Posted on 05/26/2009 8:53:28 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
COPENHAGEN – A global summit of business leaders urged governments to order steep and mandatory cuts in greenhouse gases Tuesday, favoring a cap-and-trade system instead of a tax to set a market price for carbon waste.
The strong consensus among the 500 CEOs and other top business experts attending the World Business Summit on Climate Change added momentum to prospects of forging a new U.N. climate treaty in six months.
Leaders agreed at the end of the three-day conference on the need for "immediate and substantial" emission cuts by 2020, based on the best science available, followed by cuts of "at least half of 1990 levels by 2050."
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TO: Mr. Upstart Competitor
FROM: CEO, Jurassic, Inc.
RE: Your ability to grow.
Fat chance getting carbon emission permits to expand enough to offer me any real competition. Ain't government grand? Hugs and kisses.
LOL ... You nailed it. That needs to be put up in lights.
Just like Mortgage Derivatives, except there will be no value to even foreclosed upon! It's totally vapor.
Mercantilism and Fascism are first cousins.
I, too, have been thinking this is all looking like a return to mercantilism - domestic energy, American job protectionism. BO and the dims are even bringing back Royal monopolies.
The NappyOne
also I think we should all stop going to work, look at all the pollution we create commuting back and forth, I think it would be much better for the environment if Obama just mails us a check each week, on second thought don't mail it just more pollution and trees cut down to print checks, just direct deposit it to my account
The industrial-political complex at work, aided and abetted by the Associated Press.
resist...resist...resist
Carbon Caps and Herring
Name two things that both come from Copenhagen
and both stink...
Simple message, same as before, we got ours screw you' all.
Mercantilism preceded Fascism and did not have the dictatorial control element.
Explain if you will.
If you do that, 0-buma will just bail them out.
I said they were first cousins, not identical twins.
Look at all the attributes they have in common. They are very similar. The big difference is that in Mercantilism, the State supports and protects the industries, but lets the business leaders make their own business decisions.
Fascism looks exactly the same, with the exception that the State exerts more control over the business decisions.
My main points are:
1. It’s an easy move from Mercantilism to Fascism.
2. As regulations and controls are added to the mix, the lines blur as to exactly where the transition is from Mercantilism to Fascism.
3. Selling Big Business on Mercantilism, then quietly turning it into Fascism is like boiling the frog.
4. Ø wants Fascism. Big Business wants Mercantilism. Small Business wants Capitalism. Small Business loses and the tug of war will be between Ø and Big Business.
5. Mercantilism and Fascism are first cousins.
All you need is for a dictator to step in and no one do anything. Then you get Mussolini or Chavez, or Obama ...
Freedom is one generation from extinction, the founders knew that and tried to prepare people to ward it off.
This is not in the best interests of their businesses, unless their other business is the New World Order.
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