Posted by
rycK on Monday, December 08, 2008 10:45:41 AM
Friedman of the NYT Mumbles about the Real Generation
X. He Stares into the Abyss and Sees Himself.
The New York Times—aka
the Walter
Duranty Papershas
an all-embracing and tortuous history of apologizing for Communism, propping up losers,
celebrating AIDS
along with the perverted practices that spread this horror, and culminating
with its never ending pursuit of higher
and higher and higher taxes. The Times
has never retreated from its pathological
contempt for capitalism. The Times has also relentlessly praised any leftist
parasite or pervert who will openly parade their dishonor in our now degenerated
society. Today, as the economy starts to
sag, the Times
appears to wax whimsical and wonder how history will view us. Their Resident EcoNazi,
now dreams of future times when our young will write our epitaph using leftist
ideology.
“What I’ve been
thinking about actually is this: What book will our kids write about us? “The
Greediest Generation?” “The Complacent Generation?” Or maybe: “The Subprime Generation:
How My Parents Bailed Themselves Out for Their Excesses by Charging It All on
My Visa Card.””--
The Real Generation X By Thomas L. Friedman Op-Ed Columnist December
7, 2008 [Emphasis is mine in
all quotes.]This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise
stated.
My view on this will be that there will be no
single generational labels here. We are divided and one half is going to be
seen as the goats and the others will those whose successful methods and business
mechanisms were undermined by idiots like this author. The EcoNazis will attempt to bring
down our economy with fables and fears about global warming and other follies.
They fail by themselves to do anything meaningful without our money so they
need a sugar daddy to provide them with comforts and drugs.
“Our kids should be so much more radical than they are
today. I understand why they aren’t. They’re so worried about just getting a job or paying next semester’s tuition. But we must not take
their quietism as license to do whatever we want with this bailout cash. They are going to have to
pay this money back. And therefore, we have an incredibly weighty obligation to make sure that we
not only spend every stimulus dollar wisely but also with an eye to creating
new technologies.”-- Friedman Op-Ed Columnist December 7
There are two things wrong with this: [1] They may have to pay back nothing if hyperinflation hits and [2] spending will solve nothing in the first phase of
this mess, which is deflation based due to housing
prices falling. People need to seriously study the Bernanke Speech of 6 years
ago on deflation as the English and others are doing now. The reversal of the contraction
of the credit system will take time.
Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard quotes Bernanke:
““The US government has a technology, called a printing press, that allows it to
produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost,” he [Bernanke]
said.””--Deflation virus is moving the policy
test beyond the 1930s extremes. By Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor Telegraph 06 Dec 2008
Friedman mumbles and
honks about minutia while missing the giant point: we are in a severe deflationary period. We need to study Evans-Pritchard’s
latest article in the Telegraph.
Friedman gurgles on about
technology that will ‘save’ us:
“[Topic: Bail out Detroit] You want my tax
dollars? Then I want to see the precise production plans and timetables for the
hybridization of all your cars and trucks within 36 months. I want every bailed-out car company to move to hybrid electric drive trains, because nothing would both improve mileage and
emissions more — and also stimulate a whole new 21st-century, job-creating
industry: batteries.
Big batteries that can store electricity for transportation and wind
and solar generation are the indispensable enablers of the Energy Internet of
the future. Any Detroit bailout has to serve that goal.”-- Friedman Op-Ed Columnist December
7.
He wants? I want an explanation
for where my tax dollars went for the Great Society, HUD, War on Poverty,
Welfare and much more.
So, here we have some EcoNazi Fruit Loop who thinks he can read a business plan and has already
micromanaged the design of future cars based on the myth of Global Warming. Friedman
looks into the abyss and sees his own horrors that he handily constructs from
ideological fluff and phony science and then he views the enlightening solution
to the problems also staring back at him. This is a class piece of cretinic
logic. He begins his drooling session by postulating the existence of something
we don’t have yet and, after a mere 50 years of research, probably will never
have: a big
efficient battery.
Friedman drifts off into space and fails to enlighten us that the
Chevy Volt battery can only allow a 40-mile driving. He then fails to let us know that about 80% of all electricity is
coal fired so after the transmission loses and such we are just inefficiently burning
coal and are also limited to short hops. That implies that to avoid using the
dreaded gas there would have to be charging stations in all the shopping
centers and schools and such. If you commute 50 miles to work you will have to
charge up in the middle of the trip or use gas with prohibitive taxes per
gallon. How many times do you have to charge on a 500 mile trip? How much time
will that take? 10 hours? 20 hours?
“Europe, Japan and China are already
dominating this[battery] industry. It’s the
key to clean-tech — and ultimately our national competitiveness. We can’t allow
ourselves to be battery importers in the 21st century the way we were oil
importers in the 20th.”-- Friedman Op-Ed Columnist December 7
And, to this we add Carbon
Captaxes endeared to the hearts of losers like Princeling of Wails, and other ‘clean and green’ taxes while we let our oil sit
in the ground on the phony fear that we are raising the temperature of the
planet. Our energy comes from the sun and variations in the nuclear engine of
that orb cause temperature variations. England’s economy will collapse over their decision to reduce CO2
emissions, and rightly so. CA and NY are already collapsing from phony social
programs, foolish jobs and substandard ‘education’--all self-inflicted. It is
too bad we cannot study and broadcast the details of one of these crashes come
early on that might alarm and jolt us into reality and let us focus in on the real
problems. Everybody does not deserve to lose here. Just let the left lose, as
is customary for them.
With Congress running Detroit we may get our chance to witness an economic disaster for a mere
75 billion dollars. [That is about $16 x 75 or $1200 for each tax payer in the
upper half.] The auto makers cannot
meet the C.A.F.E. standards and have no magic batteries. They will then bawl and crawl back to congress for another
bottle of milk. Congress will spend and
spend and print money to give them our money and sustain 90$ per hour union wages
that they were bribed for. This is socialism. We will return to the Depression
Era with such phony jobs as raking leaves in the forests.
Let us not forget that when the USSR collapsed in 1989 the Marxists went green. Friedman is probably the best candidate for the Lysenko Prize.
rycK
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