Carbon "off-sets?" Just a rationalization for guilt-feeling liberals to keep on polluting... Why stop with carbon offsets? How about using greed-offsets and torture-offsets and so on and so on.
If humans want to stop their escalating destruction of the earth, they should stop reproducing.
Posted by james k. sayre at May 31, 2009 11:12 AMDateline, 29 June 1956
"...today President Eisenhower signed into law the "Roadless Offset Act" whereby people who do have roads need to pay those who don't have roads. President Eisenhower has expressed his doubts stating "well...the whole idea sounds kind of silly if you ask me, I mean, why do we have to be such ninnies about it, if we could wade ashore on the beaches of Normandy, surely we could tax the people for this national improvement?"
But the "zany" Dr. Teller, who built an H-Bomb and time machine, convinced Dwight D Eisenhower to let him go into the future and find how they were managing their national improvements and that's where the "offset in to the future" got it's start.
The once promising "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956" was canned and the new "Roadless Offset Act" was penned. The President took some convincing as he was pretty sure this bill could be easily "gamed" stating, "what's to stop the population from moving away areas that have roads...to areas that don't and picking up a check for sitting on their duffs"
Again, Dr. Teller, who built an H-Bomb, convinced the President that the conventional wisdom of the economics profession was always right in the years between 1980 and 2009. Not wanting to be a "stick in the mud" Eisenhower green lighted the project saying "this really sounds wacko to me...but Teller tells me that the people that came up with this cockamamie idea are the "best and the brightest economic professors of their time".
Dateline, 25 May 1961
"...today President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress that the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade was to be modified, rather than uses taxes to achieve this goal an "Anti-gravity offset" would be used where people who do not have...
Posted by S Brennan at June 1, 2009 04:51 PM