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Black activist to Obama: Promote job growth by killing cap-and-trade
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| Monday, December 14, 2009
| David Almasi
Posted on 12/14/2009 12:50:20 PM PST by GonzoII
Black activist to Obama: Promote job growth by killing cap-and-trade |
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As a candidate, Obama admitted that, under such a plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket"
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Monday, December 14, 2009 |
If the White House jobs summit is more than a publicity stunt, says Deneen Borelli of the Project 21 black leadership network, Obama should abandon efforts to implement a cap-and-trade policy, as it would kill jobs.
"If Obama is sincere about finding ways to fix our country's employment crisis, he should start by putting the brakes on job-killing cap-and-trade legislation," said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow.
Obama is promoting today's summit as a gathering of experts to "jumpstart" hiring and create new jobs. Unemployment recently rose to 10.2 percent, the highest rate since 1983.
Commenting on Obama's upcoming trip to the COP-15 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen later this month, Borelli said: "President Obama will propose reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions 17 percent below 2005 levels to 'save the planet.' Tragically, even his own EPA administrator says this proposal would have no meaningful impact on the climate if done unilaterally, as he would. One thing it will do is have a devastating impact on jobs."
Cap-and-trade would limit the amount of emissions industry can release. It seeks to reduce consumption of traditional fossil fuels - such as coal, oil and natural gas - by making them more expensive. Higher costs will ultimately be borne by consumers and workers. As a candidate, Obama admitted that, under such a plan, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
Legislation to implement cap-and-trade in the U.S. passed Congress in June and a similar bill is pending in the Senate. The Heritage Foundation estimates that the House version would cause job losses of about 1.15 million jobs annually between 2012 and 2030 - rising to almost 2.5 million per year by 2035.
An international scandal currently rocking climate change science makes the need for such onerous policy increasingly questionable. Concerns about climate data manipulation, as exposed in recently-posted private e-mails among prominent climate researchers, has heightened the uncertainty about the scientific basis of the theory that mankind is causing severe global warming.
"I think it's irresponsible for Obama to continue to push a destructive energy agenda while there is a growing scandal in the scientific community that turns the underpinnings of cap-and-trade policy on its ear," Borelli noted. "How can the Obama Administration move forward in good faith while so many questions about this potential miscarriage of science remain unresolved?"
"With unemployment at 10.2 percent nationwide and food stamps feeding more than 36 million people, it's common sense to stop imposing new financial burdens on America that would kill jobs and cause more individuals to be enslaved by a reliance on government aid," said Borelli.
David Almasi is the Staff Director at Project 21, a voice of black conservatives since 1992, sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research.
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Copyright © 2009 Spero
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blacklash; capandtrade; deneenborelli; freedomworks; obama; project21
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"With unemployment at 10.2 percent nationwide and food stamps feeding more than 36 million people, it's common sense to stop imposing new financial burdens on America that would kill jobs and cause more individuals to be enslaved by a reliance on government aid,"
There seems to be a lack thereof, Deneen.
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posted on
12/14/2009 12:50:22 PM PST
by
GonzoII
To: GonzoII
No, Mr. Cloward and Mr. Piven disagree.
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posted on
12/14/2009 12:53:23 PM PST
by
wac3rd
(Felipe Calderon supports the public option.)
To: GonzoII
Are blacks turning on The One?
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posted on
12/14/2009 12:54:00 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(The sleeping giant has been awoken, and he's PISSED.)
To: wac3rd
“Job growth” and “economic recovery” really aren’t terms that 0bama is really concerned about.
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posted on
12/14/2009 12:55:03 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: GonzoII
Deneen gets it. 0bama gets it, too, I think. It’s just that 0bama doesn’t care about creating American jobs or prosperity. In fact, he has no interest in promoting American prosperity.
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posted on
12/14/2009 12:55:19 PM PST
by
henkster
(0bamanomics: The "Final Solution" to America's "Prosperity Question.")
To: henkster
If Obama was in Copenhagen today, he would have walked out with the rest of the African bloc.
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:00:33 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: RockinRight
Just the other day I was saying “BLACK JOBS not GREEN JOBS.”
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:00:47 PM PST
by
maxsand
To: GonzoII; GOP_Lady; exit82; 2ndDivisionVet; ThePatriotsFlag; Texas Fossil; brushcop; ...
Behold Hope and Change RAT style:
This is really quite incredible. A visual depiction of unemployment, by County, for the entire United States, over the last 2.5 years.
Click the link, and then “Play” in the center of the MAP, and watch it change by month.
http://cohort11.americanobserver.net/latoyaegwuekwe/multimediafinal.html
DemoRAT destruction before your very eyes. Drain the sewer in 2010 and 2012.
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:01:42 PM PST
by
ExTexasRedhead
(Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
To: RockinRight
“Are blacks turning on The One?”
That’s a good one!
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:01:46 PM PST
by
gathersnomoss
(General George Patton had it right.)
To: GonzoII
"If Obama is sincere about finding ways to fix our country's employment crisis, he should start by putting the brakes on job-killing cap-and-trade legislation," said Deneen Borelli, a Project 21 fellow. Exactly...and when he doesn't will you have the integrity to conclude that he wasn't sincere?
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:02:08 PM PST
by
highlander_UW
(To anger a conservative tell him a lie. To anger a liberal tell him the truth.)
To: MrB
Yup. He’s as concerned with “job growth” and “economic recovery as he is with “victory” in Afghanistan or Iraq.
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:03:50 PM PST
by
fullchroma
(Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
To: GonzoII
Obviously Deneen Borelli is a Uncle Tom who is being paid off by big oil.
/sarc
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:05:20 PM PST
by
GraceG
To: gathersnomoss; RockinRight
Blacks are the only group whose support for 0bama has actually gone UP since inauguration.
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:07:23 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: massgopguy
There are a fair number of decent options that could come out of Copenhagen right now. Option 1 is that the greed of African kleptocrats blows up the whole thing and nothing comes out of the conference. Option 2 is that the Europeans twist 0bama to agree to pay their bill for them, which he would gladly do. That would die in the Senate where they need 67 votes to ratify it, and even if the dems pick off Snowe and the other usual RINO suspects, they won’t get seven of them. In other words, the more nauseating they make the treaty, the less likely the US Senate will eat it.
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:07:55 PM PST
by
henkster
(0bamanomics: The "Final Solution" to America's "Prosperity Question.")
To: henkster
“I COULDAH BEEN A CONTENDAH!” - Idi Amin
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:10:33 PM PST
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: GraceG
Deneen is a conservative who has been on Beck’s show, ergo she will get no ear time from Dumbo
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:13:23 PM PST
by
dumpthelibs
(dumpthelibs)
To: GonzoII
“I think it's irresponsible for Obama to continue to push a destructive energy agenda while there is a growing scandal in the scientific community that turns the underpinnings of cap-and-trade policy on its ear,” Borelli noted. “How can the Obama Administration move forward in good faith while so many questions about this potential miscarriage of science remain unresolved?”
Wow, a classic an enemy of my enemy is my friend situation.
To: GonzoII
Obama doesn’t even need to pass Cap & Tax. The EPA has already declared that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and will be penalized accordingly.
Coal mines will close, power costs will go up, and the Alaska gas pipeline may be killed from that alone.
I’m sure Zero would like to have support from congress to take the heat off of him, but he doesn’t really need it to kill the power system.
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:17:27 PM PST
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: massgopguy
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:17:27 PM PST
by
kallisti
("Think what you want. You're the one that has to live with your thoughts.")
To: GonzoII; Darnright; According2RecentPollsAirIsGood; livius; DollyCali; FrPR; ...
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posted on
12/14/2009 1:41:35 PM PST
by
steelyourfaith
(Time to prosecute Al Gore now that fellow scam artist Bernie Madoff is in stir.)
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