Glenn Beck | Bio
Host of CNN Headline News’ Glenn Beck

Editor’s note: Glenn Beck is on CNN Headline News nightly at 7 and 9 ET and also is host of a conservative national radio talk show.

Dear America: Happy 300th Birthday!

It’s 2076 and we’ve just invented the time-fax machine. (Actually, “we” didn’t invent the time-fax machine, the State did — they pretty much control everything now.)

I’m faxing this back to you in 2008 because that seems to be the year we had the best chance to reverse our course and get back to the vision laid out by our founding fathers — a vision that didn’t include the government being in the insurance business.

I don’t have a lot of time (the State only gives us one 30-minute break per day) so let me give you some advice: Stop worrying so much about who runs the country and start worrying about who runs your towns, your states, and your Congress.

I know you’re all distracted by the presidential election, but for all the money and time poured into it, the truth is that you’re choosing between two roads that will lead you to the same destination. Sure, one may be the Autobahn and the other a two-lane highway, but you’ll end up at the same place either way.

Decades of Republicans and Democrats alike have all chipped in to lead you to where you are today. Believing that one person, from either party, can change that by themselves is a big mistake.

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