Political ruse to start over again

President Obama was in Paris this past week at the world climate change (global warming) conference. The president often says climate change is the most important threat to our national security.

Fox News reports (don’t fall asleep yet) that the president’s proposal will cost the coal power companies approximately $8.4 billion per year extra over the next 15 years. That’s assuming Russia, China, India and Iran agree to cripple their economies too on this estimated, computer-modeling program, which has no scientific data to support its claim.

We can probably do it. The United States is the most capable to accomplish global warming goals by simply cutting the national education, commerce, EPA, and energy departments. We need to cut the war on poverty programs also and force people to self-sufficiency. The war on poverty is estimated to have cost us $20 trillion over the last 50 years. But, we still have 95 million people not participating in the workforce and 25 million people unemployed. Let’s put them to work: doing what?

All this global warming monkey business comes directly out of the Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Revolution. It doesn’t have to make sense but it will “fundamentally transform” America, an oppressive and unjust society. That’s the utopian dream: destroy America and see what happens.

Lauren Pananen

Mill Creek

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