Obama and Your Electric Bill

Human Events ^ | March 19,2009 | Ernest Istook

[Venturer]

Call it what it is theft.

[A. Morgan]

FUBO

[ClearCase_guy]

While campaigning, Obama admitted that his energy plan would cause electric bills to “skyrocket.” Few took note, perhaps because Sen. John McCain also backed some form of a “cap-and-trade” energy tax.

McCain was such a lousy candidate. We can see what Obama is like -- we need to recall that McCain pretty much ran a campaign declaring "I'm just like Obama!" Which is pretty darn scary.

I never tire of pointing out an exchange in one of the early presidential debates. Obama was asked for specific areas where he would cut the budget. His (paraphrased) response: "We do need to cut the budget, and I will. I will cut the budget by investing in roads and bridges. I will invest in health care and education. I will invest in green technology."

Then they asked McCain where he would cut the budget. His answer: "Defense".

[Blood of Tyrants]

What do Zero supporters care? They live in public housing where you and I foot the bill anyway.

[Obadiah]

Few took note, perhaps because Sen. John McCain also backed some form of a “cap-and-trade” energy tax.

Just another example of how a RINO destroys Conservatives.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Few took note, perhaps because Sen. John McCain also backed some form of a “cap-and-trade” energy tax.

McNuts = Zero lite

[screaminsunshine]

Obama campained on all of the things he is doing. He was very up front about it. The MSM just did not report it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

McCain had to be THE WORST candidate in the bunch. He couldn’t distinguish himself from the zero in one significant way. Not on energy, not on government waste, not on anything other than the WOT in Iraq which was winding down anyway.

[rockinqsranch]

Close IMO, but...call it what it is, theft control.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Blood of Tyrants]

I don’t know about liberals, but if my power bill goes from $250-300 a month to $400-450 a month, that would be a MAJOR problem for my budget. But of course, the zero must “save the planet from glo-bull warming, even though the planet stopped warming in 1998.

[freekitty]

I remember a time I think when Carter was POTUS when people were borrowing on their life insurance policies to pay the electric bills. Remember the gas lines. I am not even going to tell you the outrageous electric bill I pay. I am supposed to be on this plan and I haven’t seen dime one in savings. As far as I can tell; they went up.

Is this really what we want to go back to?

[OB1kNOb]

I cannot post what I’m thinking about this Marxist without getting banned.

[throwback]

Crap and trade sounds like it will really whack the Midwest since most of the coal plants are out there. Most of those states are full of redneck's clinging to their guns and bibles anyway. Anyone heard the cute govt propaganda piece playing on the radio now with the little rednecks and their southern accents finally figuring out that they need to conserve energy? I'm sure the northeasteners will be able to get some free heating oil from Hugo again anyway.

[Ditter]

Yes McCain was the worst of the Republican candidates, that is the reason he was championed early on during the primaries by the media. The main stream media picked him for us and stupid Republicans with the help of democrat traitors voted for him in the early primary states. I never even cast a primary vote because by the time Texas got to vote it was all over and we had McCain.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

FUBO is taking on an alternative meaning. It more accurately stands for “Effed Up By Obama” than “FU Barack Obama”. Everything in our nation is now FUBO.

[Sequoyah101]

This is to be CRAMMED DOWN OUR THROATS .... AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, by any means available.

Jason Furman

Jason Furman (born 1970) is an economist and influential policy intellectual. On January 28, 2009, Furman was named Deputy Director of the National Economic Council in the administration of President Barack Obama, whom he’d been advising since the latter stages of the 2008 presidential campaign. Although he generally works with Democrats, he is reported by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call to be widely respected by Republicans, as well.[1][2]

Furman’s research and policy focus includes the subjects of taxes, health care and the U.S. Social Security program. Furman’s qualified defense of Wal-Mart’s business model provoked criticism from some labor organizations when he joined Obama’s 2008 campaign. But notable liberals defended Furman, praising his staunch defense of Social Security, his criticism of inequality, and advocacy of universal health insurance.[3]

In 1996, while he was a graduate student at Harvard, Furman was hired by economist Joseph Stiglitz to serve for a one-year stint as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy in the Clinton Administration and on staff of the Council of Economic Advisers. He later worked with Stiglitz at the World Bank. Furman was involved in varying degrees with the Presidental campaigns of Al Gore and General Wesley Clark. In 2004, he took a position as Director of Economic Policy for the John Kerry Presidential campaign in 2004.

Furman received his MSc from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. He has worked together with former Clinton Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.

In recent years, Furman has worked as a budget expert at the Brookings Institution. There, he directed the Hamilton Project, an economic policy research group that develops policy proposals to achieve shared economic growth.[4]

He is still listed as a Visiting Scholar at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.[5] He has been a visiting lecturer at Columbia and Yale Universities.

Furman is often parodied on the Glenn Beck Program as Obama advisor “Honkey Whitesville,” a recurring call-in guest portrayed by Steve Burguiere.

[Sequoyah101]

Why is that a problem?

All you gotta do is go tell your employer you need more money.