M2RB: Eric Clapton
And, I can change the world,
I will be the sunlight in your universe.
You would think my love was really something good,
Baby, if I could change the world.
But for now I find
It's only in my dreams.
It's only in my dreams.
Consider his vow to expend political capital on climate change. The absurdity of the Kyoto approach
— global climate treaties agreed to by 190 nations — is now obvious
even to most former enthusiasts. Obama can propose cutting U.S.
fossil-fuel emissions (just 16 percent of the global total) with a
carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, but Congress will pass neither. So
he will be reduced to administrative gestures costly to job growth, and
government spending — often crony capitalism — for green energy
incommensurate with his rhetoric.
He says that “the threat of climate change” is apparent in
“raging fires,” “crippling drought” and “more powerful storms.” Are
fires raging now more than ever? (There were a third fewer U.S. wildfires
in 2012 than in 2006.) Are the number and severity of fires determined
by climate change rather than forestry and land-use practices? Is
today’s drought worse than, say, that of the Dust Bowl, and was it
caused by 1930s global warming? As for “more powerful storms”:
Because
Sandy struck New York City, where the nation’s media congregate and
participate in the city’s provincialism, this storm was declared more
cosmically momentous than the 74 other hurricanes that have hit or come
near the city since 1800. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina was called a
consequence of global warming and hence a harbinger of increasing
numbers of Category 3 or higher hurricanes. Since then, major hurricane
activity has plummeted. No Category 3 storm has hit the United States
since 2005. Sandy was just a Category 1.
Obama’s vow to adjust
Earth’s thermostat followed the report that 2012 was the hottest year on
record in the contiguous 48 states. But the Wall Street Journal’s Holman Jenkins,
who has concisely posed the actual climate policy choice (“How much
should we spend on climate change in order to have no effect on climate
change?”), has noted that although 2012 was 2.13 degrees Fahrenheit
hotter than 2011, “2008, in the contiguous U.S., was two degrees cooler
than 2006.” And “2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 were
all cooler than 1998 by a larger margin than 2012 was hotter than 1998.”
Such is the rigor of many who preen as devotees of science that they
declared the 2012 temperatures in the contiguous states (1.58 percent of
the Earth’s surface) proof of catastrophic global warming.
A
flourishing American economic sector is fossil fuels — especially oil
and natural gas — which the Obama administration seems to regret and
often impedes (see: fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline). Yet the
natural gas boom is one of the main reasons why, in 2012, U.S.
fossil-fuel emissions were the lowest since 1992. Obama’s wariness about
the pipeline suggests that he subscribes to some environmentalists’
stupendously weird theory: If the pipeline is not built to carry oil
from the (supposedly dangerous) development of Canadian tar sands,
Canada will leave those sands undeveloped rather than sell the oil to
China.
Small businesses create most new jobs, but many businesses
are avoiding hiring a 50th employee, or are replacing full-time
employees with those working fewer than 30 hours a week, to avoid
Obamacare’s costly requirements regarding provision of health insurance.
Some colleges and universities are reducing to 29 the number of hours
adjunct professors can teach, which is condign punishment for those
professors — most of them, surely — who favored Obamacare.
It and
other regulatory burdens, combined with the subsidization of not working
(47.5 million people receiving food stamps, 8.6 million receiving
disability payments, unemployment benefits extended from 26 weeks to
73 weeks — so far), partially explain this fact provided by Richard Vedder of the American Enterprise Institute:
“If today the country had the same proportion of persons of working age
employed as it did in 2000, the U.S. would have almost 14 million more
people contributing to the economy.” Fourteen million is more than the combined workforces of 18 states.
In the rhetorical cotton candy of his inaugural address —
sugary, and mostly air — Obama spoke of “investing in” rising
generations and said: “America’s possibilities are limitless.” He
ignores the encroaching limits imposed on the nation by his policies
that are funded by debt that will burden those generations.
Change The World - Eric Clapton
If I could reach the stars
Pull one down for you,
Shine it on my heart
So you could see the truth:
That this love inside
Is everything it seems.
But for now I find
It's only in my dreams.
And I can change the world,
I will be the sunlight in your universe.
You would think my love was really something good,
Baby, if I could change the world.
If I could be king,
Even for a day,
I'd take you as my queen;
I'd have it no other way.
And our love would rule
This kingdom we had made.
'til then I'd be a fool,
Wishing for the day...
That I can change the world,
I would be the sunlight in your universe.
You would think my love was really something good,
Baby, if I could change the world.
Baby. if I could change the world.
I could change the world,
I would be the sunlight in your universe.
You would think my love was really something good,
Baby, if I could change the world.
Baby, if I could change the world.
Baby, if I could change the world.
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