Chu, another 'Nobel Prize winner' seeing America in decline, wants to give it a push downhill

In 2008 Obama's choice for Energy Secretary Steven Chu advocated raising US gas prices to European levels, and changing our large nation in effect to a cluster of ski chalet villages in order to reduce car usage.

Americans have drastically reduced their consumption of gasoline over several years. Continuing to divert billions of taxpayer dollars to 'green' scams that just go bust anyway is obviously a crime.

• Lawmakers who fail to realize this will be replaced by the voters. Chu in 2008:
  

12/12/2008, "Times tough for energy overhaul," WSJ.com

• "Struggling Economy, Falling Oil Prices
  
• Complicate Obama Team's Agenda"

"(Obama Energy Secretary designate) Mr. Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and

• living in neighborhoods closer to work.

"Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe," Mr. Chu, who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in September (2008)."...

(The article notes that Chu is a Nobel Prize winning physicist).

• Lawmakers who fail to realize that America is not Europe will also be replaced. ed.
  

chart WSJ.com, 12/8/08

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April 1, 2010: "Obama has taken major risks. He could go down in flames; he could blend into history in the manner of Fillmore, Arthur, and Harding; or he could effect—as promised—

• the long-awaited transformation of American politics."...

from The Atlantic, 4/1/2010, "The Obama Coalition," Thomas Byrne Edsall
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• From the same article, the facts show George Bush did much to destroy this country. With all this information, Obama knowingly has done much worse, has used his power to punish the middle class even more and reward an idle welfare class. The author is pleased by this as it leads to a long anticipated change in the nature of America:

4/1/2010, "Over the last two years, there has been a massive increase in the number of people who have no place to turn except to the government. Enactment of the Obama administration’s health care reform legislation demonstrates the growing power of this burgeoning constituency—a constituency which will reap

• a disproportionate share of the $1 trillion in new health care spending over the next decade.

There are many ways to measure the expanding multitudes of those in need. From February 2008 to February 2010, the number of unemployed men and women

• doubled from 7.4 million to 14.9 million.

In addition to these almost 15 million unemployed, the number of people who say they want to work, but who have given up trying, grew from 4.8 million to 6.2 million over the same period. Added to these are the people working part time who cannot get regular jobs: this population grew from 4.8 million to 8.9 million. Altogether, this makes

• a total of 30 million Americans out of work or under-employed.

The numbers are bad enough, but there is a growing consensus among economists that the unemployment problem is likely to become structural—no longer a temporary phenomenon.

One of the most striking indicators of the potentially enduring unemployment status of many of those now out of work is the increase in the number of people who have been without jobs for six months or more. These people have the hardest time making it back into the workforce, and the growth of this population suggests that more and more people who lose a job face the danger that unemployment will become permanent.

For most of the past decade, the number of people out of work for 27 weeks or more fluctuated from a low of 649,000 in 2000 to a high of 1,936,000 in 2003. In February 2008, there were 1.3 people unemployed for at least half a year. In February 2009, the number shot up to 3 million, and by February, 2010, it had multiplied to 6.1 million –

• a 469 percent increase in two years."...

Reference: 1/19/11, "The uses and abuses of a Nobel Prize," No Frakking Consensus (advocating societal redistribution)

• Both political parties are loaded with people whose actions show scorn for this country or at best have no feeling for it. That is why we have arrived at this point. ed.

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