Posted by
Stefano on Wednesday, July 09, 2008 1:35:34 AM
It's difficult to believe that labor unions like UAW, Teamsters, the airline unions, and other energy intensive industry unions don't understand the job destruction that will result with the sustained ramping up of energy prices over the coming years. I don't see how all of these folks who are already beginning to lose their jobs are going to find new jobs in "clean green industries". How do they plan to feed their families, pay their mortgages, pay their school tuition, and pay their utility bills while waiting for these jobs to magically appear. The pie-in-the-sky Democrat promises of innumerable "green industry" jobs is a talking point without substance. And yet these hard working folks are found in polls supporting Obama and the Democrats and seen prominently among the mind-numbed masses chanting: Yes we can! Yes we can! Yes we can!
John Andrews column of July 9 (
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnAndrews/2008/07/09/another_dem_strikes_out_on_energy) is dead on right when he says : "That stuff (alternative energy) is tomorrow, whereas oil and gas – and nuclear.....are today." Our economic future and our national security are hanging on the education of our citizenry on this central point.
Drill here, drill now, pay less.