It’s Not Easy Becoming Green

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• Reader Comments (3)

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  “The message is fairly simple: Meeting the challenge of global climate change will involve an enormous amount of work — solarizing and retrofitting buildings for energy efficiency, manufacturing electric cars and parts for wind turbines, building public transit systems and smarter electrical grids, and much more.”

  It will also require suspending your civil liberties, by seizing control of the economy, and dictating to 300 million people what kind of car they can drive, what type of house they can live in, and much, much more (probably a series of huge, energy based tax increases).  Funny how the right wingers seize your liberty in the name of protecting you from terrorists, while those on the far left do it because of an even more nebulous “threat”:  climate change.

  News flash, Mr. Roberts:  the American public is very sceptical on the issue of climate change (why do the Argos robots say the oceans are cooling?).  They will not willingly pay massive energy taxes, and have their daily choices made for them by an Obama Politburo.  It is one thing to sell your message to a room full of like minded sympathizers.  It will be quite another to sell it to America.  And Obama (so far) looks too smart to try.  The only thing he wants more than getting elected President, is of course…. to be re-elected.

  Posted by John Edwards on Dec 27, 2008 at 4:21 PM

  Does Al Gore really believe Chicago is directly below a Sun Spot? http://stopthepresses2.blogspot.com/2008/12/al-gore-sun-spot-throws-chicago-into o.html

  Posted by stopthepresses2 on Dec 27, 2008 at 11:59 PM

  Here we go again.

  In 1964, over 80% of Black children lived in two-parent family units.  Now less than one-third of Black children live with two parents.  This is a tremendous change, with devastating social costs in broken families, crime, drug use, and social pathology.  What happened?

  LBJ’s Great Society and the War on Poverty (WoP) happened, that’s what.  The War on Poverty paid poor women to get rid of the men in their lives, and cost $6 trillion over a thirty-year period, until it was terminated as a bad job.

  Then during the Carter Administration, the Democrats passed the Community Reinvestment Act 1977 that required mortgages be given to unqualified borrowers.  This fell far short of the damage done by the WoP, so President Clinton made it mandatory, under penalty of law, that mortgages be given to unqualified borrowers, and allowed those bad mortgages to be packaged and sold as high-quality investments.  The cost of this latest Democratic boondoggle is about $1 trillion, but it caught the markets by surprise just as a Marxist was being seriously considered as president, and the resulting panic led to a worldwide markets meltdown, $30 trillion and counting. 

  So, after two major costly, wasteful, ignorant social engineering projects, the Marxists are now peddling global warming/change/cooling, depending on next week’s weather report.  Global warmingchange/cooling will have a price tag that will absolutely dwarf every other expensive, wasteful Democratic program, and will produce even fewer useable results than WoP.

  At some point, sufficient numbers of voters will realize that the Democrats’ objective is to spend your money for their benefit.  Until then, we muddle through Marxist inefficiency and corruption.

  Posted by scorp on Dec 28, 2008 at 7:30 AM

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