Posted on 09/06/2011 7:03:33 AM PDT by JRios1968
It reads:
Dear MoveOn member,
I have some tremendously upsetting news: Late Friday, President Obama overruled EPA science and blocked crucial new protections against smog pollution that have been years in the making.
The decision came after a major campaign by corporate polluters and Republicans to kill the rules. The result, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, is likely to be tens of thousands of premature deaths, as well as increased illness among seniors, kids with asthma, and people who have lung problems.
Worse, in announcing his decision, President Obama repeated discredited tea party talking points about environmental rules costing jobs. The reality is that these standards were the best thing for the economy and the environment. And clean air protections are the perfect issue to remind Americans that enforcing rules to protect citizens' health and safety is one of the most important roles for our government.
With congressional Republicans planning a series of votes starting this week to block other health and environmental standards, we need to set the record straight, right away.
Our website will give you some tips and make it easy for you to submit the letter to a newspaper near you. And your letter will help persuade folks in your community that we shouldn't be tearing our government down—we should be making it work.
President Obama tried to bury this news by announcing it hours before Labor Day weekend. But on Labor Day we need him standing up for the kinds of health and safety protections that working folks and labor unions have spent decades fighting for, not repeating Republican talking points about how we don't need them.
What's more, Nobel-Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman pointed out that this anti-smog rule would actually create clean energy jobs: "It would have forced firms to spend on upgrading or replacing equipment, helping to boost demand. Yes, it would have cost money—but that's the point!"
Help push back against tea party Republicans' message that we can't afford to protect our health and safety.
Write a letter to the editor today.
Thank you.
–Adam, Robin, Marika, Peter, and the rest of the team
I wonder, how can we mess with them?
Oh noez
I know!
And Obama decided that we didn't need these protections. So, I guess he doesn't want to protect our health OR strengthen our economy. Well, don't blame me. I didn't vote for him. :)
Hmmm. What email service do you use?
No, the decision came after the Obama mal-administration was asked how much the new rules would cost to implement. This, apparently, was their answer...
And now we have
The primary conclusion which can be drawn from this is: The Nobel committee on economics is peopled with idiots.
“”Our website will give you some tips and make it easy for you to submit the letter to a newspaper near you””
To anyone who listens to this moronic organization, they would be incapable of performing such an act. They dont know how to read or write or think for themselves. They only know what they are told. I guess if someone was to furnish them the computer or the pen and paper and someone else to guide their hand, they might pull it off...
Oops. They forget to add:
"... and will cause a significant delay in our plans to destroy the American economy in order to make way for a brilliant Marxist future."
Stop it you commie morons, you’re killing me!!!!!! Can’t stop laughing!
It's on my Yahoo account. I thought about that, and was surprised it made it past the spam settings on my account I use for shopping and posting Twitter/Facebook, rather than more private tasks.
Soros and the other elites plan to cause a h*ll of a lot more than tens of thousands of premature deaths.
Agenda 21 ping!
Also saw this this morning in an Oklahoma conservative email newsletter:
“++ ANNOUNCEMENTS
* TUESDAY EVENING - OKC - Tonight, OKC City Councilman, Dr. Ed
Shadid will host a meeting which will feature virtually every agency
leader in OKC. Though Dr. Shadid is too smart to use the term
sustainability or suggest the meeting is about the goals of Agenda 21,
it certainly looks like such. This meeting will ramp up the attacks
upon “urban sprawl”. While I supported Dr. Shadid in his recent run
for the council and am glad he is in office, this is the agenda he
supports in which he is dangerous. Remember, I said he was a liberal
as became evident when he ran against Representative David Dank in the
2010 election cycle. According to Oklahoma law, he had to file as an
Independent, but he made no bones about associating himself with
either the Green Party or perhaps it was the Natural Law Party. Both
parties are very liberal and infected with extreme environmentalism.
People in the “sustainability movement” which is affiliated with the
U.N.’s Agenda 21 objectives, hate “urban sprawl.” This bunch of
“central planners” want people to live “stacked and packed” rather
than in suburbs or on acreages such as where I live. They want people
to live in downtown areas. They want people to live up and up, not out
in the hinter lands.
Much of what is going on in downtown OKC are the objectives of the
sustainability movement. The parks, bike paths, narrower streets to be
more pedestrian friendly, light rail, loft apartments, and
entertainment venues are designed to keep people out of automobiles
and in a close nit location. Of course massive amounts of tax dollars
are funneled into downtown while other parts of the city have to fight
for every available penny of the city’s budget.
Speaking will be Blair Humphreys, OKC City Manager Jim Couch,
Councilman Ed Shadid, Russell Claus representing OKC’s Comprehensive
Plan, Chief Bryant of the fire department, Police Chief Bill Citty,
Rick Cain representing Public Transit, Marsha Slaughter about city
utilities, Eric Wenger from public works and Bob Tener with code
enforcement.
The meeting will be held at the OKC Marriott in the Grand Ballroom,
3233 NW Expressway. It is tonight, September 6th at 6:30 p.m. Look for
developers and builders to be demonized at this meeting. Bottom line,
the vast majority of people want to live where they want to live,
whether that is downtown or in the suburbs. If conservatives don’t
stand up for liberty, these central planners will institute policies
which will greatly restrict where people can live as well as how they
live in the future.”
Freepers, please watch out for this agenda in your own areas!
lmao
Or it's actually the Nobel Comedy Award, rewarding Paul Krugman for such brilliant gems as "I know, we can borrow our way out of debt!"
I believe these talking point originated from labor organizations. The TEA party, a de-centralized group, doesn't (nor cannot) create or publish talking points.
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