On cap and trade:
The cap-and-trade bill is a travesty. Its net effect on short- to medium-term carbon emissions will be small to none. This is by design: a law that really made a difference would make energy dearer, hurt consumers and force an economic restructuring that would be painful for many industries and their workers. Congress cannot contemplate those effects. So the Waxman-Markey bill, while going through the complex motions of creating a carbon abatement regime, takes care to neutralise itself.
"Hurt consumers." Spoken like a true Jack Booted Thug.
On socialized medicine:
If you regard universal access to health insurance as an urgent priority, as I do, the draft healthcare bills are easier to defend as at least a step in the right direction. Nonetheless, the same evasive mindset – the appetite for change without change – has guided their design. If you are happy with your present insurance, the bills’ designers keep telling voters, you will see no difference.
Mr. Crock seems to believe that cap and trade was ever anything besides a tax. He also speaks of climate change as if it is a fact. Either he's been duped by the propaganda or he's furthering it. On healthcare, he seems to think that universal health insurance is a good idea, as if insurance is what is needed.
Every American has access to medical care. No one is denied access to emergency care. A hospital denying emergency treatment would get fined out of existence. If it isn't an emergency, there are many other options from paying for the treatment (if the patient is flush enough to do so) to medicaid (if the patient is poor), with much wiggle room in the middle.
As Regulation magazine recently reported, 95% of American are satisfied with the medical care they receive. Americans are considering some sort of safety net coverage, not because they want it for themselves, but because they've been duped into believing that 46,000,000 others want it/need it:
If you take the Kaiser/ABC News/USA Today survey's estimate of 13.4 percent of Americans being uninsured and that 17.5 percent of the uninsured are "very dissatisfied" with the care that they are receiving, just 2.3 percent of Americans are both uninsured and "very dissatisfied" with the care they receive. That amounts to 5 million people. Including all uninsured raises the total to 8.4 million. This is a far cry from the 46 million number that is frequently bandied about by politicians and media to count the uninsured.
Unlike Mr. Crock, I happen to believe that government is there to serve the people's interests and desires, not to use government as a means of punishment by fleecing everyone. Government's purpose is not be a change agent and parent.
Americans do not need universal health insurance, nor did we need cap and trade. Unlike Mr. Crock, I'm pleased that Congress/Obama didn't go far enough. I just wish they hadn't gone there at all.
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