Looking Out for the Poor?
28/06/09 Filed in: Commentary
Masked by the death of Michael
Jackson, the USA’s largest tax, EVER, was passed in the House
of Reps Friday. The so-called cap and trade bill, designed to stop
non-existent global warming was steamrolled through the house with
a 300 page amendment just hours before they voted on it. Obama
promised the people during his campaign that every bill would be
available to the public online at least 48 hours before it was
voted on. This has not happened to one single bill since his
Presidency. Obama promised a new era of transparency. So far all we
have received is the opposite. He also said lobbyist would never be
allowed to be part of his administration, oh wait, except these
ones... *sigh* But don’t worry about any of this, because the
Democrats are in power, and they care about the poor. Right?
Right??
The Cap and Trade law will have a devastating effect on the poor and the middle class. According to Obama’s own admission, electricity prices will, and I quote, “necessarily skyrocket”, end-quote. See the first video below to see it from the horse’s mouth. The days of living in a daydream, believing that the democrats care about the poor, are over. The average family can expect to see their yearly energy costs rise by $1500, in many cases that will mean slightly more than a doubling of what you’re paying right now. For the rich, this is not too big of a problem, but for the poor, it will be crippling. And all in the name of an environmental hoax, heck even Greenpeace is against this bill, because even they admit, this bill will do nothing to prevent global warming. But that’s not the only area we’ll see massive price increases. Consider, that all energy prices will rise because of this bill. How many products or service have an energy-cost component built into them? Hmm... That would be 100% of them. Most products have 30% of their cost covering energy used in their production and/or transportation. Now double that 30%. Getting the picture yet?
If there was ever a bill that was going to wreck havoc on a strong economy, it is this Cap & Trade bill. But wait, we don’t have a strong economy, we have an economy that is faltering day by day. Many predict the dollar is on its last legs and is soon to crash. Production is at all time lows. Unemployment is approaching all time highs. The economy is in disastrously bad shape, and this bill will be the final knock-out punch.
But there is something you can do. The bill has passed the House, but it still needs to pass the Senate. Really, it’s likely to pass the Senate anyway, but, but, there’s something you can do to try at least, to stop this attack against the poor, and reality.
There is a FREE Fax service that converts a specific email address to a fax, then sent as a fax to the specific Congressman.
http://www.congressfax.com/
You cannot "group" the email address and send out one message - the email addresses must be sent individually. All the Congressperson's district office email addresses are listed here (24 in all). You only need to send it to their DC (202 area code) office, but if you have the time, do them all!
1. Write something in Word, Notepad, etc
2. Copy and paste the email addresses into a new/forwarded email.
3. Send away!
I don’t like the chances of being able to stop this bill, but, we should try, for the sake of all of us.
Watch....
The Cap and Trade law will have a devastating effect on the poor and the middle class. According to Obama’s own admission, electricity prices will, and I quote, “necessarily skyrocket”, end-quote. See the first video below to see it from the horse’s mouth. The days of living in a daydream, believing that the democrats care about the poor, are over. The average family can expect to see their yearly energy costs rise by $1500, in many cases that will mean slightly more than a doubling of what you’re paying right now. For the rich, this is not too big of a problem, but for the poor, it will be crippling. And all in the name of an environmental hoax, heck even Greenpeace is against this bill, because even they admit, this bill will do nothing to prevent global warming. But that’s not the only area we’ll see massive price increases. Consider, that all energy prices will rise because of this bill. How many products or service have an energy-cost component built into them? Hmm... That would be 100% of them. Most products have 30% of their cost covering energy used in their production and/or transportation. Now double that 30%. Getting the picture yet?
If there was ever a bill that was going to wreck havoc on a strong economy, it is this Cap & Trade bill. But wait, we don’t have a strong economy, we have an economy that is faltering day by day. Many predict the dollar is on its last legs and is soon to crash. Production is at all time lows. Unemployment is approaching all time highs. The economy is in disastrously bad shape, and this bill will be the final knock-out punch.
But there is something you can do. The bill has passed the House, but it still needs to pass the Senate. Really, it’s likely to pass the Senate anyway, but, but, there’s something you can do to try at least, to stop this attack against the poor, and reality.
There is a FREE Fax service that converts a specific email address to a fax, then sent as a fax to the specific Congressman.
http://www.congressfax.com/
You cannot "group" the email address and send out one message - the email addresses must be sent individually. All the Congressperson's district office email addresses are listed here (24 in all). You only need to send it to their DC (202 area code) office, but if you have the time, do them all!
1. Write something in Word, Notepad, etc
2. Copy and paste the email addresses into a new/forwarded email.
3. Send away!
I don’t like the chances of being able to stop this bill, but, we should try, for the sake of all of us.
Watch....