Posted by
tenurecorrupts.com on Friday, June 13, 2008 4:17:57 PM
FIX THE SHORTAGE OF LEADERSHIP
Liberals
and environmentalists have been brainwashing the public and Congress
for 25 years, intensively and unceasingly, about 'manmade' global
warming, which has prevented us from using America’s rich natural
resources of oil, gas, coal, and uranium, for the production of energy.
(By the way, who made the Earth’s ‘Ice Age’ go away? It sure wasn’t 'Man' !)
The American people are not dumb, but the steady drumbeat of
environmentalist strategy to thwart the harvest of energy resources has
had its effect, especially on the career politicians in Congress, who rely on the financial and electoral support of this special interest to get reelected forever.
There is little question that the country is suffering a dire shortage of leadership,
a shortage of people who are willing to confront these enviros, who
don’t feel a need to be ‘liked’ by their peers, and who are willing to
take a ‘pro-energy’ position which might cause them to be attacked by
fanatical liberals and ‘greens’.
Free market
principles AND ample energy supplies is what enables this country to
continue to lead the world in prosperity, standard of living,
technology, medical progress, low unemployment, etc. Without cheap,
plentiful energy, our advances will shrivel into a mediocre, even
backward, way of life.
I have nothing against wind, solar, etc, but they will always be puny, almost negligible, compared to what the future will need.
One
of the principal areas of activity stifling our country’s overall vigor
is the ever expanding federal government and its leviathan of
regulatory bureaucracy, (e.g. EPA) of which the restriction of energy
development is a prime example of how our creeping loss of liberty is a
drag on American progress.
The
chief villain in this story is the US Congress, which creates and
empowers the stifling bureaucracies, and which has long since been
corrupted into two chambers of sinecures, where the principal
occupation of its members is to guarantee perpetual reelection and
lifelong tenure, the well-being of the country be damned.
So
how to end this shortage of leadership? I suggest one way: create a
100% turnover in the US Congress in the next few elections.
Since Congress is a key factor in proposing laws, policy, and debates
in our country, and provides its members with the visibility to reach
all the people (thru C-span TV), shouldn’t we strive to make it
available to citizen legislators instead of career political hacks?
I’ll bet that 535 freshmen in Congress would be a great seedbed of REAL leadership! And how do we do that?
Simply never reelect anyone in Congress!
I’m Nelson Lee Walker of tenurecorrupts.com