of the free market system.
The function of government, at least in the U.S., is not to determine between winners and losers, and it's not to tell us what's good for us. People know how to live their lives without intrusive government.
Government intrusion only serves to make people more dependent on that government, and no matter what the intrusion, people can do without it, and they actually can be more productive.
Government is in the middle of trying to wean us away from fossil fuels, and most of is intended to serve the ideology of the environmentalists. None of the new energy initiatives, like windmills and electric vehicles, have been as cost effective or as energy efficient as oil or coal or natural gas. Yet, we are to believe that, government knows best? Anybody that believes that can also be sold a bridge to the moon. It's illogical and nonsensical.
Government does have its functions, but it's not to tell us what's best for us. The last few times that government got so intrusive, the results weren't too great. What you and others believe, is the same as people in other societies and other times. The USSR and Hitler's Germany were prime examples of what awaits us if we continue down the road we're in.
You and others might be feeling comfortable right now because, you have a job and you likely don't have too many problems facing you right now, but, if we continue down the same path this country has been in for many decades, what awaits you and millions of others won't be lovely.
The lessons of history can't be ignored, and we are a country that failed to learn the lessons of the past.
"25 Signs That The Nazification Of America Is Almost Complete "
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2012021615632/life-and-science/culture-wars/25-signs-that-the-nazification-of-america-is-almost-complete.html?utm_campaign=8c08076699-Sunday_News_Edition2_18_2012&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Right+Side+News "Kevin Myers: Energy policy based on renewables will win hearts but won't protect their owners from frostbite and death due to exposure"
http://www.independent.ie/opinion/columnists/kevin-myers/kevin-myers-energy-policy-based-on-renewables-will-win-hearts-but-wont-protect-their-owners-from-frostbite-and-death-due-to-exposure-3012098.htmlFrom the above:
"Russia's main gas-company, Gazprom, was unable to meet demand last weekend as blizzards swept across Europe, and over three hundred people died. Did anyone even think of deploying our wind turbines to make good the energy shortfall from Russia?
Of course not. We all know that windmills are a self-indulgent and sanctimonious luxury whose purpose is to make us feel good. Had Europe genuinely depended on green energy on Friday, by Sunday thousands would be dead from frostbite and exposure, and the EU would have suffered an economic body blow to match that of Japan's tsunami a year ago. No electricity means no water, no trams, no trains, no airports, no traffic lights, no phone systems, no sewerage, no factories, no service stations, no office lifts, no central heating and even no hospitals, once their generators run out of fuel. "
"Without coal, oil and nuclear energy, mass deaths of the old and the young would have occurred on the first night. Three nights on of such conditions, and even the physically fit would have been dying of exposure, as the temperature inside dwellings fell and began to match that of the outside, an inverse image of what happened during the French heatwave 10 years ago, when there was no escape from the heat. "
"... madder still that RTE or the BBC will continue to trot out their pet wind-enthusiasts to bluster balderdash and poppycock about global warming and how renewables are the solution -- and without the contrary point of view ever being given an airing. This is dogma, as created, promulgated and enforced by the John Charles McQuaids of our time -- and if sceptics are not actually anathematised from the pulpit, they are ruthlessly and systematically ignored. These dishonest, hypocritical and deceitful energy policies are now widely accepted by our political and teaching classes as being the very embodiment of environmentalist virtue. Such imbecilic virtue, if implemented as energy policy across Europe, could have brought about a human catastrophe last weekend. "
