This timeless quote by Arizona Cardinals coach Dennis Green is applicable to the world beyond sports. I read a fantastic piece in the Saturday edition of The National Post. The climate change people are now openly confessing that yes this is indeed about a transfer of wealth. The largest pitfall in the more extreme forms of socialism is that you are essentially punishing success and rewarding failure. Such that participants on the "margins" are suddenly provided with an incentive to migrate from "have" to "have not". I can work really hard and pay taxes, or I can drag my ass and the government, or the UN, compensates my decreased effort. It is a moral hazard. Gradually the "margin" creeps higher and higher up the income ladder, until such time as the government reaches critical mass with too few success producers. It is how all socialism fails, Scandanavia notwithstanding. Evidently the Vikings can be socialist and still produce cheap furniture and quality cell phones.
But this whole climate change movement is what Stephen Harper thought it was. I need to thank Mr. Harper for being the first to alert me to what this whole movement really was. Had Stephane Dion ascended to power in that attempted coup, and had he signed up for this nonsense, my reaction would be similar to the Cardinal's coach.
But Dennis says it best: www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N1OjGhIFc
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