Posted by
John Caile on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 2:11:03 PM
Just when you thought that liberals had run out of insane socialist policy ideas, they come up with yet another one - this time attempting to override the laws of physics...by government decree.
I'm speaking of course, about Obama's plan to dictate outrageously unattainable fuel economy standards (achievable only by producing dangerously tiny "mini-cars") that will raise the price of a new car by $1300 or more - thereby putting a stake in the heart of the already anemic American auto industry.
No surprise, this latest idea for destroying the economy in the name of "energy independence" was born in, where else, California. Now
there's a winning strategy - going nationwide with an idea spawned by the state whose fiscal condition is bordering on terminal.
We have often observed that if you ever wanted to see what the United States would look like if it were allowed to be run by a Democrat majority, you need only look at California, where decades of Democrat rule has produced one catastrophe after another:
Out of control taxes.
A prison system where 1 in every 3 inmates is an illegal alien.
A failing union-run school system overflowing with the children of illegal aliens.
A bankrupt healthcare system (due also in part to the enormous drain of services by - you guessed it - illegal aliens.)
Endless "green" initiatives that do nothing but drive up the cost of every product and service in the state - not the least of which are the mindlessly bureaucratic mandates on vehicles, as well as on the gasoline that Californians put in their tanks.
In other words, California is a massive failure - so naturally, Obama wants to use the same model across the nation.
Got it.
The only question is, if having the government take over banks, insurance companies, and the auto industry isn't enough to make Americans get off their apathetic behinds and demand an end to this nonsense, will being forced to drive the equivalent of those ridiculous little "Smart Cars" do the trick?