[Pops]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'T')he guy's got a slick deal going. Just like the Fed creating money out of thin air, Al Gore creates carbon credits out of thin air

[peeker01]

See the beauty of a robust discussion! Turns out algore's carbon trading scheme failed last year. Anybody heard anything about it?
Journalism

[peeker01]

This news just in. Al Gore is going to have to work for a living once again. Maybe a new movie?

http://bigjournalism.com/wthuston/2010/ ... es-it-all/

https://www.theice.com/ccx.jhtml CCX website, for the few of you who don't trust Andrew.

[ColossalContrarian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pops', 'I')'ve heard that, got a link?

[peeker01]

Not anymore: Journalism

[ColossalContrarian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peeker01', 'N')ot anymore: Journalism

[Plantagenet]

In addition to Gore's idiotic claim that he created the internet, Gore is also infamous for his unbelievably stupid claim that social security and Medicare taxes are kept in an "iron-clad lock box where the politicians can't touch them"

Apparently Obama never heard that he couldn't touch social security, as Obama is now threatening to withhold people's social security checks if he doesn't get a tax increase on corporate jets.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I')n addition to Gore's idiotic claim that he created the internet, Gore is also infamous for his unbelievably stupid claim that social security and Medicare taxes are kept in an "iron-clad lock box where the politicians can't touch them"

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I')n addition to Gore's idiotic claim that he created the internet, Gore is also infamous for his unbelievably stupid claim that social security and Medicare taxes are kept in an "iron-clad lock box where the politicians can't touch them"

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b]The Fall and Rise of the Carbon Coalition

Kyoto galvanized a third way: the environmentalist as financier.

(snip)

It would be easy now for the Carbon Coalition to disband, with the bankers jettisoning the frustrations of dealing with government entities and moving on to renewable energy investments and the environmentalists focusing their energy on international forest-preservation schemes for the developing world, such as REDD. The European Union's carbon market -- the world's only truly large emissions exchange -- is now under tremendous stress, after millions in emissions allowances were stolen from a Czech registry.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-debord/the-fall-and-rise-of-the-carbon-coalition_b_910442.html

[Plantagenet]

1. If Al Gore really cared about putting social security funds in a lockbox he would've pushed the issue when he was Vice President for eight years. But Al Gore did nothing.

2. If Al Gore really cared about putting social security funds in a lockbox he would've known that the Supreme Court ruled in the 1950s that people have no right to their social security funds and that the government can reduce them or end them at any time for any group of people or even for everyone. But Al Gore never addressed this issue.

3. If Al Gore really cared about putting social security funds in a lockbox to protect them from politicians or about people getting the SS benefits they were promised then Al Gore would've spoken up when Obama threatened to not mail out social security checks after August 2nd. But Al Gore is silent now that social security, for the first time in 75 years, is actually being threatened.