Floodgater

Cows, Illegal Immigrants and Corzine

A three part series.

 January 8, 2008

 It’s hard to keep up with the liberal lunacy going on around us these days, but I am trying.

 I just want to take a moment of your time to update you on some of the more disturbing social policy proposals that are sure to outrage you as much as they outraged me. I have broken this in three parts for your reading pleasure.

 PART 1 – The Cow Tax 

 The first is a proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency to tax cows. Yes, that’s right. The federal government wants to levy a “global warming tax” of $175 per dairy cow and $87.50 a head on beef cattle.

(Remember, these are the folks who promoted such blunders as corn based ethanol, which did not reduce carbon fuel consumption, but did triple the cost of corn muffins.)

 Cows seem to generate a lot of “methane”. They belch and they are well…flatulent; apparently Dairy Cows are more flatulent than beef cattle – but that’s another story.  Methane is a no-no to liberal environmental hysterics. So, in a lame-brained attempt by EPA bureaucrats to reduce the amount of methane from cows, the EPA wants to tax farmers under the Clean Air Act for each head of cattle they own.

 Why?

 Will taxing cows make them less flatulent? Will the tax cause someone to invent a less gaseous cow? Will this really help the environment?

 No! This is an attempt to further the far left agenda to change our lifestyle not just the environment. The lefties – besides believing the world will end soon — don’t like meat eating and don’t much like farmers. So why not tax cows… then pigs…. and how about chickens? And instead of drinking milk eating steak, pork chops and chicken cutlets, we can all live on avocados and bean sprouts (and wear Birkenstock sandals – how cute).

 This proposal comes right out of the Al Gore Global Warming handbook of hysteria, which demands every source of carbon dioxide be beaten into extinction – even those sources that produce our food..

  The EPA cow tax fits nicely with the Gore theory that if we can make living more expensive – we can save the planet by changing people’s behavior (Liberals like to do that.) In fact, Al Gore is changing his behavior; he is having solar panels installed on his 30,000 square foot mansion near where he parks his private jet.

 I don’t know about you, but I like to have a glass of milk with my Oreo cookies. I like, cheese and steak too, and I like farmers. They work hard to produce products we cannot live without. We should honor the American Farmer and not tax them to death.

 Sadly, U.S. dairy farmers are having a difficult time these days. The NY Times gleefully reported recently that dairy prices are dropping and milk is in oversupply because people in Europe and Asia don’t have the money to buy dairy products.

 So now comes the EPA and says lets heap a bit more misery on dairy farmers. Let’s see if we can tax them out of business, or force them to cull their herds (that means kill the cows for you liberals) so in a year or two milk and beef prices will increase for consumers because of a shortage of flatulent cows.

 This is dumb and dangerous thinking. In fact, it’s not thinking; its ideology run amok. Global Warming hysteria is taking hold of our government in New Jersey and in Washington DC.  We need to fight back. But, of course, our Republican leadership (did I really say that) is deathly afraid to go near Global Warming issues. They are afraid of being branded as (oh no) anti-environment by the unproductive, preachy left.

 Are there any Republican leaders in New Jersey who are willing to stand up for dairy farmers and against environmental extremism? (Apparently not. The GOP leaders are huddled in the corner with the Sierra Club trying to find new ways to destroy the state’s economy)

 So it goes folks…the lunatic fringe is cutting down on cow flatulence and the Republican Party leaders are just full of hot air.

 

Right.