Beck: “Just like” many of us are “slaves to medication,” many of us are “slaves from government handouts” Written by Media Matters Staff Published 09/16/10 5:47 PM EDT From the September 16 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck: Video file Previously: Beck equates slavery with abortion Beck claims that the government is “taking your children” and making them the “slave to the government and debt” Beck again equates illegal immigration with slavery Beck: Obama administration pushing us toward “dependency and regulation” -- “Our founding fathers used to call it slavery” Beck adds to his long, long list of things that constitute slavery: Debt is “a path to slavery” Beck: Recipients of federal aid have been “taught to be slaves” Beck: Progressive policies create “slavery”; “slavery to government, welfare, affirmative action, regulation, control” After ranting about how “illegal immigration is modern-day slavery,” Beck compares himself to Ben Franklin Beck says he can “make a case” Rathke brothers are “enslaving people through ACORN” Beck: “modern day slave state” being constructed out of ACORN, SEIU, student loans, census and service initiatives Beck: “The government's irresponsible spending is turning us into slaves” Tax deduction change latest Obama proposal Beck claims “involves enslaving people” Beck: “You know what this president is doing right now? He is addicting this country to heroin-the heroin that is government slavery.” Beck says of stimulus package: “It is slavery” Beck again compares recovery bill to slavery
