Rudd should take ego pill | Herald Sun

KEVIN Rudd should take an ``ego pill'' when it comes to global climate change negotiations, Nationals Senate leader Barnaby Joyce says.

The major world powers do not care what Mr Rudd thinks about tackling climate change, he says.

``Mr Rudd has got to stop fooling himself that he is a mover and shaker on ... world environmental politics,'' Senator Joyce told Sky News today.

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Senate won’t bow to global warming propagandists, hopefully

Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer, for example, claimed that “this bill is going to be good for the economy." She’s so confident, in fact, that she’s calling the Senate version of Waxman-Markey the “Climate Security Jobs Act.” David Foster, the executive director of the labor-environmental (anti-capitalist) group Blue-Green Alliance, echoed this cartoonish sentiment claiming that “[t]he legislation would create new jobs […] by pushing improvements in the electricity grid and expansion of renewable energy and more efficient buildings." He added that he's "very concerned that the Senate isn't getting this.”

Perhaps the reason the Senate isn’t “getting this” is because job creation doesn’t say anything about the merits of a cap and trade system. Creating jobs is only beneficial if those jobs produce goods and services that consumers want. Since it’s politicians clamoring for “green” energy and not consumers, the net economic benefit of this charade will be zero.

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