Give Me Obsolete Light Bulbs Or Give Me Death!

 The South Carolina State Legislature is actually debating exempting the state from the Federal law phasing out the manufacture of the highly inefficient legacy design incandescent light bulbs. It seems truly bizarre to me that the residents of South Carolina would approve of their lawmakers uselessly wasting time and taxpayer money during a time of budget shortfalls. What's next, the state exempting itself from all federal regulation? I think they tried that once before, and I don't recall that working out well.

Frankly this is somewhere between quixotic idiocy and spiteful political posturing. Every light bulb manufacturer in the country has seen a fifty percent decrease in the sale of incandescent bulbs over the last ten years, so in this case, it's not the market's invisible hand giving the state legislature a back room hand-job. It's the Luddites in the (R)egressive party's delusional belief that being able to conspicuously waste money and energy is somehow an integral part of their precious fucking freedumbs. Seriously, anyone who is dumb enough to believe the legislature is taking a righteous stand against the so-called nanny state, is also stock-piling ammo for the day when the black helicopters of the New World Order come to take them to their local FEMA concentration camp...

Sure, there is a bigger up-front cost to LED's or CFL's, but the longer bulb-life and energy efficiency will save money in the long run. I really don't buy the whole, I don't like the color of the light. bullshit meme being spewed. This debate should only be about saving fucking money and energy, which is something you'd think these budget-obsessed cut-everything-and-torch-the-place Republican douche-bags would understand. Just imagine if every public building in South Carolina used LED lighting, they would save a considerable amount of taxpayer money, something I'm sure never even crossed their tiny little minds...