Posted on 09/17/2010 2:43:45 PM PDT by jazusamo
Kid found a new toy.
We've got too many damned "mandates" in this government. Just about any department seems to be able to make laws because idiot congress gave them the right. Time to shut this nonsense down!
Wow, that’s just incredible. Does anyone see anything resembling a private sector business in that 2nd to the last paragraph? They claim one, but I don’t see one.
Let me give a shining example of envirowackiness that has become so commonplace, that I doubt many make notice of it any more. Or else, there is something fundamental that I just don’t get.
Last weekend I picked up at a street fair a couple of thick promotional drink coasters of a local bank. Made of something that feels like hard cardboard. On them is printed the bank’s name and logo, and the assurance that they were made of “100% recyclable materials”. Fine. Turn them around and see a sign saying they were Made in China. In China? Why would the Chinese care to announce that these throwaway things were 100% recyclable? Well, because that was what the Americans specified in the manufacturing order, yes? To impress me. To ease my environmentally concerned conscience. But. Can we trust the Chinese that the statement is true? Who’s checking? Knowing what we know of Chinese manufacturing practices, I’d sooner bet that they were made of asbestos with a generous dose of DDT to glue it together and keep the moquitos away. Still, that’s a minor point.
The big point is the amount of energy expended to transport these things from China to the U.S., the environmental “damage” done to do it (big container ships polluting the oceans bringing containers filled with drink coasters, imagine), and all the “bad” things done to Mother Earth to give away such trinkets at a street fair, trinkets which could well have been made by hand or with simple tools by homeless persons right here where they live under the local freeway. But hey, we’re saving Mother Earth, let’s not think about it too much. Unexamined life is worth living in self-righteous bliss!
That is the whole thing about these collectivist apparatchiks. They have no clue what it means to offer, sell and then provide a product or service in a free market where others readily and voluntarily partake of your service or product, willingly parting with hard earned and scarce cash in exchange. They don't understand that a free market means that you also have the right to abstain from the market, you know, like a free market for health care.
You won't believe it when I tell you - ready - Jimmy Carter. Remember the gas embargo. He had a solution - shale oil - and voila the DOE. See how much shale oil we use now.
Before DOE we had Energy Research and Development Aministration (ERDA), which Nixon created - which was the AEC with some additional energy research missions, but without the energy regulatory or subsidy parts of the present DOE.
Yay! Then they can just raise our taxes by that much to make sure we don't pocket one penny of our "savings". Besides, unemployed people aren't going to be able to buy these new products. Did they factor the unemployment rate into the "savings"?
Uh, Ms. Meddling Tyrant, maam? Every time we use less of some utility such as water or electricity, they find that they're making less money, run to the oversight board, ramble on about how some of their costs are fixed so they want to raise the rates so they make the same money while providing US with less product.
So you're saddling us with more expensive, probably less reliable products with less robust designs, which will no doubt be difficult to impossible to service ourselves, in addition to STEALING our FREEDOM to make our own buying decisions, all in an effort to save us money you'll then allow the utility to confiscate from us in the form of increased rates????? And which even if we got to keep it would probably be less than the premium we'll now have no choice about paying up front? What would we ever do without you?
Thanks for the ping!
What is a secondary market?
Won't they ship? I live in Arizona. :-( OTOH, Mexico is an hour away, and I'll bet they have working ones too.
At the very least, we need to strip the energy dept, AND the EPA of these “powers” that they in truth DO NOT HAVE! But no one is stopping them, yet.
Yeah, Nix-on-Dick started it and Bush II elevated it to cabinet level! Oy! If we could just get some Pubbies in office we wouldn't have to deal with all this crap. Oh, wait...
Me too, Madame! Trying to pick away at getting the curtains done for fall cleaning. Linen curtains need HOT irons! Couple that with not being able to find many of the common product in stores (like starch) and having to order them online. Of course that means shipping charges, GRRRR I am not in a good mood after all the trouble just to do a routine chore!
You may be right. But I never expected the current ones to last so long, either.
Secondary market is sales of used merchandise at: estate sales, garage sales, Goodwill, or Ebay.
And it doesn’t have to be actually used to be listed as used. I’ve bought items on Ebay with the tags still attached - paid pennies on the dollar. $350 mens dress shoes, still in the box with unworn soles, selling for $30 - great deals do exist.
I have a Europro Iron that’s connected to a tank. The water is heated in this tank and fed to the iron through a hose. It is very hot and the steam can blast out about 2 - 3 feet. I love it.
Obama’s plan is to throw us over the edge, utilizing his policy makers as a weapon of mass destruction.
WE know what is best for you!
Ms. Zoi may want to seek some legal counsel.
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