Posted on 01/15/2009 8:54:23 AM PST by Sammy67
California Rep. Henry Waxman said Thursday the environment and U.S. economy depend on congressional action to confront the threat of climate change. Waxman, chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, spoke as he opened Congress' first hearing on climate legislation.
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Ohhh....
Isn’t that cute! Baby pictures of Obama. (But obviously, he was not allowed to breast feed.)
Congress can’t keep its own members from breaking simple laws but think they can control the climate of the entire planet.
Think through what “only able to afford the basics” means for the economy. Drive past your local strip malls, you see nails salons, insurance agents, a tanning place, pizza and chinese carryouts. Go into any office building and look at the directory, and you find “financial services,” some lawyers, maybe some counselors. When you get down to it, how many of the businesses there really fill basic needs? How many of them rely on “discretionary” money? Just about all of them.
If we have to pay triple for electric AND increased costs for all goods, here’s the economic decisions my family will make, in order:
1. No vacations
2. No new purchases of major goods unless absolutely necessary (I have 7 TV’s, 4 computers, 3 refrigerators, one freezer, 3 cars; I can last several years without purchasing a new one).
3. No entertainment (we attend a lot of sports events; that’s getting cut).
4. No dining out
5. Only basic food staples purchased
6. Son at college will come home to live in basement, unemployed (last resort).
7. Second son will not attend college (despite being advanced class straight A student, he’s a white male. No chance of scholarship under the 0bama regime).
That’s assuming we can keep employment, which I doubt in the case of my wife and which I expect to be drastically reduced on my part. Further cuts will be necessary. And, to the extent possible, we will start bartering.
Our economic decisions will be shared by millions. We are looking at MAJOR economic contraction, and the end of economic freedom. With the end of economic freedom, all political freedom will also end.
The Long March will be triumphantly over. Yeah.
They have to do something NOW before the entire Church of Global Warming crashes down on them and exposes them for the frauds they are.
It really is wrong to judge someone by their appearance. But coincidentally, this guy actually IS a dangerous, evil idiot.
You know, he actually LOOKS like a rat.
About time! It’s suppose to be -4F tonight!
Oh... never mind.
Better institute socialism before everyone realizes what a fraud global warming is.
caption: Moleman pokes his head above ground to say: “12 more weeks of.. darn it’s cold today”
Good analysis, henkster. Taxing ourselves to affect climate change is a fool’s errand. There is no plus side for economic or political freedom in American.
Nostrilitis!
frost down here in Florida
the earth has cooled in the last 6 years and still the left tries to harp on about global warming or is now called climate change that way they can have it cold or how.
All hail the messiah, he’ll stop the seas from rising, change our weather, put homo’s in the military and create the new brown shirts of his national security force
Which he will conveniently wait until global warming migrates back north in the spring before introducing. After all, it’s HARD to sell global warming when the whole country is way colder than normal.
Excellent!
Hey guys have you read the translation of OBL tape he begs for donations...its the damnedest thing to read...find an English translation and read it.
He apparently believes he has the power of God.
Laws prohibiting the consumption of pork will be next on his list of important issues that Congress will take on.
I think I have finally figured out where they get those batboy pictures from, it’s Waxman.
LOL, we saw the same thing.
Five billion years! The Republicans have been ignoring man made climate change for five BILLION years!! It's time for CHANGE!!!
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