Posted by Tina
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” George Washington
Twin soldiers are being sent forth in our government’s war on business that together may finally bring death and destruction to all remaining “hopes” for economic recovery…as if the sputtering faltering “recovery” needed much of a push anyway. What exactly is our government up to this time? Passage of John Kerry’s cap and trade bill.
Conniving politics are behind the planning and plotting of this effort from the progressive green war room of the EPA to the offices of the generals in Congress. Still licking their wounds from the health care fight they regroup to launch their EPA/cap and trade salvo. They are determined that this time they will not be denied!
Who will be the innocent victims of this attack on business? Who will be the victims, the collateral damage that is necessary for the good of the planet? It will be the American people.
” This is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering… And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.” Thomas Jefferson
Tonight from the Wall Street Journal:
The EPA has now formally made an “endangerment finding” on CO2, which will impose the command-and-control regulations of the Clean Air Act across the entire economy. Because this law was never written to apply to carbon, the costs will far exceed those of a straight carbon tax or even cap and trade–though judging by the bills Democrats are stitching together, perhaps not by much. In any case, the point of this reckless “endangerment” is to force industry and politicians wary of raising taxes to concede, lest companies have to endure even worse economic and bureaucratic destruction from the EPA. ** Ms. Jackson (EPS chief) made a show of saying her new rules would only apply to some 10,000 facilities that emit more than 25,000 tons of carbon dioxide each year, as if that were a concession. These are the businesses–utilities, refineries, heavy manufacturers and so forth–that have the most to lose and are therefore most sensitive to political coercion. ** The idea is to get Exelon and other utilities to lobby Congress to pass a cap-and-trade bill that gives them compensating emissions allowances that they can sell to offset the cost of the new regulations. White House green czar Carol Browner was explicit on the coercion point last week, telling a forum hosted by the Atlantic Monthly that the EPA move would “obviously encourage the business community to raise their voices in Congress.” In Sicily and parts of New Jersey, they call that an offer you can’t refuse. ** Yet one not-so-minor legal problem is that the Clean Air Act’s statutory language states unequivocally that the EPA must regulate any “major source” that emits more than 250 tons of a pollutant annually, not 25,000. The EPA’s Ms. Jackson made up the higher number out of whole cloth because the lower legal threshold–which was intended to cover traditional pollutants, not ubiquitous carbon–would sweep up farms, restaurants, hospitals, schools, churches and other businesses. Sources that would be required to install pricey “best available control technology” would increase to 41,000 per year, up from 300 today, while those subject to the EPA’s construction permitting would jump to 6.1 million from 14,000.
“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.” – Patrick Henry
The timing for these draconian environmental attacks on business could not be more terrible. The means are unethical and the results will be dangerous. People have to have a way to work, eat and survive. Please read the entire article and do what you can to pass the word that this plan is the wrong plan at the wrong time.
Tea Partiers…the bugal has sounded…take those signs and banners out of storage and get ready for a tough battle…a battle for your job, your wallet, your home, your family, your country.