funny guy, is here to ask the questions. >> we have compiled a list of the top five most asked question, sent into ask glenn anything at gmail.com that and most far, is a little thing, health care reform you might have heard of that. >> glenn: really, talking about that. >> and we'll start off with an audience, kathleen has a question for you. hi. >> my question is, about the paradigm shift you talk about. you talk about it a lot, but, could you kind of explain what you mean by the paradigm shift and which way you think it is going? because -- >> i'm not really sure, do i have a bloackboard, i started saying that a year-and-a-half ago, maybe a year ago and the paradigm is about to shift and what i have said, is that everything you thought was solid will be liquid and everything you thought was liquid would be solid. when i first started saying that, i didn't know exactly what that meant. it is becoming more and more clear to me, that... for instance, let's use "the new york times." we grew up reading the "new york times," or avoiding it. and they set the news agenda. soon, that will not be the case. whether they go out of business, or are absorbed and made into pravda by the federal government, i don't know, everything we thought we could counts on and trust, for instance, if i would have told you this... i don't know, ten years ago, who do you trust for many of us we have distrust for our government, we have distrust and should have a healthy distrust but should also have a healthy trust of the people in washington. now, do you really trust the administration? do you trust either party? do you trust the court system? do you trust the congress? either house? what do you trust? i still trust the police officers. and i still trust our military. but other than that, i'm really fresh out of things. so, the things that we thought we could count on, growing up, are all changing. and, we just have to think out of the box. to be able to survive, because only those who look at the exits when they are going on the plane and go, okay there is an exit back there, i've got it, only those people will survive. think the unthinkable. and let's go to one of your viewers from georgia. who sent in his question as a video message. >> i'm sam, from atlanta, georgia. and i'd like to know, how we american people, why can't we have the opportunity to vote for the health care bill on the midterm election ballot? >> glenn: okay. i don't know if that is a gator in armor behind him. which was weird. creepy! >> glenn: a little creepy, it is easy to say we should have our vote for the health care bill or leave it to the american people but that is not our system and that is what the progressives have told us we have, a system of, a system of democracy. our founders all said democracies always fail. we are a... republic. and, i used to think, you know, when i was stupid, i used to think there was no real difference, i gueet it, i know we're a republic, what is the difference? there is a huge difference and in fact the referendums and proposition 8, do you know where that whole idea of having different bills brought up for people to vote directly? california, progressives. it was progressives, because there was corruption and the progressives came in and said, democracy is a better idea and started these things where you could vote on them directly. that goes against what our founders wanted. and it was a progressives idea. yes, steven. >> second more popular topic was the census. people want to know ins an outs of this, just like this sent from a woman, annie b., no last names... >> glenn: witness protection problem. >> and she says i received my census today and really don't feel i should have to give them all of the information they have asked for. how much by law if anything coudo we have to provide. >> glenn: i met the head of census on "fox & friends" one morning and the head guy of the census walked by and stopped and came back and he said, glenn beck? and i said, yes, sir? and he introduced himself and he said, you will be getting a census form. and you will be filling it out. and i said, oh, will i? [laughter]. >> glenn: we have a census form at our house we just got and i'll answer the question, how man people live in your home. period. that's it. that is -- everybody has to make their own choice and the one question there, that people are like, well, give them the phone number. go ahead, give it to them and i've had friends who answered it and honestly these are people who are real hard core libertarians and know the constitution inside and out and they were spooked by how many phone calls they got and how aggressive the government got on, answer the question, answer the question, answer the question. i will tell you, i think you have to answer it yourselves, that is what the constitution calls for. they have added these questions, you know, and we have been answering all of these question, they are sending out for quite some time and my problem is, the government was not out of control ten, 15 years ago, i was just starting to figure this out, you know? and we shunts haouldn't have do the first place and now that i see how much they are gathering, no, no, no, i'm a stickler on the constitution now. >> stickler. fitting in that word, it is a good one. >> glenn: ask for ten dollars every time i use it. >> from webster, they are trying to push it. the next question, was on your refounders effort. from harry k., redondo beach and you looked for 56 men and women in washington to be refounders. my recollection is the number was up to ten and how is this project coming along? >> glenn: the refounders project is one of the more sad tragic things i've seen. we're only looking for 56, we have 11. out of all of the people in washington, we have 11. but i will tell you those 11, i don't even know who they are but, we get phone calls, where is joe? joe is my chief researcher and chief of staff, how many calls do you get from the refounders a day? 6 to 7. different tips a day. from these 11 people. and, they have been responsible for many things, on our show. and exposed many, many things and let me make a plea to anybody in washington, i mean, 11? 11 will stand with the morals and the credibility of these men? only 11? we're looking for people on both sides of the aisle that will just say, look this corruption is bad. america will support people. i mean, the tickle fest was... it was a bit too far but america will support people who have been part of the system, and want out. they just want out. if you are doing it for the right reasons, please, contact us. i don't, like i said, i don't even know the names of the refou refounders, one guy does and he's the most honorable man i know. please, contact us. and, let us help you get out of this system. help refound america. we're going to go to another audience member, jane has a question for you. >> glenn: hi, jane. >> in light of the negative things going on in washington in our nation and the world, what positives can be pointed to and, specifically, what should america and its younger generation, in particular, remain optimistic about? >> glenn: i grew up in seattle, washington. and i remember when i moved to phoenix, arizona, i mean, seattle is cloudy 310 days out of the year. you don't see the sun for 310 days a year. it is amazing. and, i remember when i moved to phoenix, i actually stopped, i was walking out of my car and it like 400° and i was walking out of my car and looked at the shadow and it was so dark and crisp i had not seen shadows like that growing up, in seattle, there are no real shadows and i remember seeing that and seeing the definition of my shadow. years later, i remembered that. and this is what you have hope in. the shadow can only become dark, darkness can only be there, because the sun is so pretty behind you. and as that darkness gathers, light is getting stronger. i am convinced that this idea of faith, hope and charity, that americans are going to -- just like they did with the tea parties and everything else, you know, remember, a year ago, everybody was -- thought they were alone and how many in this audience thought i year ago you were completely alone, it was just you. look at that. look at that. so, now, here you are, does everybody here know you are not alone? okay? you know there are millions of americans that think just like you. i think the secret is they will keep pushing it bigger and bigger and bigger from the state government to the united states government to the global government. as it collapses it will get bigger and bigger and stronger and the darkness will grow, but, i will tell you this: the solution is in the individual, when we start behaving in our own lives, like these guys, when we truly -- how many of us have literally fallen to our knees, today, at least once, and said, thank you, lord, for this country. thank you, for the freedom, thank you for the ability to live here, thank you for allowing me even at the darkest time in my lifetime, what i see coming, thank you for letting me be a part of it. i don't know how it ends, but, thank you. when we reunite with faith, hope and charity, hope, by the way is not just, i got hope. it is truth. truth. and we are good to one another. it fixes itself. it fixes itself. and, it will renew itself and unlike any other place, that has ever been crashed by big government, it may go into, you know, ronald reagan said, if we lose it here where will the world run? he also said, that if this generation loses it, this generation will never taste it again. but i will tell you this: it will be tasted again, because it is bred into us, americans are not european. we will never give up. the government could become -- and i hope -- i'm not talk about this, let's talk three administrations down the road could be the most oppressive administration in government of all time. the french revolution, what a bunch of pansies. wait until you see the american underground. you could have russia come over or china come over and sit on us, they'll never break our spirit. ever. steven. >> deb in california, will you please run for president, i will vote for you. would you? >> glenn: no. no. i wouldn't. i wouldn't. no. first of all, it is a ridiculous notion, i think. you know, my joke is all way, we'd run out of missiles the first week, i'd say, what do you mean, we're out of missiles? the serious answer to that is, we all have a role to play. and, mine is to remind people who they are, and beyond that, i came this close to losing my soul. i lost everything, before, i grew up poor, i made a lot of money in my 20s and i blew it all because i was a bad guy and bottomed out and i lost everything, and i am happy to be broke again. i was happy when i was broke, once i restored my own honor, i'll lose all my money. i will not lose my soul and i don't think that you can go into washington, alone. i think it needs to be a real movement, where you have a lot of people coming in like minded with you and when we restore these things you will not need me but when we restore these things, oh, i would be happy to serve, i would be happy... i mean this, i would be happy to sweep the floors of the capitol building when we restore these, and i would do it, gladly, for free. >> one follow-up question. to that from a charming young gentlemen, let's take a look: >> i got a letter from a guy named... his quote, mr. beck i have a proposition for you. i believe that you should run for president. with bill o'reilly as your vp, and month more dems and republicans and we'll be the bold, fresh party and it is justin and it was written en on a paper bag with the crayon, wants me to be the vp, and you, beck, to be the big kahuna. how misguided. how tragic. >> glenn: bill... it is an age thing. i just, i have more stamina. i could serve a whole term. >> back in just a second. rc >> i'm ilene from san diego, i'm 24 and not a republican, and my question is how much hate mail do you get on a regular basis? [applause]. >> glenn: you know what? welcome back to the program, we're in new york and we have a studio audience and steven, a fox news contributor and funny comedian and if you never saw him in person, avoid it like the plague! [laughter]. >> glenn: very verbs funny. but, so your question is about hate mail. i will tell you this: that i don't even know how much mail we get over here. at fox. but at my building, here where i do the radio show, it takes three full-time people just to go through the mail every day. we get boxes and boxes and it is like, did you ever see the -- did you ever see the miracle on 34th street where, "put it on my desk." it is a little like that. and steven is here with the studio audience, and, more questions. >> we have a question from robert. i believe, in the audience, up next. >> glenn: there is robert. >> thank you, glenn i the there is a lot going on and one thing that concerns me is term limits. will it be put aside because of so many things going on, will the parties stand for it. >> glenn: no. i don't think either party will stand for it and they should. let me ask you, what happened right after fdr died? he was in office four terms, and gathered so much power, i mean, if you look and really study the fdr administration, it's the same thing. it is exactly the same thing. and if you look before that, it was woodrow wilson that was doing the same thing, and fdr was a master of manipulation and he died and they changed it immediately and said, no more, two terms, that is it, and people said that was close, we were this close to a dictator and we have to stop that from happening and why is it good for the white house and not congress? it is ridiculous that we don't have term limits. and no party will do it. the way -- only way we'll change things, the only way, the second week of april, i'm bringing in out of the box thinkers, i'm bringing a group together, one of the guys is from freakonomics and one is john huntsman, a billionaire entrepreneur, and we have all of this group of people who are really out of the box thinkers. they are not politicians, and we'll take that giant budget, and throw it away. and start at zero. now, what does america need to spend? what do we need to survive? let's redesign the government. well, everyone will tell you, that will never happen, term limits, that will never happen and zero set budget, that will never happen. well, okay. let me tell you this: i can guarantee you, if that doesn't happen, america doesn't survive. it doesn't survive. so, let's stop saying that will never happen, when we know collectively it is right. let's find the people that will do it and the way we have to do it is grow them ourselves. right now you don't have them, because we have taught all these people how to behave and told them character doesn't matter and you don't have to pay your tax, we don't do anything, stop teaching them that. let's teach ourselves these three principles and turn ourselves around and journal washington will appear and get it done, but you're right on the money, robert, term limits, has to be done. >> and the question from stella e., still no last name. my question is why haven't you looked at the fair tax instead of the flat tax. >> glenn: i've looked at the fair tax and i believe in a flat tax because it is one page, period. the flat tax -- the fair tax and i know, i mean, you want to talk about 5,000 hate mails, here they come, the flat tax, you'll create the same system, because you can say this particular product, this needs a little more tax and this thing needs a little less... no. no. you pay 12.5%, flat. period. everybody is there. how much did you make? take 12.5% away, send us a check, one page, no special interest, nothing, if you create a system where, well, this particular thing or this item or this category can be changed it doesn't become fair, it becomes 80,000 pages. that is what we have now, we must make it impossible for those people to get into politics and go to washington, and to turn... because it doesn't start out offensive. you know, when the federal income tax started, they said it would never, ever be over 7% at the top. never. they said that because they said there would be a revolution in the streets. in six years, they went from 7 being never, to 75%. now you can't do that. you've got to make it very clear. how much did you make, deduct 12.5, send it in. period. that's it. >> missy from farmington, an important one, she says glenn, how do we determine who are the progressives and who aren't, we need to know before the november election. >> glenn: this one is really, really simple, are they for health care, cap-and-trade, bigger or smaller government? and progressives again, it is the -- this is the way... this is the.... we're buying really cheap chalk. this is like comedy chalk, like the birthday candles you cannot blow out. this is the scale, okay? this is total government. this is anarchy. our founders, when we first in 1776, they put us here. and it was too close, the articles of confederation, it was too close to anarchy and people started rising up and the states didn't trust each other and there wasn't enough government and they came back in 1791 and put us here, very close, by 1900, we were here. and we were -- we have been moving this direction, only ronald reagan, and i should say, coolidge, moved us back this direction. but, i don't think we have ever come close again to the avalanche way point and now we are arguing, people say this is nuts. this area here, this is all libertarian zone. and, everybody says, libertarianism, you can't do that, that is crazy. yes, you can. you just need to be responsible. and you need to know we can't shut down the military and everything. you can't do that. it has taken us 100 years to create a government that is just about here. you can't just in one day create a vacuum on the entire planet and say, oh, we're moving it here. you can't. it will collapse. back in just a second. [applause] >> how is it every night you don't get... with nancy pelosi. i think of 100 things to ask him a day and now there is a camera in front of me and an opportunity and it's all gone. can i just thank him for everything he's done. >> i love you, beck, i legislative you. i want to work for you. give me a job! report, now ba glenn beck in new york. >> glenn itch, crenwich, connec what can we as lay people, do something with the curriculum in schools and when you get to elementary school and certainly, when you get to ap american history. [applause]. >> glenn: we were having a fair tax argument here, and did you hear her question, what did she ask me. >> i was busy, just -- yeah -- >> you want a piece of me? >> by piece, he means they'll bring out security. >> glenn: exactly right. steven, next question. >> actually i think we're going to -- a member of the audience. >> glenn: okay. >> lovely claudia. hi, claudia. >> hi, claudia nelson, have no fear about the last name, and, mom for america.com, we are trying to fight the indoctrination of the school system, on our children. and, we are very concerned about that. i was wondering, what is the number one way you would advise us to go about that? >> glenn: oh, i never -- you will not like this annaswer, homeschool. are you a homeschooler? you are? yeah. i mean, what was nuts, 25 years ago, is essential today. is the best thing you can do is try to convince your school district to go to original sources. because, once you go to original sources, there is no spin, oh, really? really? tell me about these men. because i want to have their own words, taught in school, what is your argument against that? there is no context. no, their own words will provide the context. that is what needs to happen. i'll tell you, i have sat with a group of college students, that are from a university, that only teaches original sources. these kids are off the charts smart. they can think in ways that i have never met other amemerican that think this way and it is incredible. because, they read the original sources, and then say, okay what does that mean, instead of having a textbook, or a professor say, no... this is what it meaps. -- means. i don't care what the guy with the pipe says. you know? i don't care. let me hear it from... i know what the people with the pipes will write about me. i know what the people at the "new york times" and "time" magazine, i have had the conversation with my children, two years ago. i knew what my life was going to be like when i started speaking out. and i talked to my kids and i said, please keep a diary, because, you need to be able to tell your children and the grandchildren, who i really was. because, i know what history is going to say about me. get to the original sources. read the actual words of the people. steven. >> next question from heather. she is 16 in texas, glenn, do you think we can get to the house and senate to take my history exams, could we get them to take these exams and i want -- and the failure rate, they need the lessons more regularly. >> glenn: this is one of the most amazing things i have seen. there are -- since i have been in television, and talking to people that, you know, you have seen on television, for years, that are the i-cons of television -- icons of television and also the people who are supposedly, you know, the leaders of our country, you push them on things like the economy, on the federal reserve, on history, you can see there ain't nothing there and that is one thing i loved about bill o'reilly, when we first went on the bold, fresh tour, i was on a plane with him, and we sat there and talked and i think everybody around us may have wanted to hang themselves, because, we just talked history, back and forth. and, that guy knows history. and that is what we need and the people in washington, no. they know how to position, they know how to read polls, and not all of them. not all of them. but many of them know, you know, how to say the right things. this one is from robert, from new jersey. glenn i have grown very attached to the "we the people" graphic you have had for the last year and before you auction off the original, would you consider making a few million poster sized copies an offering them for sale to your regular listeners. >> glenn: i would only if we could make the proceeds. there is the poster, go to the 828 event. which the originals of these, the originals of these, and, those are going to be auctioned off for the 828 events, as well, the restoring honor in washington, d.c. in august. and, so i would put that up and eel announce [applause]. >> glenn: we're back ask glenn anything, we get so much listener mail, for questions, and we thought we'd spend the night, just asking those question, so we have a studio audience here, and, steven, fox news contributor is here with us and what is the next, who has the next question. >> elaine, right here. >> glenn: hi. >> hi, glenn, how are you, i brought my daughter from the other side, over a year ago. >> glenn: from the dark side, welcome! >> thank you! >> yeah, from the dark side. and i'd like to ask you, who are your favorite and your most favorite and least favorite presidents and why? >> glenn: washington, because he was indispensable, and people trusted him and he was a man of honor and serve with honor and i read the accounts of what he went through and how alone he felt at times and i mean, the stories of george washington, read the book, the real george washington and you will weep and love this man. and thomas jefferson, because he was always searching for answers. i mean, brilliant man. and, never rested on his answers, and never said, this is it, absolutely and later after the french revolution came back and he was for it and then, boy, he said i was wrong on that one and least favorite, woodrow wilson and second least favorite, woodrow wilson. he is somebody that should be taught in every school, how many of us thought he was an evil guy? okay. who even knew -- who even knew him and i started reading him and i'm like, whatever, and, the most evil -- do you know, wood degree wilson -- don't get me started on him, he, the last year, year-and-a-half in office, his wife ran the administration. he didn't let anybody in, she didn't let anybody in to see him and would take his hand and sign the bills, this way. i mean, evil. evil dude. i'm sorry, go ahead. next up is mandy. >> hi, glenn. what do you feel is the most misunderstood thing about jiabao me? >> yes. >> glenn: you know, somebody, a reporter asked that question of me today. that i am... am political. i don't like politics. i don't really care about the parties. i have no interest. never have had any interest, politically speaking. i only care because of september 11th and then, it never came back. i expected that it would be weird for a while and it would come back and it never did. and, as it got weirder and weirder i started looking into it more and more, and i find myself in a place that i think, any one of us, any one of us, if you were in my position, would be doing exactly the same thing. i just find myself in this situation, and i have no choice. i don't want -- i can't wait until it becomes normal, i hope to god it becomes normal again and, you know, i can go and we can have -- go do entertaining shows and have fun and, you know, do things that are less stressful. than all of this. all right, we have time for one more question and we have to -- we'll take a break. we'll be right back. @y [applause]. >> glenn: again, everything on the show -- this is ask glenn anything and i want to spend a couple of minutes asking you a question: i live in new york, which is like -- do you remember in get smart the cone of silence, where -- it would come down and it is like the cone of silence, because -- when it comes down you cannot hear anything that makes sense. and, i get lost from being in this bubble, and this media bubble and everything else. and i am not sure what it is that, if you watch the show every night, what it is you wish we'd do more of? what is it we are missing? what is it -- where are we missing it? anybody? has -- is -- has anybody watched the show? you have one here. okay. >> yeah, actually, i only watch the show occasionally maybe you covered it and i missed it but i guess, i have a bunch of conservative and a bunch of liberal friends and when my liberal friends say things or show a lack of awareness i wonder how you talk to these people, just to begin to convince them or plant the seeds of doubt in their mind they might be wrong and i don't know, kind of where to start. >> glenn: objections. >> it doesn't work -- >> i know it doesn't work. i think that one is going to solve itself here. soon. it is real interesting, how polarized we have become and i admit i am part of that. in many ways, we all are. because, as we were going, i don't think we realized how far apart we were from some of these uber-left people. i think we all thought, especially after september 11th, we are all basically the same. and there weren't people that were really trying to plot our demise. i think the answer is again faith, hope and charity. hope, when we just will be honest with each other. you know, the thing that changed my life was thomas jefferson. and, the question -- question with bowldness of god, for if there be a god, he prefer honest questioning over blindfolded fear and if we can get people to honest and say, look i was questioning george w. bush, the thing on the border didn't make any sense and you will have security and leave the border open, and something was wrong and i was questioning back then and well, if you thought the government was growing too fast, too big and we were spending too much money back then, how does this make sense? it doesn't, please join us on common ground. we can disagree on health care, you know, and welfare and all that and we can disagree but we must purge the system of dishonesty. we have to at least be honest with ourselves. and, that is where it begins. yes. >> how do we deal with the people who just are completely blind? i am talking about this people in congress, and the senate. they are so out of it. how can these people not get it? it is almost like we should be interviewing them in front of a carpa camera and asking basic principles of the constitution and have them in front of the entire world, how stupid they are. >> glenn: this question, how many of you -- you can get politician on every show and we don't do them and don't do guests, usually it takes a lot to get something out of a guest, et cetera, and i value your time. so, i don't want to do that and politician don't have -- i can tell you exactly what they will say. so, do we -- should we do more guests? more politicians? yes or no? yes, we should do more guests and politician. -- politicians. wow. okay. >> put the camera in their face in congress, you voted on this, and -- >> you have that and have you seen the web site where you have people saying, they have asked all the members of congress they can get a camera in front of and say, where do you find this in the constitution? and they all answer the same way. i don't know, we have people looking into that. i don't know and they can sleep at night. >> when i ask people why they don't watch you, especially my sister who is a democrat, the answer is, it is very negative, it is too negative. and, the situation is negative. and that said, i think that with the cohesiveness of the tea party groups and everyone come together, the people who want to go back to the original values, faith, hope and charity, people are really starting to feel bonded together, and the group is growing huge. there is actually a virtual march for april 15 for those who can't attend on-line you can sign up for and 190,000 people already signed up for it. >> glenn: i tell you, there are a lot of positives going on, and i don't know if you guys have noticed the change in our show, in the last year. but last year was trying to figure it out. this year, is now what do we do and i would like to ask you, as an audience and i mean this sincerely. it is very easy to get distracted and pulled off of things. and it is very easy, especially when they are attacking you. because, you immediately say, no, i have to correct that. i don't care any more. so, i need your help, to make sure we stay on track. because this is the answer. it is the answer. and, i ask you, to help me by communicating with the show, being involved in the show, but, also, even if you don't take these things, and share them and say, hey, you have to watch this dvr, watch this dvd, of glenn or whatever, make them your own and if there is somebody that will not listen because of who i am, just bring these ideas to them. because we have got to unite with each other. and it is negative. but believe me it will be much, much more negative if we don't act now, we'll be right back. [applause] president obama: yeah, i took a trip to elkhart, indiana, today. elkhart's a place that has lost jobs faster than anywhere else in america. in one year, the unemployment rate went from 4.7% to 15.3%. companies that have sustained this community for years are shedding jobs at an alarming speed, and the people who've lost them have no idea what to do or who to turn to. they can't pay their bills and they've stopped spending money, and because they've stopped spending money, more businesses have been forced to lay off more workers. in fact, local tv stations have started running public service announcements that tell people where to find food banks, even as the food banks don't have enough to meet the demand. as we speak, similar scenes are playing out in cities and towns across america. [applause]. >> glenn: we -- we have to invite more audience members to come to new york and have dinner with us one night an dent