Posted on 05/16/2009 2:15:41 PM PDT by pleikumud
The Obama administration itself estimates that cap and trade will involve increased costs from 2012 to 2019 alone of $645 billion, and admits in its own budget that the actual costs could be much higher than that, depending on permit prices over those years. Indeed, other estimates put the costs three times higher. So the increased burden on each Ameri can over this period alone would be $2,100 to $6,300. For a family with two children, that would be $8,400 to $25,200, with much more to come after 2019. These increased costs are effectively a new tax on the American people, even though Obama promised in his campaign that there would be no tax increase for the bottom 95 percent of income earners.
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John McCain will be leading the charge in the Senate to approve cap and trade.
John McCain will be leading the charge in the Senate to approve cap and trade.
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I believe it.
All the morons in Congress who believe in man-made global warming will vote for cap & trade. Senator Martinez of FL is one of them.
If cap and tax passes, it’s the end of our economy. The death blow. That’s all folks, it’s over. If high gas prices brought the economy to it’s knees at the 4 dollar a gallon mark, making all other energy more expensive than it is, is a fatal blow. As Rush said last year, our economy thrives when there is cheap plentiful energy. If that is gone, we’re done for. Energy bills are high as it is. Premium gas (to avoid ethanol) here in WI was $2.55 yesterday. O wants to cripple our country so the weak of mind will want to depend on government. Many will fall for it. We will not.
...increased CO2 is allegedly trapping heat..
...will allegedly cause the earth’s temperatures to rise...
... that is how cap and trade is supposed to...
... expectation is that consumers,...
...Obama administration itself estimates ...
...actual costs could be much higher...
...other estimates put the costs three times higher ...
...increased costs are supposed to cause this decreased consumption ...
...means you are expected to cut back ...
...production and use of fertilizer also allegedly contributes to global warming...
That's an awful lot of fancy ways to say the word GUESS. For somebody to want to totally remake the world's largest economy based on so many guesses takes either diabolical disregard for the welfare of said economy's citizenry or the willful suspension of reality. Or both. So who exactly is the evil speculators now Mr. Dear Leader?
Make ready the pitchforks!
At this point in time. Obama can do anything he wants to all in the US and no pitchforks are coming out. No one is going to stop him.
Very sad.
Kudsman is right.
We will do nothing at all. We are too busy trying to hold on to the way of life we have against the odds.
Like a person who needs to change careers or a company that needs to diversify we have waited too long holding on to the old ways hopeing that the truth is not true.
The 2010 elections are too far off and even if they were not there is no Republican / opposition leadership to organize a real counterfource to overtake or at least balance the Congress or the Senate.
This is known as "bad luck."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Write to your Congressmorons every day. Tell them over and over again how idiotic cap & trade is, and the rest of Obama’s agenda for the destruction of America.
Obama needs to remember that most revolutions arise from the middle-class.
Who’s gonna start it ??
I think that the American people are tolerant.....but up to a point. The spineless GOP is not opposing this. This apparent lack of opposition will only embolden Hussien and the dems. This is a very bad scenario.
I predict that there will be a breaking point. And when it breaks, it will BREAK.
This remindS me of the end of the frankenstien monster when he is held up in a burning wind mill, while the locals are with torch and pitchfork. Have we had enough abuse yet? Are we dine hoping that things will get better? Can we finally agree that they are the enemy?
Better yet, the muskets.
OK all you Tea Party Members man the phones and fax lines. This is why we were protesting April 15.
Good idea if the pitchforks don't get their attention. People showing up with muskets would be asking to get shot as insurrectionists. If every gun owner showed up in D.C. with an honest to goodness pitchfork though, to remind the elitists that we do have guns and are ready to use them if necessary, then the Government would look awful foolish if they began mowing down peasants with farm tools.
You should believe it...he’s already said he will.
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