Chaos At Climate Conference - Good For America

I have a big problem with the climate change agenda planned for the American economy by liberal elites whether that is cap and trade or de-emphasizing industry or penalizing the market without offsetting employment or worst of all, paying blatantly corrupt developing nations for our "mistakes". Mistakes determined not by the American people but by some bumbling idiot at the United Nations.

At the same time, I can hardly listen to the other side, the Republican agenda - the anti-science party seeking to disrupt anything the Democrats propose often simply for political reasons.

There truly is little representation for the American people's interests.

I would think many people would support market-based incentives to innovate in the energy space and create new jobs and new companies in the United States. It's good for the economy, it's good for our independence, it's good for sustainability, it's good to help reduce our military budget and it's simply good for democracy.

I do not support a government-directed global plan determined by harebrained bureaucrats in either the United States or some far off bureaucracy not under control of the American people. This is effectively feudal economics. Other countries should develop their own plans under their own self-determined soveriegnty. To legally bind the American people's future to developing economies, every single one of which is corrupt as noted in our Transparency International post, is anti-American and anti-democratic. These developing economies have little, if any, rule of law, almost universally they have no democratic institutions and they are sources of constant corruption. Binding the American people in any way to these countries is corrupt in itself.

I believe the United Nations serves some useful role of dialog, providing coordinated crisis relief programs and economic development for underprivileged people but that's about it. Most members of the United Nations and almost all developing country governments have little to no legitimacy. As an American, I want absolutely no binding economic ties with any country which does not embrace democratic ideals. And neither should you. That fact should be used to drive democratic change in the world. If you want to trade with us, you adopt our ideals and democratic institutions. That's a bit more productive than demanding democratic structural change by using tanks and missiles.

I couldn't be more happy that bureaucrats in Copenhagen are experiencing substantial failure at some attempt of creating a global framework for dealing with any issue which is a detriment to American sovereignty.

Link here.