House of Eratosthenes

Stumbled across this short nugget at NRO’s The Corner when I was trying to find some background information on some statements I heard from Sen. Clinton, which I found to be disquieting. You know, it’s the same ol’ Hillary Clinton crap…there’s this problem caused by a bunch of people who are trying to screw you, and I, The Great Hillary, am going to screw them longer and harder and you’re going to smile when you see me do it. (In this case, it’s something called “the big oil companies.”)

Anyway, Andrew Stuttaford makes the point…

Barack Obama isn’t right about very much, but he’s correct to say that the McCain/Clinton idea of a gas tax holiday is a bad idea, not least, I suspect, because it would probably have little impact on the price at the pump.

Then, as Ron Bailey notes over at Reason, there’s this:

Don’t both senators [Clinton and McCain] support imposing a cap-and-trade market on carbon emissions to combat man-made global warming? In a Washington Post op/ed last year, two RAND researchers calculated that a relatively modest $30 per ton of carbon price would boost gasoline prices by 35 cents per gallon (and household electricity bills by 20 to 30 percent).

Ooops.

Obama, here, is not to be given credit for his economic insight; he’s just being a typical liberal. As I pointed out awhile ago, the ideology has been twisted into something (presuming this isn’t what it was in the first place) dedicated to the premise that no two classes of people have, as of yet, any sort of symbiotic relationship. Of the plans you hear coming from liberals, perhaps about half of them are proposed for the purpose of forming such a relationship — Obama’s call for a “dialog on race” comes to mind as an example of this. Each and every single one of those ideas is faulty or disingenuous. That’s not my personal conclusion; it’s a simple article of sturdy logic. Just listen to a liberal talk about people of diverse economic circumstances, or races, or creeds, coexisting sometime. They’ll talk about their dreams in this regard. Never, ever do they say “A and B are living together in peace, and I want to make it easier for them to do so.”

Nope. In the liberal universe, all separate classes are fighting with each other — all the time. The liberal is here to promote a “peace plan,” or else the liberal is here to make sure things are less comfortable for B so they can be made more comfortable for A.

Drilling in ANWR, building power plants, starting businesses, employing people, keeping them. Liberals haven’t made it easy for anyone to do anything — except hostile things. Women getting divorces from their husbands. Unions of employees screwing their management. Lawyers sucking money out of people and employers. That’s all.

In all other aspects, they are here to make life difficult.

To simply acknowledge that two classes of people, with somewhat different economic interests just might have a symbiotic relationship, in some respects, is to make the argument for a conservative libertarian without the conservative libertarian even showing up, let alone saying anything. You pull oil out of the ground and sell it to that guy over there; he refines it into gasoline and sells it to me. The three of us exist in a symbiotic relationship — which the liberal doesn’t want me to think about, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s there. You, he, and I engage in a cooperative effort to pull the oil out of the ground and use it to make my car take me places. Liberals exist to make that whole process more difficult. To make sure that by the time we’re done doing it, we’re all poor.

They restrict. They regulate. They tax. And then they ask for “contributions” to “offset” the “carbon”…which are voluntary…for now. They use this shell game where I’m supposed to pretend your interests, as a oil guy, are antithetical to mine, as a gasoline consumer — so that I consent to you being beaten up financially. But anyone with a brain knows as soon as it happens to you, you’re going to pass it along and I’ll end up paying it.

After which, I’ll drive my car someplace, with an artificial level of difficulty, and when I get where I’m going I’ll be doing something else the liberals have made more difficult. Like parent my kid, for example.

It’s based on lies. It’s based on the idea that it’s every man for himself — except they make it look like the opposite, because they’re doing this with classes of people. Women. Working families. Persons of color. But what they’re talking about, is this-or-that class doesn’t share any common goals with any other class, and so it needs to elect the liberals so they can screw that other guy. After that’s done, then we can live together in harmony.

But they don’t mean it. Because next year, they’ll be back in your face, selling you something else. Because symbiotic inter-class relationships don’t exist — that other guy is still screwing you over — and you need to vote for them so they can screw him over, and he can find out what it’s like.

There’s nothing centrist or productive about these ideas we call “liberal.” They are the nature of extremism, and we never should have gotten started with them.

“There’s nothing centrist or productive about these ideas we call “liberal.” They are the nature of extremism, and we never should have gotten started with them.”

Amen.

The gas tax holiday upon first hearing it, sounds good, when using just emotion, i.e. liberalism. But delving deeper, thinking about it, dissecting it with logic, i.e. conservatism, it suddenly makes no sense at all.

I liken it to a drug, it’ll make ya’ feel good for awhile but when you wake up (come Sept.) the problem, the very reason for using the drug in the first place, will still be there. I think it’s time we Americans start figuring out to live our lives with $4.00 a gallon gas, and stop thinking there’s an easy fix, a holiday, to our problem.

Same goes with mortgage bailouts and government run healthcare, and, and…

Obama = blind squirrel on this one.
- tim | 05/07/2008 @ 16:18
I certainly hope that someday we get started on getting finished with them.
- vanderleun | 05/07/2008 @ 18:30

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