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Penalty: MONEY TO THE GOV...

"personal carbon trading rewarded those with a low carbon footprint with cash."

Or money from the poorer to the rich...money from the rural to the city dweller...money from the conservative red states to the liberal blue cities...

Think about it. For example, I live in Maine, a very rural state wherever you are...very little public transportation. People drive, of necessity, some distance to get to work - to get anywhere.

so we would be punished when we go over our "allotment" and would have to pay a penalty to the city dweller who often doesn't even own a car.

This octopus idea has tentacles that would reach into out pockets and 'redistribute' the 'wealth' while, at the same time, restrict the movement of red staters - and we know who we are.

And what about the red stater who is more likely to own their own home - i.e., pay for their own fuel to heat their house, versus the city dweller who has no fuel oil 'footprint' as it's incorporated in the rent, impossible to separate to individual use in apartment complexes. They'll get a nice little pay-out from the red stater on that front too - and be able to keep their thermostat at 72.

72 in the daytime and 65 at night used to be the 'norm' - back in the '60's.

These people haven't a clue. We working folk have long ago cut back to more like 68-70 in the daytime and 60 at night- and throw on a heavy sweater.

But I gotta tell ya, little children, who 'live' in the first 2-3 feet off the floor, where it's the coldest, and old foggies like me, can't take it much colder.

I burned wood for more than half of the winter this year - not an easy task for an old great granny - and my fuel bill was still outrageous. But I don't know how else to keep from freezing. When I bought my house 17 years ago, it cost $500 to heat - before I had a wood stove. To heat this year, if I had no wood stove, would have been almost $2,000. If it continues as predicted, it would be $2,500. And I'm not sure I can manage hauling in wood another winter. I am far from alone.

I can't afford $2,000, let alone $2,500 = and I sure as hell can't afford to pay a penalty above that...

Put either dimRAt in the WH and keep letting dimRats go to Senate/Congress and practice living under Communism. That's what they have ready to turn this country over too...and any of you that are, with nose held high in a misguided ego trip, saying you won't vote for McCain - you are helping to shove us straight into a Marxist government.

McCain wasn't my first or second choice. But the people have voted. He is our candidate. Much of the strikes people hold against him are due to the fact that he has served many years, giving him a long track record. NO ONE can serve that long and maintain a "100% MY WAY OR ELSE" record.

But remember this: He is for a strict Constitutional Republic = as laid out by our Founders. This is a Republic, not a democracy, something few today realize.

Like Fred Thompson, he believes in States Rights in every matter that States can decide for themselves, leaving much less rule from DC.

He will support the military - you want to see this war end? We put McCain in the WH - and stop letting the traitors party hold the reigns in the halls of Congress, and the terrorists will realize we're not going to cut and run. They will see 4-8 plus more years of republican rule stretching out before them and realize they WILL be defeated. They will find much less support from their base, and that includes Washington.

These are the top critical considerations in this election. Everything else falls in behind.