re: #75 Beltboy

re: #70 Charles

And the left is dangerously in denial about what programs like “Cap & Trade” will do to the already crippled world economy. Everything from food, fuel, clothing will be in short supply or priced beyond many people’s reach! I guess everybody on this thread is rich enough not to worry.

I missed this bit of dreck…

Some history, science and economics for the clueless:

1. Cap and trade was initially a Ronald Reagan, yes that is St. Ronnie the infallible, initiative that was put into action under Bush Sr. as a “conservative free market plan” to reduce acid rain. Go look it up!

2. Senator McCain and half witted, half governor quitter ran on cap and trade as one of their planks in 2008. McCain and Palin both were quoted as praising it as a “market driven solution” and the conservative commenters at the time pointed out the Reagan lineage of the scheme. Go look it up… Actually this always shocks me. 2008 wasn’t that long ago. I recall them saying these things from the time. Why don’t you? Why do conservatives seem to have the memories of goldfish?

3. As to hurting the economy, cap and trade is at best stop gap measure in any case. What would actually help the economy would be to create jobs at home in the green energy sector that would make us less dependent on foreign fossil fuels and pump billions of dollars now going overseas to horrible nations that hate us, directly into the struggling American middle class.

4. Independent of your flawed economic arguments… I mean how well is big oil taking care of the average American really… the scientific arguments trump. If most future Americans will be unable to find clean water and enough food to eat as millions of refugees pile in from the coasts and trillions of dollars of our capital is literally washed away while inland, our farms become desert all talk of possible economic woes now become superfluous and stupid. Of course, green energy would be a boon that pays for itself and revitalizes the economy, but you are too stupid to look into that.

But go ahead, shill for big oil, forget history and deny science. Moron.