Have you ever heard someone say, "If we’re not careful, one day they’ll be taxing the air that we breathe?" Well, that day has come. The United States House of Representatives is considering HB 2454, a so-called Cap-And-Trade bill.
Just What Is Cap-And-Trade? Although being touted as an environmentally responsible system of controlling the amount of pollution released into the air by businesses, it is nothing but another federal government tax. The bill is over 900 pages long and, like the 800 billion dollar so-called stimulus bill passed earlier this year, no one in Congress knows what it really says. It is too long to read.
And maybe the biggest insult of all is that in order to get it passed, the Democrat majority in the House of Representatives has hired a speed reader to rush through reading the monstrous thing out loud to the members of the House. Such an act is not only insulting to us, it is ridiculous. How many times have you listened to a commercial on radio or television which closed with a high-speed reading of the "fine print" of some offer? Have you ever been able to understand any of what is being said? Neither have I.
And neither will the members of the House of Representatives. What I cannot understand is why any member of Congress to allow such a travesty to continue!
Cap-And-Trade is a scam. It is actually a tax on the air that we breathe! It is further an outgrowth of Al Gore’s now discredited "Global Warming" theory. There is a total absence of scientific evidence to prove that any of the climatological changes occurring in the earth is being caused by human activity. But if this bill is passed, Al Gore and his friends will make billions of dollars in profit from the buying and selling of "pollution credits."
These "air permits," as I like to call them, will be issued by the government according to what ever the government decides that each company or industry should pay for the privilege of using the air around their business locations. If a particular company doesn’t use or need all of the "permits" that company could then sell those extra "pollution credits" to some company which needs more.
Are you paying attention? Do you realize what I am saying? The government is going to first, tell each business enterprise how much carbon dioxide it can release into the air. Then the government is going to regulate how those allowances are used even to the point of reselling them from one company to another. The United States government will be creating an entirely new Black Market in which formerly free air will be sold and traded between businesses in the United States! Air!
You know what carbon dioxide is, don’t you? It’s what comes out of your lungs each time you breathe out. It’s what trees create. It’s a part of nature. The government doesn’t own the air. They don’t own the carbon dioxide in the air. They don’t, in fact, own the air that is in your lungs right now which you will expel into the air in the next few seconds. But they are going to regulate it. They are going to tell us how much we can ‘breathe out’ - they are going to buy and sell air!
Oh. I didn’t tell you, did I? The original "pollution credits" issued by the government? You have to pay for them. You have to buy them from the government. Can anybody say TAX? This is the tax that candidate Obama talked about when he told us that the cost of energy would go so high that some companies might be forced into bankruptcy because of it. The same tax which is going to cost each American family thousands of dollars in increased energy costs. That is one of the changes he promised and it looks as though it will pass Congress unless we all act to prevent its passage into law.
Understand that you won’t pay the tax. But you will pay for the electricity and the gasoline and the heating oil, the prices of which will, in Obama’s words, "skyrocket" once cap-and-trade is the law of the land.
The Republicans, to their credit, objected to the bill saying it must be read before voting on it. So, the Democrats decided to have the bill read at a super fast speed, a speed at which no one could possibly understand its provisions, just in order to say that the bill had been read. Then they’ll vote on it. Just like spitting in your face. They think we are that stupid. And if we do not rise up against this outrageous increase in our cost of living right now, perhaps they will be correct.
Contact your congressional representative as soon as possible. Call them on the telephone. Tell them you want them to reject HR 2454 and all other cap-and-trade schemes. You may not be able to get through on the telephone. If not, send an e-mail saying the same thing. If you have access to a fax machine, send them a fax. The form is of little importance. Be polite, but tell them that you are opposed to cap-and-trade schemes and other attempts to raise our taxes. I’m afraid that it is too late for regular letters through the mail. You must call, e-mail or Fax them now. Air is free. So is CO2. It’s a part of nature. Tell your congressman or congresswoman that you do not want them to put a tax on "the air that we breathe." Reject HR 2454.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Welcome To One Party Government!
WE are going to have government mandated, owned and controlled health care shoved down our throats just as we had the so-called stimulus package shoved down our throats. Why? Because the Republicans have joined Obama and his Democrats.
Remember when Obama said in regard to the so-called economic crisis that only the government could repair the damage? Did you notice that the Republicans quietly agreed? Did you notice in fact that it was the Bush administration which jumped on board first to give the automobile industry it first national gift of money?
Well pay attention to the so-called health crisis. Obama says that the problem is so severe that the only the government can straighten the system out. The Democrats say that a national health care system is the only solution. And now, in regard to health care, the Republicans say, "Congress must address these problems in order to provide affordable and accessible health care to all Americans."1
Why? When in the hell did every problem in our country whether real or imagined become the sort of problem that only the government is capable of repairing? If your answer is, "When Obama was elected" you would be incorrect.
If your answer is that George Bush’s White House in 2002 ". . . began an intensive effort to build, launch and manage a diverse portfolio of government-to-citizen, government-to-business and government-to-government websites" which were charged with the responsibility of providing "high-quality solutions" such as "benefit information delivery," among others. Those benefits were determined to include medical information and triage services for citizens, your answer would still be wrong.
During the Second World War, Franklin Roosevelt decided that in order for some aircraft manufacturers to continue receiving contracts to build airplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps they would also have to pay all of the medical expenses of their employees. Many contractors, among them North American, protected it’s profits by agreeing to FDR’s demand. Did the exaltation of government’s role in life take over at that time? Again, wrong.
It started when the fascists took over our government. Although I can’t pin point the time, clearly Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were two of the national progressives who lead the country down the socialist path.
For a time, most notably during the Reagan years we all thought that we had a choice between big government and small government. But we were really only dreaming dreams of old then. The plot had already been laid. Mr. Reagan only gave us "comic relief" from the strides fascism was making. We now live in a time when the members of both parties in government and out say to us that government and only government can fix all of our problems.
So the Republicans now confess that they too believe the contract between a citizen and his doctor can and must be interfered with by the government. That only through the intervention of Obama’s minions with the assistance of the GOP can health care costs be brought into line with what the government determines those costs ought to be. So, we all will be subjected to government operated socialized medical care whether we like it or not.
Why? How is it that government should have a right not granted to it in the U.S. Constitution to interfere in decisions regarding the medical condition of our own bodies? You might note that the reasoning behind the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was because a woman has the sole right to make decisions about her own body, even though that decision might pose serious harm to the body of another - her unborn child.
How is there not a conflict here? Well, no matter, unless you think that nationalized health care has something to do with quality of care, improvement of services, patient comfort and well being. It has nothing to do with those things anymore than gun control has to do with safety or law enforcement. Much as the government has declared that only it can solve the banking problems and that its management of the automobile industry will produce better cars, it has only to do with the control of people.
Gun control means control of law-abiding citizens. Control of the automobile manufacturing industry means control of management and the subjugation of investors in order to favor the interests of labor unions. Control of the banking business provides the vast financing required by the government to operate all of its programs without oversight by the people. And control of health care is the ultimate control of who gets health care and who doesn’t. That translates into who lives and who dies. The result is the life and death control of all the people with the entire weight and might of the federal government including its police and military forces to make sure their socialist plan runs as they choose.
This on going national discussion we are having is not about health care. It is not about health care costs. It is not about improving anyone’s lot in life except those sitting in the top ranks of government. For those of you out there who believe that Obama is going to make your car payment for you, buy the gasoline to run it, provide you with a job and a pay check to buy food, I sure hope you don’t get seriously ill. Because whether you know it or not, you will become a very big liability for Mr. Obama’s type of government. And you are likely to learn that big liabilities have a way of being terminated as early as possible under his system.
Anyone with access to a calculator knows that communism cannot succeed for long. And call it what you like, communism, socialism, fascism, progressivism or collectivism is what Obama and the Democrats have now forced upon us. They didn’t do it alone. They were helped with possibly more than one half of the American electorate. More than fifty percent of the votes cast in the 2008 national elections were by people who believed Obama’s lies about hope and the kind of change he was promising. And they didn’t stop there.
I have always said that our government still works and works well. I can’t say that anymore because it is now a broken and failed system. It used to be that if enough people contacted their representatives in government that the government would follow the will of the people and things would be okay. That is no longer true because everyone in government has now joined the same party. They all subscribe to the belief that government is not only the agency that should control our lives but is the only agency capable of running our lives.
You must remember that in the eyes of governmentalists you and I are too ignorant to manage our own affairs. So when I write my guy in government to say I am against the Economic Stimulus Bill, he writes back to thank me for my letter and to say he agrees with me and he will continue to work to get the amount of the stimulus held at a reasonable level. When I say vote against national health care, he explains how government MUST respond to the problem. He might as well have added "whether I like or not."
The Democrats have sixty votes in the Senate to stop any filibuster, to move any question, to win every vote. The Democrats in the House of Representatives are correctly assuming they are representing the will of their constituents since the voters never call in to say Stop It! The bottom line is that the majority of the people in the United States today has decided that communism is okay, that we can all stand in a big circle, each of us with one hand in our neighbor’s pocket and somehow or other we will all get rich.2
And while the big shots in Washington, D.C. are deciding how to carve up the big pie, we call each other names, hurl insults at each other and stupidly suggest that a new revolution has started and won’t-they-be-sorry-when-we-get-through-with-them sort of rhetoric.
When I started to write this a few days ago, my heart and my mind were filled with lofty thoughts of how I might bend the opinions of people and how they might rise up in a telephonic, electronic, FAXic and postal tsunami that would wash the liberalism and the progressivism out of the halls of Congress thereby saving our medical care system for us and for private industry. But I was not considering the capitulation of the GOP. We have no one in national government to represent us. The Socialist-Democrats, the fence-riding, so-called Independents and the Progressive-Republicans form the various caucuses of one giant party of governmentalists which is, as I write this, shoving socialized medicine down our throats.
What do you have to say about it?
1. Congressman Pete Olson, May 18, 2009
2. Thanks to the late Paul Harvey whose words I used here.
Remember when Obama said in regard to the so-called economic crisis that only the government could repair the damage? Did you notice that the Republicans quietly agreed? Did you notice in fact that it was the Bush administration which jumped on board first to give the automobile industry it first national gift of money?
Well pay attention to the so-called health crisis. Obama says that the problem is so severe that the only the government can straighten the system out. The Democrats say that a national health care system is the only solution. And now, in regard to health care, the Republicans say, "Congress must address these problems in order to provide affordable and accessible health care to all Americans."1
Why? When in the hell did every problem in our country whether real or imagined become the sort of problem that only the government is capable of repairing? If your answer is, "When Obama was elected" you would be incorrect.
If your answer is that George Bush’s White House in 2002 ". . . began an intensive effort to build, launch and manage a diverse portfolio of government-to-citizen, government-to-business and government-to-government websites" which were charged with the responsibility of providing "high-quality solutions" such as "benefit information delivery," among others. Those benefits were determined to include medical information and triage services for citizens, your answer would still be wrong.
During the Second World War, Franklin Roosevelt decided that in order for some aircraft manufacturers to continue receiving contracts to build airplanes for the U.S. Army Air Corps they would also have to pay all of the medical expenses of their employees. Many contractors, among them North American, protected it’s profits by agreeing to FDR’s demand. Did the exaltation of government’s role in life take over at that time? Again, wrong.
It started when the fascists took over our government. Although I can’t pin point the time, clearly Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were two of the national progressives who lead the country down the socialist path.
For a time, most notably during the Reagan years we all thought that we had a choice between big government and small government. But we were really only dreaming dreams of old then. The plot had already been laid. Mr. Reagan only gave us "comic relief" from the strides fascism was making. We now live in a time when the members of both parties in government and out say to us that government and only government can fix all of our problems.
So the Republicans now confess that they too believe the contract between a citizen and his doctor can and must be interfered with by the government. That only through the intervention of Obama’s minions with the assistance of the GOP can health care costs be brought into line with what the government determines those costs ought to be. So, we all will be subjected to government operated socialized medical care whether we like it or not.
Why? How is it that government should have a right not granted to it in the U.S. Constitution to interfere in decisions regarding the medical condition of our own bodies? You might note that the reasoning behind the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade was because a woman has the sole right to make decisions about her own body, even though that decision might pose serious harm to the body of another - her unborn child.
How is there not a conflict here? Well, no matter, unless you think that nationalized health care has something to do with quality of care, improvement of services, patient comfort and well being. It has nothing to do with those things anymore than gun control has to do with safety or law enforcement. Much as the government has declared that only it can solve the banking problems and that its management of the automobile industry will produce better cars, it has only to do with the control of people.
Gun control means control of law-abiding citizens. Control of the automobile manufacturing industry means control of management and the subjugation of investors in order to favor the interests of labor unions. Control of the banking business provides the vast financing required by the government to operate all of its programs without oversight by the people. And control of health care is the ultimate control of who gets health care and who doesn’t. That translates into who lives and who dies. The result is the life and death control of all the people with the entire weight and might of the federal government including its police and military forces to make sure their socialist plan runs as they choose.
This on going national discussion we are having is not about health care. It is not about health care costs. It is not about improving anyone’s lot in life except those sitting in the top ranks of government. For those of you out there who believe that Obama is going to make your car payment for you, buy the gasoline to run it, provide you with a job and a pay check to buy food, I sure hope you don’t get seriously ill. Because whether you know it or not, you will become a very big liability for Mr. Obama’s type of government. And you are likely to learn that big liabilities have a way of being terminated as early as possible under his system.
Anyone with access to a calculator knows that communism cannot succeed for long. And call it what you like, communism, socialism, fascism, progressivism or collectivism is what Obama and the Democrats have now forced upon us. They didn’t do it alone. They were helped with possibly more than one half of the American electorate. More than fifty percent of the votes cast in the 2008 national elections were by people who believed Obama’s lies about hope and the kind of change he was promising. And they didn’t stop there.
I have always said that our government still works and works well. I can’t say that anymore because it is now a broken and failed system. It used to be that if enough people contacted their representatives in government that the government would follow the will of the people and things would be okay. That is no longer true because everyone in government has now joined the same party. They all subscribe to the belief that government is not only the agency that should control our lives but is the only agency capable of running our lives.
You must remember that in the eyes of governmentalists you and I are too ignorant to manage our own affairs. So when I write my guy in government to say I am against the Economic Stimulus Bill, he writes back to thank me for my letter and to say he agrees with me and he will continue to work to get the amount of the stimulus held at a reasonable level. When I say vote against national health care, he explains how government MUST respond to the problem. He might as well have added "whether I like or not."
The Democrats have sixty votes in the Senate to stop any filibuster, to move any question, to win every vote. The Democrats in the House of Representatives are correctly assuming they are representing the will of their constituents since the voters never call in to say Stop It! The bottom line is that the majority of the people in the United States today has decided that communism is okay, that we can all stand in a big circle, each of us with one hand in our neighbor’s pocket and somehow or other we will all get rich.2
And while the big shots in Washington, D.C. are deciding how to carve up the big pie, we call each other names, hurl insults at each other and stupidly suggest that a new revolution has started and won’t-they-be-sorry-when-we-get-through-with-them sort of rhetoric.
When I started to write this a few days ago, my heart and my mind were filled with lofty thoughts of how I might bend the opinions of people and how they might rise up in a telephonic, electronic, FAXic and postal tsunami that would wash the liberalism and the progressivism out of the halls of Congress thereby saving our medical care system for us and for private industry. But I was not considering the capitulation of the GOP. We have no one in national government to represent us. The Socialist-Democrats, the fence-riding, so-called Independents and the Progressive-Republicans form the various caucuses of one giant party of governmentalists which is, as I write this, shoving socialized medicine down our throats.
What do you have to say about it?
1. Congressman Pete Olson, May 18, 2009
2. Thanks to the late Paul Harvey whose words I used here.
Monday, May 4, 2009
Spanish As Our National Language?
According to Texas Senator John Cornyn: "This week (May 1, 2009) is also an opportunity for us to honor America’s young people, who will be tomorrow’s leaders. I co-sponsored a Senate resolution designating April 30th as Dia De Los Ninos. This day serves as a reminder to keep investing in the education and potential of young Texans and Americans, who will lead our nation into the future."
The following is my response to Senator Cornyn and to Republicans everywhere:
Dia De Los Ninos? Are you now following the path of George W. Bush in regard to immigration? We do not yet need immigration reform. We do not need further pandering to the Hispanics. We need our Senators and our congressional representatives to take care of our needs first before beginning once again to worry about the Mexicans, the Hondurans, the Guatemalans and all the other foreign nationals who continue to want more rights than American citizens have.
Immigration reform has come to mean pathway to citizenship, jobs for aliens, and amnesty enforced on us deliberately but slowly. Rarely is closing the border even discussed when the subject of immigration reform comes up.
If our immigration system is broken it is because our government refuses to enforce existing laws. If the system is unfair, it is because our government is more driven by party politics than by the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law.
I suggest and implore you to use your first efforts at closing and securing our southern border. Secondly, return to workplace raids to uncover both illegal foreign nationals in our midst and the criminal employers who hire them out of greed or a pro-immigrant agenda.
Follow up with deportation proceedings against foreign nationals here illegally and prosecution of those Americans who are willing to break the law themselves in order to reduce overhead expenses.
It is Americans who need your help. Surely you must have learned this from the past two national elections. Obama and the Democrats now control the entire nation in a socialist conspiracy from which we may never emerge as a free nation again. Why is this so? Because Americans are sick and tired of Republicans failing to represent us. That is why the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006 and it is the major reason why Barack Obama now occupies the Whitehouse.
Frankly, we were and are angry at you and other Republicans for acting more like Democrats than members of the GOP. If you continue this tactic you will only insure the long occupation of the entire government by those who simply do not believe in our way of life and in our Constitution.
Dia De Los Ninos indeed. Why not Children's Day? Why not Day of American Youth? Why must we always pander to and appease those who are against us?
You are our last hope. Without your support, Texas will in very short time become a Spanish speaking state and the nation will remain a one-party political system. Naming another special day for Hispanics will not gain reelection for you or any other Republican. It will strengthen Obama's supremacy over the land and deliver us into decades of tyranny and financial ruin.
How about doing what loyal conservative American citizens want? How about following the principles and spirit of our constitution as it was written and not how it is imagined by our courts today? How about telling those criminals from other nations who have come up here to "take bread out of our mouths" to go home and fix their own national problems. How about stopping the untold millions yet to make that 100-yard dash into the land of plenty paid for by others. How about stopping "chain migration" and free citizenship to anyone in the world who despises us enough to flout our laws, insult our flag, abuse our generosity and refuse our national language?
Isn’t it time for you to stand up for me?
The following is my response to Senator Cornyn and to Republicans everywhere:
Dia De Los Ninos? Are you now following the path of George W. Bush in regard to immigration? We do not yet need immigration reform. We do not need further pandering to the Hispanics. We need our Senators and our congressional representatives to take care of our needs first before beginning once again to worry about the Mexicans, the Hondurans, the Guatemalans and all the other foreign nationals who continue to want more rights than American citizens have.
Immigration reform has come to mean pathway to citizenship, jobs for aliens, and amnesty enforced on us deliberately but slowly. Rarely is closing the border even discussed when the subject of immigration reform comes up.
If our immigration system is broken it is because our government refuses to enforce existing laws. If the system is unfair, it is because our government is more driven by party politics than by the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law.
I suggest and implore you to use your first efforts at closing and securing our southern border. Secondly, return to workplace raids to uncover both illegal foreign nationals in our midst and the criminal employers who hire them out of greed or a pro-immigrant agenda.
Follow up with deportation proceedings against foreign nationals here illegally and prosecution of those Americans who are willing to break the law themselves in order to reduce overhead expenses.
It is Americans who need your help. Surely you must have learned this from the past two national elections. Obama and the Democrats now control the entire nation in a socialist conspiracy from which we may never emerge as a free nation again. Why is this so? Because Americans are sick and tired of Republicans failing to represent us. That is why the Democrats took control of Congress in 2006 and it is the major reason why Barack Obama now occupies the Whitehouse.
Frankly, we were and are angry at you and other Republicans for acting more like Democrats than members of the GOP. If you continue this tactic you will only insure the long occupation of the entire government by those who simply do not believe in our way of life and in our Constitution.
Dia De Los Ninos indeed. Why not Children's Day? Why not Day of American Youth? Why must we always pander to and appease those who are against us?
You are our last hope. Without your support, Texas will in very short time become a Spanish speaking state and the nation will remain a one-party political system. Naming another special day for Hispanics will not gain reelection for you or any other Republican. It will strengthen Obama's supremacy over the land and deliver us into decades of tyranny and financial ruin.
How about doing what loyal conservative American citizens want? How about following the principles and spirit of our constitution as it was written and not how it is imagined by our courts today? How about telling those criminals from other nations who have come up here to "take bread out of our mouths" to go home and fix their own national problems. How about stopping the untold millions yet to make that 100-yard dash into the land of plenty paid for by others. How about stopping "chain migration" and free citizenship to anyone in the world who despises us enough to flout our laws, insult our flag, abuse our generosity and refuse our national language?
Isn’t it time for you to stand up for me?
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