In yet another obvious breach of anything that could be considered “transparency”, Congress proceeded to push the health care bill/debate forward. The Republicans, at least, voted unanimously against moving forward on a debate and eventual vote, while the Democrats and Independents all voted to proceed. We have been repeatedly assured that the bill would die in the Senate, allaying fears after its surprising pass in the House, but such assurances seem more and more shaky.

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As a person with a passion for the environment, I find it deplorable that so many who claim to be environmentalists are destroying the pro-environment cause by pushing concerns about climate change. I will list out a number of ways in which the whole scare is causing real damage to the planet, whether the intentions are pure or not. With the December 2009 climate conference in Copenhagen looms, I think it is time to call the environmentalist movement on its colossal error.

Representatives from 170 countries are expected to be at the Copenhagen conference, as well as a whole host of other people, discussing one tiny aspect of environmental concern. The rest of the concerns, unfortunately, are hardly even being addressed. This is the first and most important way that the environmentalist moevement has strayed from the path. There are real ways in which humans are impacting their environment negatively, but none of them are being addressed. I suppose they aren’t “big enough” to scare whole nations into cooperation, making them far less powerful as a political tool.

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I also considered titling this Swine Fear. Basically, I firmly believe that scare tactics are being used to inflate the swine flu situation into a perceived pandemic. I think the media tends to exaggerate medical crises in general, as sensational news makes for greater ratings, but this seems to be a step further. The medical community, under the direction of the CDC is partaking in the overstatement of the issue. Certainly the swine flu is dangerous, but many of those to whom it has proved deadly might have succumbed to a regular flu as well. Furthermore, the distribution of medicines and some of the statements about the vaccines are especially troubling.

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In light of Mr. Reich’s speech, I thought it might be nice to start a series in similar fashion. I will do an “entirely made up and off the cuff” statement of what an honest presidential candidate could and should say. The difference is, this is more what a libertarian candidate would say, instead of a liberal one. And this is what I believe should be said to the America that exists, to the citizens we have, with their current education level. I think they are more than ready for the truth, and that the understanding of politics would be easy for the average American if there were not so many exhausting smoke and mirrors games or ridiculous lies and cover-ups perpetrated on them by our current ruling class in order to gain power.

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So Robert Reich, of the presidential economic advisory board, did a little letcure in 2007 that has just surfaced in teh news in which he gave a speech concerning health care as if he were an “honest” president or presidential candidate. There are a number of disturbing things about this speech, not the least of which is the very concept that he felt he should restate the health care concept in an “honest” way, implying our current president is not being honest. It is as though it is expected that “being political” is an acceptable excuse for lying.

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