Posted on 06/26/2009 10:01:09 PM PDT by Heather Hogue
This week's dunce's cap goes to the 211 democrats and 8 republicans that stupidly voted in favor of the unnecessary 1200 page climate bill change.
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I nominate anyone who voted for these pieces of crap.
I nominate Dave Reichert, District 8, Washington State. A man who apparently does not know that for every 10,000 gaseous molecules in the atmosphere, about four (4!) are the diabolical and insidious CO2.
Note to Dave: You have been had. You have followed the insane Democrats into lala land.
I have to vote Mark Sanford as Dunce of the week...sorry but his clearly wins hands down.
It is without controversy that there is a great deal of energy coming from the Sun and reaching the Earth. 30% is reflected back into space the rest amounts to about 1KW per square meter across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.
It is also without question that solar power can eventually deliver a large amount of energy for our needs.
And therein lies the truth: EVENTUALLY.
It will take many decades many trillions of dollars to build out the infrastructure to harvest, store and use the energy in an effective way.
The liberal alarmist somehow think all that is needed is to inflict enough financial pain on the poor masses and the switch from that “drug” we are “addicted” to will happen sooner rather than later.
For all of those “dogooders” to either not know or deny the reality of the horrendous impact of much higher energy prices upon the poor, transcends mere stupidity. It actually rises to the level of outright arrogance for them to think they are somehow great and benevolent oracles without whom all of us mere mortals would be doomed to a world denuded of all life because we just could not see with the same clarity the monumental disaster waiting in our dismal future of a planet made too hot by using the finite fossil resources until they are gone.
I ask: If they are so capable of fixing things, why is it that so many of the things they have done in recent decades have failed so miserably?
Just look at the history of financial, banking and economic debacles.
Richard Nixon tried to force the markets to conform . . . didn't work. Wage and price controls only led to shortages and uncompetitiveness.
Jimmy Carter's mismanagement led to record inflation and interest rates.
The savings and loan mess was evidently due to lack of omniscience by regulators. So, the belated regulations “fixed” the problem.
Sarbanes-Oxley was supposed to fix the future Enron's. I don't know if it will but I can tell you the onerous regulations have caused many companies to move their principal business to other countries and cost businesses millions . . . no . . . billions.
All of the needed tools were in place to detect it but Bernard Madoff made off with billions of other people's money and Sir Allen Sanford is running a close second.
Now, we are going to get a whole new raft of regulations that the oracles purport will fix future problems that will be caused by the unforeseen creativity of human beings.
FAH!
This is the same government that came up with the likely unfixable Medicare system. Currently, the future unfunded liability for Medicare is 36 TRILLION DOLLARS or some 2.5 times the annual GDP of the US which is about $14 trillion.
The postal system has never operated over the long run at a profit as opposed to UPS and Fedex.
Amtrack is a money sink that costs taxpayers several billion a year because the users don't pay a fare high enough to support the system.
Lastly, 1200 pages tells (or should tell) all but the stupidest among us that the bill is rife with all manner of special circumstances and holes to attempt to limit the negative impact on the constituents of various Congressional districts. It will create another huge Government agency with broad and omnipotent powers to write rules and inflict financial pain to force compliance.
I have learned from years of computer programming that many special cases in your code to handle many exception to the "rules" strongly suggests that the problem you are solving is the wrong one. The same is true about huge and unreadable legislative actions from Congress.
What problem will they “fix” next?
My imagination leaves me feeling a bit sick.
It should read 1500 pages. 300 coming in the dark of night (3am). Hijacking america one insane bill at a time.
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