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Global warming plans won't work

by Dan Drewry
| November 11, 2009 12:00 AM

There’s one fact about the global warming “issue” being debated in D.C. these days:

It won’t work.

Unilateral moves by the United States to reduce ‘greenhouse gases’ will be ineffective in curing the purported world-wide “problem.” 

Russia, China, India, and all of our other worldwide competitors will keep dumping their effluent into the air. Enacting expensive new burdens on American business in a misguided attempt to cure a problem that may or may not exist, therefore, has one flaw.

It won’t work.

Oh, sure, our competitors worldwide will give great lip service to the idea of “global warming.” Why wouldn’t they? They can sit back, let their factories hum along,  and watch the Barack-a-Lackeys in Congress torpedo the American economy and add billions more to the federal deficit for an idea that has one fatal flaw:

It won’t work.

If you were a politician from China, wouldn’t you snicker to yourself as you made a great noise about China’s commitment to reducing pollution, belching empty words while your coal-fired generating plants belched smoke?  Wouldn’t you promise to clean everything up at some unspecified date in the future while your competitor across the ocean slaps a new financial burden on their taxpayers? 

A tax for something that won’t work?

You and I are going to pay for any global warming legislation that comes through Congress.  We’ll pay between $100 and $200 annually as corporations and utility companies pass along the new costs of doing business.

For an idea that won’t work.

Unemployment under Obamanomics just jumped past 10 percent with no end in sight. Why are Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus doing their best to add new expense and new regulations to American small business at a time of economic crisis?  Why can’t “global warming” be put on the back burner until Montanans go back to work? 

‘Work.’  It’s what the unemployed would like to do. And it’s what the global warming legislation currently before Congress won’t do.

If Tester, Baucus and their fellow Barack-a-Lackeys push their madness into law, you’ll lose a couple hundred bucks per year.  Save an equal amount, if you can, and donate it to whoever runs against Tester next time. We saw Tuesday, in New Jersey and Virginia, what happens when voters outraged by skyrocketing unemployment, out-of-control deficit spending, socialized medicine, and everything else Obama go to the polls.  There’s one good thing about voting against Obama’s ideological slaves:

It will work.