Bat Crazy Governor Moonbeam . . .
Posted on 12/16/2016 2:09:55 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
Clearly, it's not how many heavy-handed regulations and mandates and subsidies that a state imposes that defines it as a leader
In a fiery speech to the American Geophysical Union conference, California Governor Brown continued his quest regarding climate change, but has apparently revealed a chink in his armor. He threatened incoming President Trump that California will go it’s own way if the Feds reconfigure national climate policy. Insisting that climate change remains the greatest existential threat to mankind, he insists the Paris accord be upheld and that other US States follow “California’s lead.” California’s Governor Brown and other elected leaders insist California exhibits model behavior. But as a successful business man, Mr. Trump surely recognizes the difference between doing the right thing and doing the thing right. Putting aside for the time being whether reducing greenhouse gasses is ‘the right thing to do’ we focus here on whether government programs (from direct control to market-like actions such as carbon taxes) are “doing the thing right”. As the government’s own data shows, states with freer markets are performing better than states, like California, with heavy intervention and regulation when it comes to reducing greenhouse gasses. Relying more extensively, or exclusively, on the free market would provide a no regrets policy regardless of whether reducing greenhouse gasses are the right thing to do.
Jerry Brown and Bill de Blasio are in tight race for country’s looniest public figure.
\jerry brown...follow the money.
Leading on the road to hell
Bill de Blasio is just a self destructive communist. Jerry is a loony.
> “Mr. Trump surely recognizes the difference between doing the right thing and doing the thing right.”
No Tanton. Donald Trump recognizes going the right thing in the best way possible.
The problem with leftists like Brown is they inflate a concern to a problem of global proportions. Vally smog becomes an element that will melt glaciers, the Artic and Antartica.
Then a theory is sought to fit the overextended flawed generalization. PhDs come forward in search of favorable research subsidies and students are indoctrinated into the new ‘movement’.
Then Brown et al. concoct a tax scheme and sell it to the third world with America as both the culprit and the rainmaker. Soon thereafter appears a global ‘mandate’ and an ‘accord’ of state-sponsored persons looking for their cut.
Trump is a problem solver. He will list air and water quality on the list of which to drive real, improved and practical technology and development.
Brown, on the other hand, is a follower of fads and fantasies. He is not solving anything substantially real and never will. He will bet on getting a global carbon tax in place and then when the Artic fails to melt, he will claim victory. That’s his schtick. Take a problem, blow it out of proportion, proclaim only government can solve the overblown problem, sign into law new taxes, pass new regulations and then claim victory when the imagined overblown problem does not materialize.
It was weird. I was just watching a Johnny Carson YouTube, that mentioned Moonbeam. It was from the late seventies.
Johnny was not kind the the gov. Then. I doubt he would be now.
Is 250 billion in unfunded government employee debt good?
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