June 20th will be the start of a week-long gathering in Rio de Janeiro. Hosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, this big party is where the special interest entities around the world will gather to learn about how to fleece you more effectively.

To be sure, you, the taxpayer, will pick up the tab for the high quality food and drink that will be copiously served. In bare naked contrast, the slums next door hold children who are mal-nourished and living in squalor. But, the big green lobby sees no problem dropping $300-350 million to transport, house, and entertain 50,000+ politicians, bureaucrats, green business personnel, and celebrities. Supposedly they need extravagant parties to exchange ideas, behind police lines, on how they will force their green technology down your throats… with even more of your taxpayer dollars.

Ask Spain how well the green revolution worked out for them. Their foolish decision to throw out technically and economically efficient energy sources are bankrupting this otherwise modern country.

These high flying, rich living carbo-phobes see no problem in having their carbon track leave a foot print over mile wide and deep. Just to party in Rio!

They want the UN to mandate you – the working taxpayer – to hand over your money to their scientifically inept and thermodynamically doomed technology. And the knee-jerk praise they’ll receive from most of the world media helps perpetrate their con.

If a carbon based fuel source industry had a meeting in Omaha or Richmond for two days to discuss improving technology, Big Green would howl about the expense and pollution trail. But conveniently, they will not see the smoke of their own folly.

Lack of ethics is my guess, but that inconvenient truth never bothers that bunch. Greed overpowering ethics can cause that kind of double standard. Or so I hear.

Don’t you think the least Ban Ki-moon and his partiers could do, is send you- the taxpayer - a thank you?

Dennis M. Mitchell, QEP

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