If you believe Al Gore, do not pass go, do not collect $200, and oil and pharmaceutical companies should go straight to jail. Gore’s disturbingly populist rants in his bid for the highest office in the world should frighten any well-reasoned individual.
To believe Gore’s campaign on all its points is to find one’s self in a logical quandary. First, he’s the most important veep of all time and claims, among other wild fancies, to have been at the heart of the economic success that the U.S. deregulation and entrepreneurial attitude has wrought.
Yet all the while he is campaigning full time, if not overtime, for the Oval Office. So shouldn’t our country be falling apart at the seams in his absence? Obviously it’s doing just fine, save higher oil prices borne of an appallingly inept Department of Energy.
How is the rational person to make sense of the success during Gore’s absence? The simple answer is, of course, that it’s American ingenuity and spirit that drive this country’s success and not, as Gore asserts through policy initiatives, the federal government gracing the people with its wisdom.
To believe Gore’s campaign would also entail the idea that Gore cares about the average, poor citizen. During his alpha-male phase he shouted to any sycophantic crowd that would listen that he would fight for them, as if he were Rocky taking on the seven-foot Russian oaf. But Gore wouldn’t even take care of the poor tenants living in squalor on his property less than 500 yards away from his own mansion in Washington, D.C.
He has parlayed this fight-for-the-common-man attitude into his recent attacks on successful American industries that lie outside his vision of a socialistic, ecologically-driven agrarian state.
Gore’s recent populism is sickening. The leech of U.S. politics has of late been blaming high gas prices on “Big Oil,” which he claims are due to collusion, and he points at high prescription drug costs as the collusion that is at the heart of senior suffering in America. Of course the problems lie somewhere with the lack of a cohesive U.S. energy policy
and the already existing intrusions into the marketplace by Medicare.
If those logical problems weren’t bad enough, the final straw must be his assertion, in concert with President Clinton and others, that a country as prosperous as the United States doesn’t hand away free health coverage to all its citizens. Of course the answer is that our country wouldn’t be nearly so prosperous if it followed in the example of our economically-shaky socialist European counterparts.
When a country devotes a seventh of its economy to free health care, that money is lost to the pioneering spirit that caused this great growth in the first place.
To believe Al Gore is to buy into populist propaganda, which can do nothing but degrade the United States in nearly every facet of life.
That may sound a bit over the top, but higher taxes and inept leadership aren’t on the menu for national advancement.