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Skriven 2008-06-13 17:35:31 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
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Ärende: $4 gas
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June 10, 2008 - 13:10 ET

National average of gasoline now $4 a gallon for the first time in United
States history, $4 a gallon.

I'd like to thank the environmentalists. No, congratulations on that.
Because you've made it such a pain in the butt to make a refinery or to
drill for oil all for the sake of saving the plants and the animals, we're
paying out the nose for gasoline. Awesome job. No, seriously. We have you
to thank. And thank you. I love you more than life itself. I do.

Now the rattlesnakes are free to roam, those grounds that nobody would
walk on because they're full of rattlesnakes. God forbid we build a
refinery there, start pumping out some much needed oil. No, no, no. Now
you're free to go across that wasteland and stumble into a rattlesnake and
you'll get that warm and fuzzy feeling inside because you know that you're
willing to pay just as much for your car as you do for gas on a monthly
basis, so that cute little slimy, slithery fella can live.

Of course, that warm feeling, that might be, it's more likely that it's
just because the rattlesnake just ripped its fangs into your legs and the
poisonous venom is now attacking your body but you'll probably be dead in
20 minutes or so but it will be a fast death. Mr. Rattlesnake was there.
You can see him as you slowly close your eyes and say, it was all worth
it. $4 a gallon. They say it could be as high as $5 a gallon. Gas DEET
prom today say they are expecting oil by 2009 to be $250 a barrel. Yeah,
yeah.

You know, here's the thing America needs to understand. You've got to
start speaking up. You've got to take the stupid polar bear head off. If
you are standing on a street corner right now saying save the polar bear,
you need to get out of the polar bear suit and start speaking up.

Right now people in Washington are not hearing you. The only ones, the
only solutions that I'm hearing are the ones that are going to make it
worse.

Take the profits, that's what they're talking about today in congress,
taking the profits from the oil companies. We've tried it before. It makes
things much, much worse. They are talking about cap and trade, the EPA
says it will increase the cost of gasoline $1.50 per gallon. What is it
going to take for America to speak up? What's it going to take for America
to grab a pitchfork?

How about this? How about the rapidly approaching lifestyle of the Frenchy
French men? Because that's where we're headed. I can't believe it. As
everybody else is headed towards us, we're headed towards the French. The
French have been paying high gas prices for years and look what it's done
for them.

No, seriously. They can drive mopeds instead of cars. When they do drive
cars, it's Le car. That's so clever, isn't it? Seriously don't you wish
General Motors would have thought of something like it and called it The
Car? That just shows deep thinking. Well, it can only come from people who
just, you know, don't understand the concept of a shower.

I think the French, the only time that they get into a shower is when they
are driving their mopeds and it rains. Is that really the lifestyle we
want to live, really, the French lifestyle? Just like the French, we're
all getting drunk all the time because of crappy lives, eating bread, not
showering and riding mopeds everywhere. I mean, who doesn't want to get
drunk after that?

I mean, you wake up every morning going, geez, I'm French. Just like the
French, our greatest achievement, because we're all jobless, drunk and
have nothing better to do, we'll be throwing splotches of paint on a
canvas and putting it in a giant building to look at which everyone has
time to do because we're jobless, and the paintings look great because
we're all drunk. And so just like the French we'll become angry, smelly,
inferiority complexed little socialist rodents.

I don't understand the socialist movement here in America, I don't. It's a
sad but true fact that at least in the U.S. people are generally against
socialism until it benefits them. And then all of a sudden they are like
these social all of a sudden they are like, oh, no, Mao, love Mao, he's
great. "Socialism, boy, that stinks. Boy, but I just saved a bunch of
money on my car insurance."

It's amazing to me the idea of socialism is picking up steam here. People
are actually starting to call themselves socialists, like that's a good
thing. Look what socialism has done to every other country that has
dabbled in it. Not only the healthcare systems, blow chunks. I mean, I was
reading in USA Today, the front page of the paper today talks about how
police forces are cutting back on, you know, going around in their
cruisers because they can't afford the gas. That's not good. What do you
think's going to happen when they control healthcare? Not only do their
healthcare systems suck but if it's a country that has dabbled in
socialism, gas prices soar, huge unemployment rates, lastly, last
importantly, miserable human beings to be around them. No, they are. They
are just miserable human beings. Think about it.

Do you remember when you finally moved out on your own? I mean, even if
your parents were great, wasn't it nice to taste freedom, start living
your own life, live in your own apartment? Then once you were out on your
own, you got out of your own way. I mean, if you desperately needed help,
your parents, if you were lucky, mine weren't because they couldn't afford
it. They were there for you. But my parents couldn't afford it. I wasn't
that lucky. I had to make my own way and even if I was in trouble, they
couldn't help me. I think the government should do the same thing. Get the
heck out of my way. Help me if I absolutely, positively need it but not to
make it easy.

Under socialism it's like having a parent that just won't let you go.
Imagine your parent running your bank account. Imagine your parent saying,
no, no, no, honey, that's not going to do it. Telling you where your money
should go, telling you exactly what to eat at the time, telling you
exactly what you need to do, what kind of car you drive, setting all kinds
of limits: Make sure you're home at this time. How about if they still
hadn't taken you off their healthcare plan or they were in charge of your
retirement and you had no choice in the matter? Wouldn't that be sweet?

No! You'd be miserable, just like the French...and that smell.

Glenn Beck on $4 gas.


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