M. Simon -
Indeed, Throw The Bums Out.
Remember ’92? If it hadn’t been for Perot, the big story would have been turnover in the house and senate. Not by party, but individuals got their walking papers.
All the bills are coming due sooner than anybody thinks. SocSec, Medicare, corporate and municipal pensions… and we’ve got history back in great steaming buckets full.
On topic – sort of: You cannot have environmentally friendly squat without you have an efficient and growing economy. You can’t afford to. The ChiCom bosses have obviously decided that catastrophic rates of respiratory and cancer issues are acceptable in pursuit of near-double digit growth… but even they may have to pay lip service to their citizens before much longer because you can’t operate factories if nobody can breathe.
But nobody gets to vote on who runs China. So there’s no real market adjustment, just a control economy that will roll the dice on whether they catch a fatal system error before it manifests itself.
I think our greens here in America are a bigger objective threat to my freedom than any terrorist in a cave (or palace). They force our government to pander to vocal minorities who are driven by political agendas that use the environment as a means, not an end.
They are not acting in “good faith” up there at the “testify before congress” level. Oh, their foot soldiers might truly be children of gaia… I’ll give them that. But every mass totalitarian movement in human history has depended on braindead fanatics for muscle, so good for them.
We need nukes here at home, and need more and better refineries only slightly less. Opening every acre of ground in the country and off our shores won’t mean a thing if we can’t turn the crude into fuel.
I fully expect the OPEC nations to attempt another 1982, but I don’t think they’ve got the capacity to bust us (as bad) in the chops, again. Our technology is better, and more importantly we have excess in skilled labor and real estate clambering for improvement as infrastructure.
I’d like to see Bush start PNG’ng Russian diplomats tomorrow if the bear drags its feet leaving Georgia.
Feh. Enough from me for now.
