Beck says passing cap-and-trade would be "national suicide"

You first, Mr. Beck.

I promise you that ninety-nine percent of Beck's audience spends all their time nodding furiously, while in the back of their minds wondering who this Kappan Trade person is and why he hates America so much.

Is it just me, or is Glenn starting to look a bit porky?

Beck sure holds his hands up a lot. I imagine it's because the right palm says "HYPERBALEE[sic]=GOOD" and the left palm has "BIG WORDS" with a line through it. How else can youe expect him to remember?

No, Glenn... allowing the Republicans to regain control will be National Suicide.

Beck is right on this. Cap and trade will force millions of jobs to relocate overseas. Cap and trade could kill a healthy economy. Cap and trade is a joke. So is algore and the so called settled science.

I have a question for you, Mr. Beck:

How does it happen that most of our goods are made in China in the first place? I certainly hope it's not conservative business leaders looking to improve their bottom line by purchasing slave labor goods at the cost of American jobs.

Also, perhaps if the cost of those China-manufactured goods goes up, we will go back to making things in this country. We could use a few more jobs around here, in case you haven't noticed. My guess is that you can scarcely see beyond the tip of your nose, based solely on the way you contaminate the airwaves with your ignorance.

Beck says passing cap-and-trade would be "national suicide"

"captfoster says passing by your worthless show while flipping through the channels may make one want to commit suicide"

Have to say, Glenn sure is earning all that money he is being paid by his corporate masters like the good little tool he is.

Just an observation here but is Glenn getting chunky around the edges?

Continuing to ignore global warming will lead to world wide suicide.

He really doesn't mean what he is saying about Cap-N-Trade legislation - I know this because he didn't cry.

He cries when he really, really means what he is saying.

It's all about the tears.

OK, let me get this straight, Mr. Beck-
Big business, under Reagan, gave billions to undercut unions, so they could get a better profit margin by shipping jobs overseas, because foreign workers don't cost as much and can be paid pennies on the dollar.
The 90's saw more jobs shipped overseas because of profit. Clinton can't be blamed for that, considering Republicans controlled Congress most of his terms. Advertisers took over our stations and formed the debate.
Shrub cut taxes on big business and corporations because it was supposed to create jobs. I seem to remember Republicans arguing against a modest increase in the minimum wage, because business would lose money.
Now, Beck, because manufacturing jobs exported to China and India lowered the cost of goods, Americans bought them. Gee, you think?
Since when is Glen a learned person of anything? "They feel better having talked to him?" What morons. Listening to him is suicide....

This thread is truly laughable. Much time is wasted leveling dittohead charges and mocking of unsubstantiated claims by the few who are not in the AGW camp, yet a vast majority of the comments here against Beck's claims have little to no substance and are instead simply insults or stereotypes about intelligence levels, or they claim the "deniers" have a lack of understanding of the issues of cap and trade. A few of you even felt it necessary to scrutinize Beck's waistline, the epitome of glib, while offering no counter-argument to his claims.

The tremendous irony to me is that those of you so fully on the AGW /cap-and-trade bandwagon, and there appear to be many of you, are in fact participating in the most extreme example of groupthink to be foisted upon us in a generation.

In an attempt to balance the thread a bit, it is my turn to insult your senses which have apparently been numbed to the droning of Gore, Hansen, Waxman, Markey, and the rest of the Inquisitors who are the true Luddites, flat-earthers, and deniers. You are useful idiots who, like a majority of Americans, have only a superficial understanding of what is at stake with cap and trade. Only a fool would conclude that the bill passed by the house would be good for our economy, but I'm guessing most of you haven't read a single page of it so how would you know? And I'm guessing a majority of you in the AGW crowd aren't even aware of the problems with the IPCC models and the supposed "consensus" attitude. "No, that's just right-wing propaganda...hey, you gonna finish that kool aid?"

Well I for one am a p-o'ed environmentalist. While this AGW puppet show expands to monstrous proportions, the real issues that could be IMMEDIATELY ADDRESSED are falling by the wayside. While trillions will be wasted on the unwarranted, ineffective piece of excrement that is cap and trade, habitat vanishes, species go extinct, and ocean stocks dwindle. While you clowns are busy wondering if Beck is eating too many burgers, animals like Darwin's fox, the black rhinoceros, and the northern woolly spider monkey remain on the critically endangered list, one step removed from extinction. While you Gorebots enjoy your bluefin tuna sushi, over one billion people live without electricity and millions of the poorest in the world die annually from preventable causes (most of those millions are children btw, for all of you compassionate folk who care oh so much).

Your eye is not only off the ball, you are not even in the ball game. The game you are playing is a self-congratulatory candyland fiasco where you don't keep the score and everyone's back is patted. "Great job saving the world today, Billy. Have you seen my IPod?" I implore anyone who is not beyond retrievable and not fully-entrenched in this backward AGW religion to explore the data further and truly dissect that infamous "consensus." For starters, you might want to ask the IPCC to actually include the true effects of the oceans especially, and secondarily the sun, on our climate instead of mitigating them to the bench in your precious false models.

I'll leave you with a quote from Barack Obama, and this is what he said before the election (look up the video if you think this is conspiracy talk--and by the way, he looks pained admitting it): "Under my plan of a cap and trade system electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." And to hammer it further he continues: "Regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I'm capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it, whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money onto consumers."

So he admits that not only will energy costs skyrocket, industries that use electricity, i.e. all of them, would also suffer increased costs that will be passed down to the consumer (not factored into the CBO's oft-quoted numbers). Man this makes me angry. I'm sick and tired of so-called progressives supporting the destruction of our system under the guise of saving us all. Whether you do it deliberately or out of sheer ignorance (I think it's a combination of both), you perpetuate the notion that Americans are horrible greedy people when most of us are just doing our best to get by with the little we have. Now you invite Washington to penalize us for living and breathing and, god forbid, for driving to work or for heating our house.

Cap and trade will cost all of us dearly. If you have chosen to support it, you have chosen the wrong side. If you don't believe me, I challenge you to read the bill in detail. Since it is being touted as a jobs bill, see the provisions included to help those that will lose their jobs. And while you're reading, you may want to peruse the section on nuclear power development. Oh wait, I forgot, that's off the table. Good luck following your Pied Pipers. I'll be busy trudging along my own path, you dittoheads.