Quote:Rep. Tim Walberg, Republican from Michigan, reassured constituents last week there was no reason for panic over global climate change because a divine power will take care of it for humans, the Huffington Post reported on Wednesday.
"I believe there’s climate change," Walberg said in a recording of the May 26, 2017 appearance in Coldwater, Michigan. "I believe there’s been climate change since the beginning of time. I believe there are cycles. Do I think man has some impact? Yeah, of course. Can man change the entire universe? No.”
"Why do I believe that?" he continued. "Well, as a Christian, I believe that there is a creator in God who is much bigger than us. And I’m confident that, if there’s a real problem, he can take care of it."
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We are being governed by people who are either dumb as a box of rocks or completely corrupted by special interest money. It's probably a fair mix of both. But to claim that somehow a god, that quite likely doesn't even exist, controls the climate and will take care of whatever abuses we throw at it, despite the consensus within the scientific community on this subject, is beyond absurd. Why don't these ignorant, selfish old fools just go away and quit ruining the planet for everyone else?
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From someone unfortunate enough to have him as a Congressional Representative -- you are right on both counts. This is someone that I would not want teaching in K-12 school because of his stubborn ignorance... and he has never found a well-heeled special interest that he hasn't sold out to once he got money from them.
I do not believe that God exists to rescue us of every stupidity. Maybe I can accept that there is a God because the universe makes some sense... but He does not give us the prerogative of stepping off a cliff, teasing a rattlesnake, confronting a pack of Rottweilers (four of those 80-pound dogs might as well be one 320-pound tiger), or drinking sulfuric acid. Global warming may not be so much a problem to a 68-year-old man who lives on comparatively high ground (physically if not intellectually), but to some peasant farmer in Bangladesh global warming might be murder by inundation of his field. Neither does He exist to exculpate us of crimes.
Or maybe less hysterically, manslaughter.
If you remember the "Had enough?" ads of 2006 in which incumbent Republicans are skewered for 'mud-flinging' and 'corruption' as well as being rubber-stamps for Dubya... one of those would well fit Representative Walberg.
Have you had enough
of demagouery?
Have you had enough
of the hypocrisy?
Does it make you want to scream and shout?
(Yes, it does! Yes, it does!)
Have you had enough
of the ignorance?
Have you had enough
of incompetence?
Have you had enough
Then vote Tim Walberg out!
Have you had enough
of the rubber stamp?
Have you had enough
of bein' played a sap?
Have you had enough?
Then vote Tim Walberg out!
Have you had enough
of the rubber stamp?
Have you had enough
of bein' played a sap?
Have you had enough?
Then vote Tim Walberg out!
You know we've let him hold a seat too long/
He's gotten all the answers wrong!
No plan, no shame, no oversight/
Now's the time to put it right!
Have you had enough
because they're all corrupt?
Have you had enough
of being divvied up?
If you've had enough
then it's time to vote Walberg out!
Well, do what's right and spread the word
It's time to make our voices heard
You cast your vote/
it don't cost a dime!
Sitting it out will be a crime!
Well. I've had enough
It's time to vote Walberg out!
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.