George Rebane

Every day the economists and analysts are surprised when their quarterly predictions on various economic indicators are off by miles.  Now this same crowd has started drinking the climate change modelers’ kool-aid, and are making predictions about how the 2030 GDP will be affected by various carbon cap-and-trade policies.  No kidding; these yokels actually claim to understand our complex economy so well that they can tell you the precise impact that such admittedly byzantine policies will have.  The left-wing New Republic has an article in which the cost of cap-and-trade is soberly reported as just “shaving off three hundredth of a percentage point off the country’s annual GDP growth.” Dear Reader this means that these turkeys actually believe their models can make straight-faced statements about our country’s economic growth rate down to 3 parts in 10,000.  What unadulterated bovine scat is fed to the innumerate sheep as part and parcel of the climate change hysteria!!  And not only do we lap it up, but we lick the plate clean.

Cracks in our façade are becoming obvious to outsiders.  Now a leading Russian academic who studies the United States has gone on record.

Igor Panarin, a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian foreign affairs ministry, said the economic turmoil in the US had confirmed his long-held belief that the country was heading for extinction in its present form. (more here)

Some of us longtime students of the American scene have been seeing the fissures grow for some years.  Apparently they’re now visible enough to be also seen from afar.  The good professor blames the current economic woes to be the shake-up that promises things coming apart.  I’m not sure that a financial crisis is really needed to make people look for another political arrangement on this continent, for that has been going on for some time already.  We seem to be the only country in the world which, as a body politic, does not recognize the destructive effects unassimilated diversity.  Even the EU is beginning to realize, perhaps too late, that it has now diversified itself into what promises to be a catastrophic fall of the greatest macro-culture the world has seen.  My own views on the next twenty years were summarized last year and can be seen here.

OK, enough with the serious stuff.  To lighten up, please make yourself comfortable, turn up the volume, and listen to ‘The Mom Song’ – absolutely hysterical, but you gotta pay attention.