Cap and Trade is a Job Killer and Creates Even More Entitlements

http://soitgoesinshreveport.blogspot.com/2009/07/cap-and-trade-is-job-killer-and-creates.html ^ | 07/07/2009 | Pat Austin

[paustin110]

Remember Nancy Pelosi standing in front of the House right before the vote? She was shrieking "Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs!" As it turns out, and as we suspected, this bill will NOT create jobs. It will kill jobs. It will send jobs overseas. It will stop jobs from being created. If this bill was going to create so many jobs, why is there this provision to compensate people who will lose their jobs?.......We still need oil and gas in this country. Ethanol and wind won't cut it. The cap and trade legislation and the 2010 budget both work against those industries, and in fact, work to create even more entitlements from the government. The government is going to support you because they tanked your job. And don't forget, we're also going to give cash via direct deposit to low-income people to offset these higher energy costs - another entitlement. Even more people will now be dependent on the government to take care of them.

[jessduntno]

Why do we not refer to this as the ENERGY USE TAX and keep callig it that at every opportunity?

Seriously, if we do not start using common sense tactics, calling a spade a hoe, the sheeple will not get it...

[wtc911]

Seriously, if we do not start using common sense tactics, calling a spade a hoe....

_____________________________

Are you Don Imus?

[jessduntno]

Seriously, if we do not start using common sense tactics, calling a spade a hoe....

Are you Don Imus?

Hoe with an “E”....you flunked Ebonics, didn’t you? ;^)

[wtc911]

bof times I taked it...

[bestintxas]

The creation of these carbon credits is the creation of a wealth that companies will not easily watch go back to zero.

In other words, it’s like any welfare system. Once you hook people on it, they will resist being taken off.

Companies will not sit idly by and watch these credits become zero overnight, as they have value to them.

We are becoming a nation of welfare in all types.

[chris_bdba]

My question about what I’ve read about the bill is that if it is supposed to “create” all of these jobs why is there so much unemployment benefits, etc. type of programs in it? This is a horrible bill and by looking at what has happend in Spain over the same issue for ever job created 4 other jobs disappeared so they have lost not gained!

[aruanan]

Someone was talking about how the cap and trade bill is to punish businesses that do things that hurt "the environment." But humans live in two environments, the so-called "natural" environment and a man-made environment. Disruption of the man-made environment has the more immediate effects on human health and welfare. This can be seen by the fact that people can live in a wide variety of "natural" environments, some more inclement than others. To do so effectively, though, they have to create a specialized environment designed to mitigate fluctuations in "natural" temperature, precipitation, sunshine, and growing cycles. Almost no one in any civilization lives in the "natural" environment unbuffered by a manmade environment. It's extremely difficult and very dangerous to do.

The cap and trade bill does very, very little to change any effect that man has on the "natural" environment, but it seems almost deliberately designed to disrupt the principal environment in which people live and prosper. It seems bent on the destruction of the human ecosystem.