history and constitution. and they ve done it. i translated this in to if they destroy it, we have to restore our faith, our hope. history, you know the truth of who we are and where we came from. you ll have hope. the constitution is charity. how did i get there? well, ben franklin was asked the same question the president asked: whose christianity, whose church will we go to? ben franklin was asked by yale. tell me, what is the american religion? this is how he described it. very simple. one, god lives. two, we will see him when we die. three, read the old testament, he gets a little pissy. he ll judge us when we see him. four, that s why we should serve him. five, the best way to serve him is to serve our fellow man. now why is that important to understand that this is the american religion? it doesn t matter. it doesn t matter what church or synagogue or mosque you go
credit card companies have a special word for customers who pay in full every month. deadbeats. the credit card companies are undermining the economic security of middle class america. they will hang on to them and bleed them for as long as they possibly can. glenn: true. have you cut up your credit cards yet? please do. i remember my folks did it in the 1960s. i must have been very young. but i remember them cutting them up. cut your credit card company. cut the credit cards up. why did my parents do that? it s not the credit card company fault. it s clear, when you borrow money, you pay it back. do we really need an entire government bureau for this? or do we need to send everybody a pair of scissors? this isn t the problem. much more than what she said.
heart. i know he has stable of spiritual advisors like jim wallis and no doubt he s fed by them on many, many sundays. why physically and visibly go to church now? skepticism is healthy, he says. again, i don t know what is in his heart. maybe he s going because he wanted to go. someone more cynical might say because his poll numbers are falling apart with evangelicals. lest you think i m being critical, let me remind you what newsweek howard feinman said in 8-28 a few weeks ago. here is what he said. he should have joined a church here. i m not excusing the hatred or dirty language we re talking about, but some things in politics you have to do at least for the simple. glenn: isn t that the problem? the problem with america,
same exact reason many americans are skeptical of other people that go to church. go or symbolic reasons or because it s what we ve always done. you can go to church on sunday and talk a great game. monday comes and not so much. church is church is church. that is the problem with america. i m not talking about the president. with all of us. did he do this? you have to go to his past, but only back to last wednesday. listen to what the president said last wednesday. we hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal. endowed with certain inalienable rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. glenn: okay, mr. president, endowed by whom exactly?
how do you plan on implementing that? through the free market economy. okay. glenn: sounds harmless, right? unless you understand what he s talking about. even holdren realizes his view is the radical one, because he only blurts out through the free market economy in an attempt to get the reporter off his back. i m sorry. but you re not going to get the average american to dedevelop on their own anytime soon. what does that mean? you have less stuff. you won t have tvs that you have and you won t have the modern appliances in your house. if you think this is crazy, keep listening. you won t have all the things you already have. you ll lose some of those things. this is nothing more than a massive attempt at redistribution of wealth. since people will never magically give up on the modern conveniences they love, how can dedevelopment be accomplished? through the free market system as long as you grab