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June 29, 2009 Episode of the Glenn Beck Program

I’m going to call this the “Michael Jackson is still dead” episode. While I understand the reason why he kept saying that phrase over and over, I do wish he had stuck with just a single time. I was sad to find out about it, and the media is already doing a good job of keeping it fresh in my memory. I’d rather he’d just said it once at the beginning.

Anyway, the reason he said it was because of the passing of the climate change Cap and Trade Bill, which passed while everyone was focused on the Michael Jackson story. He showed a clip of a pissed off John Boehner going over a list of all the agencies that would be involved, with the EPA at the center (clip bellow). It’s truly an impressive list, and the House is officially nuts for passing this enormous concoction without even reading it.

(Boener at about 2:15):

Beck also talked about many of the other things involved with the bill, including “green banking centers” (nobody, including Beck, knows what this is, so I’ve included a link), and almost $1 Trillion in “grants,” which Beck said were actually bribes. They went through with this enormous bill, even after a 98 page study by the EPA itself, stating that temperatures will be cooling until about 2030.

In my opinion, nobody really knows how the climate is changing or what effect humans are having on it. As I said in a previous post, however, I do believe we should clean up the environment just for the simple reason that nobody wants to live under a brown sky with oxygen masks or lung cancer. Having said that, the Cap and Trade Bill is definitely not the right way to go about it.

Steve Milloy (author of Green Hell) was on to talk more about the issue. He also said that we need to start focusing on stopping the Cap and Trade Bill from passing in the Senate rather than on the death of Michael Jackson. The most notable part of the discussion was when he said they are trying to bring housing standards up to California’s standards… the state that is about to go bankrupt because they can’t afford things like this (I live in Cali, btw). He also mentioned government help for things like the “shower Nazi,” which we can agree is a fitting name for such a thing.

Kevin Mooney (from the Washington Examiner) and Nancy Thorner (former supporter of Republican representative Mark Kirk from IL) were guests. Mooney talked about the eight Republican “cap and traitors” who  voted for the Cap and Trade Bill, and said they are using the bill to push us into an unsustainable European type situation that will cause job loss and more debt. Thorner is angry at Mark Kirk, and is pushing for people to vote out all “cap and traitors” in the next election. That is definitely the only way to pull back out of this mess. Vote all these people out, and vote in Libertarians, yeah!

Arthur Laffer came on to talk about Barney Frank’s idea to use TARP money that banks are beginning to pay back to bail out California. He said a bailout would be wrong, but would also be the demise of all who vote for it, as other states will see the unfairness in taking money from profitable states and giving it to $0-income states who got themselves into this mess in the first place by spending more than they receive.

I hate to say it because I live in Cali, but I agree that maybe California should just go bankrupt and start over the right way. Maybe people will vote more intelligently next time (although I doubt many of them are smart enough to even know that Democrats are in control of Cali since the governor is a Republican).

I don’t usually go over the Hot List, but there were some big stories in it, so here they are:

• The transnationalist (another take on it) Harold Koh was confirmed last week, and nobody but a few are talking about it.
• The government will probably be paying off student loans. This was a program started under George W. Bush. In my opinion, if we are going to have bigger government in any area, it should probably be in education. Unfortunately, we are looking at bigger government in all areas.
• Research shows that the average income for a government worker next year will be $75,000 as opposed to $61,000 for all other workers. No wonder most younger people are looking for government jobs straight out of college. This is horrible. How can people making less money pay for all the people making more money, especially if more of them move to the higher-paying jobs, paid for by the lower-paying tax payers? I have a headache now.
• We should learn from Michael Jackson’s buying of the Beatles catalog of music. Why was it for sale in the first place? Beck explained how the Beatles lost the rights to their own music because of enormous tax burdens.
• Biggest Hot List item: the coup in Honduras. Beck took this news item as a chance to compare Chavez and Obama, which I thought was weird. The coup was a big deal, but this was his only mention of it the whole hour. He could have been a little more “fair and balanced” here.

After the Hot List, Beck talked about the upcoming 4th of July tea parties. He compared the Janeane Garofalo clip to a video created by DallasTeaParty.org (below), and talked about their invitation to Garofalo to witness a tea party for herself. I thought this was a pretty good segment. That crap that came out of Garofalo’s mouth, trying to sound like she was more informed and holier-than-thou just sounded ignorant and stupid, especially when compared to the DallasTeaParty.org clip.

Full Garofalo and Keith Olbermann clip:

DallasTeaParty clip:

John Tamny was the final guest. Beck and Tamny discussed the Federal Reserve, and Ben Bernanke’s (Fed Chairman) angry response to the possibility of the Federal Reserve Transparency Act. Bernanke acted like the Fed is a fourth arm of the government, and said the transparency called for in the bill would hurt the dollar.

Tamny rightly explained that because the Fed now has more power than it has ever had in history, now is the time for more oversight than ever not less. He also made several other very good points that I agree with completely:

• The government seems to be rewarding extraordinary failure with more power
• Tim Geitner should have been disqualified as Treasury Secretary because he oversaw TARP
• Debasing our currency the way we are currently gives the government more control. This is something people such as Marx and Lenin understood very well, and should be a lesson to us that we should not be heading down this road
• We don’t even know what’s happening in the Fed, and they will be able to do whatever they want, even if the Transparency Act passes. The Act amounts to a joke because it won’t really have any effect.
• The Fed is a private organization. It is not federal as many people assume. I don’t think many people realize that the IRS is not a federal organization either. The IRS and the Federal Reserve are both PRIVATE organizations, and neither of them are actually federal organizations! There is basically no government oversight or transparency of either of these organizations, which is one of the many reasons they both SUCK!

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