The American Spectator

Reader Mail

(Page 3 of 8)

Our modern day little boy is Al Gore and instead of breaking a window, we are pressured, under color of law, to replace the window before it is demonstrated to be cracked with a high tech substitute and with high tech super glaziers who represent the new army of green glazier jobs. The fallacy of this opinion and world view is that the mobilization of government resources to create these green jobs will abnormally send human and capital resources to activities at the expense of others that could be more beneficial.

One must wonder what would have happened to Egyptian culture had they spent enormous intellectual and material resources on other things rather than building the pyramids. When an individual does silly things with their money, it is rare that the result would be fatal for the community at large but when the government makes these mistakes, the Easter Island scenario of nearly mass extinction and chaos is a real possibility.

p>Hatred, fear and loathing of capitalism is a core principle among those who want to believe in Global Warming as a problem that has urgent current needs. Those on the Right who lust after the jobs that this chaos will create are also deluded. The Left is expert at converting battleships to school buildings in economic terms. At least they have been taught to basics of Buyer's Remorse and the concept of a missed opportunity. The Left may be more teachable then the Right in this case. br> -- Danny L. Newton br> Cookeville, Tennessee /p>

Amen, Mr. Yeatman!

p>The only solutions proposed by the Global Warming Nuts are all related to mandatory limits established by such scientific stalwarts as Al Gore. Wind Power and Solar Power are technologies that can never be developed to the extent that they will replace Coal/Oil Burners. A fact the loonies fail to acknowledge. One source that could help significantly is Nuclear. That will not happen in the U.S. because of fear mongering. Socialists like Gore, Lieberman, and let's throw in Mc Cain are not looking for an answer to maintain the U.S. economy. They are looking to diminish it by forcing more and more production off shore to Beijing. br> -- Ron LaCanne br> Racine, Wisconsin /p>

As a conservative who will hold his nose as he pulls the lever for McCain, I'd say his only stance that gives me serious pause is his membership in the Cultic Church of Homeogenic Planetary Hyperthermia. I would really like to read something that gives insight into the thought processes of otherwise reasonably intelligent people who, with frenzied fervor, latch on to these truly bizarre ideas and will not let them go until they're pried from betwixt the hemispheres of their cold, dead cerebral cortexes.

What the McCain/Liberman Party proposes in the "cap & trade" legislation is a demonstration that McCain really and truly doesn't know much about elementary economics. He's a little short in the "uptake" department too. The Europeans have been very kind to the civilized world in that they have chosen to be a laboratory for really, really bad ideas. If McCain can't see the blistering failure of his ideas as embodied by the European programs detailed by Mr. Yeatman, what are we to think? That he is incapable of learning? That once he fixates on an idea he cannot be dissuaded by any argument?

topics:
Taxes, Trade, John McCain, Bill Clinton, Economics, Social Security, Religion, Islam, Abortion, Environment, Global Warming, Law, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, NATO, Energy, Alaska, Oil, Medicare