I would like to take some time to review and comment on some remarks our ostensibly intelligent President has recently made. These comments were part of his weekly saturday address. There are, in fact, more than a few interesting statements to deal with but I will focus on but a couple. Early in his comments he talks about the "investments" his administration has made in science and technology that has sparked innovation and lots of jobs. I'm guessing he's including the bankruptcy lawyers for Solyndra in the list of new jobs. And by the way, those investments were made with money from the citizens pockets at large. My only influence over these "investment" decisions comes in the form of my vote during elections which has proven to be rather frustrating of late. The half a billion tax dollars that were invested in Solyndra didn't exactly work out all that well. And if the government subsidies were removed from, lets say, the ethanol world there would likely be more bankruptcies. Just like social security, the money the government "invests" would be more effectively "invested" by those from whom the money was taken. Wind and solar are not an answer to our energy needs and could have found an appropriate and effective place in the big energy picture under the direction of private enterprise. But this would preclude the governments acquistion of power and therefore is not even considered.
Later in the same address he equated the fact of the Russians sending Sputnik into space with the illusion of AGW. A physical, and rather large piece of metal, engineered for, and delivered to, space is the same as man-made global warming? Seems a bit of a stretch to me. Denying Sputnik is, in every way I can come up with, quite dissimilar from questioning the argument of man-made global warming. I believed from the beginning that Obama was indeed an empty suit waiting for others to fill. Apparently, those who added intelligence to the suit were dreaming, or hoping. Their hopes have been met with an unpleasant reality.
