In 10 years, will I still be a teenager?

“The American public…just like your teenage kids, aren’t acting in a way that they should act,” Dr. Chu said. “The American public has to really understand in their core how important this issue is.”

This quote summarizes the world view of this administration to a t. We have the president speaking to all of the country's school aged children telling them to work hard. The initial plan was to distribute a lesson plan that would ask "what can you do to help the President?" It is sick. Inherent in the meaning behind Obama's speech is that parents are doing a good enough job. Parents are not getting through with the right messages for their kids, so our President, a man who has done nothing more than get the majority to support his message of hope and change, needs to step in. Good thing Dear Leader is here.

Apparently, the American people do not understand the significance of "climate change," and/or are not taking sufficient steps to control our carbon consumption. We need climate czars do tell us how much energy we can use, what we can buy, what cars we can drive. When will we grow up and stop using our air-conditioning and paint our roofs white? Why am I on my computer now? The battery charges through coal!! Coal is Chu's "worst nightmare." Of course coal has allowed billions of people to escape the state of extreme poverty that human beings have lived in throughout history. Bad coal!!! Bad oil!!! Good thing our science czar knows what temperature the world climate should be, how to acheive this goal, and understands all aspects of global temperature perfectly. Obviously, we are ignorant teenagers in the face of this brilliant, brilliant man.

We spend too much on health care, also. Like teenagers, our health care allowance must be limited. We cannot be trusted with our health care dollars because we just spend too much. (Jokes aside, we are not in charge of our health care dollars now, and I think this is a problem. The consumer of health care should be the customer of health care). Hopefully, when ObamaCare passes we will never have to be worried about choosing our own health care purchases again.

I am such an ignorant teenager. I did not even know where the tires on my minivan were from. I just bought them because they were cheap and of high quality. How ignorant am I? I should have known that I should support the American tire industry and help support the union leaders of the United Steelworkers Union. Left to my own, I would have continued to spend as little money for the highest quality goods. Obama will help make us richer by supporting American industries, jobs, and unions while we spend more on inferior goods. This makes complete sense, right. We will get rich by spending more on fewer, inferior goods.

Mom and Dad, you guys were ok, but President Obama and Secretary Chu really showed me the right way to behave. Maybe, one day, you guys will no longer act like teenagers either.