Right praises 'free market' ice shelf melt
May 14, 2014
ANTARCTICA (The Borowitz Report)—A
delegation of conservative members of Congress paid a visit to the West
Antarctic Ice Sheet melt today to witness firsthand what one of them
called “the most beautiful expression of the free market I’ve ever
seen.” The author of that remark, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), said that he
was awestruck after watching gigantic chunks of glacier disintegrate and
crash to the sea. “Every schoolchild in America needs to see this,” he said. “This is the
free market at work in the way that God and Ayn Rand intended.” Rep. Ryan said that watching the now-unstoppable Ice Sheet melt in
action reaffirmed his belief in “the glory and might of free-market
forces.” “Now more than ever, I believe that government needs to get out of the way of glaciers,” he said. Another member of the delegation, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota),
decried what she called the “alarmism” surrounding reports of the
collapsing Ice Sheet. “The Ice Sheet melt is only a problem if you live in Antarctica, which,
honestly, is a pretty dumb place to live,” she said. “Polar bears live
in Antarctica because they have no choice, but we’re not polar bears.”
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