If you thought Solyndra was bad

If you thought Solyndra was bad…

United Nations (Photo credit: Ashitakka)

You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
The U.S. government has been throwing money at Green “technology” and “jobs” to no avail for some time now and President Obama has significantly accelerated the money laundering in that direction. We’ve seen the fruit of his labor Solyndra and several Solyndra clones who’ve taken taxpayer money and promptly filed bankruptcy. Or those who’ve taken billions in “research and development” money to produce things like the Volt that will badly miss their first full year sales estimate of 60,000 cars unless the administration decides that the government needs thousands of electric cars in the fleet.
That, my friends, is chump change. Here comes the United Nations, entrance stage left.
As reported last week by Fox News – and basically no one else – the UN has an environmental conference scheduled for June 20 to 23. Their conference agenda is heartily supported by the Obama administration. Here’s what’s on tap…

More than $2.1 trillion a year in wealth transfers from rich countries to poorer ones, in the name of fostering “green infrastructure, ” “climate adaptation” and other “green economy” measures.
New carbon taxes for industrialized countries that could cost about $250 billion a year, or 0.6 percent of Gross Domestic Product, by 2020. Other environmental taxes are mentioned, but not specified.
Further unspecified price hikes that extend beyond fossil fuels to anything derived from agriculture, fisheries, forestry, or other kinds of land and water use, all of which would be radically reorganized. These cost changes would “contribute to a more level playing field between established, ‘brown’ technologies and newer, greener ones.”
Major global social spending programs, including a “social protection floor” and “social safety nets” for the world’s most vulnerable social groups for reasons of “equity.”
Even more social benefits for those displaced by the green economy revolution—including those put out of work in undesirable fossil fuel industries. The benefits, called “investments,” would include “access to nutritious food, health services, education, training and retraining, and unemployment benefits.”
A guarantee that if those sweeping benefits weren’t enough, more would be granted. As one of the U.N. documents puts it: “Any adverse effects of changes in prices of goods and services vital to the welfare of vulnerable groups must be compensated for and new livelihood opportunities provided.”

This is a nightmare George Orwell would understand completely.
Please note the conscription of language involved in this [insert NSFW Marine Corps term]. The bolding in the quote is mine. Note also that the UN is expecting you and I to make sure that healthy food (and only God knows who’s going to define that let alone deliver it), health services – ObamaCare for the world, education and training and an insurance policy that guarantees everything to everybody.
Trust me on this, two and a half trillion won’t even start to fund this bureaucratic nightmare. If you’re looking for “One World Government” this document will be its constitution and here’s the preamble…

..the final version of the 204-page report is intended to “contribute” to preparations for the Rio + 20 summit, where one of the two themes is “the green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication.”

In other words, it’s going to be a worldwide war on poverty, and I assume you know how well that’s worked out here in the last 50 years. Jesus noted that the poor will always be with us, and leftist politicians take it as a matter of course that their job is make sure the poor are always with us and that they are dependent upon politicians for their very survival.
This meeting is intended to usher in a new heaven and a new earth, just in a context radically different than those terms are typically found, relating to the second coming of the savior. This time the context is the first coming of world governance. The scary thing, to me anyway, is that if this program goes forward it wouldn’t make much difference if the U.S. walked away from the UN, the impact would hit our markets and energy costs anyway. The whole article is worth a read, but here’s a summary…

But in fact, it also lays out new roles for private enterprise, national governments, and a bevy of socialist-style worker, trade and citizens’ organizations in creating a sweeping international social reorganization, all closely monitored by regulators and governments to maintain environmental “sustainability” and “human equity.”
“Transforming the global economy will require action locally (e.g., through land use planning), at the national level (e.g., through energy-use regulations) and at the international level (e.g., through technology diffusion),” the document says. It involves “profound changes in economic systems, in resource efficiency, in the composition of global demand, in production and consumption patterns and a major transformation in public policy-making.” It will also require “a serious rethinking of lifestyles in developed countries.”
As the report puts it, even though “the bulk of green investments will come from the private sector,” the “role of the public sector… is indispensable for influencing the flow of private financing.” It adds that the green economy model “recognizes the value of markets, but is not tied to markets as the sole or best solution to all problems.”

If you’re comfortable, you shouldn’t be. If you are still looking for a reason to add Barack Obama to the unemployment line, this is it.
-Michael Becker