What A Freak
I know I have said this before, at least once, but I do not watch broadcast news. There are several reasons but the major one is that I lose my voice due to all of the screaming at the screen. Anyone that can watch the evening news, be it local or national, without having the blood vessels on their forehead start to throb is either the subject from the rock opera Tommy or a tree hugging liberal. Their ability to twist the English language to support their causes must make their college English professors pulse with waves of pure euphoria.
I read a Yahoo editorial today from Charles Wheelan, PhD. He is a professor at the University of Chicago where he teaches master’s level classes on understanding the policy process (whatever that is) and regularly appears on NPR and other public radio stations. The opinion is based on the question, “What will happen when people get tired of $4.00 per gallon gas and are forced to retreat to a lesser quality of life?” He uses phrases like McMansion and carbon tax to help promote his ideas that we should all move back to the city and live in apartments and condos. That makes our commute to work shorter, which uses less gas. There is no thought of the increased road rage as the city roads become even more congested from the increased traffic. Or the crime, or the noise, or the schools… This statement comes from a man who actually lives in Chicago and has experienced the horrific delays on their splendid freeway system.
He appears to have an understanding of economics but understanding it and actually being able to apply it are apparently in different spheres of his brain. His idea of market place and free enterprise are all based on government intervention and resignation to failure of the system. Nothing has failed yet and government intervention into anything but national security is a certain recipe of a Rube Goldberg experience. Boys and girls, can you say failure? I know you can.
He does what most doom and gloom liberals do. He retreats into the scenario with the same set of rules that we currently have. When you throw money on the table, such as $5.00 per gallon gas or $200 per barrel oil, it gets peoples attention. When they say that the next big fuel source has yet to be discovered, there are thousands of people working on their own personal solution to the problem. When the change happens, it will create a paradigm shift of monumental proportions. Like the internet, it will be a life changing solution. But the blind leading the blind liberals would prefer to be the prophets of doom instead of the sign post of hope.
So don’t put a for sale sign in front of your four bedroom country manor just yet. We may suffer in the short term through the rocky roads of higher prices, but with the population of the world in excess of 6 billion, someone will develop an energy solution that will level the playing field and create the next plane of growth and prosperity. Just show me the money.
Icool
Cobb
I read a Yahoo editorial today from Charles Wheelan, PhD. He is a professor at the University of Chicago where he teaches master’s level classes on understanding the policy process (whatever that is) and regularly appears on NPR and other public radio stations. The opinion is based on the question, “What will happen when people get tired of $4.00 per gallon gas and are forced to retreat to a lesser quality of life?” He uses phrases like McMansion and carbon tax to help promote his ideas that we should all move back to the city and live in apartments and condos. That makes our commute to work shorter, which uses less gas. There is no thought of the increased road rage as the city roads become even more congested from the increased traffic. Or the crime, or the noise, or the schools… This statement comes from a man who actually lives in Chicago and has experienced the horrific delays on their splendid freeway system.
He appears to have an understanding of economics but understanding it and actually being able to apply it are apparently in different spheres of his brain. His idea of market place and free enterprise are all based on government intervention and resignation to failure of the system. Nothing has failed yet and government intervention into anything but national security is a certain recipe of a Rube Goldberg experience. Boys and girls, can you say failure? I know you can.
He does what most doom and gloom liberals do. He retreats into the scenario with the same set of rules that we currently have. When you throw money on the table, such as $5.00 per gallon gas or $200 per barrel oil, it gets peoples attention. When they say that the next big fuel source has yet to be discovered, there are thousands of people working on their own personal solution to the problem. When the change happens, it will create a paradigm shift of monumental proportions. Like the internet, it will be a life changing solution. But the blind leading the blind liberals would prefer to be the prophets of doom instead of the sign post of hope.
So don’t put a for sale sign in front of your four bedroom country manor just yet. We may suffer in the short term through the rocky roads of higher prices, but with the population of the world in excess of 6 billion, someone will develop an energy solution that will level the playing field and create the next plane of growth and prosperity. Just show me the money.
Icool
Cobb
posted by Cobb at
10:12 AM
1 Comments:
I agree. I would rather put my faith and efforts behind people and industries with positive solutions, not people and organizations that want to take things away and move backwards. I see it as positive solution vs negative punishment.
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tiger bass, at 6:05 AM
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