By Elois Zeanah
Ah, the blessings of free enterprise! Once again innovation American style sprints its Olympic mettle over sluggish disincentives of taxation, regulation and government takeovers when it comes to cleaning up environment pollution and creating green jobs.
To build a great green machine in America, Obamanomics would destroy American enterprise and jobs through proposed cap-and-trade taxes. Americanomics, on the other hand, allows innovators to take risks and fund their own ideas with their own money to solve environmental problems and create jobs. Take the latest discovery of how to use the environmental pollution byproduct of coal-burning plants to “make coal the cleanest, cheapest energy source by turning its carbon-dioxide emissions into bricks to build” houses.[1] This invention promises clean technology and new jobs.
Obamonomics would use big government to bully and close down coal-burning plants, force Americans to import more foreign energy and pay more for it. Americanomics allows inventors to risk their own capital to wean America off foreign energy sources, capitalize American natural resources and keep jobs in America.
President Obama needs to use this example and others to lead our nation out of the recession and stop bullying free markets. Can Obama change? Or is ideology more important? So far his track record to fix what ails America, including destroying the best health care system in the world, suggests the latter.
[1] “Dreaming the possible dream” by Columnist Thomas Friedman, March 8, 2010