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All of those people who work inside that chart work for free too!//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif
States within 5 years take inbetween 43-47% of the load and that means a 10% tax increase across the board at a minimum. Obama is not raising your taxes, he is just forcing the states to do it LOL
http://www.denverpost.com/opinion/ci_12837799
Harsanyi: Science fiction czar
By David Harsanyi
Posted: 07/15/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy — better known as the "science czar" — has been a longtime prophet of environmental catastrophes. Never discouraged, but never right.
Thanks to resourceful bloggers, you can read excerpts online from a hard-to-find book co-authored by Holdren in the late 1970s called "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment."
In it, you will find the czar wading into some unpleasant talk about mass sterilizations and abortions.
It's not surprising. Holdren spent the '70s boogying down to the vibes of an imaginary population catastrophe and global cooling. He also participated in the famous wager between scientist Paul Ehrlich, the now-discredited "Population Bomb" theorist (and co-author of "Ecoscience), and economist Julian Simon, who believed human ingenuity would overcome demand.
Holdren was asked by Ehrlich to pick five natural resources that would experience shortages due to human consumption. He lost the bet on all counts, as the composite price index for the commodities he picked, like copper and chromium, fell by more than 40 percent.
Then again, it's one thing to be a bumbling soothsayer and it's quite another to underestimate the resourcefulness of mankind enough to ponder how "population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution . . .," as Holdren did in "Ecoscience" in 1977.
The book, in fact, is sprinkled with comparable statements that passively discuss how coercive population control methods might rescue the world from ... well, humans.
When I called Holdren's office, I was told that the czar "does not now and never has been an advocate of compulsory abortions or other repressive measures to limit fertility."
If that is so, I wondered, why is his name on a textbook that brought up such policy? Did he not write that part? Did he change his mind? Was it theoretical?
No straightforward answer was forthcoming.
No big deal. Even today, many environmentalists and anti-immigration activists believe in the myth of population disaster. In this world, human spammers are a disease, not a cure.
And Holdren has never ceased peddling calamity as science.
Today, for instance, though Holdren has publicly tempered his aversion to population growth, he still advocates that government nudge us toward fewer children.
Instead of coercion, though, he is a fan of "motivation."
When, during his Senate confirmation hearing, Holdren was asked about his penchant for scientific overstatements, he responded, "The motivation for looking at the downside possibilities, the possibilities that can go wrong if things continue in a bad direction, is to motivate people to change direction. That was my intention at the time."
"Motivation" is when Holdren tells us that global warming could cause the deaths of 1 billion people by 2020. Or when he claimed that sea levels could rise by 13 feet by the end of this century when your run-of-the-mill alarmist warns of only 13 inches.
"Motivating" — or, in other words, scaring the hell out of people — about "possibilities" is an ideological and political weapon unsheathed in the effort to pass policies that, in the end, coerce us to do the right thing, anyway.
Holdren's past flies in the face of Barack Obama's contention, made on the day of the science czar's appointment, that his administration was "ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology."
Holdren embodies the opposite, actually.
Harsanyi: Science fiction czar
By David Harsanyi
Posted: 07/15/2009 01:00:00 AM MDT
Dr. John Holdren, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy — better known as the "science czar" — has been a longtime prophet of environmental catastrophes. Never discouraged, but never right.
Thanks to resourceful bloggers, you can read excerpts online from a hard-to-find book co-authored by Holdren in the late 1970s called "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, and Environment."
In it, you will find the czar wading into some unpleasant talk about mass sterilizations and abortions.
It's not surprising. Holdren spent the '70s boogying down to the vibes of an imaginary population catastrophe and global cooling. He also participated in the famous wager between scientist Paul Ehrlich, the now-discredited "Population Bomb" theorist (and co-author of "Ecoscience), and economist Julian Simon, who believed human ingenuity would overcome demand.
Holdren was asked by Ehrlich to pick five natural resources that would experience shortages due to human consumption. He lost the bet on all counts, as the composite price index for the commodities he picked, like copper and chromium, fell by more than 40 percent.
Then again, it's one thing to be a bumbling soothsayer and it's quite another to underestimate the resourcefulness of mankind enough to ponder how "population-control laws, even including laws requiring compulsory abortion, could be sustained under the existing Constitution . . .," as Holdren did in "Ecoscience" in 1977.
The book, in fact, is sprinkled with comparable statements that passively discuss how coercive population control methods might rescue the world from ... well, humans.
When I called Holdren's office, I was told that the czar "does not now and never has been an advocate of compulsory abortions or other repressive measures to limit fertility."
If that is so, I wondered, why is his name on a textbook that brought up such policy? Did he not write that part? Did he change his mind? Was it theoretical?
No straightforward answer was forthcoming.
No big deal. Even today, many environmentalists and anti-immigration activists believe in the myth of population disaster. In this world, human spammers are a disease, not a cure.
And Holdren has never ceased peddling calamity as science.
Today, for instance, though Holdren has publicly tempered his aversion to population growth, he still advocates that government nudge us toward fewer children.
Instead of coercion, though, he is a fan of "motivation."
When, during his Senate confirmation hearing, Holdren was asked about his penchant for scientific overstatements, he responded, "The motivation for looking at the downside possibilities, the possibilities that can go wrong if things continue in a bad direction, is to motivate people to change direction. That was my intention at the time."
"Motivation" is when Holdren tells us that global warming could cause the deaths of 1 billion people by 2020. Or when he claimed that sea levels could rise by 13 feet by the end of this century when your run-of-the-mill alarmist warns of only 13 inches.
"Motivating" — or, in other words, scaring the hell out of people — about "possibilities" is an ideological and political weapon unsheathed in the effort to pass policies that, in the end, coerce us to do the right thing, anyway.
Holdren's past flies in the face of Barack Obama's contention, made on the day of the science czar's appointment, that his administration was "ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology."
Holdren embodies the opposite, actually.
phantom240
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obama fails so hard ROFL
azimuth
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not only is healthcare a bad idea, it opens the door for more policies and taxes in the future that will take yet more of our personal liberties. their projections for how much this will cost is grossly underestimated, and even their own skewed profit margin projection won't even cover it. people making over 1 million per year are going to be charged a 5.4% surcharge, or 54,000$ on every million, which puts most millionaires over 50% of their income going to the government. great way to keep the economy moving
there are so many things wrong with this, we couldn't even scratch the surface in a 1000 post thread. 1/6 of our economy put under control by the government in 1 single signature. what could go wrong? do democrats see that they are grabbing tons of the private sector economy? do they realize how much of our GDP health care is? not to mention they are also power grabbing energy.....or should i say GE is grabbing it for them. i wonder how many contracts GE will get out of the obaminator. they are the largest player in energy AND health care, and on obama's board of economic advisors. all the democrats had a big problem with cheney and haliburton's contracts (which they had a right to complain), but no democrat says anything when their team does the exact same thing with general electric and NBC (immelt). i've now stopped blaming politicians for everything, i think a very large part of our country is either uninformed, misinformed, willingly ignorant, or gullable. or all of them. i think it's gullability. we aren't taught to question things anymore with any kind of critical thought. we are going to fail as a country because of it. /rant
there are so many things wrong with this, we couldn't even scratch the surface in a 1000 post thread. 1/6 of our economy put under control by the government in 1 single signature. what could go wrong? do democrats see that they are grabbing tons of the private sector economy? do they realize how much of our GDP health care is? not to mention they are also power grabbing energy.....or should i say GE is grabbing it for them. i wonder how many contracts GE will get out of the obaminator. they are the largest player in energy AND health care, and on obama's board of economic advisors. all the democrats had a big problem with cheney and haliburton's contracts (which they had a right to complain), but no democrat says anything when their team does the exact same thing with general electric and NBC (immelt). i've now stopped blaming politicians for everything, i think a very large part of our country is either uninformed, misinformed, willingly ignorant, or gullable. or all of them. i think it's gullability. we aren't taught to question things anymore with any kind of critical thought. we are going to fail as a country because of it. /rant
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Really wanna post some blame? try the carter administration.
bones22
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i wouldnt be surprised if most of the people on here had no clue who that is. since he was way before they were born
cotjones
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Exactly, It's easy to blame the current president for problems absent of the understanding that policy and action can take many years to affect the general state of the country.
Back in the cold war era there was an invasion of Afghanistan by the soviet's. The invasion was opposed by the united states in the form of hundreds of thousands of tons of munitions and the CIA actively recruited Islamic extremists to fight for the mujahideen which at this time was comprised of the future Taliban. It was later that corrupt mujahideen leaders called for the formation of a policing force (the Taliban.) But now the sheer American ignorance that has been displayed everywhere our armed forces go has suffice it to say "put a sour taste on the terrorist tongue." At a time those we would call terrorists today looked at the US very favorably. all we needed was the chance to prove them wrong.
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this progressive BS started with woodrow wilson. he is the originator in america. so 1912 is when the train wreck began. although he'd be considered a conservative by todays standards, liberal/progressive government in america started with him. woodrow wilson is the enemy.
edit: although carter did give chrysler 1 billion dollars in bailout money, you could argue that he started that precedence. i don't think people realize the importance precedence is.
twistedchild420
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It's Bush's fault.
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azimuth
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i know. that republican idiot. i say we blame bush for everything and never hold anyone else accountable for anything. now that's hope and change.
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