Since the "Vote For Me" bait the current renter at 1600 Pennsy Avenue seems to be most fond of is that "Green Jobs" will be the salvation of the economy, and since a significant part of the population (and, by extension, the electorate) appears to have swallowed that hook, line, and sinker, I've got a small cautionary tale for you, courtesy of a Daown Eastah who watched the whole thing play out from the rocker on his front porch.
You've gotta remember something about Libs: they're pathologically incapable of foreseeing anything but rosy results from their actions-- and they're certainly incapable of foreseeing the consequences of them...
Tip of the dented flight helmet to China Boy...
You've gotta remember something about Libs: they're pathologically incapable of foreseeing anything but rosy results from their actions-- and they're certainly incapable of foreseeing the consequences of them...
Funniest tale up here about the Green side was the war they waged on the last nuke plant in Maine -- Maine Yankee in Wiscasset.
The Greenies -- most of 'em internal immigrants from places like Brooklyn -- howled and protested and whined for years that they wanted it shut down!
They clogged the courts, disrupted traffic, and just were a huge PITA for years. Then suddenly, without warning, the plant shut down almost overnight.
The Greenies were drunk with joy! They had won against all the odds!
Peace will reign again!
Gaia has been saved from the clutches of evil, greedy, corporationists!
.
Until someone realized that they *weren't* going to get free power from Canada to replace the free power they'd been getting from MY.
And the good citizens of Wiscasset discovered that *they* now had to <gasp!> pay the taxes to provide the money to support the schools, police, fire, roads, etc that had previously been paid by Maine Yankee.
All taxes to real property tripled (at least) overnight.
Ohhh...the howling could be heard three towns away!
But... but... but It had seemed like such a good idea at the time...
Oh, well. At least that evil nuclear plant is shut down and the radioactive materials have been removed and—
Wait. What?
All the nuclear materials are still there, stored in barrels... because the stuff can't be moved... because of all the regs the Greenies got written into state laws.
Now it'll be there forever…
So... MY got closed in exchange for very high electric costs, triple property taxes, an 80-90% hike in taxes to pay for the town’s operating expenses, and the same pile of radioactive fuel is still there... except now it’s sitting 200 feet from where it used to be, and it's not generating anything except concern.
And oh, yeah... now it’s no longer inside a containment shell, either…
Tip of the dented flight helmet to China Boy...
The greens are simply the modern Luddite. They work to prevent anything they don't like from happening. If they got their way, all modern tech would be shut down and they would be protesting the local crest toothpaste plant. I used to be a member of the Sierra Club back in the dark 70s and I got out as they were becoming opaque and utterly dishonest. They quit looking for honest concerns and ways to mitigate them and looked for any way possible to slow or stop any project they didn't like, for whatever excuse. The worst thing was that people wanted to trust those morons and they didn't look to see if the greens were being honest. From my experience, they weren't.
Reminds me of the spotted owl fiasco in the PacNW back in the '70's. Except our enviroweenies were people who had relocated from Coliformico (the original tree-huggers) up north to escape high prices and taxes. You probably heard the howling when they succeeded in getting large tracts of harvestable forest (one of the only true renewable resources as some tracts of forest are now being harvested for the fifth time) placed *off limits* only to find their property taxes, school bonds, etc. going up and up. Hmmmm, now just where do you think those taxes and revenues were coming from before?
Currently the forest in and surrounding Crater Lake National Park is devastated by disease because the same people forced through a ban against taking down any trees -- don't want to spoil the view, yanno -- within the national park. None. Zip. Zilch. Diseased trees are very similar to cancer. If you let them stand they will (not might) infect the surrounding trees. Except with this *cancer* the cure is simple. Excise the diseased trees and burn them. So, in an effort to "not spoil the view", they have instead destroyed it.
*shakes head*
The egos and hubris of these people is beyond the pale.
This needs to go on T-shirts. And bumper stickers. And campagin signs. Superimposed over images of.... oh, pick something. Anything. Just make sure you clear it first with the EPA.
Of course. Not only are Dems pathologically incapable of imagining anything but rosy goodness from voting for Dems, but they're too emotionally stunted to accept responsibility for having caused their plight in the first place.
That's assuming that they have sufficient brain cells remaining to remember what happened in the first place...
The failure of any liberal plan to succeed,even if the conservatives just rolled over and didn't argue about it - is directly attributable to conservatives.
That's a law.
Because no single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.