Mark Steyn - Interesting

Purpdust · 05-09-2008, 05:16 PM

The Agenda - Video - May 6: What is Wrong with Mark Steyn's View of the World?

Purpdust · 05-12-2008, 04:14 PM

Different Topic but same guy

HH = Hugh Hewitt

MS - Mark Steyn

Quote:

HH: Mark Steyn, I’ve more for you of Michelle Obama to play, but before that, since you’re in Canada, within a week, we will learn if the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service declares the polar bear to be endangered, and thus, every federal action of the United States subject to review by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Do you find much polar bear panic in Canada?
MS: No, there is no polar bear panic. Essentially, this is the sort of Disney-fied anthropomorphization of public policy, all because of that ridiculous shot that appears in the Al Gore movie of the polar bears clinging to this piece of ice. Polar bears…anyone whose been to the north knows that polar bears…well, you don’t have to have been to the north. All you have to do is have watched a couple, two or three wildlife documentaries, and paid reasonable attention. Polar bears can swim in water. They’re perfectly capable of swimming in water. This picture is of no significance, yet we are about to impose yet another absurd, unnecessary, crippling level of regulation in the name of this ludicrous sentimentalization of the environmental issue. The fact is, it’s getting to the stage now where environmentalism is, which was a new religion, is now becoming a kind of, a form of mental illness, I think. Whatever happens, it gets hot, it gets cold, the ice shield firms up, the ice shield melts, it’s all the symptom of the same thing, man is responsible, global warming, we have to wreck the global economy. To put the polar bear on the endangered species list is an act of economic suicide, and people shouldn’t be doing it

Purpdust · 05-12-2008, 04:24 PM

Another snip of the interview, Sheep should like this one

MO = Michelle Obama

Quote:

HH: All right, now back to Michelle Obama. Another cut for the edification of Mr. Steyn:

MO: The bar is shifting and moving on people all the time. And folks are struggling like never before, working harder than ever, believing that their hard work will lead to some reward, some payoff. But what they find is that they get there, and then the bar has changed. Things are different. It wasn’t enough. So you have to work even harder. And see, what happens when you live in a nation where the vast majority of Americans are struggling every day to reach an every-shifting and moving bar, then what happens in that nation is that people do become isolation.

HH: Okay, stop right there. Mark Steyn, the vast majority?

MS: Yes, the more I listen to Michelle Obama, the more I feel like struggling to reach the ever-shifting bar, and have a couple of martinis. I mean, this is an insane caricature of America. It is true that there are, and I run into a lot of them among my neighbors in New Hampshire, that you’ll meet people, you’ll meet women, for example, who are doing three jobs. They’ll be doing a waitressing shift, and a shift at the convenience store, and they’ll have a little home cleaning business. And when you actually ask them why it is that they’re doing this, it’s often for social reasons, but it’s also because of the fact that government is taking such a big slice of the pie, that in fact, if you were to trim down government, and the vast majority or largely superfluous services that it attempts to provide badly, and allow people to keep more of their money, they wouldn’t be having to do these two or three extra jobs. That’s the reason. It’s the metastasizing government and bureaucracy and regulation that imposes costs on the efficient part of the U.S. economy.

Purpdust · 05-12-2008, 04:33 PM

Transcript

05-09-2008, 05:16 PM	#1
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05-12-2008, 04:33 PM	#4
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