Pure Opinion – What Is Al Gore’s Carbon Footprint?
If the Earth is our mother then Al Gore must be our daddy. He is the self-appointed prophet of climate doom. Since losing to George W Bush in 2000 he has been given wealth, power, and prestige like none before him. Hollywood gave him an Oscar, their highest award. The world bestowed upon him the Nobel Peace Prize. He has made more money than most governments in this decade alone. All in the name of saving the environment. I just want to know his carbon footprint.
I must confess, I have a little problem with career politicians who finally lose an election, and then get filthy rich soon after. The old fashioned way of politicians bilking the public was to simply invest where the development was going to be. In Chicago we have the “friends and family plan”. This is where politicians award government contracts to friends and family.
It’s always struck me that in a country so incredibly wealthy as ours, everybody could and should be covered by decent health care. I believe it is our right, not a privilege. Why not just expand Medicare to cover us all? It will never happen, but something has to change. Medicare is the gigantic white elephant in the room because if things progress the way they are, every dollar of government money will eventually go toward caring for us, the aging Baby Boomers. The rate of Alzheimer’s Disease alone is skyrocketing and doubling every 15 years or so.
Health care for one and all would surely save a fantastic sum of money in the long run. The scores of millions without insurance often wait until they are in dire straits, then go to the only health care provider left to them: the emergency departments of hospitals all around our once great land. That is, by far, the very most expensive health care known to mankind. If these folks were covered, they would tend to get care earlier on in their disease cycle and have a much better chance of recovery at far greater savings than is now possible for them. Also, they might be more inclined to seek preventative care, again at much greater savings.
I fear, heck I’m conceding, that whatever may pass as health care reform will continue to fatten the already plump insurance industry and Big Pharma (remember Bush’s great trillion-dollar boondoggle giveaway with his maniacal Medicare prescription drug plans and all the subsequent confusion that followed?). There are just too many competing parties for this to ever give the American people what they so rightly deserve: decent health care and medicines at affordable prices.
I often remind people that Al Gore is not a scientist. He has made it clear he will not debate any of the global warming issues. Gore’s latest book is “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”. Even the title shows his arrogance. I don’t know if man is the biggest cause of climate change, but to think that man has the power to reverse global climate activity is a stretch.
I wonder what it’s going to take to really make a difference in health care reform? Just stay healthy?! Maybe we could get vouchers for fruits and vegetables and a tax break if we quit smoking and drinking.
With the economy in shambles and many losing their jobs, their retirement savings (what numbskulls thought 401k’s were a good idea so they could go belly up thanks to unregulated derivatives trading based on fraudulent and toxic subprime mortgages?), their homes, and their overall sense of pride and security, it’s no wonder that there’s a prevailing mood of despair and hopelessness. The American people deserve a break, but it doesn’t appear they’ll be getting one in the foreseeable future. There ain’t no “public” in this health care option
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