French r**ts tell us something
Dec 7, 2018 08:14:31 #
I find it REALLY HARD to believe there are this many UNTHINKING people in the World, that they cannot think back to the Seasonal changes BEFORE we even HAD motor cars!! No Common Sense at all!! - Bevos
Subject:
Pat Buchanan:
Specifically, what the r****rs seem to be saying is this:
We cannot see the benefits you are promising to future generations from cutting carbon emissions. And we cannot survive the taxes you are imposing on us in the here and now.
What is happening in Paris carries a message for all Western countries.
Democracies, which rely on the sustained support of e*****rates, have to impose rising costs on those e*****rates, if they are to deeply cut carbon emissions.
But when the e*****rates cannot see the benefits of these painful price hikes, the greater the likelihood the people will rise up and repudiate those whom progressives regard as far-sighted leaders — such as Macron.
Paris shows that Western elites may be reaching the limits of their political capacity to impose major sacrifices upon their constituents, who are turning to populists of the left and right to dethrone those elites.
Trump has been using tariffs to cut the trade deficits America has been running in recent decades, to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., and to restore America's economic independence.
Excellent goals all. But the immediate impact of those tariffs is rising prices at the mall and retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports. Before the long-term benefits can be realized, the pain comes and the protests begin.
No one wins a trade war, we are told. But an America willing to endure lost access to British imports in the 19th century emerged in the 20th as the greatest manufacturing power history had ever seen, a nation independent of all others, and able to stay out of the great wars of that century.
Are the American people willing to make the sacrifices to restore that independence? Are the British people willing to pay the price that the restoration of their national independence, via Brexit, entails?
Authoritarians have it easier. Morally revolting and socially ruinous as its hellish policy was, China was able to impose, for decades, a one-couple, one-child mandate on the most populous nation on earth.
According to the Paris agreement, poorer nations were promised $100 billion a year, starting in 2020, to cut carbon emissions. Anyone think that the newly nationalistic peoples of the West will tolerate that kind of wealth t***sfer to the Third World indefinitely?
In the Paris climate accord, China and India were given a pass to produce carbon emissions, while reductions were mandated for the Western powers.
How long will the West go along with that, while paying ever-rising prices to cut their own carbon emissions?
China, according to The New York Times, "consumes half the world's coal. More than 4.3 million Chinese are employed in the country's coal mines. China has added 40 percent of the world's coal capacity since 2002."
Japan, the world's third-largest economy, is planning new coal-fired power plants and financing them across Asia.
What we are witnessing is an irrepressible conflict between democratic governments committed to cutting carbon emissions "to save the planet," and their constituents who can refuse to bear those sacrifices by throwing out politicians like Macron.
Perhaps it says something about the future that the host city for this meeting of Paris climate accord signatories, Katowice, is in Silesia, a region that is home to some 90,000 coal workers — around half of all the coal workers in the EU.
Subject:
Pat Buchanan:
Specifically, what the r****rs seem to be saying is this:
We cannot see the benefits you are promising to future generations from cutting carbon emissions. And we cannot survive the taxes you are imposing on us in the here and now.
What is happening in Paris carries a message for all Western countries.
Democracies, which rely on the sustained support of e*****rates, have to impose rising costs on those e*****rates, if they are to deeply cut carbon emissions.
But when the e*****rates cannot see the benefits of these painful price hikes, the greater the likelihood the people will rise up and repudiate those whom progressives regard as far-sighted leaders — such as Macron.
Paris shows that Western elites may be reaching the limits of their political capacity to impose major sacrifices upon their constituents, who are turning to populists of the left and right to dethrone those elites.
Trump has been using tariffs to cut the trade deficits America has been running in recent decades, to bring manufacturing back to the U.S., and to restore America's economic independence.
Excellent goals all. But the immediate impact of those tariffs is rising prices at the mall and retaliatory tariffs on U.S. exports. Before the long-term benefits can be realized, the pain comes and the protests begin.
No one wins a trade war, we are told. But an America willing to endure lost access to British imports in the 19th century emerged in the 20th as the greatest manufacturing power history had ever seen, a nation independent of all others, and able to stay out of the great wars of that century.
Are the American people willing to make the sacrifices to restore that independence? Are the British people willing to pay the price that the restoration of their national independence, via Brexit, entails?
Authoritarians have it easier. Morally revolting and socially ruinous as its hellish policy was, China was able to impose, for decades, a one-couple, one-child mandate on the most populous nation on earth.
According to the Paris agreement, poorer nations were promised $100 billion a year, starting in 2020, to cut carbon emissions. Anyone think that the newly nationalistic peoples of the West will tolerate that kind of wealth t***sfer to the Third World indefinitely?
In the Paris climate accord, China and India were given a pass to produce carbon emissions, while reductions were mandated for the Western powers.
How long will the West go along with that, while paying ever-rising prices to cut their own carbon emissions?
China, according to The New York Times, "consumes half the world's coal. More than 4.3 million Chinese are employed in the country's coal mines. China has added 40 percent of the world's coal capacity since 2002."
Japan, the world's third-largest economy, is planning new coal-fired power plants and financing them across Asia.
What we are witnessing is an irrepressible conflict between democratic governments committed to cutting carbon emissions "to save the planet," and their constituents who can refuse to bear those sacrifices by throwing out politicians like Macron.
Perhaps it says something about the future that the host city for this meeting of Paris climate accord signatories, Katowice, is in Silesia, a region that is home to some 90,000 coal workers — around half of all the coal workers in the EU.
Dec 7, 2018 08:26:07 #
eagleye13 wrote:
I find it REALLY HARD to believe there are this ma... (show quote)
Boy, You left no stone unturned there.
Thank You.
Dec 7, 2018 08:35:13 #
Weasel wrote:
Boy, You left no stone unturned there.
Thank You.
Boy, You left no stone unturned there.
Thank You.
It was Bevos, who was kicked off of OPP that sharwed this with me.
It was Pat Buchanan that left no stones unturned.
Thanks for the attaboy Weasel.
Dec 7, 2018 09:46:31 #
JFlorio
Loc: Seminole Florida
I find it amazimg the indoctrinated generation that believes wholeheartedly that man is destroying the planet with MMCC is the most coddled, energy using and consumer of not needed products ever.
eagleye13 wrote:
It was Bevos, who was kicked off of OPP that sharwed this with me.
It was Pat Buchanan that left no stones unturned.
Thanks for the attaboy Weasel.
It was Pat Buchanan that left no stones unturned.
Thanks for the attaboy Weasel.
Dec 7, 2018 09:49:55 #
JFlorio wrote:
I find it amazimg the indoctrinated generation that believes wholeheartedly that man is destroying the planet with MMCC is the most coddled, energy using and consumer of not needed products ever.
The "left" must be napping!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re72di5phM0
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