Essentially, Cap-and-Trade is being peddled as a system to encourage businesses to engage in “environmentally responsible activities.” But in actuality, it has little to do with the environment and instead is a means to deprive you, control your behavior and repress your liberties. Under Cap-and-Trade, the government would issue "pollution credits." Once allocated (as the government sees fit) those who use less than their government-imposed allocation can sell them to those who have exceeded their government allocation.
Peter Ferrara, the director of budget and entitlement policy at the Institute for Policy Innovation, writing for The American Spectator explains Cap-and-Trade this way:
"Under this policy, every business involving CO2 emissions will have to
buy permits from the government for the amount of such emissions, which will be sold in open auctions, where the permit price will be bid up. But the government will limit the number of
these permits, and consequently the maximum amount of CO2 emissions
allowed. Indeed, over time the government
will clamp down on the
amount of CO2 emissions allowed by the permits, with the emissions to be reduced by 80 percent by 2050." So what's the problem? Ferrara explains:
"These increased costs are effectively a new tax on the American people, even though Obama promised in his campaign that there would be no tax increase for the bottom 95 percent of income earners."
In plain English, that means the government, which is already taking de facto control of the banking and automotive industry, will have yet another
tool in its arsenal to effectively take control of every other company or sector of industry that produces CO2... and that's just about everybody
And when you complain that your standard of living has gone down, you can be certain that President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and liberals in Congress will simply point the finger at “greedy industry” when they know full well that they were the ones that gave this monster life.
Cap-and-Trade has nothing to do with the environment, it is nothing more than a mechanism that the government can now use to force others to pick your pocket, and diminish your standard of living in this already shaky economy.
YES, I'M A BAD AMERICAN
I Am the Liberal-Progressives Worst Nightmare. I am an American.. I am a Master Mason and believe in God.
I ride Harley Davidson Motorcycles and believe in American products..
I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some Liberal governmental functionary be it Democratic or Republican!
I'm in touch with my feelings and I like it that way!
I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American.
I think being a minority does not make you noble or victimized, and does not entitle you to anything. Get over it!
I believe that if you are selling me a
Big Mac, do it in English..
I believe everyone has a right to pray to his or her God when and where they want to.
“At a time when families across the country are struggling to make ends meet, the President and his Democrat friends want to take over 3,000 in new taxes from every American family in order to appease extreme political cronies. This is not a solution. It is a recipe for economic disaster.” President Obama claimed he would not raise taxes on 95% of hard-working Americans. Cap-and-Trade transforms that promise into a lie. In fact, some have said that Cap-and-Trade may represent the largest tax increase in the history of this nation. And it's not a tax that will be felt predominately by the rich but by average Americans like you.
Ben Lieberman of the Heritage Foundation explains:
“By limiting the supply of fossil fuels... cap and trade means more expensive gasoline and electricity as well as net job losses in energy-dependent sectors. Senator Lieberman himself concedes costs into the hundreds of billions of dollars. And as the Congressional Budget Office has noted, such energy cost increases act as a regressive tax on the poor.” Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, speaking at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference put it another way: “[L]et me get this straight, we are not going to raise taxes on anyone making less than 250,000 per year, unless you use electricity. And we are not going to raise taxes on anyone under 250,000 per year, unless you buy
gasoline… [or] unless you buy heating
oil… [or] unless you use natural gas… And I thought to myself how dumb do they think we are that they can pretend that an energy tax is not an energy tax and…that every retired American who uses electricity is not going to pay it, and every person in New Hampshire who uses heating oil is not going to pay it, and every person who drives a car isn’t going to pay it. I just want to report to Attorney General Holder and President Obama that this is a nation of people courageous enough… to insist that we not be governed by people who won’t tell us the truth.” This so-called Cap-and-Trade legislation must be stopped. But it will only be stopped if our elected officials hear from you now.
Will Cap-and-Trade Cost You 3,000 Dollars Per Year Or More?
Boehner says yes. “Families and small businesses are struggling to get by, but the Democrats… would raise taxes on every American who drives a car, flips on a light switch, or buys a product manufactured in the United States. In fact it would cost every family as much as 3,100 a year in additional energy costs through their ‘cap-and-trade’ energy tax, and will drive millions of good-paying American jobs overseas.” And the Republican Study Committee echoes those sentiments: “At a time when families across the country are struggling to make ends meet, the President and his Democrat friends want to take over 3,000 in new taxes from every American family in order to appease extreme political cronies. This is not a solution. It is a recipe for economic disaster.” President Obama claimed he would not raise taxes on 95% of hard-working Americans. Cap-and-Trade transforms that promise into a lie.
In fact, some have said that Cap-and-Trade may represent the largest tax increase in the history of this nation. And it's not a tax that will be felt predominately by the rich but by average Americans like you. Ben Lieberman of the Heritage Foundation explains: “By limiting the supply of fossil fuels... cap and trade means more expensive gasoline and electricity as well as net job losses in energy-dependent sectors. Senator Lieberman himself concedes costs into the hundreds of billions of dollars. And as the Congressional Budget Office has noted, such energy cost increases act as a regressive tax on the poor.” Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, speaking at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference put it another way: “[L]et me get this straight, we are not going to raise taxes on anyone making less than 250,000 per year, unless
you use electricity. And we are not going to raise taxes on anyone under 250,000 per year, unless you buy gasoline… [or] unless you buy heating oil… [or] unless you use natural gas… And I thought to myself how dumb do they think we are that they can pretend that an energy tax is not an energy tax and…that every retired American who uses electricity is not going to pay it, and every person in New Hampshire who uses heating oil is not going to pay it, and every person who drives a car isn’t going to pay it. I just want to report to Attorney General Holder and President Obama that this is a nation of people courageous enough… to insist that we not be governed by people who won’t tell us the truth.” This so-called Cap-and-Trade legislation must be stopped. But it will only be stopped if our elected officials hear from you now.
The Trojan Horse That's Killing Healthcare Reform by Newt Gingrich
President Obama said something at his White House healthcare event last week that offers a disturbing hint of our future under his vision of health reform.He suggested one way to save costs is not to spend on procedures that "evidence shows [are] not necessarily going to improve care" for the sick and the dying. "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller," the President said.
Maybe. But the question is, who decides?
Who decides if those extra dollars will or will not be spent on your care or the care of someone you love? Under the plan advocated by President Obama and his allies, that someone will be a government bureaucrat. And even if that bureaucrat has the best of intentions, and even if he does his job well - especially if he does his job well - his main concern won't be you or your loved one.
His only concern, if he's doing his job right, will be for the government's bottom line.It's his choice, not yours. Surgery costs too much. Make do with the painkiller.
What's most tragic about the health reform options being debated today is that it doesn't have to be this way.
I have spent the past six years since founding the Center for Health Transformation [www.healthtransformation.net] studying our healthcare system, and finding out what
works and what doesn't work.I've spoken to literally thousands of doctors, patients, hospital administrators and other health professionals. There is widespread agreement over steps we could take now to deliver more choices of greater quality at lower cost to every American.But instead of focusing on creating a bipartisan consensus, President Obama and his allies have introduced the Trojan Horse of a "public option" in health reform.
545 PEOPLE By Charlie Reese
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes,
WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?
**You and I don't propose a federal budget, the President does.
**You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations, the House of Representatives does.
**You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.
**You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.
**You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.One hundred Senators, 435 Congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices, 545 human beings out of the 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country. I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by Congress.
In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a president to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? Nancy Pelosi. She is the leader of the majority party. She and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto20if they agree to.It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly back to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.If the Army &Marines are in IRAQ, it's because they want them in IRAQ.If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way. There are no insoluble government problems.Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to: bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish;to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject;to regulators, to whom they give power to regulate and from whom they can take away this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they took an oath to do.Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses -- us!Provided voters have the gumption to manage their own employees, we should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!What you do with this article now that you have read it is entirely up to you, though you have several choices:
1. You can show this to everyone you know and hope "they" do something about it.
2. You can agree to "vote against" everyone that is currently in office, knowing that the process will take several years and ask your representative to vote in TERM LIMITS.
3. You can decide to "run for office" yourself and agree to do the job properly.
4. Lastly, you can sit back and do nothing or re-elect the current bunch of selfish professional politicians.
This says it well:
It said all the politicians running for president are promising change to the American people. We send them billions and billions of tax dollars and they send us the. Funny? Not really. There is too much truth in it to be funny. That got me to thinking ... They all promise change. How about if they run on a promise of restoration rather than change.
A restoration that would take us back in time to a place where things ran better, smoother and life was more enjoyable.
Change? That, in truth, is what they have been giving us all along.
We used to have a strong dollar ... Politicians changed that.
Marriage used to be sacred ... Politicians are changing that.
We used to be respected around the world ... Politicians changed that.
We used to have a strong manufacturing economy... Politicians changed that.
We used to have lower tax structures ... Politicians changed that.
We used to enjoy more freedoms ... Politicians changed that.
We used to be a large exporter of American made goods ... Politicians changed that.
We used to teach patriotism in schools ... Politicians changed that.
We used to educate children in schools .... Politicians changed that.
We used to enforce LEGAL citizenship ... Politicians changed that.
We used to have affordable food & gas prices ... Politicians changed that, too.
.... and one could go on and on with this list.
What hasn't been changed, politicians are promising to change that as well, if you will elect them.
When, oh when, is America going to sit back with open eyes and look at what we once were and where we have come and say, enough is enough?
The trouble is, America 's youthful voters today don't know of the great America that existed forty and fifty years ago. They see the world as if it has always existed, as it now.
When will we wake up? Tomorrow may be too late.
When will America realize .... Politicians are what is wrong with America ?
What is needed is for the constitution to be amended to limit all Senators and Representatives to TWO terms in office like the president. Oh, by the way, no big pension either, social security just like the rest of us. Being a politician shouldn't be a persons life work but rather a call to service then back to being an honest hard working citizen.
TELL EVERYONE YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS .. ... FOR A CHANGE
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