Obama's Socialism: Reaching DIRECTLY Into YOUR Home

Carol Browner, President Barack Obama's Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change (or Climate Czar*) and EPA Administrator under Clinton, wants to reach into your home and slap your hand. She wants to, first, tax you -- then she wants to penalize you.

If, in winter, you set the thermostat too high, your hand will be slapped.

If, in summer, you set the thermostat too low, your hand will be slapped.

California has already said it wants to get into your home and limit your thermostat. From my post back on January 12th of 2008:

California utilities would control the temperature of new homes and commercial buildings in emergencies with a radio-controlled thermostat, under a proposed state update to building energy efficiency standards.

Customers could not override the thermostats during "emergency events," according to the proposal, part of a 236-page revision to building standards. The document is scheduled to be considered by the California Energy Commission, a state agency, on Jan. 30.

The description does not provide any exception for health or safety concerns. It also does not define what are "emergency events."

Now, under Barack Obama's Carol Browner as Climate Czar*, this idea has migrated up into a national venue.

From a US News & World Report interview on March 9th Ms Browner stated:

Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak, you'll still be able to cool your house, but that'll be a savings to the consumer. And so [we will be] giving people and companies a role in the management of how we use electricity.

So. Let me posit this:

Q: In 2003, how many people perished in Europe during its summer due to heat issues?

A: 35,000

And, apparently, Mr Obama and Ms Browner want Europe, right here, right now.

But wait; whose blog are you reading? Why yes, that would be the Bloviating Zeppelin. And what has BZ oft written of the Barack Presidency? Why yes, that would be notations regarding its Socialist leanings (blogpost coming on this in the future - make way!).

However -- damn, imagine this! -- it is a verifiable fact that Carol Browner is an actual Socialist:

Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

However, this fact has been purposely removed from your learning domain. To continue:

By Thursday, Mrs. Browner's name and biography had been removed from Socialist International's Web page, though a photo of her speaking June 30 to the group's congress in Greece was still available.

Socialist International, an umbrella group for many of the world's social democratic political parties such as Britain's Labor Party, says it actively supports socialism and is harshly critical of U.S. policies.

Huh. Imagine that.

BZ

PS:

* = The word "Czar" originates from the Russian; extrapolating further, this Russian word is a corruption or, more appropriately, a diminutive of the word "Caesar" from Roma, Italia.