[Puppage]

unsalable

Not familiar with that word...........

[ClearCase_guy]

We have become serfs.

Serfs are not quite slaves, in that the humans are not owned by any person -- but they are tied to the land and they cannot leave. They live and work in their designated place, with no way to get a better life.

[Logical me]

Civil War!!!!!

[RoadTest]

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, and to the people. - Amendment 10, U.S. Constitution

Either this is the United States of America or it’s not. Decide.

[Dewey Revoltnow]

Gonna be a lot of homes “accidently” burn down.

[Red Badger]

To be to the point, this bill makes all houses slums. No one will be able to sell their home if it’s more than a few years old. They will be deteriorated and dilapidated and abandoned like inner city rent controlled apartment buildings. No one can afford to do all the fixes necessary to make the house “up to code” before its sale. This will be a death blow to the housing and real estate market.............

[sr4402]

The Bill basically says you have to have an OK by a Green inspector before you can sell the house. You must meet green code by having:

1. A Solar Reflectant Roof meeting that years green code (read a new roof)

2. A Furnace meeting that years green code (read a new furnace)

3. A Air Conditioner meeting that years green code (read new A/C)

4. A Hot water heater meeting that years green code (read a new Hot water heater)

5. Whatever the green code czar reommends for that year.

[Secret Agent Man]

I hate to see what is happening in this country. I believe this HERO bill, dedicated to the Minutemen, sums it up. Please print out both sides when you use it, to mail to your RINO or liberal congressperson. Heck mail it to your good conservative republican, he or she will like and agree with the principles on the back.

For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here:

"Flickr Archive of Zero Bills"

[Willie Green]

Such gobbledygook will ensure that thousands of young Americans who might have pursued careers in science or engineering will instead pursue careers as gobbledygook interpreters -- as lawyers, consultants, and bureaucrats.

Seems to be overly redundant to me.
All those careers were downsized and outsourced by the previous administration's "free trade" policies anyway.

[moovova]

It’s no big deal anyway.

I mean really...when the Dollar goes belly up and Zimbabwian hyperinflation hits the Ol’ USofA, even if you COULD sell your house, you’d still only get $3.27 for it.

Hey! Come to think of it... That’s even more than my house is worth right NOW!

[KrisKrinkle]

Absent anything else, given “prospective buyers, who would have to be as stupid as Henry Waxman to buy a substandard house and risk the possibility that the government will someday force them to bring it up to standard” then you can't sell the property unless you reduce the selling price enough to make up for the risk to the buyer. Lot's of people reducing the selling price of their homes will bring down real estate values. Lower real estate values mean lower real estate tax revenue to local governments.

Local government won't like that.

And now for something different. When I spell checked this the first time, every word was indicated as misspelled. When I backed out and tried again, it was OK. I wonder what that was about.

[mo]

Another shot in the Cold Civil War..of the DC Beltwaypubbiecrats against America.

[Just another Joe]

Let's see, in the midwest, evergreens on the north, maple or large leaf oak on the west, short trees (maybe a dogwood, redbud, or crabapple), or none, on the south, and same for the east.

I mean, c'mon, how hard can it be?

[NTHockey]

Self to Congress: “STICK IT!”

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The ultimate goal is for the government to control all financial transactions. This would include the sale of houses. They can’t seize total control just yet, so they are happy, for how, with this.

[sodpoodle]

This is on the order of *asbestos* *lead paint* etc., Just be thankful our houses are not listed as *historical landmarks* as in the UK, where ownership of land does not guarantee that the *owner* can build a home without approval for every nook & cranny - or improve an existing building if it listed with the National Trust.

It’s almost as if the Queen still owns the whole kit & kaboodle in the UK and almost as if the Federal Gubmint is the US landlord from sea to shining sea.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Congress is planning to make your home unsalable"

Once again, ask the Brits about this. Idiot Brown has tried this over in nthe UK. You couldn't sell a house because there were not enough inspectors and the law said you could not START the sale process until you were certified!. Then along came the inspector to 'help' you!

I sometimes think that the UK and the USA governments are watching each other "Didn't work for you. Bet I can do it better!"

[NRA2BFree]

H.R. 2454 is the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Its sponsor is the creepiest-looking member of the House, Henry Waxman (D-CA), who resembles Heinrich Himmler in appearance,

He looks more like Mr. Potato Head. LOL

[BertWheeler]

Worse and worse.

[r9etb]

I never trust articles that require the reader to wade through several paragraphs of hyperbole and ad hominem just to get to an obscure and poorly-explained point.

Just saying.....