Posted by
rycK on Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:21:14 PM
The Biggest Phony Tax Gouge in the history of the Universe: The Clintons and the UN Needs Your Money.
With reptilian attention to detail, the much-acclaimed United Nations trumpets a clarion call to rush money into their coffers and the gilded boxes of their Marxist Dictators. We hear echoes of Al Gore and his EcoNazi Follies in this. Tax, tax and tax some more. But, added to the chorus is Bill Clinton’s recent ‘explanation’ of who suffers from the US and who must pay what.
We can review the hysteria:
“UNITED NATIONS -- Global warming could cost the world up to $20 trillion over two decades for cleaner energy sources and do the most harm to people who can least afford to adapt, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns in a new report.”
We read details:[emphasis is mine in all quotes and underlines]
[1] Need for a new Kyoto type treaty by 2009 that required 37 nations to cut emissions by 5%.
[2] The US is the focus on this issue.
[3] Need for $15 trillion to $20 trillion over the next 20 to 25 years.
[4] Current energy expenditures [by business] are $300 billion per year.
[5] Reducing “..greenhouse gases alone will not be enough to pull island nations, sub-Saharan Africa and other particularly vulnerable parts of the world back from the brink of irreversible harm.”
[6] Need for new technologies.
[7] Warnings of “…rising seas, droughts, severe weather and other dire consequences”
[8] Need for emissions “…reduced by 25 percent to 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.”
[9] Need to “…refrain from encouraging nations to assign blame _ and added responsibility _ to the United States and other rich nations for their historical pollution”.
[10] The poor and women will suffer more.
As an echo here, we read some of Bill Clinton’s notions on this:
"Everybody knows that global warming is real," Mr. Clinton said, giving a shout-out to Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize, "but we cannot solve it alone."
The first point of a propaganda piece, start out with the conclusion and them amplify that, lie or not, with all sorts of whines and fluff.
"And maybe America, and Europe, and Japan, and Canada -- the rich counties -- would say, 'OK, we just have to slow down our economy and cut back our greenhouse gas emissions 'cause we have to save the planet for our grandchildren.' We could do that.”
How do you slow down the economy?? Does that cost jobs? Do you limit production? What does that do to our balance of trade? Do we sell less and buy more? No problem Bill, we can put up the 20 trillion dollars. Just print more money and pass it around.
"But if we did that, you know as well as I do, China and India and Indonesia and Vietnam and Mexico and Brazil and the Ukraine, and all the other countries will never agree to stay poor to save the planet for our grandchildren. The only way we can do this is if we get back in the world's fight against global warming and prove it is good economics that we will create more jobs to build a sustainable economy that saves the planet for our children and grandchildren. It is the only way it will work. “
So, the US must lead this? We heard above that 37 countries would have to cut back 5% [each]. We can wonder if any of the third world countries mentioned by Bill are in the UN 37 country list. How is China and India to not stay poor given their governments and huge populations? China has 1,000,000,000 poor and India has about half of that.
"And guess what? The only places in the world today in rich countries where you have rising wages and declining inequality are places that have generated more jobs than rich countries because they made a commitment we didn't. They got serious about a clean, efficient, green, independent energy future… If you want that in America, if you want the millions of jobs that will come from it, if you would like to see a new energy trust fund to finance solar energy and wind energy and biomass and responsible bio-fuels and electric hybrid plug-in vehicles that will soon get 100 miles a gallon, if you want every facility in this country to be made maximally energy efficient that will create millions and millions and millions of jobs, vote for her. She'll give it to you. She's got the right energy plan.”
India and China made what commitment? They are not polluting? Really?
She is Hillary who supports the Al Gore cap and carbon credit nonsense. Hillary will create millions and millions of new jobs. It seems that all we have to do is to produce cars that get 100 mpg, with a little help from a battery, and what, export them?
This is all political fluff, but is based in the radical Marxism that Hillary and Bill have endorsed for decades.
There are several problems with this:
[a] 21,000 Scientists refute the phony notion of Global Warming and a signal disgrace in so-called science. I am a signatory to this petition. The output of the sun is mostly responsible for temperature changes, cyclic in nature, on the earth according to the Russians.
[b] The eternal hatred for capitalism drives this hunt for ways to ‘equalize wealth’ and get to ‘equality’ and ‘be fair.” We can translate this as punitive taxes and phony social spending. The difficulty here is that when wealth is confiscated by revolution, it seems to go in the pockets of the elite and the poor get nothing. Land reform is a sick promise and is never implemented in third world.
[c] The notion that the US will have to ‘go it alone’ means that we would have to cut back on green house gases, which have nothing to do with temperature increases, but might require cutting our industrial production significantly. We produce about 25% of the world’s goods now and a 5% cut in the world’s CO emissions and green house gases [GHGs] would mean a 20% reduction in the US.
[d] Alternative energy sources have been celebrated for 75 years, but where are they??
*Solar panels are not efficient and the cost of switching from traditional electricity is very high.
*Wind energy is very expensive and offshore installations would increase electricity costs along the Atlantic Seaboard from 2 cents per kilowatt hour to 11 cents per kilowatt hour, some 500% increase.
*Fusion is a joke. Cold fusion is a bigger joke.
*Public transportation would cost more than 10x what private cars cost now as public transportation does not go where people want. Try to take a bus in Philly or Baltimore to the suburbs and find out why.
*Wave machines in the Bay of Fundy is probably a good idea, but is politically unsound and has been trashed.
*Nuclear power is efficient and successful for the French and others, but is blocked by the environments here in the US, remnants of the old Communists who fled after the USSR went down in 1989.
[e] Ethanol based fuels would not result in a net decrease in GHGs as the process is not efficient. It would cost more CO2 and other forms of energy and not reduce emissions. Switch grass is a better option.
[f] While China is drilling in the Gulf off Cuba where is the condemnation for this ecological outrage?? The EcoNazis can only blame the US for offshore drilling and oil extraction and cannot seem to criticize others, particularly the Communists, who do this.
[e] Any attack on capitalism is welcomed by the far left.
This ‘plan’ is a blueprint for our economic destruction. This is all possible in that the attack on capitalism is much more important than the quality of lives of the citizens or even food. Marxist radicals and their mentally disnimble US ‘progressives’ have murdered 150,000,000 people since 1789 in the name of ‘justice’ and ‘equality’ and ‘redistribution’ of the wealth. We must, again, note that the far left have failed in every chance they had to chance things. We can count some 200 Marxist dictators in Africa alone. Then there are works of the Communists the USSR, China, North Korea, Cuba, Nicaragua, Eastern Europe and more.
Did Bill mention that the biggest polluters on the planet are the shrunken remains of the defunct USSR, their surrogates and victims and Communist China? They must cut back?
This is just another case of some leftist parasite offering to give away our wealth and society for the praise and adoration of those who would destroy us. That would, indeed, end capitalism as we know it. The Clintons and their radical stooges will do anything to defeat the US in Iraq, Iran on in the arena of world trade. They learned their Marxism well and are devoted to the anti-capitalism crusade.
ryck
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