This woman with a sign that turns “cap and trade” into “cap and traitor,” does she know what cap and trade is?
I’ve read several essays on cap and trade and I’m not really sure I understand how it would work. So I wonder if the average American – and, especially, this woman – knows how it would work?
Because the part about cap and trade that I do understand is that a federal agency would give private companies money to develop new technologies. It’s a reward system for good capitalists. In short, cap and trade is as American as tax breaks. Or the aerospace industry.
Knowing this makes me suspect that the woman holding the “unamerican cap and traitor” sign doesn’t really understand what cap and trade is. If she did, she might not think it’s unamerican. (Whether she would still endorse “whiteface” on a multi-racial president is another story.)
So maybe her sign is telling us – nay, imploring us: “Please write a catchy jingle about cap and trade that explains it to me.” A jingle every bit as effective as five-dollar footlong’s.
