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The Democrats are working out the details of a massive wealth redistribution bill, all in the name of climate change. This is the liberal nirvana. You take a naturally recurring climatological phenomena and use scare tactics to stampede the great unwashed into supporting your tax and spend schemes. The looter's plan to limit greenhouse gases are not in the name of sound environmental science but in the name of more government. The Democrats want to use something known as "cap-and-trade" to lower naturally occurring emissions by 17% by 2020 and 83% by 2050.

The looters know that this is going to be expensive. So in order to offset the soaring energy costs associated with this plan ... which we will get to in a minute ... they want to create a system where the government would issue pollution allowances. These permits would then be traded in a government-designed marketplace.

Besides this artificial market, created entirely by government for government, cap-and-trade promises to cripple our economy. The Heritage Foundation has done an analysis of how this Waxman-Markey bill would affect our economy by 2035. Now 2035 might sound like a long way off .. but a child you have today will only be around 26 years ago and just starting to raise a family when that time comes. Here are their findings. Waxman's "environmental" bill would:

• Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion
• Destroy 1,105,000 jobs on average, with peak years seeing unemployment rise by over 2,479,000 jobs
• Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation
• Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent
• Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent
• Raise an average family's annual energy bill by $1,500
• Increase inflation-adjusted federal debt by 26 percent, or $29,150 additional federal debt per person, again after adjusting for inflation.

I will guarantee you, folks, that the government already has plans to make sure that low-income Americans will not pay a dime in increased energy costs. This will be just another notch on the entitlement belt.

Speaking of scams .. don't let the government fool you into thinking that ethanol is going to solve all of our problems either. Not only is it worse for our environment but it is going to cost you money. When that ragtag band of tired socialists and communists ran for the hills with the fall of the Soviet Union they immediately started looking for a new vehicle they could use for their anti-capitalist agenda. They found it. The environment. And they're so glad that you're so easily conned.

Don't you worry dear listeners ... we will get government-run healthcare in this country. It is only a matter of time. But just remember that to most people, they view government-run healthcare (or universal healthcare) as "free" healthcare. That would be because they are government-educated fools.

The last thing that universal healthcare is going to be is free. Maybe it will be free to those 50% of Americans who don't pay income taxes. But for a lot of Americans, this grand government healthcare scheme is going to cost them a lot of money in the form of tax increases. Remember, government doesn't earn wealth it seizes wealth. So in order to provide a service like healthcare, it has to get the money to pay for it - and the more you produce, the more of that money is going to come from you.

That leads me to this poll conducted by Rasmussen ... 42% of Americans say that everyone in the United States should have "free" healthcare. So there we go. Now you understand our dilemma. This question is inherently flawed, but I think you understand what they are getting at - it might as well be a right that is outlined in our Bill of Rights ... the right to healthcare!

Interesting to note, however, that by a two-to-one margin Americans reject the idea of free healthcare if it means that they would have to change their own coverage or join a program administered by the government.

So people don't want the government to touch their own healthcare, but they believe that the government should provide it for others.

Tax cheat Timothy Geithner has decided that the government should not impose caps on executive pay at companies receiving bailout funds. Thanks for finally clearing that one up for us, Tim. But he does believe that the government should set policies that would discourage financial companies from rewarding excessive risk-taking.

He says, "I think we can bring about broader reforms of compensation incentives in finance as a whole," not just at companies participating in TARP. "We'll make it much less likely that people get paid to take large amounts of short-term risk at the expense of their firm and the system as a whole."

Now, of course, we need to figure out who gets to define whether or not risk-taking is "excessive." I guess that would be the government. And a quick question for you ... where would our country be today if our history were not full of people who were willing to take "excessive risk" for a fantastic reward.

Today Obama is going to announce new nationwide fuel efficiency standards. This is the government telling the failing automakers what types of cars they can build. How much better off would we be if these automakers could simply make cars we wanted to buy?

Obama and Israel's Netanyahu aren't seeing eye-to-eye on Obama's plan for a two-state solution. Just so you know ... the Arab world will never accept a bona-fide two-state solution that permits the continued existence of Israel.

Obama has laid out a timetable for talking to Iran. Yeah, this ought to go over real well. Iran has a timetable too. Anyone worried about that one.

Are we in for a good old-fashioned congressional coup?

Your next adventure vacation?

Here's something to take note of ... China and Brazil want to use their own currencies, rather than the dollar, in trade transactions. This will only get worse as America slides deeper and deeper into debt.

Apparently Barack Obama is backing off promises to renegotiate NAFTA. Funny how that happens, isn't it?

Here is some potentially good news from Washington ... the card check bills is pretty much dead. I just hate this for the goonion movement.

Here's a name that we haven't heard in a while: Rod Blagojevich. Why is he back in the news? I don't know, why don't we ask Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.

"Progressive" groups are trying to have Bush administration lawyers disbarred for their role in drafting legal rationale for interrogation techniques.

Seven weeks after being ousted by Barack Obama, former GM CEO Rick Wagoner is still on the payroll.

Newt Gingrich believes that Nancy Pelosi should no longer be Speaker of the House, considering her latest brouhaha with the CIA.

What will the politicians think to tax next in order to pay for their government healthcare schemes .. and where will it stop

How much taxpayer money is being spent to put up signs boasting that this project is being funded by your tax dollars?

When are we going to fix our entitlement problem in this country? Medicare, for instance, is paying billions of dollars in fraudulent payments. If you're surprised by that ... you're hopeless.

FOX News explains the current re-branding madness that is happening in Washington.

Here's a rather weird story ... A Texas mother of twins got the shock of her life when doctors revealed that her 11-month-old boys do not have the same father.