Sarah goosed the Libtards so bad with her oped piece they are wetting their panties only a couple hours after her letter was published in the WaPoo.
Posted on 07/14/2009 6:43:27 AM PDT by Zakeet
If you're wondering what Sarah Palin will do after leaving the Alaska governor's office, look no further than her op-ed in the this morning's Washington Post. She writes, "at risk of disappointing the chattering class, let me make clear what is foremost on my mind and where my focus will be: I am deeply concerned about President Obama's cap-and-trade energy plan, and I believe it is an enormous threat to our economy."
As a card-carrying member of the chattering class, let me say that I am in indeed disappointed by this development. Not because Palin is showing a greater interest in policy, or because she'll be focusing on an issue that's near and dear to my heart. I'm disappointed because Palin's op-ed displays an ignorance for the subject so profound it's almost gutsy.
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The point of cap and trade is to solve a problem of social cost: As an energy consumer, I am imposing a cost on society (pollution) that I do not take into account when I make the original decision to consume.
This happens all the time. My decision to drive creates traffic that imposes a cost on society. A company's decision to fish in the ocean imposes a cost on the world's common stock of fisheries. A banker's decision to take on a huge amount of risk creates danger for the economy as a whole. The problem is that none of these private actors adequately bears the cost of their decisions. So, the usual solution is to increase the price of these decisions -- with congestion charges, or private property rights, or taxes -- so that private consumers take into account social costs.
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I think this is a small price to pay. Why doesn't Sarah Palin?
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Sarah goosed the Libtards so bad with her oped piece they are wetting their panties only a couple hours after her letter was published in the WaPoo.
I think Sarah Palin sees it crystal clear
“I think this is a small price to pay”
You are clearly a dumbass.
Boy are the Libs soiling their pants....I just read Sarah’s article in the WPost and now it becomes clear. It’s a Freeper must read.
I think Conor Clarke is a moron.
“Consuming energy produces pollution” is a false premise that we should not allow them to argue from.
CO2 is plant food, not “pollution”.
I said this earlier this morning.
It will be ignored and she will be castigated for being a woman telling the men what to do.
11 posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 6:04:47 AM by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
Because she's not a liberal. Don't make us pay for your false belief in global warming junk science.
Oh BS. The point of Cap and Tax is just that tax, tax, tax in an effort to further maximize bureaucratic control of our lives by who write the tax laws.
The taxes the Gov collects on energy will go for their pet causes of socialism; it will do NOTHING to recover the “costs” of global warming.
Absolutely the funniest joke ever... BUT IT'S ON US !!!
Let it sink in.
Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter.
Does anybody out there have any memory of the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY ...... during the Carter Administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line .. we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember.
Ready???????
It was very simple...
and at the time everybody thought it very appropriate...
The 'Department of Energy' was instituted on 8-04-1977
TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh?????
AND NOW IT'S 2009,
32 YEARS LATER ...
AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS NECESSARY DEPARTMENT IS AT $24,200,000,000 A YEAR!
IT HAS
16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES
AND APPROXIMATELY
100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES
AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, 'WHAT WAS I THINKING?'
Ah, yes, good ole bureaucracy..
And NOW we are going to turn the Banking System, Health Care & the Auto Industry over to them?
Thank you for your cooperation.
What is the “social cost” when millions are rendered unemployed for a program that will not solve the “problem” that it alledgedly says exists? Us acting in a vaccum to obliterate the working, let alone the middle classes for something that will not correct the problem, as defined is sure lunacy. Other countries will look upon this folly as a positive example? What kind os a self abosorbed moron is this? What is the “social cost” for the existence of people like this?
The article’s author can easily stop imposing his pollution and costs on society by visiting one of those suicide clinics in Switzerland.
Ultimately the Left will arrive at a “final solution” for the “population crisis” and “Anthropogenic Climate Change”, as they always do, and it will cost millions of innocent lives, as it always does.
With cap and tax, you are simply exporting more pollution than we do now to countries without the wealth or initiative to care what they are pumping in the air. Dumb ass.
Rather than discuss the merits, the author thinks anyone who disagrees with him is automatically wrong. Demagoguery, anyone?
I understand that this morning was the second day in a row that it was under 50 degrees in Southern Michigan when I woke up.
It is July right?
Talk about ignorant! CO2 is not pollution you moron! It's the greenest of green energies!
What an idiot, his analysis is all wrong, but in the environmental movement, they lie worse then anywhere else especially on economic impacts.
In fact, if cap and trade is no problem, why won’t China and India sign up? China and India are the big stumbling block to international agreements (Russia and others too), and if they signed on, other countries would have made some move. Not many have really AT ALL.
They want the US to go down in flames first.
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