“[It’s] a complete waste of resources,” Beck said. “This is taking NASA, and trying to fit them into an organ to play the music of Karl Marx. That’s all this is. NASA should be defunded right now.”
Glenn Beck slammed NASA on his radio program Tuesday, saying it should be “defunded right now” and is being fitted into an “organ to play the music of Karl Marx.”
Beck’s ire centered around a study sponsored by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center claiming industrialized nations have created an unsustainable model doomed to implode, and the solution is to dramatically reduce resource consumption and income inequality.
“Do you see what this is?” Beck asked. “This is nothing more than our government spending money on bogus science … being washed through [the Elsevier Journal’s Ecological Economics].”
Beck said the purpose of the study is “to tell you that you have to have a global structural change away from capitalism,” and for the government to be able to say “we told you” down the road.
“Collapse is coming, guys, but it has nothing to do with the world’s resources,” Beck warned. “It has everything to do with being unhinged from reality. It also has everything to do with the coming technological storm.”
Beck referenced a graph of the U.S. stock market compared to GDP, noting that while the latter “falls off a cliff,” stocks continue to go up.
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