Working the Green Corner

Planet Gore on National Review Online

So when you hear the cheerleading in support of legislation like Lieberman-Warner (or Lieberman-Murkowski, as the betting has its moniker for next year) — that “some of America’s greatest corporations support this!” — remember what they’re really saying. Like T. Boone Pickens, they have merely discovered the world’s second-oldest profession: making money off of policy favors from government, while redirecting resources from productive uses — at your expense and, often, at the environment’s as well.