Change We Can Believe In? (Guest Voice) | The Moderate Voice

In any event, the promises were so grand, the moment so inspiring, that the aftermath had to disappoint.
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Clear positions yield to political realities. Having Medicare negotiate prescription drug prices gives way to the need to get drug companies on board. The campaign climate-change plan to auction off all emissions permits morphs, without a presidential peep, into a House-passed measure that would hand out 85 percent of the permits as political candy to mollify lawmakers in districts that would be hard hit by strict emissions limits.

New Zealand: Climate sanity from a 'humble sheep farmer': "Misguided emissions policies, priorities and people"

[Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers]  Farmers are dumbfounded that the world's best brains believe ETS-like policies will suddenly turn climate variations around.

Get the ETS today and suddenly tomorrow glaciers will cease retreating and the polar ice caps will stop melting.

I have news for them. They won't.