" and create a self-sustaining community, inspired by the philosophy of Ayn Rand's character John Galt from "Atlas Shrugged."

The community will be known as Independence, USA. If and when it is completed, Independence will produce its own food and TV and film content. There will be homes, baseball fields and a theme park. Think: Small Town, USA, but with a Beckish vibe.

Beck announced his plans on "The Glenn Beck Program." The main entrance to the proposed community will be based on Ellis Island because, in Beck's words, that's how most Americans came to the country. There will also be a marketplace, but don't confuse it with your local mall.

"There's not going to be a Gap here. There's no Ann Taylor. You want an Ann Taylor, go someplace else," Beck said in a video announcement. The marketplace, Beck says, will be a place for people to create their own businesses and learn from others.

Other areas of Independence: The ranch (that's where residents will grow food and teach people how to grow crops), the media center (where Beck will film his show and where other entertainers will create movies, TV shows and do entaries), an Alamo-style mission for people to "gather and help others," a research and development laboratory and much more.

The main point, Beck says, is education. "Before you send your kids to college," Beck said in his pitch video, "you come to us. And you spend a week with us. We're gonna tell them exactly, we will show them the truth, we will tell them what they're going to try to do, and we will deprogram them every summer, if you care."

What's Beck's utopia gonna cost? Around $2 billion. Beck says he's willing to take steps to make his vision happen "one piece at a time." Just don't expect to find a Gap. You can watch Beck's pitch here.

[FuzzyLumpkins]

woohoo! totalitarianism!!! the indoctrinating and agrarianism sounds a lot like early Maoism.

[DMX7]

Haha, Glenn Beck loves the Alamo.

[Latarian Milton]

if it means less imported s from china, it may be worth a try at least

[ChumpDumper]

The North Koreans call it Juche.

[velik_m]

if it means less imported s from china, it may be worth a try at least

There is no mention of them making their own tv sets...

[boutons_deux]

"We're gonna tell them exactly, we will show them the truth"

[ChumpDumper]

There is no mention of them making their own tv sets...

Or anything, basically.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Republicans jerking off to pictures of Ayn Rand

[Bender]

Woodbury?

[exstatic]

Pleasantville, tbh.

[Clipper Nation]

Republicans jerking off to pictures of Ayn Rand

Glenn Beck's spank bank:

[George Gervin's Afro]

Sounds Liberty University x 100

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Glenn Beck's spank bank:

Paul Ryan using the job he got at McDonalds in high school as part of his campaign when he only got said job because his mom was tired of him sitting around the house whacking off to Atlas Shrugged

[Clipper Nation]

"There's not going to be a Gap here. There's no Ann Taylor. You want an Ann Taylor, go someplace else," Beck said in a video announcement. The marketplace, Beck says, will be a place for people to create their own businesses and learn from others.

Other areas of Independence: The ranch (that's where residents will grow food and teach people how to grow crops), the media center (where Beck will film his show and where other entertainers will create movies, TV shows and do entaries), an Alamo-style mission for people to "gather and help others," a research and development laboratory and much more.

Beck vastly misjudging his audience, which is really full of fat, inbred neocons who shop at Wal-Mart, are too lazy to ever even consider growing their own food, and don't give a about helping others, tbh...

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Beck vastly misjudging his audience, which is really full of fat, inbred neocons who shop at Wal-Mart, are too lazy to ever even consider growing their own food, and don't give a about helping others, tbh...

truth bombs

If the people at his ranch can't watch Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, they'd start raising

[Clipper Nation]

Son, the people at his ranch could still watch "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" just by paying attention to their own families for once

[coyotes_geek]

I wholeheartedly endorse the notion of Glen Beck and his minions isolating themselves from the rest of us in a self sustaining community. This just might be the greatest idea ever.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

My guess is it'd be similar to these so called "self sustaining" states like Alabama that collect $1.84 in government subsidies for every $1.00 paid in taxes

[coyotes_geek]

As long as they keep to themselves, still worth it IMO.

[DarrinS]

Sounds like an Occupy camp -- only with less public defecation and rape

[coyotes_geek]

So true. Rape is for lib s.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Legitimate rape?

[exstatic]

I wholeheartedly endorse the notion of Glen Beck and his minions isolating themselves from the rest of us in a self sustaining community. This just might be the greatest idea ever.