HR 2454, the "Cap-and-Trade" bill scheduled to come before you for a vote very soon, is nothing more than a thinly disguised energy tax that will hit every single American.
Energy companies will pass the costs of their new regulations through to consumers in the form of huge price increases, meaning higher electric bills, gas prices, and increased costs across the board.
Barack Obama has estimated the costs of this legislation to American taxpayers to be over 650 BILLION dollars over the next eight years, and that figure is no doubt just a fraction of the real cost.
But even that "modest" estimate amounts to hundreds of dollars a year in increased living expenses for every family -- and will more likely cost thousands a year.
Higher costs of doing business also means companies will be forced to lay off more workers. This current economic crisis is no time for the Senate to consider both raising prices on hard-working Americans AND costing them their jobs.
As your constituent, I strongly urge you to stand up for the American people by opposing HR 2454.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com/campaigns/hr2454action.php
I am appalled that the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (a.k.a the “Cap-and-Trade Tax Bill”) recently was rammed through the House of Representatives. This legislation will drive millions of American jobs overseas, and hurt hard-working Americans at a time when we can least afford it.
The Wall Street Journal calls this ridiculous legislation “the biggest tax in American history.” According to the Heritage Foundation, the massive “national energy tax” will cost the average family "nearly $3,000 per household per year." Even President Barrack Obama admitted that under “Cap-and-Trade” legislation, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
Little did hard-working Americans know that Barack Obama was deadly serious when he said; "We can’t drive our SUVs, and eat whatever we want, and keep our homes at 72 all the time, whether we live in the desert or the tundra, and keep consuming 25% of the world’s resources with just 4% of the world’s population... That’s not going to happen." Apparently, President Obama and liberals in Congress are about to make that sickening pronouncement a reality.
Let's be perfectly clear. So-called Cap-and-Trade legislation has little to do with helping the environment. Instead Cap-and-Trade is a means to deprive hard-working American of income, control people's behavior, repress our liberties and grant pay-offs and favors to special interests. And despite President Obama’s promise that he will not raise taxes on 95% of the American people, Cap-and-Trade legislation will cost every household in the United States an extra $3,000 or more annually.
Americans see the Cap-and-Trade scam for what it is. Americans do not want higher utility bills, higher prices at the pump, higher prices in the grocery store, diminished freedoms and a lower standard of living to help petty politicians achieve greater political power. Defeat Cap-and-Trade, which will destroy our economy and send much-needed jobs overseas, while doing nothing to reduce global carbon emissions
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I am appalled that the so-called American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 (a.k.a the “Cap-and-Trade Tax Bill”) recently was rammed through the House of Representatives. This legislation will drive millions of American jobs overseas, and hurt hard-working Americans at a time when we can least afford it.
The Wall Street Journal calls this ridiculous legislation “the biggest tax in American history.” According to the Heritage Foundation, the massive “national energy tax” will cost the average family "nearly $3,000 per household per year." Even President Barrack Obama admitted that under “Cap-and-Trade” legislation, "electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
Little did hard-working Americans know that Barack Obama was deadly serious when he said; "We can’t drive our SUVs, and eat whatever we want, and keep our homes at 72 all the time, whether we live in the desert or the tundra, and keep consuming 25% of the world’s resources with just 4% of the world’s population... That’s not going to happen." Apparently, President Obama and liberals in Congress are about to make that sickening pronouncement a reality.
CO2 is necessary for plants to survive. Plants feed us, as well as animals that feed us. Take away CO2, you take away plants, animals and food as we know it.
Am I correct? If I can figure this out than why can't the President of the United States?
Or is that just the plan?
Cap and trade won't reduce greenhouse emissions, it will just tax them.
By regulating one the the most basic compounds in the life cycle of every living thing on the planet, the control will be ultimate, nothing, and I mean not one damn thing you do will be outside this new regulation and tax structure.
Every breath you take, every meal you eat, every kilowatt of electricity, every gallon of gas, every ounce of plastic, every child you have...nothing, without government permission, regulation, taxation or rationing.
Let's be perfectly clear. So-called Cap-and-Trade legislation has little to do with helping the environment. Instead Cap-and-Trade is a means to deprive hard-working American of income, control people's behavior, repress our liberties and grant pay-offs and favors to special interests. And despite President Obama’s promise that he will not raise taxes on 95% of the American people, Cap-and-Trade legislation will cost every household in the United States an extra $3,000 or more annually.
Here is something that President Obama as not talk about. Obama Intimately Tied To Carbon Trading Scam President helped fund profiteers of carbon tax program he is now seeking to implement.
Obama, Maurice Strong, Al Gore key players cashing in on Chicago Climate Exchange.
“Obama Years Ago Helped Fund Carbon Program He Is Now Pushing Through Congress” is a FOXNews story by Ed Barnes. In short, “While on the board of a Chicago-based charity, Barack Obama helped fund a carbon trading exchange that will likely play a critical role in the cap-and-trade carbon reduction program he is now trying to push through Congress as president.”
The charity was the Joyce Foundation on whose board of directors Obama served and which gave nearly $1.1 million in two separate grants that were “instrumental in developing and launching the privately-owned Chicago Climate Exchange, which now calls itself “North America’s only cap and trade system for all six greenhouse gases, with global affiliates and projects worldwide.”
The “privately-owned” Chicago Climate Exchange is heavily influenced by Obama cohorts Al Gore and Maurice Strong.For years now Strong and Gore have been cashing in on that lucrative cottage industry known as man-made global warming.
Strong is on the board of directors of the Chicago Climate Exchange, Wikipedia-described as “the world’s first and North America’s only legally binding greenhouse gas emission registry reduction system for emission sources and offset projects in North America and Brazil.”
Gore, self-proclaimed Patron Saint of the Environment, buys his carbon off-sets from himself–the Generation Investment Management LLP, “an independent, private, owner-managed partnership established in 2004 with offices in London and Washington, D.C., of which he is both chairman and founding partner. The Generation Investment Management business has considerable influence over the major carbon credit trading firms that currently exist, including the Chicago Climate Exchange.
Strong, the silent partner, is a man whose name often draws a blank on the Washington cocktail circuit. Even though a former Secretary General of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (the much hyped Rio Earth Summit) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations in the days of an Oil-for-Food beleaguered Kofi Annan, the Canadian born Strong is little known in the United States. That’s because he spends most of his time in China where he he has been working to make the communist country the world’s next superpower. The nondescript Strong, nonetheless is the big cheese in the underworld of climate change and is one of the main architects of the failing Kyoto Protocol.
Full credit for the expose on the business partnership of Strong and Gore in the cap-and-trade reduction scheme should go to the investigative acumen of the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR).
The tawdry tale of the top two global warming gurus in the business world goes all the way back to Earth Day, April 17, 1995 when the future author of “An Inconvenient Truth” travelled to Fall River, Massachusetts, to deliver a green sermon at the headquarters of Molten Metal Technology Inc. (MMTI). MMTI was a firm that proclaimed to have invented a process for recycling metals from waste. Gore praised the Molten Metal firm as a pioneer in the kind of innovative technology that can save the environment, and make money for investors at the same time.
“Gore left a few facts out of his speech that day,” wrote EIR. “First, the firm was run by Strong and a group of Gore intimates, including Peter Knight, the firm’s registered lobbyist, and Gore’s former top Senate aide.”
“Second, the company had received more than $25 million in U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research and development grants, but had failed to prove that the technology worked on a commercial scale. The company would go on to receive another $8 million in federal taxpayers’ cash, at that point, its only source of revenue.
“With Al Gore’s Earth Day as a Wall Street calling card, Molten Metal’s stock value soared to $35 a share, a range it maintained through October 1996. But along the way, DOE scientists had balked at further funding. When in March 1996, corporate officers concluded that the federal cash cow was about to run dry, they took action: Between that date and October 1996, seven corporate officers–including Maurice strong–sold off $15.3 million in personal shares in the company, at top market value. On Oct. 20, 1996–a Sunday–the company issued a press release, announcing for the first time, that DOE funding would be vastly scaled back, and reported the bad news on a conference call with stockbrokers.
“On Monday, the stock plunged by 49%, soon landing at $5 a share. By early 1997, furious stockholders had filed a class action suit against the company and its directors. Ironically, one of the class action lawyers had tangled with Maurice strong in another insider trading case, involving a Swiss company called AZL Resources, chaired by Strong, who was also a lead shareholder. The AZL case closely mirrored Molten Metal, and in the end, Strong and the other AZL partners agreed to pay $5 million to dodge a jury verdict, when eyewitness evidence surfaced of Strong’s role in scamming the value of the company stock up into the stratosphere, before selling it off.
In 1997, Strong went on to accept from Tongsun Park, who was found guilty of illegally acting as an Iraqi agent, $1 million from Saddam Hussein, which was invested in Cordex Petroleum Inc., a company he owned with his son, Fred.
These are the leaders in the Man-made Global Warming Movement, who three years later were to be funded by the man who was to become President of the United States of America.
If we follow the time line on where Obama was during the funding of the Chicago Climate Exchange, he was still a professor at the University of Chicago Law School teaching constitutional law, with his law license becoming inactive a year later in 2002.
It may be interesting to note that the Chicago Climate Exchange in spite of its hype, is a veritable rat’s nest of cronyism. The largest shareholder in the Exchange is Goldman Sachs. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is its honorary chairman, The Joyce Foundation, which funded the Exchange also funded money for John Ayers’ Chicago School Initiatives. John is the brother of William Ayers.
What a flap when it was discovered that the senator from Chicago had nursed on Saul Alinsky’s milk, had his political career launched at a coffee party held by domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, and sat for 20 years, uncomplaining in front of the “God-dam-America pulpit of resentment-challenged Jeremiah Wright.The same Chicago Climate Exchange promoting public rip-off was funded by Obama before he was POTUS.
Even as man-made global warming is being exposed as a money-generating hoax, Obama is working feverishly to push the controversial cap-and-trade carbon reduction scheme through Congress.
Obama was never the character he created for himself in the fairy-tale version in “Dreams of My Father”. He’s the agent of Change and Hope for cohorts making money down at the Chicago Climate Exchange.
The Barbarians are pushing at the gate of the Global Warming fraud, and to borrow a line from children playing Hide and Seek, Here they come, ready or not!
Americans see the Cap-and-Trade scam for what it is. Americans do not want higher utility bills, higher prices at the pump, higher prices in the grocery store, diminished freedoms and a lower standard of living to help petty politicians achieve greater political power. Defeat Cap-and-Trade, which will destroy our economy and send much-needed jobs overseas, while doing nothing to reduce global carbon emissions
Oppose the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009!
