Fella, can you spare a trillion?
[Fox News] A United Nations document on “climate change” that will be distributed to a major environmental conclave next week envisions a huge reordering of the world economy, likely involving trillions of dollars in wealth transfer, millions of job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes — all under the supervision of the world body.
Those and other results are blandly discussed in a discretely worded United Nations “information note” on potential consequences of the measures that industrialized countries will likely have to take to implement the Copenhagen Accord, the successor to the Kyoto Treaty, after it is negotiated and signed by December 2009. The Obama administration has said it supports the treaty process if, in the words of a U.S. State Department spokesman, it can come up with an “effective framework” for dealing with global warming.
Can you blame them? If the Obama Administration can spend $4 trillion in a just a few months (which is 8 times as much as it took the Bush administration to spend in 8 years!), the U.N. must figure they can get a piece of that action too. And now that Obama is in office, the Global Warming fearmongers are no longer — ahem — afraid to show that their intentions were always about wealth redistibution and never about the environment. That was just a ruse bought up by the Day After Tomorrow Hollywood fools.
