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This week on Need To Know, Ramesh Ponnuru stops by to discuss the NSA revelations, security versus freedom (and how big of a hypocrite Obama is on the issue), the recent college Republican survey, and the overall value of a college education. Later, Mona and Jay look to the east and discuss the protests in Turkey and voting in Iran, then circle back stateside to say goodbye to Michele Bachmann, chat up the coming U.S. oil boom, lament that being a millionaire is passé, and Mona tries to get her hands around global warming.
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I think that environmentalism is more an affectation for many in the movement rather than a conviction – witness the tons of litter that have to be carted away after Earth Day gatherings. If people truly cared about the environment, they would support free markets. Free markets encourage efficiency, saving resources and reducing waste.
In those areas in which regulations are necessary, free markets produce the wealth needed for such “luxuries” as clean air controls. For example, scrubbers on power plants consume some 10% of the energy that the plants produce. Only a wealthy nation can afford such an expenditure.
In the past two installments of Need To Know I’ve learned that Jay likes Michael Bloomberg and that Mona believes in Global Warming. Perhaps I now know enough to stop listening.
I was completely unsurprised that Mona and Jay dislike Michele Bachmann.
Um, Mona. Global warming is a fraud. And people who say otherwise are either scientifically and historically ignorant or are deliberately dishonest. Sorry to have to include you in that lot, but there it is. Otherwise I like the podcast quite a lot.
But…but…the important thing is that people who believe in Global Warming don’t *embarrass* her.