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Trash Talk

By Theresa Camoriano

Last weekend, I took one very small step to try to make the world a better place for the next generation.  As I was walking into a store, a little boy was walking out with his parents.  The parents had just given him a small candy and were smiling at him as he unwrapped the candy, put it in his mouth, and threw the wrapper on the ground.  Neither parent took any step to pick up the paper or to teach the little boy not to litter.  I was concerned.  This family seemed pleasant and well-dressed and appeared to be from a foreign country.  Maybe in their country they threw trash on the ground and walked away, but I wanted them to learn that we don’t do that here, because I didn’t want their little boy to grow up in a world that had turned into a garbage dump.   What could I do?

I walked over and picked up the candy wrapper and, with a big smile and a kind voice, handed it to the little boy as if it were a gift, telling him that he must have dropped it.  The mother smiled and repeated what I had said to her son, also in a nice tone of voice.  With a little luck, the mother, father, and little boy learned that we do not consider littering to be acceptable, and maybe they will not litter in the future.  In any case, I am glad I tried. 

Being responsible to handle our own trash properly is a simple thing, but it reflects a sense of responsibility and a respect for other people and their property that are extremely important.  We need to teach that sense of responsibility and respect regularly and consistently to our children and grandchildren and even to other people’s children and grandchildren if we want them to live in a good world.  They must learn to govern themselves properly if they want to live in a free society – understanding both their rights and their responsibilities.  Otherwise, they will be subjected to more and more laws and regulations making everything either required or prohibited, and making them servants of the state, not free people. 

And to continue on the subject of trash, it is amazing how the Democrats can say with a straight face that they are going to improve the economy and create good jobs for people when all their proposed policies have long ago been proven to harm the economy and destroy jobs  -- they are basically engaging in political trash talk!  They plan to beat up on the people who are the most productive and who create jobs, both by regulating them more and by taxing them more, and somehow they think this abuse will inspire those folks to be more productive.  These so-called educated elites, who have never run even the tiniest business, presume to know how to run everything from corner stores to Fortune 500 companies and say with a straight face that they will improve the economy.  Have they not noticed that even the Communists long ago gave up on Communism?

The politicians’ blind faith in global warming and their willingness to destroy us in order to “save” the planet are reminiscent of such other so-called scientific wisdom as the use of bloodletting for more than 2,000 years, the belief in the Piltdown Man hoax for over 40 years, and the failure for over 50 years of the establishment scientists to accept the scientific evidence and suggestions from practicing doctors that washing one’s hands between deliveries would greatly reduce the number of deaths in childbirth.

Unfortunately, if the politicians use their extreme powers to “cure” the planet of this so-called “global warming” epidemic, they will cause such poverty, death and destruction that it will be like a form of global bloodletting.  But maybe that’s what they really want, since many of them believe the planet earth would be better off if there were far fewer people living on it.  After all, they have yet to apologize for the millions of people who have died from malaria due to their bans on DDT.  And they seem not to care about the effect their ethanol mandates are having in raising food prices worldwide, causing widespread hunger and starvation, even as those same politicians prohibit drilling for oil in ANWR and prohibit the building of nuclear power plants like those that are safely providing 80% of France’s power.  One might almost think they were more interested in saving one caribou than in alleviating the suffering of a million people!

Cleaning up the trash and the trash talking politicians is a big job, but our children and grandchildren are depending on us to do it.  Please get out your brooms and help.

If created, how much will this massive government bureaucracy [the proposed cap and trade program on carbon] reduce the average global temperature?  Climatologist Patrick Michaels thinks it would have virtually no effect on the climate, an additional 0.013 degrees (Celsius) of "prevented" warming….[with] the price tag of 660 hurricanes. – Brent Bozell III

At its core, environmentalism is a kind of nature worship. It's a holistic ideology, shot through with religious sentiment….Plastic grocery bags are being banned, even though they require less energy to make and recycle than paper ones. The country is being forced to subscribe to a modern version of transubstantiation, whereby corn is miraculously transformed into sinless energy even as it does worse damage than oil. – Jonah Goldberg

There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gases is causing, or will in the foreseeable future cause, catastrophic heating of the Earth’s atmosphere and disruption of the Earth’s climate. Moreover, there is substantial evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth. – Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (representing 31,000 scientists)

Two decades ago, …socialism and communism died rudely, then were buried forever by the empirical demonstration of the superiority of market capitalism… Now the experts will regulate your life not in the name of the proletariat or Fabian socialism but -- even better -- in the name of Earth itself. …other than rationing food, there is no greater instrument of social control than rationing energy, the currency of just about everything one does and uses in an advanced society. – Charles Krauthammer

When it comes to energy, Congress is the problem and Big Oil is part of the solution. The longer it takes Americans to perceive this, the longer our energy woes will continue. – Dr. Mark Hendrickson

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