Last week, Obama Bim Baden, the Illinois Democratic candidate for President, announced in a lunch speech at the Economics Club of Detroit, that, henceforth, 'expense is no excuse' for environmentally-driven changes to automobiles.
Get ready to have big government make a really big grab on your wallet. Nevermind that the manufacturers are already streaming more fuel-efficient vehicles to the market.
Rather than let people choose what to buy, and, thus, how they value environmentalism, Bim Baden would just force them to pay more for what he thinks they need. Sounds a bit like...well..fascism to me. In the technical sense. State-directed production means.
Hey, is he related to Ted Kennedy? Obama certainly seems to favor that kind of liberalism- nevermind what the people think, we'll tell them what they should have.
If he's elected in 2008, the poor and merely-average in this country are in for a big shock. Ed Begley, Jr. and Leo di Caprio might be able to afford the new vehicles, and enjoy the belief that they contribute to cleaner air. But for most voters, they're just going to have to hang on to their current ride a little longer, because a new one just moved out of their affordability range.
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