NoaIzumiIs John Hawkins for Real?
March 19th 2009 15:52
Well, probably, but that doesn’t mean he makes sense.
Five Ways that Insanity has Become the New Normal in America, by John Hawkins
“Meanwhile, the earth has been getting warmer and colder since it was formed, the planet has been considerably warmer in the past than it is today, and the earth is currently cooling, not warming. Yet and still, our President intends to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a Cap and Trade scheme that will spike energy costs into the stratosphere so that we can solve this non-existent "problem."
Readers will find these claims familiar. I’ve addressed Cap-n-trade here,
and the other claims here and here.
One nice thing about AGW contrarians, they’re consistent.
“the President is planning massive tax hikes on both successful individuals and corporations.
Not sure what John Hawkins means by “massive” (although I suspect it’s equivalent to “any”), but the Obama tax plan includes letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire for the top two percent of families,
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Basically taking them back to the tax level of the Clinton years, a time in which this nation enjoyed one of the most prosperous decades in US economic history.
Another planned change would reduce the deduction for charitable contributions for families earning more than $250,000
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But that hits charities more than anyone, which, in John Hawkins’ apparent opinion, don’t deserve the money anyway because they didn’t earn it.
“What happens if China decides one day that they'd like to see us go the way of the Soviet Union and does to us what we did to the Reds?
And we come to the line that inspired the title of this post. Even assuming Peter Schweizer’s analysis to be correct (I seem to remember a war in Afghanistan and a ramped up arms race around the same time they’re talking about), is Hawkins seriously suggesting that the United States, the A-number-one economic powerhouse for the past forty years or more, is equivalent to the Soviet Union in 1980, which had been under communism for sixty years by that time, was one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, and by John Hawkins own accounting was in constant economic crisis? Really?
Why does John Hawkins think so little of America?
I certainly don’t mean to downplay the seriousness of the situation, and our debt to China is something all of us would like to see reduced as soon and as much as possible. But what people like John Hawkins ignore is that if China called in the debt or refused to lend any more, the Chinese would hurt themselves as much as the US, by trashing their most important market. We could survive cutting the Soviets off, the Chinese would have a much harder time if they cut us off.
And on another note, the Chinese debt problem has been around for a decade or more, and I’ll bet a month’s pay that Hawkins didn’t say word one about it when the Republicans were in charge. But now that the Democratic Party has the power, it threatens to destroy America and it’s all the Democrats’ fault for letting it happen.
Five Ways that Insanity has Become the New Normal in America, by John Hawkins
“Meanwhile, the earth has been getting warmer and colder since it was formed, the planet has been considerably warmer in the past than it is today, and the earth is currently cooling, not warming. Yet and still, our President intends to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on a Cap and Trade scheme that will spike energy costs into the stratosphere so that we can solve this non-existent "problem."
Readers will find these claims familiar. I’ve addressed Cap-n-trade here,
and the other claims here and here.
One nice thing about AGW contrarians, they’re consistent.
“the President is planning massive tax hikes on both successful individuals and corporations.
Not sure what John Hawkins means by “massive” (although I suspect it’s equivalent to “any”), but the Obama tax plan includes letting the Bush-era tax cuts expire for the top two percent of families,
Really Long Link
Basically taking them back to the tax level of the Clinton years, a time in which this nation enjoyed one of the most prosperous decades in US economic history.
Another planned change would reduce the deduction for charitable contributions for families earning more than $250,000
Really Long Link
But that hits charities more than anyone, which, in John Hawkins’ apparent opinion, don’t deserve the money anyway because they didn’t earn it.
“What happens if China decides one day that they'd like to see us go the way of the Soviet Union and does to us what we did to the Reds?
And we come to the line that inspired the title of this post. Even assuming Peter Schweizer’s analysis to be correct (I seem to remember a war in Afghanistan and a ramped up arms race around the same time they’re talking about), is Hawkins seriously suggesting that the United States, the A-number-one economic powerhouse for the past forty years or more, is equivalent to the Soviet Union in 1980, which had been under communism for sixty years by that time, was one of the most corrupt nations on the planet, and by John Hawkins own accounting was in constant economic crisis? Really?
Why does John Hawkins think so little of America?
I certainly don’t mean to downplay the seriousness of the situation, and our debt to China is something all of us would like to see reduced as soon and as much as possible. But what people like John Hawkins ignore is that if China called in the debt or refused to lend any more, the Chinese would hurt themselves as much as the US, by trashing their most important market. We could survive cutting the Soviets off, the Chinese would have a much harder time if they cut us off.
And on another note, the Chinese debt problem has been around for a decade or more, and I’ll bet a month’s pay that Hawkins didn’t say word one about it when the Republicans were in charge. But now that the Democratic Party has the power, it threatens to destroy America and it’s all the Democrats’ fault for letting it happen.
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