{"id":22864,"date":"2014-05-27T22:20:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22864"},"modified":"2014-05-27T22:20:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T02:20:54","slug":"common-sense-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22864","title":{"rendered":"Common Sense At Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/05\/19\/aussies-to-slash-90-of-global-warming-funding-from-budget\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Caller<\/a> posted a story about changes <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-35.308,149.1245&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=-35.308,149.1245 (Australia)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Australia<\/a> is making to its global warming budget.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Australia\u2019s conservative coalition is\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/guardianlv.com\/2014\/05\/climate-change-research-axed-in-australia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">set to cut more than 90 percent<\/a>\u00a0of the funding related to global warming from their budget, from $5.75 billion this year to $500 million, over the next four years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>&#8230;But Abbott (<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Conservative liberalism\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conservative_liberalism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">conservative Liberal<\/a> Party <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Prime minister\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prime_minister\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Prime Minister<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Tony Abbott\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tonyabbott.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Tony Abbott<\/a>) shows no signs of slowing down in his quest to repeal the country\u2019s environmental laws, which have slowed <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Economic growth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Economic_growth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">economic growth<\/a>, including mining taxes, green energy funding and the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Carbon tax\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_tax\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">carbon tax<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cThe carbon tax is an act of economic vandalism,\u201d Abbott\u00a0<a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/prime-minister-tony-abbott-angry-as-government-fails-to-axe-carbon-tax\/story-fncynjr2-1226860290395\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>\u00a0in March. \u201cYou can\u2019t trust [Labor] anywhere near an economy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The carbon tax was imposed by former Labor Prime Minister <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Julia Gillard\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pm.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Julia Gillard<\/a> in the summer of 2012, and quickly became unpopular as businesses and households began to bear the costs of higher power bills and higher inflation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Could we invite Prime Minister Abbott to come and speak to Congress? Man-made global warming is a hoax. There was global warming in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Middle Ages\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_Ages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Middle Ages<\/a> before factories, coal-burning electric plants, and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"SUV\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kbb.com\/suv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"kellybluebooksuv\">SUV<\/a>&#8216;s. Climate is cyclical. In the 1980&#8217;s we were supposed to panic over &#8220;The Coming Ice Age&#8221; as reported by Time Magazine. Carbon taxes are economic vandalism. Thank you, Prime Minister Abbott for speaking the truth.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; padding-left: 30px;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: #ffffff; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=67ed00af-7b32-46a4-a377-24e48bcb6600\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Daily Caller posted a story about changes Australia is making to its global warming budget. The article reports: Australia\u2019s conservative coalition is\u00a0set to cut more than 90 percent\u00a0of the funding related to global warming from their budget, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22864\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7594,2991,4333,174,7595,2557,983,6645],"class_list":["post-22864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abbott","tag-australia","tag-carbon-tax","tag-daily-caller","tag-julia-gillard","tag-middle-ages","tag-prime-minister","tag-tony-abbott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22866,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22864\/revisions\/22866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}