The Cost of Doing Nothing…
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008I’ve been hearing this over and over lately.
“We’ve got to act!”
“We’ve got to act now!”
“There are no guarantees, but the cost of doing nothing will be catastrophic!”
Sound familiar? It’s the same mantra the likes of Al Gore and scientific community have been saying for quite a few years now and what was the response? Republicans scoffed, jeered and derided them. They held up a handful of questionable scientists with dubious credentials and financing to mobilize their constituency against “acting now” and instead do nothing.
So here we are in the wake of An Incovenient Truth and now its a Republican administration along with its appointed multi-multi-millionairre Henry Paulsen that are watching billions wither away in the stock market and all of a sudden they’re waving the same flag except this time its in defense of speculators.
They say 50% of Americans are vested in the stock market, yet 100% of Americans will participate in the bailout and 100% of future Americans will be invested in this short term bail out. We could make money on this deal tho! Ya right! Just like when Iraq was going to pay for their own war? Cmon. How stupid do you think we are? Oh ya - pretty stupid.
The administrations crystal ball is so clear when it comes to money isnt it? Its unfortunate that this crystal ball was tucked away in a closet somewhere while everyone was in ‘buy! buy! buy!” mode and raking in billions.
Why would I trust a single thing this administration recommends? Frankly I dont. I’d rather do nothing than let this administration do a darn thing.
If the Democrats had an ounce of backbone, they would tie climate change directly to any proposal by Secretary Paulsen and for once, level the playing field.