“How is Obama going to prevent us from having second helpings, keeping our houses warm, and driving big cars? You would need a totalitarian system in place to exercise that type of control.”
Obviously, you missed the posting (right here on FR) about the serious attempt to put centrally-controlled thermostats into California homes, which would limit how much control one had over one’s own heating at home.
They MEAN what they say.
I guess it’s almost coincidental that I happen to be reading Ayn Rand’s “We The Living”, which describes life in the Soviet Union in the 1920’s.
The parallels are more than scary.
- John