Unsurprisingly, the “Control and Tax”… er… I mean… “Cap and Trade” bill pass the House early Friday morning last week. Even more unsurprisingly, the bill passed even before our duly-elected Representatives had a chance to read all 1390-odd pages of it. I say that is unsurprising because our duly-elected Overlords… er… Representatives and Senators never bothered to read the “stimulus” bill either. Given the importance and future cost of that particular bill, why would they bother reading this new one? Why break with tradition?
Oh, and both of those sign-but-do-not-read evolutions came after our Glorious President promised the “most open government” ever… You know, the kind of government that adds a 300-page amendment to a bill at 0300, and votes on it a few hours later.
Even better, the House voting for the “Cap and Trade” bill comes after evidence surfaces that the EPA suppressed studies indicating that “global warming” is not working the way certain organizations have projected. So much for science taking the driver’s seat in our Glorious President’s new administration… Or, rather, so much for science-that-disproves-pet-projects-that-just-happen-to-give-the-government-more-power-over-its-subjects taking the driver’s seat…
Finally, and as the icing on the cake, everyone needs to remember what President Barack Hussein Obama said a little while ago:
“You know, when I was asked earlier about the issue of coal, uh, you know — Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket. Even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad. Because I’m capping greenhouse gases, coal power plants, you know, natural gas, you name it — whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, uh, they would have to retrofit their operations. That will cost money. They will pass that money on to consumers.”
- President Barack Hussein Obama
Yes, he said your electricity rates will “skyrocket”. As will your natural gas rates, your food prices, your gasoline prices, your shipping prices, your consumable goods prices… the prices for all of those things, and more, will also “skyrocket”. Do people really understand that? It does not matter if our Representatives/Senators/President do or not – they are just passing this bill because it gives them more control over the unwashed masses. But do we, the American citizens, who allow ourselves to be governed by the professional power-mongers in D.C., understand what they are doing to us?
I think not… and our willful ignorance will cost us dearly.
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Of all the bills that have come down the pike,this one by far is the scariest of them.
Moreover,that it passed the House at all is frightening as well,that they are willing to destroy our economy,much like California did,to save the planet,which is a lost cause seeing we don’t effect it. I find that last part the most arrogant of them all,that we humans,who have only been on the planet for what? – 500,000 years,and industrialized for the last 100 can do the harm they claim we have.
Rubbish,pure rubbish. This is about control,not the enviroment.
90% of the bills, if not more, that come up on Capitol Hill are really about control, rather than whatever topic they are supposed to be addressing. At this point in America’s history, we literally have a class of people who’s sole profession and cause for existance is continuing their pursuit of power. Unfortunately, at the rate we are going, their insatiable desire for more and more power is going to drive this country straight into the ground, with them at the helm incessantly claiming how they are “helping” us.
God save us all from a government that wants to “help”.
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