LETTER: Climate change hoax equals energy collapse
Very few thinking people still believe the hoax of human-caused global warming/climate change. But unfortunately many don’t relate a lock-up of energy resources to the serious threat of total economic collapse.
Radical environmentalists promote the euphoric concept that it is somehow “patriotic” and “earth-saving” to leave oil, gas and coal in the ground while converting to “free” wind and solar. They fail to relate resulting increased costs and limited production capabilities to inevitable fuel shortage, rationing and much higher fuel bills.
Meanwhile “cap and trade” nonsense is forcing business and industry into realistic analysis and rejection of the unproven CO2 hypothesis. Where have our bottom-line oriented market analysts been? Busy creating imaginary marketing calculations based upon carefully selected data in deliberate support of this highly propagandized, agenda-driven CO2/climate-change scare?
Socialistic pressures (the media and federal welfare) have undermined the common sense of free-enterprise capitalism providing taxable profits. Liberals label profit as “selfish.” Actually only prosperity can provide for social needs long-term. Without ever generating a product, government simply takes from producers and transfers to recipients while grandly paying itself. It exists on taxing private sector business, industry and citizen wealth.
Danger point is a preponderance of government jobs. Economists fondly claim that tourism and service industries can replace other revenue producing jobs and industries. Worldwide political eruptions and growing dislike and distrust for Americans keep vacationers at home, thus expanding our own tourism operations. But tourism can never support us. Our incomes and standard of living decline as timber and mining industries are regulated out of business and land and resources are confiscated by government.
Eventually federal funding cuts will hit health care, education and other social services including the long-established welfare/unemployment system. Living on the quicksand of debt and credit, America rapidly heads toward poverty of Third World status.
Donald Trump is dramatically creating an awakening. Empty buildings and aging infrastructure represent deficit rather than revenue. Trump holdings contrast with relocatable factories and manufacturing firms steadily fleeing to other countries. With extensive background and experience, candidate Trump stumps for protecting private property and profit, preserving our free-enterprise system and restoring the Constitution.
Trump has the stamina and insight to take on this huge job of saving America. A knowledgeable, supportive citizenry is needed to make America “great” again for everyone.
—Clarice Ryan, Bigfork