Posted on 10/12/2019 7:28:54 AM PDT by RightGeek
When Democrats say America must “do something” about global warming,they get into the energy business see family’s Pelosi and Biden.....................................
The left always has 2 faces.
Who’s John Galt?
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I suspect that I am the oldest poster here, so a little lesson on how things once were:
I am old enough to remember when the fellows who left the farm to work in town ended up living across the road from the plant in which they worked.
They could not afford a car. In fact, there were very few cars and the roads were mostly dirt and gravel.
They walked across the road to work in the plant..
When they needed groceries or clothes, the walked to the company store.
Remember that famous line in Ernie Ford’s song....”I owe my soul to the company store”?
That was the real world.
When Henry Ford made the T Model and gasoline became available at a price the working man could pay, the world changed.
Now he could commute to a nearby town and a better job.
If you want to go back to those days.......
And whose pocket would the tax go in because it won’t fix anything that’s a hoax to begin with.
“Democrats give pond scum a bad name ”
Hell, they give the debris from the reactor vessel of Chernobyl a bad name...
I suspect that I am the oldest poster here
I’d settle for Robert Heinlein’s _The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress_ as required reading for high-schoolers.
They’re going to lose so bad in 2020, they’ll come in third, behind Libertarians.
Not going to happen just because an airhead former bartender and a smug, angry 16 year old Swedish punk girl want it to happen.
At the end of the ice age was a period called the Climate Optimun. Average temperatures were 10 degrees higher than today and the CO2 levels were also higher. Crops were able to be grown longer throughout the year and at higher elevations...1500 higher on average. It was considered the time of plenty...that is where all those little corpulent goddess figurines come from...everything was fertile.
Then the climate changed and it got a bit colder. The concept of War was introduced as roving gangs of want plundered those that had...
“That’s $49 a gallon in *Western* coountries.China will pay $0 a gallon.“
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Well, hell, fair’s fair. After all, China’s officially a “developing” nation, don’t ‘cha know. Those poor souls need all the help they can get. ;-)
The French people howled to do something about climate change until President Macron put the cost for environmentalist virtue signaling squarely on the price at the pumps. They’ve been rioting in the streets ever since.
[ As reported by Forbes, a United Nation’s special climate report calls for a global carbon tax of $49 per gallon of gasoline within 12 years. You read that right: $49 per gallon. At roughly 100 times the average state and federal gasoline tax, the UN’s carbon tax “suggestion” would raise the cost of a 13-gallon fill-up to over $600, just for the carbon tax. ]
My Corvette had a 20-gallon tank as I recall. My Jaguar had two 10-gallon tanks. (I’m sure it was in liters of course LOL)
Add in the cost of the gas to the tax and $1,000 at the pump!!
Make Earth Greta Thunberg’s Paradise!!! Wooooohoooo!!!!
I've read "Altas Shrugged" three times so far in my life.
First in college in 1968 and I didn't follow what is was saying at all. Just too long and confusing for a fun-loving college kid. Too many other things like girls and sports to distract me.
Second time was just before I got out of the Air Force in 1975. It hit me then and a light bulb came on. I made me a conservative almost overnight.
The last time I read it was in 2009-10 just after Obama got elected over that loser McCain. It actually read like I was reading about current events. I could see clearly that events in our country were following the plot of Ayn Rand's novel under Obama's hope and change regime.
I don't think 90%+ of all high school kids could read the book and comprehend what it was talking about. You really need some maturity and real world life experiences behind you to start understanding the messages the book is sending.
I was a good student in high school and graduated near the top of my class, but back then liberalism and conservatives weren't the hot topics in the news all the time like they are nowadays with the stark political and partisan divide we are experiencing. Most kids at that age aren't going to be able to focus on a book that takes even me several months to read, let alone be able to connect all the dots and comprehend what Rand is telling us.
Ayn Rand was prescient in her vision back in 1957 when she wrote "Atlas Shrugged", to know that it could actually happen in America.
Personally, I think young people will better understand the messages in the book when they've gotten out of school and had some experiences in the practical world under their belt, to see how profound this novel is to their way of life.
BTW, it is the best book I've ever read. I refer to parts and passages in all the time. It is a great read, albeit, a long, hard slug of a book to wade through.
it’s amazing how often those outlandish things in Atlas Shrugged are reflected in reality. This is why I can’t take criticism of Ayn Rand seriously, especially considering the contemporary efforts of the Soviets to influence western culture.
Great comment. No, I haven’t read it but rely on excerpts, theme articles, and insightful reflections on her work by commenters such as yourself.
” Most kids at that age aren’t going to be able to focus on a book that takes even me several months to read, let alone be able to connect all the dots and comprehend what Rand is telling us. “
It isn’t getting any easier to sit through a multi-session heavy weight tome in these days of max 280 character tweets and brief excerpts. Plus deteriorating older-age vision is not a facilitator. But reading 500 superficial articles on the artificially-lighted cell phone each day is not much of a problem.
No way to know unless you tell us your age.
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