Socialized Health Care in the USA

[Jester]

Well, Cato is hardly fringe. But, I find GM's latest sudden changes in direction telling. In his book, he also says that SUV's and pickup trucks have got to go.

Your carbon consumption has to go down. As he quite rightly points out, the US (and all the first world, really) is producing vastly more carbon emissions than is their proportional share. People driving cars that are larger and less efficient than they need is a serious part of the problem. If a carbon tax with teeth is ever implemented, and I think that it really should be, then any company stuck without a line of smaller, fuel efficient vehicles is going to get hammered. This is just the first baby steps towards an ecologically responsible economy, that doesn't just go on generating more and more carbon until we're all starring in a Kevin Costner movie. And not the heartwarming one with the baseball field, either.

If you don't like it, that's democracy. Elections have consequences.

And, you know, you don't get to have your home thermostat set at a comfortable temperature anymore. We'll just crank up the cost of energy so high that no one can afford to drive anymore, or live too far south, or too far north. Policy genius. Like I said earlier, get ready to join the third world in subsistence agriculture to get by day by day.

"Honey, have you looked at this heating bill? It's outrageous!"

"I bet it's that darn carbon trading scheme. Well, we'll have to do something about this."

"I know! Let's take up backbreaking subsistence agriculture and earn five hundred dollars a year!"

"I suppose we have no other choice, what with this heating bill and all."

Maybe you can make a political ad out of it.

-Jester