“We went into a recession in 2008. People forget why. They thought it was a housing bubble. The housing bubble was caused because of a dramatic spike in energy prices that caused the housing bubble to burst. People had to pay so much money to air condition and heat their homes or pay for gasoline that they couldn’t pay their mortgage.”
No kidding — he actually said this while campaigning in Colorado.
He also said science has been hijacked by politicians on the left, and that climate change is
“an absolute travesty of scientific research that was motivated by those who, in my opinion, saw this as an opportunity to create a panic and a crisis for government to be able to step in and even more greatly control your life. I for one never bought the hoax. I for one understand just from science that there are one hundred factors that influence the climate. To suggest that one minor factor of which man’s contribution is a minor factor in the minor factor is the determining ingredient in the sauce that affects the entire global warming and cooling is just absurd on its face. And yet we have politicians running to the ramparts — unfortunately politicians who happen to be running for the Republican nomination for president — who bought into man-made global warming and bought into cap and trade.”
While Santorum isn’t alone in asserting that human activity has next to nothing to do with climate change, his analysis of why the housing bubble burst is, as far as I know, unique. As I can’t think of any political reason for him to make this assertion, I conclude that this is what he actually believes. Should he become president, his economic policies would, therefore, likely be — how shall I put it? — unique.
Just in case, make sure your passport won’t expire before election day. It would be better to live in a country whose head of state doesn’t reside in an economic fantasyland (apologies to Disneyland).
steve says:
We voted to not re-elect Santorum by one of the larger margins in PA history. There was a good reason for that.
Steve
February 11, 2012, 10:03 am