Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Obama extorts "endorsements" for $Trillions in healthcare and gas savings

The healthcare industry showed up to promise they will save Obama 2 Trillions in savings with the sincerity and enthusiasm of puppets or, more appositely, guys propped up on the stakes of Vlad the Impaler. The farcical idea that extending healthcare benefits and paying for some high-cost procedures will, nevertheless, (or, even, consequentially ) save money is really hard to make pass the snicker test.
Having had to face this, we were then fronted with the U.S. auto industry trotted out to endorse more stringent standards of both mileage and emissions simultaneously. This calls for either a suspension of the laws of physics or the substitution of golf carts for automobiles. Again, Vlad the Impaler had staked out these endorsers, totally beholden to the President, to mouth agreement. We were treated to the idea that new cars would cost the consumer a mere $1500 extra but the extra fuel savings would pay that back in three years, all the projections being in the future. The present CAFE standards have been estimated to cost 40000 deaths that would not have occurred if cars were not compulsorily lightened but the new ones boggle the mind with respect to the carnage, assuming that the car-buying public won't laugh these designs out of existence. The last time a government designed an automobile, it produced ...the YUGO! When Chrysler trots out its new designs they won't be by Fiat, the Italian source; rather they will be by fiat, bureaucratic ukase sourced in Washington.
We are also being treated to the idea of cap-and-trade, a tax on carbon-based fuels which should more than wipe out any of the cost savings fantastically predicted under the CAFE rubric.
The one thing that can be said is that Obama is a serious man: how else can someone spout such utter nonsense with a straight face?

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