Why do leftists think legislation just makes things happen?

I love it when leftists pass legislation without thinking of the consequences. Like Comrade General Secretary Obama's declaration on miles per gallon. The creep thinks he can just snap his fingers and make it happen, without considering the cost or any other implications. Does it get any more ridiculous?|||It has been estimated that this move will cost more than 4,000 American lives a year right from the start. The only way to increase fuel mileage at the moment is to make cars smaller and lighter.





Smaller lighter car = death trap.





I'll hold onto my 6,000 pound, 11 miles per gallond Tahoe until I die, thank you. God help you if you have an accident in your little Obama-mobile vs. my Tahoe.|||Laws are the desires of Bourgeoisie.|||Why do Republicans think just saying 'No' makes things happen?|||Stay tuned.|||Well...I guess that explains why Republicans never get anything done.|||They believe in that ideology of theirs so much that they have forgotten one very important fact, reality don't work that way.|||I'm not sure you have made a correct assumption. Why do those on the right think that tax cuts for rich people fix every problem that faces our country?|||Well gee, I guess we could just allow our country to fall into a recession and while it's happening ignore it and pretend like it's not till the last minute.





Oh wait, Bush already did that...|||It's not just the 'leftists'; members of Congress (on both sides of the aisle) have passed law after law over the years, believing that just because they made it a law, "it can just happen".


Our idiot legislators pass laws, yet never take any of the old laws off the books. I once had my Congressman admit to me that "if you obey one law, you're probably breaking half-a-dozen others".


Congress has been passing legislation mandating gas mileage for decades, and the big three automakers have figured out all kinds of ways around it. Where there's a law, there's a loophole [and you can bet that loophole is there to benefit a member of Congress and his or her well-heeled 'friends'].


As George Bernard Shaw once said: "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few". -RKO- 05/24/09|||"The creep thinks he can just snap his fingers and make it happen...."





It will happen. The cost of not doing it is the American auto insdustry going down the toilet. The EPA has been putting MPG requirements on cars for a long time. Obama didn't invent this.|||It's true, the left seems to believe that government can essentially run programs efficiently, which it has proven it can't. But really, when bills like this are passed, it's usually more for show than anything. This way, Obama can campaign for 2012 he cares about the Environment and has taken action, and Congress can do the same when their elections come around. For me personally, it doens't make sense that an already failing industry will now have to face such quick drastic increase in efficiency, when developing such products by being forced into them could send the automakers of America even further into bankruptcy/debt.|||They like 21% inflation, high unemployment (not having to work), social programs that accomplish nothing, and a weak foreign policy that protects terrorists.





Why?|||wrong solution--agreed. taxing the **** out of gasoline is the obvious answer.|||To leftists like Obama, the middle class is the enemy. The poor are good because they will willingly be the victim of marxists in order for some scraps of bread. The rich ar ok as long as theyre liberal. But the middle class roams around in our SUV's going to barbeques producing all this CO2 that is going to make it hotter, run our AC's more, use more electricity, make it even hotter, make terrrorists hate us, offend the green men on mars, you name it. The middle class is a threat to the left because most of them dont play by the rules try to make. IE: They turn to legislation to "save us" from ourselves.





Their other enemy is industry; what empowers the middle class to have our lifestyles. That they attack with regulation.|||They do not stop and think things out, they are addicted to quick fixes, which the government has never once implemented. They also seem to have a blind allegiance to Obama. most of them do not pay income tax and they believe those of us who work hard and pay our taxes should carry their weight, as they have an excuse list for failure longer than Don Vito's rap sheet|||Polar Bear 1 pt.





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