Mr Obama is Mr Oflim-flamma. The US public apparently want to be flim-flammed and has gone insane. Living on a street full of lunatics is bad enough but the stuff that the flim-flam covers up is worse.

Take the proposed cap-and-trade-swindle. Here “border tax adjustments” would impose charges on goods from countries that do not match U,S efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These will act as trade protectionism in the name of environmental protection. Even if a country did match, or exceed, US measures it will still be up to politicians in Washington to deem if the protections were adequate. Guess what the answer will be.

Worse, for the USA, the Democrats plan to use global warming as the excuse for a transfer of wealth from one part of the country to another. It’s strange how the companies that would benefit from free emission credits are clustered in the Northeast and on the West Coast – Democrat voting states.
Those who would have to buy credits tend to be located in Republican voting states.

Read this opinion piece in the National Post at

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/05/17/national-post-editorial-board-the-cap-and-trade-con-game.aspx