Filed Under (Incivility) by Ben Grivno at 7:59 am - Tue Sep 22, 2009
From the WSJ, evidence of the prevailing attitude in DC, especially in the Obama Administration:
When it comes to greenhouse-gas emissions, Energy Secretary Steven Chu sees Americans as unruly teenagers and the Administration as the parent that will have to teach them a few lessons.
Speaking on the sidelines of a smart grid conference in Washington, Dr. Chu said he didn’t think average folks had the know-how or will to to change their behavior enough to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.” (In that case, the Energy Department has a few renegade teens of its own.)
Secretary Chu forgets that the American People are in charge of him, thus the origin of the term “public servant.” I’d bet most officials in the Obama Administration look down at the American people in much the same way.
The American people are right to ignore the ignorant, anti-scientific bleatings of Warmers like Chu and be more concerned with things like, you know, putting food on the table and paying the bills.
