Mike Church Show Audio & Transcript - Obama Tilting at Energy

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Mike:  First of all, Mr. President, a windmill is not a new technology.  It’s been around since the 14th Century.  I don’t know, you may have seen, if you look at the – here’s a good reference.  If you look at the original, one of the original cover illustrations for the old book, “Don Quixote,” what is Don Quixote riding the horse away from?  A patch of windmills.  Obama makes it seem as, yeah, but they do new things now.  Uh, yeah, but this is like claiming that you’ve reinvented the wheel.  This is like claiming, yeah, we got a wheel, but we put some cogs on it and called it a gear.  Yeah, yeah, that’s – this is humanity in progress here.  Hell, using the windmill analogy is not even as good as putting the cogs on the wheel to make the gear.

And then the other thing about, well, this just proves that we have to have government investment, and we have to – government leads the way, and government does this, and I will not back away, and I won’t do this.  Again, I know this probably sounds like a broken record, and quite frankly I’m as tired of saying it as you may be of hearing it.  But it’s true.  We do not have in our system – and if you want this in our system, then call yourself an amendment convention and amend the constitution.  We do not have an elected king.  We do not have King Barack the First.  He does not have a checkbook hidden underneath his desk that Nicolas Cage found in “National Treasure 2.”  He does not have carte blanche authority to spend your money.  He does not have carte blanche authority to take your money.  And yet this is exactly the vernacular of our days.  This is exactly the vernacular of our time.

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Presidents act as though they are kings.  People that want to be President act as though they are kings.  And the whole thing is, see, we don’t have to choose.  We can have natural gas, and we have batteries, batteries that power cars, solar panels, and windmills.  Everybody knows that’s ever studied, or everyone that has ever studied the windmill farms and the use of windmills knows that in very limited, very, very unbelievably limited applications are windmills useful and efficient.  In a general application manner, they are not efficient, and they are not useful.  “So, Mike, what would be a place where they would be efficient and useful?”  Well, if you’re 400 miles from the nearest high-powered voltage line, and you can’t get juice out to your property, and you only need juice every now and then, and you have some crude manner in which to store it, well, then, a windmill that can generate some electricity and in some manner that can be stored would be useful, as long as the wind is blowing.

In any other application it’s not because there has yet to have been, with all the trillions wasted or billions wasted in this endeavor, there’s yet to have been a creation of a safe, reliable, and stable manner in which to store the juice and then transmit it in mass quantities.  It just doesn’t exist.  It defies some of the laws of physics.  And that’s one of the reasons why.  You know what just ought to piss you off the most about this?  We know how to generate electricity dirt frickin’ cheap.  We are choosing a suicidal path when it comes to economics here, or should I say the Chief Nitwit is choosing it.  We know that if you want to generate electricity cheaply, what’s the best, most – well, it’s not simple.  What is the cleanest, most efficient way to do it?  Build nuclear power plants.  Simple stuff here.  You build a nuke plant.  You start generating electricity.  Bada bing, bada boom, bam.

Hey, and can I point out something else here?  Since the federal government, since the American sheeple got terrified and scared to death into shutting down nuclear energy development after the libtards attacked it in the 1970s with “The China Syndrome” and those other movies and what have you here, you realize, of course, that the development of nuclear energy has basically come to a screeching halt.  There’s no telling, if there had been a free market, and if the government had gotten the hell out of the way, there’s no telling what kind of nuclear reactors we might have.  We might have household-size nuclear reactors.  We might have neighborhood-size nuclear reactors with little, if any, danger of any fallout or lack of containment because the footprint is so small.

So for every instance where the Chief Nitwit in charge claims that government has been kind, benevolent, and has steered us, I can point out, and I can just eviscerate that argument with what could have been.  And look, great examples that you could see in your daily life every single day, and that is in the development of personal computers.  The government had a very minimal role, if any role whatever in that development.  And yet a mere 30 years ago there was no such thing as a personal computer, and it is a device that almost every American, including our children, has at least one of.  That is a startling achievement.  That was brought about by market forces, not by Obamas.  That was brought about by ingenuity that was allowed in garages when it was legal to do business in garages, before the damn EPA and the damn FDA and the damn FEC and every other godforsaken federal agency came along to regulate it, put them out of business.

You know it’s illegal to develop things in your garage now.  Your city will come out and tax you.  They will come out and slap a permit on your ass.  They will shut you down if you try to pull a Steve Jobs/Steve Wozniak and build something in your garage, if you try to do a Don Hewlett and David Packard and build something in your garage and start something.  They’ll come get you.  Oh, no, you’re not doing that in this country.  Oh, no.  You’ve got licenses, you’ve got agencies you’ve got to go through there, buddy.

Let’s dole the misery out to the other side of the aisle.  So there’s Obama defending the government’s role in energy production.  Listen to Gingrich and Romney, Governor Romney.  I ask you, please explain to me what the difference between Obama, Gingrich, and Governor Romney’s approach is.  There is no difference.  They’re all talking about the same thing.  They’re all talking about, well, in these limited instances, well, the government has to take a lead, well, there’s going to be your Gingrich bloviating on about developing commercial enterprises.  You don’t develop commercial enterprises.  They just sort of happen.  There was no machinery to crank out the circuit boards for the Macintosh computer when it was being drawn up.  I mean, it had to be created.  When Henry Ford went to mass-produce the Model A and the Model T, there was no machinery.  They had to make it.

There were no business parks in the early part of the 1960s.  By the end of the 1970s, there were parks like in Raleigh, North Carolina, Research Triangle Park.  There were Silicon Valley, there were development parks out there that came along.  And those all came along out of need, out of necessity.  This idea here is what is flawed.  This idea here that, if we don’t have elected geniuses in there doing these things they won’t get done, is what is flawed.  As a matter of fact, I would argue with you that, if we didn’t have the elected geniuses stealing our money and then determining that they’re smarter than everyone else and they’re smarter than the market, and then spending it on wise and needful investments and what have you, that you’d have more development, and you’d have more technology, because that’s the way a free people and a free civilization would work and do work.

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