Open letter to Members of the Senate:
You don’t read and you don’t understand the bills you are voting on? Then you are failing and failing badly, at another reading and understanding - the temper of the voting public.
What is the purpose of the House of Representatives and the Senate, anyway? All the issues surrounding the application and administration of these massive tomes of proposed legislation should be debated, and if they cannot be debated, they should be deleted before the bill itself is presented.
Enron went into the tank for a far less ambitious scheme than “Cap and Trade”. And people moaned about how badly they had been treated then. Bernie Madoff was a piker compared to the size of this “Tax and Kill”, which is a pernicious and regressive consumption tax that not only hits the lower strata of income totally disproportionately, it shall be practically impossible for anyone on the bottom quintile to ever leave that level.
I guess that is some kind of “freedom”, just another way to say you got nothing left to lose.
Congress is about to shoot us in the foot. We might not bleed out, but we are sure going to be pretty lame for a long time.
Last week I asked, what will we do after we have cap-n-tax, single-payer healthcare, and the elimination of union secret ballot? When are we going to realize that calling, e-mailing, faxing, and teaparties will never work again?