Let’s Not Forget This
Posted by David Foster on July 10th, 2011 (All posts by David Foster)
Steven Chu, Obama’s astonishingly arrogant (Nobel-prize-winning!) energy secretary, defends the Edison-bulb ban:
We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money.
Read the PowerLine post at the link, and continue to the Mark Steyn post….Steyn is, as usual, in fine form. But I’m mainly posting this because we need to remember Chu’s comment at election time, to be added to the very long list of statements and actions that show just how disconnected this administration is from traditional American ideas of liberty. I don’t think most Americans yet understand just how extreme this disconnect is, and we need to help ensure that it is made visible.
This is an administration, as I’ve noted before, that is comprised of two kinds of people: theorists and agitators. They do not value individual freedom, and they are not interested in problem-solving.
July 10th, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Mr Chu committed the act described by Adam Smith 235 years ago, as the highest impertinence and presumption”:
An Inquiry Into The Nature And Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations;
By Adam Smith, LL.D. and F.R.S. of London And Edinburgh:
Formerly Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University Of Glasgow
Edinburgh: 1776
BOOK II. Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment Of Stock.
CHAPTER III. Of the Accumulation of Capital, Or Of Productive and
Unproductive Labour.
To translate “highest impertinence and presumption” into cruder and more modern language:
Who the fuck do those Bozos think they are, lecturing us about our electric bills when they are about to send us all into a financial collapse the like of which the world has never seen. Chu should STFU, and we should shut him and his whole useless department down. Fucking bunch of clowns.
Let’s face it, I can’t write nearly as well as Adam Smith.
July 10th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Robert…good find!
What you said is probably just what Adam Smith would have said if he’d been exposed to 2011-style writing conventions.
July 10th, 2011 at 5:37 pm
“Edison-bulb”: Edison lost his patent case on it.
July 11th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
They don’t stop:
“Michelle Obama orders 1,700-calorie meal at Shake Shack” By Natalie Jennings:
The Fat Girl From Chicago has a bigger caboose than anything on the Union Pacific. For her to say anything about food or diet is “the highest impertinence and presumption”, and she should STFU.
July 11th, 2011 at 11:27 pm
The hits just keep coming:
Barack Obama, July 11, 2011
repeat after me:
“It is the highest impertinence and presumption”
or
STFU, bunghole. It is not your fucking money. We don’t need you to tell us what to with it. BTW, we have already set up two scholarship funds, so the needy parent is covered.
July 15th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Dearieme: Patent kept or lost, the screw-base is still called an “Edison socket”, so “Edison bulb” by extension.