Posted by
skep41 on Sunday, June 15, 2008 10:34:02 AM
The
lefties have done it again. For sheer chutzpah the recent listing of
the polar bear as an endangered species under the Endangered Species
Act is almost without parallel. Its amazing first because polar bear
populations have increased dramatically in the last twenty years. But
that doesnt matter to anybody; what does matter is the remedy for this
supposed move toward extinction. Now
ANY economic
activity which produces carbon emissions can be subject to fines, taxes
and regulations because carbon emissions cause Climate Change (the ten
year cooling trend has made using the term Global Warming a bit dicey)
which will eventually melt the arctic ice cap entirely and drive these
endangered ursines to extinction. There is not scientific evidence of
any sort that any of this is happening. The ice cap was larger this
winter than it ever was. There are five times as many polar bears as
there were twenty years ago. Global temperatures started a slight
decline ten years ago. But the most extreme Luddite, anti-technology,
anti-modern living zealots are now getting a blank check to make any
expansion or modernization of any business submit its plans to a
'Committee For Public Safety' where these little Robespierres and
Robespierrettes can decide whether the polar bear will be affected or
not. Lest you think that the general Gorian muddle hasnt affected the
brains of the members of what some allege is its own political party
distinct from the Democrats, remember it is the Bushy Administration
that has agreed to hand the keys to the guillotine to the slavering
mob, hoping to avoid the ax themselves.
So if the polar bears are
doing just fine, who's endangered? Its your car, stupid. If you own a
big car then you already can see the handwriting on the wall. Those
Escalades, Yukons and Suburbans are truly living on borrowed time. The
Democrats have spent the last seven years accusing the Republicans of
mass murder when all this time they've been planning mass grand theft
auto. I wonder how auto workers will feel about losing their jobs
because the environmentalists wont let us drill? Who cares? At least
the polar bears are safe! Those auto workers are so mad that they're
going to vote for a whole bunch of Democrats. Barbara Boxer just tried
to get an enviro-bill to the Senate floor which imposed
$3,000,000,000,000 (Three trillion) of additional costs on energy
usage. By the time the Democrats are done destroying this economy the
average person will not be able to own a car of any size. Its their
goal which they have publically stated over and over again. They hate
the consumer society and are out to destroy it. The Sierra Club, the
EPA and the NRDC say it loudly and publicly as they support the
Democrats. Those stupid people who are voting for their fat Public
Employee Pension that they can collect on top of their Social Security
would do well to study the situation in Vallejo, California where
collapsing tax receipts and metastasizing pensions have broken the
bank and pushed the city into bankruptcy. As they have at General
Motors and everywhere else in the Rust Belt. All these blue collar
types have been radicalized and they've demanded everything and NOW!
They've elected and handed power to liberals who would promise to keep
the Gravy train on the tracks forever. But the bridge is out and the
train hasnt even slowed down. Laying the environmental agenda onto an
already hamstrung economy will be the end of the economy that started
at the end of World War Two and has lasted until now. The economy which
has given the average person in this country a higher standard of
living than any society in human history and was based on freedom to
invest, trade and make economic decisions without crawling to some
government economic planner. If the Democrats control the Senate, the
House and the White House in January that will end abruptly and the
collapse will not be far behind. Your Hummer will turn into a Planter.