The Wayfarer Philosophy

Here it is, the day after Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts. In this aftermath, Barack Obama’s talking points as uttered by himself and Robert Gibbs, his propagandist is that “it doesn’t have to do with the last one or two years, but rather the last eight years. Still blaming Bush. It doesn’t seem like such a hot explanation given the fact that Massachusetts is a dark blue state, and supposedly, according to Obama and his political advisors, the people decided to show their anger with George Bush by electing a Republican rather than the Democrat that Obama endorsed and spoke for. Yeah, Obama-logic rarely makes sense, but this is going to a whole new low in their perception of the intelligence of the American people.

According to Scott Brown’s own opinion polls, most of the people who voted for him did so because of national security. If you remember, that was one area where John F. Kennedy, a true Democrat, was strong in. Of course, the healthcare debate has a lot to do with it. Although liberal, the majority of the people in Massachusetts disagree with Obamacare just like the majority of people in the United States.

One troubling issue is that many people blame the problems solely on the Democrat leadership in congress. Of course, Harry Reed’s backroom deals and Nancy Pilosi’s blatant disregard for the will of the people are major factors. We need also put equal blame on the Obama administration’s policies. He has been touring around, campaigning, and basically pimping all the different plans that have been coming out of the congress. He chose to put the Stimulus bill in Nancy Pilosi’s hands and supported it afterwards. Obama’s people have been in Harry Reed’s backroom meetings helping to craft whatever monstrosity of a bill they are finalizing now. Why can’t he share some of the blame too? He has endorsed three Democratic candidates in Virginia, New Jersey, and now Massachusetts that have all lost to Republicans, anon Gd he still blames it on George Bush?

To Obama: No slick, the American people are sick of all the things that your and the other Democrat leaders have been doing. We would be willing to give you time to address the economy , but we actually have. I know that things cannot change dramatically in one year, but give us credit for having thoughts about your decisions in trying to address the issue. We know that punishing and demonizing businesses is not going to help create jobs. You’re just playing to peoples’ emotions and trying to get more money to spend. Making deals with your money-donors and the special interest like the special union tax waiver in the healthcare bill just shows that you lied about not listening to the special interest. Somehow your special interest groups are special and the others are evil.

So union members that have the same healthcare plan as non-union members don’t have to pay the 40 percent tax that the rest of the people have to? So, Nebraska gets a special deal on Medicaid to buy Ben Nelson’s vote? So Louisiana gets a special $300 million deal to get Mary Landrieu’s vote? So Bill Nelson’s vote got bought for allowing seniors to keep Medicare advantage in 3 Democratic counties in Florida while the rest of the state and country don’t?

Call me silly, but if you were not in favor of these deals, you might have spoken out against them.

Call me naive, but you probably could have requested that Harry Reed’s backroom deals in the Obamacare meetings the last few weeks could have been televised on C-Span like you promised eight times. At least you could have called for it.

Maybe you could have argued against the taxes on healthcare plans that will actually make healthcare plans more expensive for us, unlike your promises of reducing our expenses.

Nahhhh.. none of that had to do with Massachusetts voting in a Republican into a senate seat that has been occupied by Democrats for the last 58 years. Besides, it’s Bush’s fault that they voted for a Republican. Yeah, you make a lot of sense… dumbass.

Barack Obama has broken a lot of campaign promises and has done a lot of lying since he took office, but one of the most frustrating things about Obama’s hipocracy is his approach to transparency. How many times did he promise an “unprecedented transparency” from his administration? Nany Pilosi made the same promise back in 2006 when the Democrats took control of the congress. Yet, they have have shown that their approach to transparency is to keep the media and the American people in the dark as mush as possible until bills are voted on as we find out about them after the vote!

Obambi, the Liar in Chief

The Democrats have been persisting with their secret meetings throughout the construction of their house and senate healthcare bills. On an almost complete, party-line vote, they have shoved things through and made the documents available to the people only after voting on the various bills in committee or on the floor. Hell, even the congress members themselves only get to see the bills right before voting and without any time to read them.

Pilosi will be one of 3-4 people to create the final healthcare bill that will decide our health and well-being

While most of us who follow politics and are not brain-dead sheep, are pissed off about this back-room dealing. C-Span has finally joined the cause. Being the sole network that covers the government 24/7, they got sick of the fact that they were banned from all of these back-room meetings where the bills were actually written. These meetings were exclusively attended by Democrats and banned Republicans, media, and ordinary citizens from observing. Now, C-Span is finally calling on Obama to live up to his promise and ask the congress to open up these final meetings on the combination of the house and senate healthcare b ills to teh public. I predict that Obama and the Democrats will ignore them and not other being transparent. Hell, they’re passing a healthcare bill that the American people are against, check just about every poll and you’ll see that it isn’t even close! They don’t care, they want to runt he healthcare industry, and there is no way they will be held back from this greatest of all socialist dreams.

“Dirty” Harry Reed has been creating the senate bill behind closed doors the whole time, so why stop now?

Despite the fact that every single poll out there shows that the majority of the people in the United States are against the various healthcare proposals that the Democrats have been putting together, King Obama called together all senate Democrats to teh White House today to create a unified 60 vote coalition to make whatever current bill they have go through the senate for a final vote.  At this point, none of us know what the current draft of the bill is like. Apparently, the government option is gone and apparently they took out the expansion of Medicare to people 55 and over. Yet, we know nothing else.  It is quite likely that all of the mandates and controls over the medical system are still there, which means it is still government control anyway. Apparently, the $500 billion cut in Medicare is still there as well. Yet, we don’t know for sure.  The Democrats have stopped informing us of what their current bill includes weeks ago.

Yep, it’s more of that “unprecedented transparency” that we were promised by Obama, Reed, and Pilosi. Basicallly, they tell us what they want us to think, and they hide what is actually going on. All we know is that they are determined to pass whatever it is before Christmas. Yet, we must assume that some of the following issues are still part of the package:

• The most recent plan included an up to 40% tax increase on private health insurance plans. These are the so-called “Cadillac plans.” Of course there are still taxes on all kinds of private health plans.  This will obviously increase the costs of our healthcare, despite the promise that they are doing this to lower our healthcare costs.  Why tax us for having health insurance?  On the flip side, they fine you if you don’t have a health insurance plan.  What’s the deal? They’re just determined to fund their government bureaocracyover the healthcare industry on the backs of all of us.  We’re basically just going to be paying for the government to expand its power, not for improving our own healthcare.
• The $500 billion cut in Medicare will obviously be scary for seniors and those nearing retirement. The notion that Medicare will not cut benefits even though they are significantly reducing its funding is purely laughable. the money isn’t going to go toward improving Medicare, the funds will go toward creating the giant bureaocracy that the government needs to create in order to rule over the entire healthcare system.  Seeing how Medicare is going to be bankrupt in 8 years, it obviously needs fixing, but theis healthcare takeover is not focused on fixing anything, it’s merely focused on taking over the parts of the halthcare industry that government has not already ruined.
• while the government “option” may not be in the bill, all the regulations that the bills have had thus far control every aspect of the helathcare system.  From defining what types of plans are approved and allowed by the government to creating rules for health insurance companies and healthcare providers, how can anyone say that the government isn’t going to be in control of the healthcare system? It still is a government takeover.  All this money is just going to go to creating the gigantic government entity that will be controlling the whole system.

Let’s fave it folks, wheter we like it or not, the Democrats are determined to ram this thing through on us, and according to the numbers, they don’t need any Republicans to help.  All the bickering so far has been about making all the Democrats agree on their own plan that they developed on their own behind closed doors. Despite the fact that most of the country is against it, they will shove it down our troats. Let’s also face reality here, these plans are not designed to do any of t things they promised.  Healthcare costs will go up due to the government’s mandates and taxes, there will still be about 25 million uninsured people, and there will be less options for all of us since the government has to approve all healthcare plans.  With this example of how the ruling Democrat party does not listen or care what the people think, we can rest assured their striving to take over the healthcare system will not allow for customer feedback.

I know that these Obama lies are nothing new, but they bear special significance right now as the congress is trying to ram this nationalized healthcare down our throats. The 3 chief arguments that Obama is using for unleashing Nancy Pilosi and Harry Reed designed healthcare on us are not only not addressed by the bills in the house and the senate, but are actually made worse.

Nancy Pilosi doesn’t care that most of the country doesn’t want Pilosi-care. She’s going to ram it down our throats anyway.

1. The first excuse that Obama and the Democrats were using to take over the healthcare system was that there were too many uninsured people in the country. Of course, rather than addressing that problem specifically, they have been designing bills that would take over the whole healthcare system, applying regulations that control every aspect of healthcare providers and healthcare insurance companies, as well as developing a government-run insurance enterprise. Yet, the bills that have been made still are estimated to leave 25 million uninsured people. The existence of uninsured people is just a smokescreen, and excuse to create a government-run system.
2. Then came a shift in the talking points that the Democrats were using. Next, they shifted to the cost of health care as the main reason to let the government run the whole system. Yet, the bills that are in the house and senate right now strive to pay for developing the whole bureaucracy they need to form in order to become a nation-wide insurance company by taxing the healthcare benefits all of us now have. When a bankrupt government needs to pay for developing a whole new corporation of its own, it needs to get the money from the people some way even if that means raising the cost of their health insurance. So, basically Obama to pay for his government take over by increasing the cost of our insurance premiums What a lying sack of crap he is.
3. Then, with coordinated precision, the Democrats shifted their talking points to demonize health insurance companies. In order to create more competition, the U.S. government needs to develop its own health insurance company. Rather than letting insurance companies compete across state lines, and lightening the restrictions that the federal government puts on them, the government wants to create competition by jumping into the game itself. Of course,  all of the bills they are putting out make onerous rules for the insurance companies, and no rules for the government. In other words, the referee is fixing the game before the competition. If health insurance policies change int he private sector, the policy ends and the people are thrown into the government plan. The government must approve all plans that the health insurance companies offer. The health insurance companies can be sued, but the government plan cannot be sued for damages… and the list goes on and on. Of course, we have to pay for the government to develop its own insurance bureaucracy. In addition he government allows itself to not pay its bills. The government only pays 80 cents on the dollar for its healthcare bills through Medicare and Medicaid, driving up our health insurance costs to make up for their lack of paying their bills. In addition to this, Medicare andMedicaid are virtually bankrupt. Yeah, let’s let the government ruin the rest of the healthcare sector.

Barack Obama, if his lips are moving, he’s lying.

Read the bills. This is why they do it behind closed doors, and don’t give us time to read them before they vote on them. Obama and his fellow Democrats are lying to us, making hopeful promises to disguise the fact that they are planning to screw us big time in order to create the United Socialist State of America.

For the past few weeks, the mantra of the government healthcare promoters has been “Health Insurance Reform.” Barack Obama, Nancy Pilosi, Harry Reed, Henry Waxman, and Barney Frank (the usual far-left suspects) have been demonizing health insurance companies and have been blaming the surge of disappointment from the American public with the Obamacare bills on “special interest groups.” Obama and Pilosi have been characterizing their plans to take over the healthcare system as fighting for the little guy against big special interest. Of course, the polls indicate that it is the majority of the American public that is against Obamacare. Does the majority of the American people work for the health insurance industry?

At the same time, the Democratic National committee has been mobilizing its union groups, including SEIU, NEA, UAW, and AARP on bus trips to town hall meetings to pressure congressmen to support whatever Obamacare bills come out of committee. This sounds more like the real “Astroturf” to me. As Nancy Pilosi characterizes anyone against the Democrats’ plans as “swastika bearing neo-Nazis,” the polls seem to indicate that the majority of the people in our country are apparently neo-Nazis because they do not support the Obamacare proposals.

Organizing for America, Barack Obama’s campaign fund-raising organization is now run out of the DNC and is staging town hall meetings and funding their union thugs to go to these meetings to look like they are actually int he majority of opinion instead of what the polls clearly indicate. So, where’s the real Astroturf? It’s amazing how the far-left is actually trying to get away with having their paid operatives fake the semblance of having the majority of the public in favor of Obama’s healthcare plans. No wonder his approval ratings are plummeting. How long will he be able to get away with his lies and propaganda?

Here, SEIU thugs wearing their purple union T-shirts are beating up a man outside of a town hall meeting. This reminds me of the kind of stuff that Chavez or Castro would organize. no wonder why these two dictators like Obama so much.

Remember when Nancy Pilosi commented on the grass roots movement of the tea parties that protested the outrageous spending by the Democrat-controlled congress? She said that it was really “Astroturf” because, according to her, it was backed by conservative groups. Of course, she did not support her argument with any example of big money groups supporting them. In reality, the tea parties were just average people going out and protesting and just synchronizing their efforts together via the internet.

Where are the swastikas Nancy?

Now, Pilosi is demonizing the people who are going to town hall meetings to tell their elected representatives what they think about the proposed healthcare plans. She calls them “Nazis” and representatives of health insurance companies, which she further describes as villains. It’s the old liberal game of demonizing whatever companies htey need to to get people to support their even bigger company, government. Trouble is, with the sheer multitude of people, it is painfully obvious that these are just regular American citizens that are not happy with what THEIR government is doing. This fact is even supported by all the major polls, Rasmussen, Gallup, et al..

Health Insurance company profits are lower than most sectors. I guess since the government specializes in debt, all profit is considered “immoral.”

Most Americans are against the Obamacare plans. So, are we all Nazis?

So, the left-wing plan is to demonize health insurance companies as having too much money from “windfall profits.” Of course, this is not true. The average growth of the health insurance sector was about 3% last year, far behind other sectors. The software development sector, for example, had profits in the 20% region. While some people do have problems with their health insurance policies, at least they have choice at this point to find other policies. Having a government option will drive out private insurance companies and leave people with no option. As I have been writing, if the government does with standard health insurance what it did to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security (3 almost bankrupt government-run insurance programs), the government will only make healthcare worse.

At least the lefties can be happy that Obamacare is more popular than Pilosi herself.

The next step is to demonize people who disagree with Obamacare and the current proposals in the Senate and House. Unfortunately for the left-wingers, the majority of the country is against these proposals. But, the left-wing propaganda artists are going all out spending millions on TV ads to try and change this. Along the way, they have to call regular people “Astroturfers” in that they are somehow controlled by the health insurance companies that the left is trying to shut down and drive out of healthcare. Somehow this does not make a lot of sense with the sheer numbers of people who are against the healthcare proposals. The majority of the country works for health insurance companies?

Here, SEIU union thugs in their purple shirts are beating up a black man who was handing out material outside of a town hall meeting. So, where are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharp ton on this one? Beating up a black man is ok if you’re a liberal Democrat, I guess.

With great hypocrisy, the left is now rolling out their hired goons to fill town hall meetings and make it look like there are just as many people in favor of the healthcare proposals. These goons come from the standard line up of left-wing unions, ACORN, SEIU, NEA, AARP, and AMA. They also have PHARMA supporting them, which represents the large pharmaceutical companies. So which side has the real Astroturf? These groups are also a lot less civil than the ordinary citizens that are protesting the healthcare plans. There are even ads on Craig’s List for hiring volunteers to go out and support Obamacare in their neighborhoods and at these town hall meetings. Hmmm… isn’t “paid volunteer” an oxymoron? The SEIU is also paying devoting 33% of their overall capital into these efforts. This decision was made in January, 2009. Sounds like special interest and Astroturf to me.

Looks like the people protesting Obamacare are peaceful protestors… don’t see swastikas yet.

Peaceful disagreement outside, and on the inside, the representative doesn’t want to talk.

It’s funny how the left characterizes ACORN protesting banks not loaning to people who can’t pay them back as freedom of speech, but calls people engaged int he political process with their elected representatives “Nazis.” Two Blank Panthers threatening voters in Philadelphia with Billy clubs is no big deal to the left, but senior citizens worries about how their healthcare will be rationed by the government have no right to protest. This is another clear sign of the inherent tyranny in far-left statist politics.

Sheila Jackson-Less thinks her cell call is more important than listening to a cancer survivor in her district talk to her at a town meeting.

Here is one point that is not being answered by the proponents of the government-run plan in the healthcare debate. Those who want the government to run the healthcare system and drive out private insurance companies cannot seem to explain why the current government plans that are designed to make sure everyone has the opportunity to get healthcare coverage aren’t doing what they’re designed to do.

• Medicare - This is the government program that is supposed to provide healthcare to the elderly as well as the disabled. If there are elderly people or disabled people not receiving healthcare, this is the program that is supposed to do it. why doesn’t the government fix Medicare first, instead of taking over the health insurance industry? The fact that Medicare is running out of money and will soon be bankrupt might also be a red flag that maybe the government already has its hands full and should not be expanding its control over healthcare.
• Medicaid - This is the government program that is supposed to provide healthcare to those who cannot afford private insurance plans. So, if there are people who cannot afford healthcare and want to, maybe this is a program that is not working as it should be. Why doesn’t government fix this program instead of taking over the whole industry?
• COBRA and HIPA - These are two government mandates that force insurance companies to cover people who lose their health insurance from changing jobs, divorce, or whatever occurs that separates people from their healthcare policies. COBRA mandates insurance of the same coverage for 18 months, and then HIPA takes over indefinitely after that. So, if people are not insured because their coverage has been dropped, why don’t they call their insurance companies and demand the COBRA and HIPA coverage? If these plans are not affordable or not working, then why doesn’t the government fix these mandates first before taking over the rest of the healthcare insurance industry?

The Effectiveness of Government as an Insurance Company

Even beside the concept of personal responsibility and budgeting effectively to make sure that healthcare insurance is a priority instead of other expenditures in life, people also have these already existing government programs to make sure that they receive healthcare coverage. Either people are not using the programs, or the programs are not working effectively. In either case, these are government programs that are already in existence. Shouldn’t the government make sure that their current programs are working effectively instead of taking over more? When Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed, Barney Frank, and all the special interest groups (AARP, AMA, SEIU, and AFL-CIO) argue that our current healthcare insurance system is not working, should they not take a look at themselves and the government programs that are already there that are apparently not working? No, they just want to take over more. It’s the typical statis line, “We can’t be expected to make the current programs work because we need to take over more of the industry to make it all work.”

Basically, the statist  idea is that the government should be given more and more power and control. Then, their programs don’t work as they are supposed to. Then, the government says that they need even more power and control to make things work. The vicious cycle continues until the government runs everything aws in socialist countries, and then the entire country becomes a failed state. At thsi point, the government can only maintain power and control by eliminating dissent and using totalitarian tactics such as propaganda and secret security organizations to make sure that their power and failures do not get free and open debate. This is where we are heading folks.?

So, all you people who want a government-run public option in health insurance coverage, why should we have the government run the whole industry when these government programs that should be eliminating the the problem of uninsured people are not working effectively? Why should the government have more power and control instead of fixing what it has already has? With Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, being the the government’s main insurance programs, are going bankrupt, why should we have the government expand their control over insuring us?

So, how good do you think the government customer service office will be in this one and only insurance company for the whole country?

Well, the Florida jobs numbers came out today. Our unemployment rate is at 10.6%, 1.1% higher than the national rate. This is 4.6% higher than one year ago in Florida. Given this information, let us take a look at what our senators are planning to vote on in the U.S. senate and how that would impact Florida as well as the rest of the nation.

Big Spending Bill nelson in a Nutshell

It is very clear to Floridians now that Bill Nelson is no moderate. he has supported all of the recent big spending bills, to make him, “Big Spending Bill nelson of Florida.” He supported the stimulus package that was not read before voting. Only 10% of the stimulus was released so far. If only this amount was spent after 6 months, what was the big rush to pass the bill without reading it? Basically, the strategy was to avoid people having a chance to see what was in it, because they were told it was a stimulus package, when in reality, it was a left-wing pay off bill sending money to all the groups that helped get the Liberal Democrats elected.

Big spending Bill Nelson voted for it without reading it and he also voted for all the amendments that the Liberals added to make it bigger and voted down all the amendments that called for oversight and security.. or God forbid, cost cutting. He voted for the Omnibus Bill soon after that that included 4,000 pork barrel projects not designed for helping the economy, but for paying off supproter again. Bill Nelson also wanted to spend more on the auto company and bank bailouts than was actually spent! Bill Nelson is no moderate, he’s a big spending Lib!

Bill nelson Wants to Strap a Second Cap and Trade on Us

Now, our Liberal Senator, Bill Nelson, supports cap and trade. Florida already has a cap and trade system in place. This is one of the factors leading to our state’s high unemployment. It also is a direct cause of the high electric rates we have been paying the last two years. Companies and businesses also are paying higher rates, and that contributes to the amount of people they can hire and retain. Additionally, the use of fossil fuel energy in any company brings on a heavy tax burden as well. cap and Trade has hurt Florida, and now Bill Nelson wants to strap it on the whole country. As a result, Florida will be under 2 Cap and Trade systems, the state and the federal government. looks like unemployment is going to even higher thanks to Bill Nelson.

The National Black Chamber of Commerce, a Democratic group, even estimates that the Cap and Trade bill passed by the House of Representatives under heavy pressure from Nancy Pilosi and Barack obama will cost Americans an average of 2.5 million jobs per year. This figure also takes in account all the “green jobs” that they hope to create. When you have a Democratic group calculating such heavy job losses on their own legislation, you have to know that it can only be worse than that, not better. So, look out Florida, we are going to get hit really hard with out of control unemployment.

Cap and Trade will also make it harder to sell your home. In Florida, the housing market is severely crippled. On top of this, Bill Nelson is happy for us to have Federal Energy Regulations that will trump any state or local regulations. You will need energy certification from a federal beaurovrat to get PERMISSION to sell your home. You will need to update appliances, sealing on windows, and all the other energy0saving expenses that this left-wing government wants.

Mel “The Smell” Martinez

So, we have a left-wing Liberal in Bill Nelson, and now Mel Martinez, on his way out, decides he wants to be a Liberal Republican. he too supports Cap and Trade, which will kill jobs in Florida and hurt the job market. He doesn’t have to worry about running for election again, but let’s hope he doesn’t show up in some other position somewhere, because he stinks. Despite the fact that most Republicans are against the heavy-handed, job-killing Cap and Trade tax, this Liberal Republican wants to go for it. Why? Is he hoping to become a lobbyist for some far-left organization or something?

Breaking her promises about transparency and keeping the American people informed about the legislation in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pilosi once again shoves a 300 page addition onto a bill at 3 am int he morning the same day as it is scheduled to be voted on. We can easily see why she snuck it in. Her mandates of a Federal building and housing code based on a radical California model is going to hurt the housing market as well as home prices in A BIG WAY. This is in addition to their own estimate 2.3-2.7 million jobs lost per year and skyrocketing electric and gas prices for EVERYONE! She knew this would be unpopular with the majority of Americans, so she snuck it in. Remember, she’s up for election next year. VOTE HER OUT!

Find out if your Representative supported this Cap and Trade Monstrosity. If they did, vote them out next year, all House of Representatives members are up for re-election next year. No matter their party, vote them out if they supported this bill! Find out what your 2 senators’ position on this bill is. If they support it, let them know you won’t be voting for them! You can find out by calling the Capitol switchboard at (202)224-3121. They’ll direct your call to the Representative you have as well as your 2 Senators.

John Boehner and those against the bill fought hard last night, but the liberal machine, funded by the radical environmentalists and socialist movement won out. Now the battle moves to the senate.

John Boehner’s Statement on Pilosi’s All-Inclusive Energy Tax and Building Mandate Bill that Passed Yesterday

Jun 26, 2009

Washington –

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) today strongly opposed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) national energy tax and the impact it would have on middle-class families and small businesses across the country. Boehner earlier spoke on the House floor in a marathon, hour-long speech in which he read portions of the legislation to underscore its real consequences for American jobs and the economy. Following is Boehner’s statement on the legislation:

“Today, in what will be remembered as the defining vote of the 111th Congress, House Democrats passed a 1,500-page national energy tax bill that no one even had the chance to read. The American people have the right to know what is in this legislation and, more importantly, what impact it will have on middle-class families and small businesses. In just an hour, we raised serious questions about the true consequences of this legislation for Americans’ jobs and all of our economy.

“Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is a bureaucratic nightmare that will cost families more than ever for electricity, gasoline, food, and other products, and cost millions of American workers their jobs. This is a tax on anyone who drives a car, buys an American-made product, or flips on a light switch. It will drive up energy costs, send millions of jobs overseas to countries like China and India, and place an especially heavy burden on rural America. Republicans believe there is a better way. Our American Energy Act is the fastest route to a cleaner, more reliable energy future. By increasing environmentally-safe energy production, promoting alternatives like nuclear and clean-coal technologies, and encouraging increased efficiency, this alternative legislation will create more jobs, lower energy costs, and clean up our air and water.

“There’s a big difference between the heartland and San Francisco when it comes to Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax. Today, House Democrats made the decision to stand with left-wing special interests rather than with families and small businesses in their districts that will lose so much because of this national energy tax. The American people will not forget this vote.”

It’s a battle between the free market and personal liberty versus tyranny and government control over EVERYTHING.

Well, the count was 219 to 212 in favor of the Cap and Trade Tax. As with other recent bills, the current version of the tax was finalized at 3am and voted on the same day. The whole transparency principle of letting the American people review bills before rushing them through was out the window a while ago, and the trend continues. Nancy Pilosi has taken the approach of rushing things through without people reading the bill, even the representatives voting on them, as her “technique” of ramming her left-wing agenda through the House of Representatives.

A recent addition to the bill was a plan to model a set of Federal Zoning Regulations off of California state regulations. In other words, every state in the country will lose the ability to set its own building regulations, we are now all forced on the California model. Yeah, that’s constitutional.

Additionally, those Americans below the Federal Poverty Level will get their expenses from this tax rebated to them, but the overwhelming majority of Americans are out of luck, here’s your BIG TAX INCREASE for 95% of the American people. This will go along with one other finding from their own Congressional Budget Office….

Their own Congressional Budget Office estimates about 2.3 – 2.7 million jobs per year lost even after calculating in all the “Green Collar Jobs” that they plan to add

So, you get a big tax increase on all individuals and businesses in addition to a dwindling jobs market. Are you happy? Well, Barack Obama warned you that he was going to skyrocket electricity costs…. but you didn’t listen…. SUCKERS….

Hold Them Accountable

Write your two senators and demand that they do not vote for this Cap and Trade Tax. Tell them you will fire them if they do the next time they are up for election. Find out how your congressperson voted, and then you get the chance in 2010 to fire them if they voted for it.