Glenn Beck renews radio deal; reportedly pays $100 million over 5 years

The money you claim was "tossed in to the pockets of liberal union cronies" must be a reference to the loans made to the auto industry that prevented the entire industry from being bought by hedge funds (such as Bain Capital) and moved to other countries. The loans were secured by options on capital stock, and have been essentially all repaid with a profit to taxpayers of about $2Billion. The industry is preserved, a couple of million remain employed (they are called "taxpayers") and none of them are drawing unemployment checks, food stamps and moving from foreclosed homes. Is that the circumstance you refer to?

Perhaps you were confused and thinking of the $857 Billion that GWB gave to the Reagan Banks without any expectations of the money being repaid? Just an outright
gift, to replace the liquidity that had been sucked from the banks as salaries and bonuses? So, none of the mansions in Boca Raton, Aspen, and "The Hamptons" are foreclosed, and a few are installing Auto Elevators in their digs to "be like the Romneys". Is that the circumstance you refer to?

You so obviously don't understand how the system works. The money given to Beck for his absurd performances comes from the products sold by the "sponsors", which is paid by those who buy or "invest" in the products, being just another form of pillage of the consumers who throw money at such "stuff". His income is a worthless drain on the economy, no better than downloading porn from a website or buying a bag of cocaine from a street corner "entrepreneur". He adds nothing of benefit to our society, not humor, information, or even entertainment.

You are one loon, Larry, living up to your chosen name for nonsense talk. The "message" you so proudly pay for is from the "Top 2% Club" and the
corporations that take you money in exchange for reminding you how well
the thirty years of "Reaganomics" and "Conservative agenda" worked out
for them. The fact that 98% of your fellow citizens, and you, were pillaged
of $27Trillion of savings, equities, and retirement funds is not included
in the "message". Still, person like yourself stand in line and wish for the
return of these programs, notwithstanding the blatantly obvious destruction
they have caused to the Nation and the world.

What you describe as "private sector business" is nothing like "private" any more.
Wall Street's brokerages and the Reagan Banks, in concert with the CEOs and
top management of the public corporations, take the profits for themselves and
leave the shareholders to flounder in the "Greater Fool Theory of Prosperity". The "private sector" is quite small in total impact on the GDP, being pretty much confined to the professions and small, mom and pop operations such as Diners and dress shops.

GWB and Congress gave $857 Billion to the Reagan Banks, Wall Street's brokers, and AIG in 2008, all without even suggesting that any of it be repaid. It was the parting gift of one so indebted to these financial pillagers for their allowing Geroge to sit in the Oval Office for eight years while they gathered your retirement funds with fraudulent things like "asset backed securities" and "derivatives" placed in the accounts of Mutual Funds and retirement trusts they managed. Clever scheme, worked well, still does. Just today one of these "supporters" of GWB and his Texas coalition will be sentenced - Alan Stanford faces the potential of 230 years in prison for his bilking $7-9Billion from "investors".