What is it with these holier-than-thou, leftwing
wacko billionaires like ‘Nanny Mike’ Bloomberg, ‘Douche-Bag Tom’ Steyer and the
king of all Democrat sugardaddys, George Soros?
What is it, exactly, that seems to make them think that just because
they have all this money, and a very obvious, deep-seated hatred of America as
well, that their wealth somehow entitles them to be able to dictate to the rest
of us, or manipulate through the tactical use of their great wealth, how the
rest of us should be made to live? And
all under the guise of combating something referred to as ‘climate
change/global warming/climate disruption’, and that does not even exist!
The latest example of just how out of control these egomaniacal
leftwing lunatics really are, comes by way of ex- New York City Mayor, ‘Nanny
Mike’, a left wing kook, who at a press briefing at the Sierra Club in
Washington, D.C. just this past Wednesday, announced that he would be
contributing $30 million to the Club’s “Beyond Coal” campaign, which is
designed to shut down the nation’s coal plants. The $30 million is in addition
to the $50 million ‘Nanny Mike’ already gave to the campaign, which has also
changed its initial goal of shutting down 1/3 of the country’s coal plants by
2020 to shuttering 50 percent of the plants by 2017.
Michael Brune, who, while being the executive director
of the Sierra Club, is also another one of those fanatical environmentalist kooks
who resides somewhere in the faraway nether-regions of the radical left-wing
kook fringe, thanked all of the “coal fighters” who attended the event, telling
them it was “because of you” that the campaign launched in 2011 has already
succeeded in the “retirement” or “repurposing” of 187 coal plants in the United
States. To have such a thing as your
stated mission strikes me as being nothing more than borderline psychotic. What sort of twisted mentality must be
possessed for such a statement to even be made?
And then we had Mikey Bloomberg, who said, “Beyond Coal
is taking our country in the right direction.”
To which this recent escapee from a rubber room then added, “It’s the
direction that will help our community, not hurt it, because the price of
pollution and environmental damage has suffered our economy as well as our
lives.” He went on to say, “Saying that
we’re destroying jobs in the coal mining industry is not quite as bad, not
quite as true as people would want you to believe.” And while never explaining how it is that destroying
coal jobs is positive, he did say, “But we are adding jobs in other
industries.” Which industries might he
be speaking of, I wonder?
In demonstrating the fact that he is truly quite
delusional, Mikey said, “And we are saving lives and I think that’s what’s
really important.” And he went on to
say, “Instead of protecting an industry that will continue shrinking because of
technology and because of less demand, elected officials should be making
investments that will help people find jobs and build careers in industries
that will continue growing.” And he very
proudly declared, “Coal’s days are numbered.”
To have such a thing as being your objective is something that most
Americans, I think, would not be all that supportive of. And yet, that remains the goal of these
zealots.
Jason Hayes, associate director of the American Coal
Council, states that ‘Nanny Mike’s’ claim of the benefits of stopping coal
production ignores the cost to tens of thousands of American workers. Mr. Hayes said, “Tens of thousands of people
are being put out of work, and even worse is that they’re bragging about
it.” And he added, “That, to me, is
fundamentally sick: to brag about putting people out of work.” He said, "One wonders if the Sierra Club
is going to put any of Mr. Bloomberg’s multimillion dollar gifts to work
helping these miners and families get retrained, or to help them pay their
bills.” “Or will they continue to enjoy
their six- (or more) figure salaries and comfortable homes while they continue
their campaigns to put more American miners out of work and shut down America’s
industry? I think we both know the answer to that question."
According to the federal Energy Information
Administration, coal is an “abundant” energy resource in the United States. The agency state on its website that, “The
United States is home to the largest estimated recoverable reserves of coal in
the world.” And it goes on to say, “In
fact, we have enough estimated recoverable reserves of coal to last more than
200 years, based on current production levels.”
And adds, “Coal is produced in 25 states spread across three major
coal-producing regions,” the website states. “In 2013, approximately 70% of
production originated in five states: Wyoming, West Virginia, Kentucky,
Pennsylvania, and Illinois.”
And it’s according to the American Coalition for
Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) that at the end of 2012 there were 557
coal-fueled power plants in the United States. And it also according to the ACCCE that by
2015, over 90 percent of U.S. coal-fueled electric generating capacity will
have installed clean coal technologies and other advanced emission controls to
reduce harmful emissions. And the fact
that none of this makes any difference to Mikey and his many leftist cohorts,
should cause any rational thinking American to call into question just what it is
that might be motivating these environmentalist wackos who appear to be so
eager to shut down our coal industry.
Brune also announced at the event that other
“partners” contributing to the campaign would add an additional $30 million to
the effort to shutter America’s coal plants, including the Hewlett Foundation,
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Yellow Chair Foundation,
the Grantham Foundation and the Sandler Family Foundation, left wing
foundations all. And it was in a press
release distributed to the media at the event that said, “With the new round of
funding, the Sierra Club will continue to use tactics as varied as grassroots
advocacy, community organizing, paid advertising, technical research and
litigation.”
This propaganda piece went on to say, “The Sierra
Club will also continue to push regulators to crack down on harmful pollution
and replace dirty power generation capacity with solar, wind and energy
efficiency. In addition to helping the
country move away from coal towards a new energy economy, today’s investment in
the Beyond Coal campaign will put the United States in a stronger position to
drive more ambitious climate action at the 2015 United Nations climate change
conference in Paris, where nations, businesses, cities, and other actors will
convene to make bold commitments on further greenhouse gas emissions reductions.”
It strikes me as being more than a little
disconcerting that in a world where there are so many worthy causes in need of
more funding, and where the incredible wealth of these men could be used to do
so much good, it’s instead that they choose to use their vast fortunes to do
only harm. And it’s these very same men
who, if we’re being honest here, are really only interested in one thing and
one thing only. Because while they may
claim to be working for the benefit of all, that which is far more often the
case is the fact that they are, and very selfishly so, only seeking for
themselves some level of benefit, either financially, or to gain for themselves
some level of power.
I often find myself wondering just what it is that
these billionaires seem to have against the rest of us. Why is it that they seem to be so determined
in their efforts to make our lives so much more difficult than they need to be? And another thing, have you ever noticed how
it is that the majority of those causes which are funded by these left wing
fanatics always have at their goal the further detriment of our country? And yet it’s those who choose to willing
spend their money to combat the progressive agenda underway in this country who
are always on the receiving end of all manner slanderous, and patently
disgusting, accusations.
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