Thomas Massie: “I would be remiss if I let the statements and the speech of our guest yesterday go unanswered. The President of France…”

“I would be remiss if I let the statements and the speech of our guest yesterday go unanswered. The President of France was here, right at this microphone, delivering his own brand of socialism. It is new and improved. We have all seen the inefficiencies of socialism play out in Europe over the decades and the horrors of national socialism. But the French President has a new brand of socialism that we are all supposed to be enamored with. I would call it global socialism, maybe even global corporate socialism. I hope none of my colleagues were seduced by his ideas. Ironically, they are motivated by fear, an irrational fear of the carbon dioxide molecule. Carbon dioxide is a necessary ingredient for all life on this planet. For instance, let me give you the equation for photosynthesis. Basically, plants take six CO<INF>2</INF> molecules and react them with six water molecules, in the presence of sunlight, to create one sugar molecule and six oxygen molecules. Take CO<INF>2</INF> off this planet, and what happens? Nearly everything dies and we die. So I think it is very interesting that this new socialism has a twist to it, this global socialism, and that is, it is motivated by an irrational fear of one of the two chemical compounds that form the basis of our food chain. Very ironic.…”