An inconvenient truth

There’s more of “An Inconvenient Truth” to Al Gore than just a film title.

Gore, the Mister Environment who wants to increase your tax and bureaucratic burden by ballyhooing global warming, gets royalties from a zinc mine.

In other words, Mister Environment personally profits by defiling Mother Earth, if you believe the rhetoric of his associates.

And he profits pretty handsomely. The zinc mine kicks $20,000 per year into his pockets, and has done so since 1974. One Inconvenient Truth is that the mine violates EPA water-quality standards.

Does Mister Environment cut loose his $20,000 to help mitigate the damage? Does he donate the money to one of his pet green organizations? No, the Inconvenient Truth is that Gore lines his pockets and the mine pollutes the river.

The Inconvenient Truth is that Gore is more than a little hypocritical as he spews his environmentalist rhetoric across the country.

The Inconvenient Truth is that anything Gore says about global warming has to be filtered through his hypocrisy. He’s a professional politician, of course, and a politician who it attempting to gain national prominence by touting global warming. Global warming is a means to Gore’s end. It’s nothing that he’s preaching out of the kindness of his zinc-mining heart.

The Inconvenient Truth is that global warming might just be the latest bird flu, overpopulation, or Plight of the Homeless. Remember the ‘70s? Overpopulation was the cause du jour of the Gorians. We were going to eat ourselves out of house, home and planet unless Something Was Done. That Something involved millions of your dollars. Nothing concrete was done, and 30 years later people still have beans on the table.

Ditto for The Plight Of The Homeless, one of the great causes of the ‘80s. Again, millions of dollars spent. Still today, beggars are offering to ‘work for food’ if you believe their streetcorner signs.

And then there’s bird flu. Twenty-five million dollars gone in the last few years, and the Inconvenient Truth is that no one got sick.

The real Inconvenient Truth is that Americans need to panic over one cause or another, and politicians like Gore respond by recklessly throwing dollars at the perceived problem. You and I don’t pay for it.

The politicians refuse to raise taxes to pay for their folly. The Inconvenient Truth is that we’re mortgaging our grandkids for Al Gore’s zinc-mining spew, and that’s wrong.