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On Earth Day, I Expanded My Carbon Footprint

Big_D_ Wrote: Apr 23, 2012 3:10 AM

Nice article. Drive the econuts nuts. Oh, wait they already are. But. "If you are a government employee who is worried about the gap in your pension funding, then write a letter to the president and tell him to turf his environmental allies on the Keystone pipeline. Your pension expands when the economy expands." I would suggest rather "If you are a government employee, worry about losing your job when the government that is over-bearing, destructive, and that we can't afford, is downsized. Are you employable/competent to work in the private sector?"

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On Earth Day, I Expanded My Carbon Footprint

To celebrate “earth day” this year, I decided that I would do what the Obama administration just hasn’t been able to figure out: I would stimulate the economy by the conscious expansion of my carbon footprint.

So I ran the air conditioning for a while in my house.

I also turned all the lights on in the house. Well, actually, I just didn’t turn off the lights my kids turned on. Through this process of reverse attrition, at one point, all the lights in the house eventually were on.

I call this Ransom’s Law: The amount of lights...