The AEX is rolling through Virginia this afternoon, heading from Lexington to New Kent. There, we’ll attend the Colonial Downs harness racing season opener. Our plans to attend the horse races got some of us talking about, well, horse racing, and how it relates to cap-and-tax.
We threw around a few obvious jokes pretty quickly. Cap-and-trade is a dummy’s bet; it will kill our economy just as if the President went to the track and bet on a scratched horse. It’s a sure loser.
But the more I think about it, the more I think those jokes aren’t strong enough. When you’re picking a horse, despite the odds, you might win. Not to mention the fact that those wagering on ponies choose their own bets and play with their own money. With cap-and-trade, the government is forcing Americans to bet on a dead horse– losing money is a sure thing.
I doubt we’ll see many people at Colonial Downs wagering on dead horses, but I am confident that we’ll hear from more Americans who are concerned about the government’s irresponsible policies. We’re looking forward to hearing their stories, as well as the many others we’re sure to hear in the next few days as we take the AEX through the Old Dominion.
With apologies for beating a dead horse:
When it comes to the nation’s economic well-being, and perhaps even their own jobs, Virginians have plenty of horse sense – sound practical judgment. Non-Virginians, too, if they’ve given a moment’s thought to the unrepealable law of supply and demand and what sudden scarcity – of an affordable tank of gas for your car or truck or a tolerable monthly home utility bill – will do to the price of, well, everything.
So, please urge the patrons of Colonial Downs that’s it now post time: time for them to saddle up, get on their high horse, and tell their elected representatives in Washington (who work for their constituents, not the other way around) to hold their horses. If they don’t display a little old-fashioned horse sense of their own, they’re being stubborn as…a mule.
Mr. Ed
Of all of the asinine ideas dreamed up in Washington, cap & trade has to be the worst.
Virginia is in a great place to develop the pixie dust the nation will run on in the future. We don’t need any of the old stuff. We need lots of the new stuff. Let’s use the new stuff. Pixie dust is endless, and if we need more the government can order up a new batch from one of its fancy pants laboratories. Pixie dust is clean, fantastically cheap and abundant. We won’t be dependent on others for our supplies of pixie dust because we make it all here. Rumor has it that it’s a byproduct of the government printing presses that print money. It just appears when the money is printed out. Go Pixie Dust! Go Clean Energy!