“This is the wrong bill at the wrong time. As the Leader says, votes for this bill on the other side will come at a significant cost.” – House Republican Whip Eric Cantor
Republican Whip Eric Cantor speaks at a press conference on Cap and Trade:
Speaker Pelosi’s national energy tax is wrong for America. It is the wrong bill at the wrong time. It is so far outside the mainstream that I think the public is awakened now and understands there are huge costs and consequences to this bill. There will be millions of jobs lost due to the imposition of a national energy tax on small businesses and working families.
And frankly, the reason why the bill is so wrong is it represents yet a third attempt to try and reduce carbon emissions in a way that has proven unsuccessful in the past. Most of the industrialized world got together in 1992 in Rio, attempted to put goals out there to reduce carbon emissions in this manner and the result was failure. In 2000, Kyoto occurred, and we all know we’re on a course for significant failure in terms of that goal setting as well and its costing hundreds-of-billions of dollars to the global economy.
We can do this. We can make the earth a cleaner place. But the way we do it is to reduce the cost of alternative fuels - to make cleaner those fossil fuels at a reduced cost than what we have today. That is simple economics, that’s how we sustain a cleaner environment and promote a green economy.
This is the wrong bill at the wrong time. As the Leader says, votes for this bill on the other side will come at a significant cost.
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I thought Dems were supposed to be for helping small businesses. I guess that was a lie too.
Watch this and you will see where we are going. Straight from the horses mouth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlTxGHn4sH4
From his mouth WITHOUT a teleprompter!
This bill is being touted as the Obama bill.
“The problem is can you get the American people to say this is really important and force their representatives to do the right thing, that requires mobilizing a citizenry…..
Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket even regardless of what I say about whether coal is good or bad, because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas you name it whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations, that will cost money and they will pass that money onto the consumers.”
Obama is about to have absolutely everything of ours lives micro managed by green stavi youth brigades that will come into your house and inspect your house. You will pay a tax for breathing, farting, bbq, driving, and on and on. Gas is going to immediately go up a buck fifty a gallon. The utilities are going to skyrocket. There is going to be a tsunami of new taxes. Lock and load fellow citizens. If you have been reading the news lately, there has been a run on guns and ammo. This is why. Me and millions of other americans saw this coming. I WILL DO WHAT I MUST.
MOLAN LABE
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