Global Warming and Energy

What has government done for Sandy victims?

"Take Sandy. What has government done for the people of the ravaged states except deliver endless speeches, strut around in uniform, order people around, pay themselves a lot of other people's money, and stifle the healing market?"

Of course it has done some things, but it's done more damage than good.

Man arrested for trying to bring much needed gasoline to his neighbors who are still without gas and power since Sandy.  This is great example of how government hinders recovery from disasters.

More info on how unions blocked non-union electricians from helping restore power after Sandy.

"According to the Daily Caller, “In a two-page Oct. 29 contract, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) local 1049 demanded union dues, pay hikes and benefit contributions from Florida electric utilities before its workers would be permitted to help reconnect power to Long Island communities.”  By November 1^st, the union relented and allowed the workers to come in to work in their state without joining the union … but that means that crucial days passed where crews could have been utilized but instead were shunned because of one thing: power."

Ugly.

More evidence that Sandy was not influenced by AGW. Another analysis.

Insurance companies don't believe Sandy was influenced by AGW.

"And Sandy was unusual because it hit the Northeast, as few hurricanes do, and because it veered inland, instead of toward the ocean."

This appears to be the new meme, but as the article above pointed out...

"In fact, since the beginning of the 20th century, there have been about a dozen or so tropical cyclones that have made landfall in the U.S. north of Cape Hatteras which had a westerly component to their trajectory either immediately before or just after they came ashore. This includes historically damaging storms such as the 1903 New Jersey hurricane, the 1938 Long Island Express hurricane, and 1972’s Hurricane Agnes which is still the flood of record in many parts of the Northeast."

Another myth shot down.

The Good Wife promotes AGW fraud.

Mark Steyn on the government's failure after Sandy.

"In a county entirely untouched by Sandy, my office manager had no electricity for a week. Not because of an "emergency" but because of a decrepit and vulnerable above-the-ground electrical distribution system that ought to be a national embarrassment to any developed society."

Where have I heard that before? Here's the excellent, full quote:

"In a county entirely untouched by Sandy, my office manager had no electricity for a week. Not because of an "emergency" but because of a decrepit and vulnerable above-the-ground electrical distribution system that ought to be a national embarrassment to any developed society. A few weeks ago, I chanced to be in St. Pierre and Miquelon, a French colony of 6,000 people on a couple of treeless rocks in the North Atlantic. Every electric line is underground. Indeed, the droll demoiselle who leads tours of the islands makes a point of amusingly drawing American visitors' attention to this local feature. If you're saying, "Whoa, that sounds expensive," well, our government is more expensive than any government in history – and we have nothing to show for it. Imagine if Obama's 2009 stimulus had been spent burying every electric pole on the Eastern Seaboard. Instead, just that one Obama bill spent a little shy of a trillion dollars, and no one can point to a single thing it built. "A big storm requires Big Government," pronounced The New York Times. But Washington is so big-hearted with Big Government it spends $188 million an hour that it doesn't have – 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and Ramadan. And yet, mysteriously, multitrillion-dollar Big Government Obama-style can't do anything except sluice food stamps to the dependent class, lavish benefits and early retirement packages to the bureaucrats that service them, and so-called government "investment" to approved Obama cronies."

No kidding.

"Back in Benghazi, the president who looks so cool in a bomber jacket declined to answer his beleaguered diplomats' calls for help – even though he had aircraft and Special Forces in the region. Too bad. He's all jacket and no bombers. This, too, is an example of America's uniquely profligate impotence. When something goes screwy at a ramshackle consulate halfway round the globe, very few governments have the technological capacity to watch it unfold in real time. Even fewer have deployable military assets only a couple of hours away. What is the point of unmanned drones, of military bases around the planet, of elite Special Forces trained to the peak of perfection if the president and the vast bloated federal bureaucracy cannot rouse themselves to action? What is the point of outspending Russia, Britain, France, China, Germany and every middle-rank military power combined if, when it matters, America cannot urge into the air one plane with a couple of dozen commandoes? In Iraq, al-Qaida is running training camps in the western desert. In Afghanistan, the Taliban are all but certain to return most of the country to its pre-9/11 glories. But in Washington the head of the world's biggest "counterterrorism" bureaucracy briefs the president on flood damage and downed trees."

But this isn't about Obama. This is about the universal US foreign policy of aggression so that our rulers can control resources without paying the market price.

"Look at Lower Manhattan in the dark, and try to imagine what America might look like after the rest of the planet decides it no longer needs the dollar as global reserve currency."

This is going to happen no matter who is in office, so what's your point? Don't you think we should vote for somebody who understands the problem, somebody who's been educating people on the problem for a decade or more, and how to mitigate the damage? That's why I still support Ron Paul.

"Whether or not to get serious is the choice facing the electorate Tuesday."

Baloney. Romney and Ryan are equally unserious about fixing America's problems and equally serious about looting Americans to enrich themselves and their cronies.