One Thing Leftards Don't Understand is Economics

The Leftards are always trying to fix things and trying to "make things better". From an overall view, that's not a bad agenda, but when you dig deeper, which they never do, they are just screwing it all up and making it worse. When a Leftard pushes their agenda, they don't look at or care about, what kind of economic effect it will have on the people they are trying to help or anyone else.

Let's look at the Leftards push to be "green." "Global Warming", "Clean Air" and all these programs have been forcing car makers and consumers to use gasoline mixed with Ethanol. The main source of Ethanol right now is corn, and what impact does this "green" agenda have? Starvation for Mexicans and higher meat prices for Americans.

Mexico is in the grip of the worst tortilla crisis in its modern history. Dramatically rising international corn prices, spurred by demand for the grain-based fuel ethanol, have led to expensive tortillas.

So now the Leftards are staving Mexicans, but the air is cleaner.

The price of meat is set to rise in America as the nation’s helter-skelter dash to convert corn into road fuel begins to take its toll on the supply of food.

The US Department of Agriculture has said that meat supply will fall this year because of the high cost of feed. Output of beef, pork and chicken is expected to decline by one billion pounds as farmers react to the soaring cost of feeding their livestock.

And now America is producing less meat, leading to higher prices, which also may starve people that can't pay the price, but the air is cleaner.

There is no thought to the consequences behind their actions, and if there is a thought, then it is evil.

Let's look at another favorite goal of the Leftards: Minimum Wage.

Maryland just passed a law forcing employers to pay a "living wage."

(CNSNews.com) - Maryland is set to become the first state in the nation to require contractors to pay workers a "living wage." A liberal group Thursday said the law would lift thousands of families out of poverty while a business group panned the measure as "unwise."

The new legislation, which passed on the final day of the legislature's 2007 session, establishes two pay grades for workers of service contractors doing business with the state -- at least $11.30 an hour along the Baltimore-Washington corridor and $8.50 per hour in rural areas. Maryland's minimum wage was previously $6.15 an hour across the state.

And what impact can the Leftards expect? They believe that it will "lift thousands of families out of poverty". But in fact it most likely will raise the price of new construction, cost of services, decrease employment and place more people in poverty as jobs are eliminated. The impact will not be immediate, it will take a few years, but the people of Maryland and Gov't itself will feel it none the less.

Utopia is nice to dream about, but reality does have a habit of waking you up from that dream. And that is another thing that separates Leftards from conservatives, they believe in Utopia, as where conservatives believe and are concerned with reality and the economics behind their actions.


Mr Minority