The Problem With a Green Economy

Elites would have you believe that there are only pros and
no cons to a green economy.
The Kyoto treaty which Clinton signed but did not send to
Congress, required expensive steps for the "developed nations"
while nothing was required of "developing nations." Copenhagen
reiterated the same policies with "developing nations" only
responsible to the extent that "developed nations provide the
financial and technological support." If we pay for it and
share our technical knowledge for free, then Brazil, Russia,
India, China (BRIC) and other "developing nations" should go
green.
Of the nations who signed and implemented Kyoto and
Copenhagen, most found it effective to move their dirtiest
industries to "developing nations." This is what Enron did
when it created "special purpose entities" to transfer their
debt to. The result has been tremendous growth for BRIC and
stagnant growth and high unemployment for the rest of us.

The Secular Socialist Machine - Newt

We are a nation that values hard work, entrepreneurship, innovation,
and merit-based upward mobility. These values have allowed our
nation to rise from colonial subjects of the British Empire to the
world's top economic and military power. But the values that have
made America great are threatened by a secular socialist machine that
wants to transform America into a radically different nation.
The secular socialist machine wants our nation to be dominated by
unions, controlled by bureaucracy, and to become a place where the
government engineers a vast redistribution of wealth to favored groups.

Reasons for Unemployment

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to fish
and you feed him for a lifetime!
The "progressives" much prefer to give out fish in exchange for votes.
In the early 1970s, Future Shock correctly forecast jobs for the next 30
years. We had moved from an agricultural economy, into a
manufacturing economy and then into an informational economy.
The change was measured by the majority job-type. Dr. Walter
Williams pointed out that, in 1790, 90% of Americans were employed
in an agricultural field. By 2005, the percentage had dropped to 3%.
The same thing happened in the manufacturing jobs. As the industries
matured, technology and innovation allowed more production with less
labor. We found better, cheaper ways to get things done. The
computerization of the information age further increased production
while decreasing the need for labor. Robots now do the dangerous jobs
of welding, painting, etc.
The world has now moved into the global economy. A TV ad shows a
doctor vacationing in Denmark while seeing patients at home. A
programmer can easily telecommute, but can also be replaced by
another programmer telecommuting from anywhere on the planet.
The highly-unionized government schools have failed to prepare
American students for the harsh reality that they will face. As
employees they will compete with better-educated foreigners who
will work harder and longer for less pay. While the U.S. cuts the school
year from 180 days due to budgetary reasons, many foreign students go
to school 220 or more days. There is no summer vacation to "harvest
the crops."

Jaime Escalante - Dead at 79

Jaime Escalante was a successful math teacher. His poor, inner-city
(LA) students passed more AP Calculus exams than students at
nearby Beverly Hills High. His classes were large - up to 50 - because
of demand. The 1988 movie Stand and Deliver documents the
success.
The teachers' union got him removed as chairman of the math
department and, he returned to his native Bolivia. The math
program went into a decline from which it has not recovered.

Government Intervention

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Thursday it's "deeply unfair"
that some financial institutions that got taxpayer-paid bailouts are
emerging in better shape from the recession than millions of ordinary
Americans.
This is the core problem with unConstitutional government actions
which work against a free market.
The United States economy is too large to be manipulated and
regulated by a group of ivy-league "experts." Adam Smith said that
an "invisible hand" - made up of a world of people making financial
decisions - must regulate a free market.