i m patti ann browne. the head of the u.n. nuclear agency says japan has asked for help with its crisis. the water levels today fell inside one nuke plant twice leaving uranium fuel rods exposeed and raising the threat of a meltdown. the japanese news report said 2,000 bodies washed up on shore in the province hit hardest by friday s tsunami. today we learned the driver of a bus that crashed in new york on the way back from a casino was once convicted of manslaughter. he had also served time for grand larceny. the accident claimed a 15th life today. read more on foxnews.com. glenn returns in a moment but first bret has look at what is coming up on special report. bret: we look at the emergencies at the nuclear plant. what if anything will nuclear issues there mean for energy production here? join me in 24 minutes for
special report now back to glenn beck in new york. glenn: japan s nuclear meltdown is what everybody is talking about. but there is another meltdown that people should be concentrating on. if you really want to prepare. if you really want to make a difference and be a life raft for someone else. that is the economy. japan has the largest amount of debt in the world. their debt which is caused by giving free stuff, not necessarily in the case of japan, but free stuff. older generation that was promised stuff, it s now 226% of gdp. ours is just only about 100%.
under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. glenn: so without a cap-and-trade program, it s necessarily skyrocketing. have you seen the price of gas? don t worry, ben bernanke says there is no inflation at all. in pennsylvania, power companies are sending notices right now that rates are going up at the beginning of the year, 30%. how do you pay for that? the hand-outs can t last forever and they can t go to everyone. what happens when it runs out? people s homes are freezing. do we do what is now reported is being done in europe? old people are now riding the buses all day and all night to stay warm. here is something i want you to tell your friends. i need you to understand this clearly. things that are happening to us now are by design.
people of new zealand i m just afraid of social justice. and christians. glenn beck is afraid of social justice. he is coming after us. this is probably a good sign he s worried about christians who are really living and preaching gospel of jesus christ, which has christian as its core. it has social justice together. glenn: the jaguar god spooked me here but i m not spooked by christians. i love christians. i am a christian. i am disappointed with people who distort the gospel of jesus christ but this is for him to work out. i hesitate to insist government is responsible for feeding and clothing the poor, rather than each of us individually, jim. are you then calling if for redistribution in wealth in
glenn: six months ago i started something called theblaze.com and it follows a lot of stories that i talk about. but i want to tell you why i named it the blaze. we ve talked about it several times on this program. the blaze of the burning bush. the one that moses saw on mount sinai, the bush that burned with fire, but the fire did not consume. then there was the pillar fire, the same fire that led israelites out of egypt. benjamin franklin wanted that fire in the seal. it s right there. there is the pillar. it s the fire of god, the fire of truth. not a lot of americans know the story of the great seal but the imagery for the seal was never used. it was suggested by benjamin fra