Thursday, April 9, 2015

THE THREAT WE FACE FROM THE RABID FINANCIERS OF PROGRESSIVISM IS VERY REAL…


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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