The late Senator Everett Dirksen frequently gets  credit for the quote:

“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”

Dirksen said in an interview that the quote wasn’t his, but that he would only be too happy to take the credit. We were reminded of that quote when we heard this one by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who cannot deny that she said it:

“The US is prepared to work with other countries toward a goal of jointly mobilizing $100 billion a year by 2020 to address the climate change needs of developing countries.”

$100 billion dollars a year? Just how much of this $100 billion a year the United States would throw at this fund, SECSTATE would not say. We can only imagine. It would have to be in the tens of billions of dollars. A year. And you just know that our share of it will be the largest of any country because we drive around in SUVs and eat junk food. It will be our penance to the world religion of global warming. Forgive us Gaia, for we have sinned. The secretary also didn’t say for how many years American taxpayers would, without their consent, of course, be contributing to this international slush fund.

$100 billion dollars a year! We’ve seen some really goofy ideas floated by Obama and his band of radicals ever since they merrily moved into the White House, but this has to be one of the goofiest. The Watermelons, i.e. enviro-leftists who are green on the outside and pink on the inside, think it’s a splendid idea. The usual suspects — The Sierra Club et al — were quick to sign off on it.

$100 billion dollars a year… A cool hundred billion dollars would feed a lot of hungry people. Lord knows there are a lot of hungry mouths that need feeding in the developing nations, and the warmists are quick to blame global warming for that. It leads to famine, drought and starvation, they tell us. From our observations, dictators and warlords deserve a large share of that blame for blowing their nations’ national treasures on arms to use against whatever ethnic or religious faction they are trying to exterminate at the moment. They also spend a considerable amount on themselves. That which they cannot spend, they sock away in Swiss bank accounts. But never mind. It’s about global warming. Everything is about global warming with the Watermelons.

$100 billion dollars a year… It will save the rain forests, the Watermelons tell us. We have q better idea. Stop cutting the rain forests down. Don’t buy agricultural products grown on cleared rain forest land. Punish countries which clear rain forests to produce ethanol made from sugarcane. Take the restriction off of domestic natural gas producers who could sell the clean-burning fuel cheaply to countries where forests are being overcut for the 1.5 billion people who burn the wood for cooking and heating.

$100 billion dollars a year… Our share of a green hundred billion dollars would pay a lot of unemployment benefits for the jobless who are growing cobwebs waiting for all of those green jobs Obama keeps talking about to magically materialize out of thin air. Oh, wait. The air isn’t thin. It’s thick with CO2, or so the global warmists tell us.

$100 billion dollars a year… Our share of it will be real money, even in the current Obamalaise of trillion-dollar spending bills and multi-trillion-dollar deficits in this country. Our share of it on paper would pay down a lot of our paper debt and some of the real debt, too, that has been dumped on the next generation or three.

$100 billion dollars a year… It may be real money, but what the world’s green screamies want to do with it is just… unreal.

- JP

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