President Obama said today that he will fight to change health care, energy and education in dramatic ways that will upset the status quo. Like I said before he was elected, he is a radical socialist.
Archive for February, 2009
President Barack Obama wants to develop a process for burning coal without releasing carbon into the atmosphere. He calls this “clean coal.” He says that a nation that put a man on the moon, surely should be able to develop clean coal.
It’s interesting to me that he makes that comparison. Putting a man on the moon was a very expensive government boondoggle. The moon program was conceived primarily as a response to the Soviets having beaten us into space with the first orbiting satellite, Sputnik. After about ten years and billions of dollars, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon on 20 July 1969. The last astronauts to walk on the moon did so in 1972. They left a plaque with this message: “Here man completed his first explorations of the Moon, December 1972.” In over 36 years we haven’t been back.
In other words, there was no real point in putting a man on the moon; we just wanted to show that we could do it.
Actually, I suspect that Obama’s comparison is more apt than he would like to admit. I have no doubt that given enough money and time we can develop a clean coal burning process. But once we’ve done it we will probably realize that it is too expensive to use for any practical purpose.
You can’t turn on the TV these days without seeing President Obama warning that our economy will collapse if we don’t let him spend a trillion dollars. It didn’t take long for the candidate who decried the “politics of fear” to switch from ”I want to be your President” to “I won.”
President Obama on the loss of about 600,000 jobs in January: “The situation could not be more serious.” Mr President, wouldn’t the situation be more serious if we had lost twice that many jobs last month?
Just for the record, the low temperatures at my home in Florida for the last three mornings were 25, 17 and 22 degrees F.
A CBS Radio newscaster suggested today that if we could get Obama to nominate about 100,000 more people for jobs in his administration we might collect enough unpaid taxes to pay for the stimulus package.