How do you get people to change their lives? Well to make them use less energy, you hurt them when they do. Raise the price; make them choose between lights and food. Which, I should point out, isn't new. The government uses the tax code to encourage home ownership, energy efficient products, and charitable giving. But this is different; it doesn't encourage through reward, it discourages through punishment. This is how President Obama would do it:
Of course, the government would have to help out those who just couldn't pay the new energy prices. So the poor would be ok. And the rich, the truly huge energy guzzlers like Al Gore, and the Obama family, would be ok because, well, because they're rich. And the guy who would be in charge of regulating how much it hurts the guys in the middle, (you) well, that would be a guy who has never really had to experience want in his whole life:
So if you didn't really mind this last run-up in gas prices, if you want them back, and you want them permanent, then by all means, elect this guy.
RB and Dallas both sent me something on this next bit of Obametry:
Dallas observes:
"That will also generate billions of dollars that we can invest in solar, wind, biodiesel and other alternative energy approaches."
Wow! In an Obama administration, bankruptcy will generate money!! I have a charcoal-powered grill in my backyard--will it generate enough bankruptcy that I can retire?
Short answer: no. In fact, you think this last stock crash put a hurtin' on the retirement account, just wait until an Obama administration starts punishing corporations, and big businesses. No, no retirement for you.
But it's not over yet! Don't let skewed polls sway you. Your vote counts. Cast it!
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