When we voted in this apologist in as POTUS we proved to the rest of the world that: YES! Americans are dumb.
Think Your Home Belongs to You? Think Again.
By Arnold Ahlert
After the 9/11 attacks, Americans were promised that the World Trade Center would be re-built and the Deutsche Bank Building, damaged by same, would be torn down. Almost eight years later, neither task has been accomplished. So what's this got to do with the cap-and-trade bill? Plenty.
In their rush to get legislation passed that no one had read, House Democrats included a clause regarding most Americans' largest investment: at some point in the near future, all existing homes will require an audit by a government bureaucrat to determine if they are "energy efficient enough" to allow their sale.
In a federal government beset by massive corruption–and there is no other term to describe people who pass laws they can't even be bothered to read–the cap-and-trade bill represents the largest intrusion of government meddling in the private sector in the history of the country. When Americans already reeling under the massive devaluation of their homes are forced to spend more money to satisfy such requirements, two realities that apparently elude the arrogant asses running the country into the ground will inevitably occur: massive corruption and gross inefficiency.
Take a good look at the opening paragraph. Despite billions of dollars in funding and the goodwill of virtually the entire American public, government–local, state and federal combined–has been unable to tear down ONE building and re-build ONE other building in Lower Manhattan for almost eight years. Now, take such gross governmental incompetence, spread it across the entire country, and impose it on millions of Americans trying to buy and sell homes.
Ask yourself what's easier, buying brand new energy efficient windows for your entire house, e.g.–or bribing some government hack to look the other way? Which is the more likely scenario, having efficient, well-trained inspectors showing up at your house in a timely manner–or watching a sale fall through because of a government backlog of undone inspections? How hard is it to imagine a government "promise" that it will be "no more than six months" until some puffed-up with-power government pissant "gets around" to your particular residence and does his job?
Can't happen? It IS happening, courtesy of a Congress and a president for whom the Constitution and the free-enterprise system are little more than minor impediments to imposing their "vision" on all of us, like it or not.
Question: if that vision is so righteous and compelling, why does it require coercion? Why did it require passing a bill, unread, in the middle of the night? Why does it require the suppression of thousands of scientists who believe man-made global warming is a complete crock?
Once again, as many car dealers screwed by the government takeover of GM already realize, we are facing a future where who you know in government counts more than the rule of law. It is on the public record that some dealerships slated to be closed were "saved" after their owners contacted officials in the House of Representatives.
Currying favor with government officials in order to get special privileges is the essence of totalitarianism. And it's precisely what will happen when Americans, desperate to sell their homes, find themselves faced with a government whose track record of corruption and ineptitude is undeniable. It is precisely what our drunk-with-power president and members of Congress desire: the groveling of ordinary Americans as a testament to government's level of importance.
Sadly, most people who will read this column already get it. The rest? The Silent Majority has been replaced by the Comatose Majority, the one which couldn't care less about what's going on in Washington D.C.–unless Michael Jackson gets buried there.
We're all about to get buried by these jackboot "do-gooders."
