Climate Change Disinformation & Propaganda on NPR

Climate change advocates are but sophisticated sounding demagogues. 

While driving to work on 4/15/2012, I heard on NPR (National Public Radio, a government financed program) how these demagogues used their siren sophistry to fuse biology/nature and eco-nomics (the hyphen in eco-nomics is no accident). It was too absurd to listen to that. From this mélange these demagogues on NPR distilled some authoritarian prescriptions how to save our planet and to subjugate free individuals. And tax payers are to pay for that!

Big Government: Occupational Licensing Requirements

Land Of Regulated Opportunity

If it is true that “Over the past 50 years, the number of American workers required to have a government license has risen from 5 to 30 percent of the workforce” (Source: Goldwater Institute, Phoenix, AZ), then this is substantial evidence for big government overreach.

Occupational Licensing Is Servitude By Other Means

As a principle, occupational licensing should be optional for most professions. Professional licensing or training can serve individuals to distinguish themselves from their competitors. That’s an individual’s decision in a free market economy. It should not be mandated by government as the typical one size fits all solution. Customers are not that stupid as not to be able to distinguish reputable from shady businesses. Moreover, occupational licensing requirements are too often capricious, excessive, and ridiculous.

Big government and their lobbyists just get out of the way.

Barriers To Entry For Whom?

Government mandated occupational licensing requirements are often nothing but veiled protectionism granted by politicians to influential businesses or labor to degrade competition. Do not governments benefit from the constant flow of licensing fees?

For further reading:

“License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing” by the Institute for Justice published in May 2012 (http://ij.org/licensetowork)

The Bonanza Of Green River Crude Oil

Peak (Snake) oil anybody! Bury peak oil nonsense as fast as you can!

On May 10 2012, in testimony before the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, the Director of Natural Resources and Environment at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, said that the “[o]il shale deposits in the Green River Formation [in the western Rocky Mountains] are estimated to contain up to 3 trillion barrels of oil, half of which may be recoverable, which is about equal to the entire world’s proven oil reserves.” Unfortunately, most of this massive oil shale deposit lies beneath federal land, where the Obama administration and its radical environmentalist supporters can keep it locked away.

In case you do not believe me, read following:

http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/hearings/HHRG-112-%20SY20-WState-AMittal-20120510.pdf

Government Failure - Phasing Out Of Edison’s Light Bulbs In Favor Of CFLs

Legislatores Against The Silent Majority

In Europe and the US laws were passed by our ever so clairvoyant and busybody lawmakers to phase out Edison’s light bulb in favor of CFLs (Compact fluorescent lamp).

When Government Prescribes One Technology

What a folly, since new technologies like LED light were already around the corner. What a deception since it was well known that CFLs because of their mercury content are health hazards.

No better recent example of blatant government failure comes so easily to my mind!