I'll move on soon but first some observations on the passing scene. Only about 8% of the people our leader has appointed to his administration have ever held a job in the "real world", including himself. (I'm not racist because I don't like his white half either.) They have mostly been political hacks or from the hallowed halls of academia. They have never refinanced their house or risked their money to start a business. They have never had to meet a company payroll. They have never tried to compete with the other dry cleaning store a couple of miles away or do any of the things that it takes to run any business but they think that they are perfectly qualified to make all the rules since they are so smart and the rest of us are so dumb. Okay, look at the last two elections and I'll grant you that most of the voters were dumb. (On the average, half of the voters are always below the average of voter intelligence.)
A local story is developing about the Southern Company passing on the cost of a new nuclear power plant to it's customers. The talking heads say that the company should pay for the plant and not the customers. The company doesn't have any money that it does not first get from the customers! DUH, how smart do you have to be to know that all expenses of any company, or government, are paid by the customers. Otherwise, without funding, there will be no company or government.
Our fearless leader is closing down the coal industry. Most of the electrical power generated in our country is generated with coal and that is why we have lower costs for our electrical power. Everything we buy has a component that will have a higher cost if he is allowed to do this. His aim is to make other forms of energy more expensive so that solar, wind, and geothermal will be more competitive. Solar and wind have their place but we are a long way from either being competitive with coal and fossil fuels without government meddling. Solar is now competitive for heating but not electrical power.
Even forgetting the massive unemployment that will continue to happen in the area of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and others, our home and industrial electrical bills will skyrocket and our industry will continue to lose the fight to stay competitive with the rest of the world. Our media and the public will continue to blame "BIG BUSINESS" for sending our jobs overseas while we slowly slip into third world status.
Buy American you may say. Do you have an American made TV, VCR, or DVD? Not unless it's fairly old. You may still have american made washers, dryers, stoves, refrigerators, or lawn mowers but have you noticed that the newer names like LG and Samsung? Some Sears Kenmore appliances are now made by foreign companies. Even the older American brand names like RCA, Westinghouse, and Emerson have their products made overseas. We are losing the competition with the rest of the world and it's being blamed on evil "BIG BUSINESS" that has to move production overseas to stay in business because government continues to impose regulations and taxes that make us more non-competitive. China and India, to name a couple, are not going to impose the same restrictions on themselves.
I have to close now, IRS is knocking at the door.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
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