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June 26, 2009 Episode of the Glenn Beck Program

I’m surprised Beck didn’t himself say anything at all about Michael Jackson. All he said was that there was an update coming, but he was not the one who gave the update. He started right in on the Climate Bill that congress is trying to sneak through while people aren’t watching. I appreciate him letting us know about that, but I feel like he should have at least said something. He kept mentioning the release of the new Transformers movie, as if that was the big deal people would be paying attention to.

Anyway, the Climate Bill is over 1300 pages. It’s yet another bill that nobody has read through. They seem to think this is some kind of joke. They really should know what is in these things before they pass them. Even if they have a group of people to sit there and read portions and report back to them, that’s not enough. They are already paid so much money, and get so many perks and benefits, while the rest of us have real work to do. Are they really going to just sit there and make a joke of their job? They should be working harder than the rest of us! Do they even realize how important this is?!

In fact, I think that being a congressperson should be one of the hardest jobs in existence, especially if we are not going to have term limits. It should not be a job they want to go back to except to serve the people. They should be almost like saints. They should get low pay and almost no benefits. That is the only way for a job like that to truly serve the people of the country. It should almost be like charity work.

OK, where was I? Oh yeah, he also mentioned how the people who are involved in this bill, including Edward Markey (the author of the bill) and Al Gore, stand to profit highly from the bill. They say they will not profit from the bill, which is true. They will not profit directly, just from investments in companies that will profit. In fact, Al Gore stands to make a billion dollars from his investments if the bill passes.

Beck does not believe in the science behind global warming, as there are still many scientists who disagree on whether it exists, and whether it is man-made if it does exist. I personally believe that it is important to protect the environment whether global warming exists or not. Who wants to live under a brown sky, and get lung cancer without ever smoking a cigarrette?

I do agree, however, that the way congress is trying to handle the situation is totally backward. First of all, the bill should not be a potential income stream for any congressperson, especially if it is going to cause the cost of electricity and other products to skyrocket. Obama himself said that this is what his plan would do. Just that fact alone doesn’t make any sense at all in the current economic climate.

Phil Kerpin was a guest on the show and descibed the bill as a “watermelon bill:” thinly green on the outside, but deeply communist red on the inside. He also said that it’s basically another bailout scam for huge companies, such as GE, which will profit greatly while average American consumers will suffer from costs of nearly all goods and services going up.

David Buckner (find on LinkedIn) also came on and discussed how companies will be forced to make their products in other countries, which would contribute even more rather than less to global warming, as many of those countries are not green at all. In my opinion, this is just another example of how these fast-moving emergency bills that nobody reads can have a lot of unintended consequences. It’s just stupid.

Darrell Issa (follow on Twitter), Republican California Congressman, was also a guest. They discussed the sweetheart mortgages that some congresspeople got (called “Friends of Angelo“) through Countrywide (including Chris Dodd). Bank of America apparently wants to release the information, but key congresspeople obviously do not want that information released. Both Republicans and Democrats benefited.

Beck talked a bit about $3.5 million dollars that will be spent on a tunnel for turtles. He said this sort of plan had failed in other cases, such as a similar tunnel built for toads that actually ended up killing the toads because it was too hot. As I said earlier in this post, these things can have unintended consequences. I just hope they do a better job on this one so they don’t kill the poor things. There was a really funny clip of it below. He had two turtles named Barney and Frank (LOL ), and they kept wanting to walk in their own pee (turtle part starts about 1:20).

Rus Thompson from albanyinsanity.com was the final guest. He filed a complaint against New York lawmakers for not doing their jobs. Apparently, the Republicans and Democrats won’t talk to each other, and are acting like high schoolers. They are basically not doing anything at all. He is actually pushing for an injunction to prevent them from getting paid until they do their jobs. I wholeheartedly agree. This goes back to what I said earlier. These people get so much money, perks, and benefits, paid for by American tax dollars, and look what Americans get for it!

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