7/08/2007

Love Those Rich Environmentalists

If you don't check out any other post today, please take a look at this.

How ironic. I keep the thermostat on about 68 degrees all summer long. I drive a Toyota Tundra with a V8. I run my truck's air conditioner nonstop. I use the best light bulbs I can get for the price. I run the dishwasher and the washer and dryer about every single day. I use as much toilet paper as I want to. Do I feel bad about that? Hell no. My wife and I have worked hard for what we have.

I am a middle class American who really doesn't need to be taxed anymore. I don't live in a mansion. I live in a small 1,085 sq. ft house. So tell me, what right (moral standing) do these wealthy musicians, movie stars, and politicians have to tell me to change my lifestyle? What right (moral standing) do they have to call for higher taxes on me? Please don't come back with that taxes on corporations and big oil nonsense. If you know anything about economics and taxation, then you know that a tax on a corporation that sells products to me is really a tax on me. So please tell me, please. What right (moral standing) do these decadent charlatans, these fake environmentalists, have to tell me to change my ways? Tell me something else. Why do you "real environmentalists" not hold these people to account? Why do you direct your venom toward little folks like myself? It is like I said before. Global warming is nothing but a t-shirt. In twenty years, Gore and all of his sheep will be a laughingstock. Hopefully we'll still have a little bit of personal and economic freedom by then.

Note to the sheep herders: If you want some of the non-sheep, you know the people who think, to buy into this hoax, then you might ought to give up a few things yourself. Nah, that's way too much to ask.

UPDATE: After reading Clark's post, I felt I needed to let everybody know that when I wrote "What right do they have to call for higher taxes on me?", I was not saying that the fake celebrity environmentalists have no constitutional right to speak. That statement was kind of like saying, "What right does Bill Clinton have to lecture me about adultery?" or "What right does Keith Richards have to lecture me about drug use?" Obviously, everybody has the right to say whatever they want to, as far as the constitution is concerned. That sentence had more to do with how hypocritical it is for the rich and famous to call on little guys like myself to make changes, while they themselves continue to live the life of luxury. Obviously, I would not say something like that in regards to Clark, Dan, or Karlo. I could be wrong, but I don't think any of those guys are flying all over the world in private jets and living in mansions.

I hope I have never written anything here before that would give anybody the impression that I do not support freedom of speech. I do understand though how one might get the wrong impression from this post. I just thought it would be a good idea to clarify. That's why I went back and put the words "moral standing" in parentheses.