I think we are in the process of losing all rational thought. We have elected a man who hates the country he represents. We are expanding a government that can’t support itself. We are about to raise taxes on un and underemployed people. We are trying to save the planet from a nonexistent peril. We are going to reduce costs by increasing liability. We are prepared to exchange freedom for security and will find that we have lost both.
How does one protect himself from this insanity?
I was reading the CBS article below about how cap and tax would cost families about $1800 a year in extra energy expense. Apparently the EDF shot back a rebuttal, copied below.
Obama Admin: Cap And Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year
Update 9/16/2009: The Environmental Defense Fund has responded to the documents' release with a statement saying, in part:
Even if a 100 percent auction was a live legislative proposal, which it's not, that math ignores the redistribution of revenue back to consumers. It only looks at one side of the balance sheet. It would only be true if you think the Administration was going to pile all the cash on the White House lawn and set it on fire.
The bill passed by the House sends the value of pollution permits to consumers, and it contains robust cost-containment provisions. Every credible and independent economic analysis of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (such as those done by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, the Energy Information Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency) says the costs will be small and affordable -- and that the U.S. economy will grow with a cap on carbon.
The question one needs to ask is if it doesn’t drive up the cost to anyone then how does it cut down on carbon? In other words who is it affecting? The answer is again, not me ….. it’s those rich guys who’ll pay! Another redistribution scheme, this time to “save the planet”.
Joe Wilson said what many people were thinking. Oh, he probably voiced it at an inopportune time, or maybe not. He was just handing back what O was saying in his speech about anyone who disagrees with him.
But was Joe right about this healthcare plan covering illegals? What do you think? They get healthcare now because federal law does not permit hospitals to turn away those in need. Who pays for that? We do through higher insurance rates. Will the law change? And what happens when the next amnesty comes along and by a stroke of the pen they are citizens?
It doesn’t matter what is said or what is “in the plan” unless you have experienced the continual stream of lies from politicians, you can’t read between the lines. It will be everything the critics say and twice (maybe 3 times) as expensive. The graph below shows just those over 65. We haven’t controlled what we have now. What will be the effect of adding in the rest of the population?
“I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future. Period.”
Forgive me, Mr. President, but you aren’t telling the truth. People are beginning to question the premise of more government being the solution.
