Watch Out World!

The Governator has boldly destroyed California's economy with his green/climate change agenda, and now he's heading to Copenhagen to pump up the rest of the world. If you're wondering where all those uninvited guests for the UN Summit on Climate Change came from, they're the California business people and working taxpayers who have exited the state in droves to get away from the oppressive and crippling legislation, rules and regulations foisted upon them by the beefy man-bot.

California is the leader in environmental pseudo-science and mindless legislation which has brought the world's fifth or sixth largest economy to, and perhaps over, the brink of ruin. More than 250,000 jobs were lost in California in one year alone, and today's official unemployment rate is 12.3% and climbing (the real figure is probably even higher when you include workers who have simply given up on the idea that they will ever be able to get a decent job again, run out of their unemployment insurance benefits, and ended up on welfare).

But never fear, he'll be back. And he announced recently that the green jobs creation will produce a whopping 400,000 jobs to replace the nearly million jobs which will have been lost by the end of the current five-year period. Aside from the fact that 400,000 is considerably less than a million, even a robot can be honest enough to admit that it will take ten to twelve years to produce those theoretical jobs.

The Kyoto Accord has nothing on California legislation. Many major nations never signed on to Kyoto, and those that did are not even close to making their goals. California has more control over its citizens than that. It has been three years since Ahnuld enthusiasically signed the job-killer bill also known as AB 32 which mandated that California reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. That bill alone is projected to cost the state nearly $72 billion per year, while costing consumers another $149 billion and killing 1.1 million real jobs. And the state government has used all means available to it to collect the taxes and enforce the rules necessary to achieve this lofty goal.

But that projection doesn't stop the determined Governator. When asked by a reporter if Schwarzenegger might consider modification of the legislation or temporary suspension of its harshest provisions during the big recession, the RINO (robot in name only) looked up at Skynet and replied: "I will not suspend regulations that are creating jobs and stimulating the economy." I think there are a few wires crossed in the man-bot's head.

Nothing in the present, real world will dissuade Ahnuld from his course of action. Originally somewhat hesitant about AB 32, he is now an enthusiastic booster of this pie-in-the-sky legislation. He sees things that never were, and never will be, and declares them to be the true facts. Amazing what they can do with computer programming these days, isn't it? He joyfully reports that many of the provisions of the bill won't even go into effect until 2012. That means that they will kick in right near the end of the current five-year downhill slide, making the present restrictions and mandates look like child's play. To any sane person, that means it's going to get worse. But to a humanlike machine it means "By then, the economy will continue to improve ('continue?'), helped by the growth of California's clean tech sector."

Those of us who watched the California Coastal Commission grab huge swaths of California land to "preserve the environment" and prevent development of any real substance thought that was as bad as it could get. We thought drying up the lush Central Valley farms and fields in order to protect a fish that is of no use to anybody was just a temporary disconnect. Yet most of these predations occurred before this sociocrat posing as a conservative Republican came into office. He is making those enviro-nuts look absolutely sane and reasonable in his zeal to turn California into a fictional movie paradise of the future.

"Today Kahleeforneea, Tomorrow the World" is Schwarzenegger's rallying cry as he heads off to the conference of highly-confused Euroweenies, Asian opt-outers, and African handout seekers. Watch out world--resist him not. He keeps coming back, and coming back, and coming back. He will not give up until he has destroyed humanity and replaced them with well-programmed, non-polluting, hydrogen and solar powered machines. The earth will be pristine again, but there won't be anybody there to appreciate it.