Posted on 12/17/2009 3:33:28 PM PST by Josh Painter
The late Senator Everett Dirksen frequently gets credit for the quote:
"A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money."Dirksen said in an interview that the quote wasn't his, but that he would only be too happy to take the credit. We were reminded of that quote when we heard this one by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who cannot deny that she said it:
“The US is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 to address the climate change needs of developing countries.”$100 billion dollars a year? Just how much of this $100 billion a year the United States would throw at this fund, SECSTATE would not say. We can only imagine. It would have to be in the tens of billions of dollars. A year. And you just know that our share of it will be the largest of any country because we drive around in SUVs and eat junk food. It will be our penance to the world religion of global warming. Forgive us Gaia, for we have sinned. The secretary also didn't say for how many years American taxpayers would, without their consent, of course, be contributing to this international slush fund.
$100 billion dollars a year! We've seen some really goofy ideas floated by Obama and his band of radicals ever since they merrily moved into the White House, but this has to be one of the goofiest. The Watermelons, i.e. enviro-leftists who are green on the outside and pink on the inside, think it's a splendid idea. The usual suspects -- The Sierra Club et al -- were quick to sign off on it.
$100 billion dollars a year...
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Hillary Clinton is a total moron, and far outside her depth.
She has no more authority to commit the US to Billions of dollars in annual payments to a Globull Warming slush fund, than Obama-lama-ding-dong does.
The woman is a buffoon, and a complete embarrassment to our country.
Import tax?
Hillary: “It’s nothing.... to me. It’s not my money.”
Doesn't Congress have to pass and approve all spending ? Or does everyone in the new administration just get to do whatever?
Its only money. [/sarc]
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Yes, we need to 'mobilize' that money quickly!
$100 billion here, $100 billion there...after a while it adds up to real money
Yeah, I hard this on the radio on the way home from work. Where does she plan on pulling that amount of money from?
How much will China pony up? Being the biggest polluter and all?
Looking at this picture of our glorious Secretary of State sickens me. Isn’t there anything we can do to stop their drunken spending spree as they turn us into a Bananna Republic?
One Congress cannot bind the next one, right?
Thats what its going to take.
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