Now the US wants to label CO2 a toxin?! So every time I exhale I’m polluting? How can anyone looking at ACTUAL non-manufactured data be taking this stuff seriously? The slightest examination of the kind of charts that Al Gore uses in his presentations show that CO2 FOLLOWS warming, not CAUSES it!

And the US is about to dedicate 100+ billion a year for this crap to say nothing about what this Cap and Trade (Tax) nonsense will do to our economy.

It does, but there’s an optimal speed for such technological development and pushing things faster than that will end up wasting resources. Essentially, it takes a certain amount of time to economically design something, build it, and test it. Trying to get it done faster will substantially increase the cost, and no matter how much one spends it will still take time. Each design/build/test cycle offers a chance for improvement. Pushing a product or technology out the door before it is sufficiently developed will cause resources to be spent on the construction (and possibly repair) of inferior products that might otherwise have been directed toward making superior ones.

Further, global warming alarmists aren’t mostly pushing for sensible technological developments, but are rather pushing for:

-1- Massive wealth transfers to third-world governments (i.e. the dictators who run them)

-2- “Alternative energy” construction projects which far cost more per unit of energy produced than would conventional projects.

It’s possible that a small alternative-energy project, even if the energy it produces isn’t worth its cost, will yield knowledge whose value makes up for the excess cost of production. That in no way implies that such projects should be scaled up; increasing the cost of a project a hundredfold does not imply a hundredfold increase in the value of the knowledge produced.

Or that so many “law and order” types fail to realize that police and other government agents who don’t follow the law (and that includes those who violate the Supreme Law of the Land) are enemies of lawful order. No government agent may legitimately violate the Constitution(*); action contrary to the Constitution is illegitimate. Further, illegitimate actions cannot and do not constitute any portion of a government agent’s duties.

(*)Some government personnel have, through their illegitimate actions, created a situation in which compliance with different parts of the Constitution would require contradictory actions (e.g. because the government made promises it can’t keep). Government officials may thus be forced into actions which don’t 100% abide by the Constitution, but would nonetheless be the best way to resolve the situation the earlier officials created.

As an example, something which has come up many times, consider food that is contaminated and distributed throughout the country. Contamination regardless of the circumstances. Currently, we can track the food back to the source, i.e. supermarkets, restaurants, etc, know that their food is bad and throw it out, minimizing the number of people who get sick. Without some of the regulation provided, it makes it much more difficult to do this. Aside from the public safety issue their is an economic downside to it as well.

As far as food inspection services go, this is one area I don’t have a problem with the government monopolizing, so long as they can do it competently.

I mean 100 Billion a year???

Feel guilty for existing. Pay your existence tax. What a crock of shit.

To make it purely voluntary you could add a “Refused Inspection” category.

A law against selling meat that poisons someone makes a certain amount of sense.

But “food inspection” laws make it illegal to sell meat that is perfectly safe, if it doesn’t have the correct stamp on it.

I don’t see any possible basis in morality for making it illegal to sell someone perfectly good meat. Who are you protecting, and from what?

It seems like their fear of criminals and illegal aliens (mostly non-whites) over-rides every other consideration. So is it just racism? I honestly don’t think it is but I don’t understand it.

Strictly speaking, it’s not racism, no. It is privileging their own in-group over a whole lot of other out-groups though. As long as Joe doesn’t affect them and theirs (and they’re gut certain he won’t, because they’re “not those kind of people”), they’ll remain all for it.

I could go on, but I agree with a lot of the sentiment here.

All that matters is that Joe’s kickin’ ass in trackin’ down them ILLEGALS, and as long as he’s standing tall against the Brown Peril, he can count on almost uniform support from the punitive populists:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/crime/2560-worlds-toughest-sheriff-no-apologies

When those folks dumped me a few years ago it was because I insisted that we should be trying to defend the Bill of Rights, and they believed that a police state within “secure borders” would be a satisfactory arrangement. So I guess they display a certain tragic consistency in their support for the Mussolini of Maricopa County.

The journal I used to write for just published a shameless Valentine to Arpaio; they’re man-crushing on him so h

Thanks for the link to that story. I would encourage everyone to read it. E&P’s cured meats sound freaking delicious. Regulatory capture, no doubt. If I weren’t so cynical, I would say that it’s ironic that the Safety Inspection Mafia are trying to drive out extremely fresh, high quality alternatives to foodstuffs prepared in enormous, State-approved, butchering and curing facilities – but then, that’s the point, isn’t it?

The consumers should be driving the inspection agencies. If people want properly inspected food, private agencies and professional organizations could fill that role. “Eat at Joe’s. We are certified by Boyd Food Inspection and the Independent Restuarant Safety Association.” Something like that.

I also think that private insurance companies could be the driving force behind appropriate regulations. You want an insurance policy with Mattocracy Insurance and Waffle Palace? We’re gonna inspect your grocery stores and diners to asses the risk. We give you a rating based on our inspection and then you can display it in your window. “Our establishment is proud to have a score of 99 out of a possible 100, as certified by the Boyd Inspection Group on behalf of Mattocracy Insurance and Premium Waffles.”

And if people still get sick, then people can start using Dave Krueger Inspection and Insurance, LLC for third party quality control. Or be certified by the Holy Vatican Council of Food and Drugs.

The market works.

Hear hear!