About Me

In writing the "About Me" portion of this blog I thought about the purpose of the blog - namely, preventing the growth of Socialism & stopping the Death Of Democracy in the American Republic & returning her to the "liberty to abundance" stage of our history. One word descriptions of people's philosophies or purposes are quite often inadequate. I feel that I am "liberal" meaning that I am broad minded, independent, generous, hospitable, & magnanimous. Under these terms "liberal" is a perfectly good word that has been corrupted over the years to mean the person is a left-winger or as Mark Levin more accurately wrote in his book "Liberty & Tyranny" a "statist" - someone looking for government or state control of society. I am certainly not that & have dedicated the blog to fighting this. I believe that I find what I am when I consider whether or not I am a "conservative" & specifically when I ask what is it that I am trying to conserve? It is the libertarian principles that America was founded upon & originally followed. That is the Return To Excellence that this blog is named for & is all about.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Or Will It?

BO's freight train of the Socializing of America kept steamrolling through the House yesterday with the passage of the American Clean Energy & Security Act (also known as "Cap & Trade") by a margin of 219 to 212.  The 1200 page bill was introduced earlier in the week & a 300 page addendum was added @ 3 AM on the day of the vote so we can once again safely presume that no Member of the House read it prior to the vote.  The bill is being rushed through because the temperature of the earth may be 0.1 degree C higher 100 years from now.  I wish the people who voted for the bill were half as concerned about Social Security which is scheduled to draw on the fictitious Trust Fund in 6 years.
 
Although Cap & Trade still must pass the Senate we should resign ourselves that it will become law one way or the other because BO has the votes for it to be followed by universal healthcare, union card check, the further nationalization of businesses, & comprehensive immigration reform which will ensure his reelection as he gives away your Social Security & Medicare benefits to the poorest most uneducated people he can naturalize - all of which will lower our standard of living as it destroys our free market capitalistic system thereby making us totally dependent on government. 
 
In summary, under Cap & Trade the federal government will initially set limits on the total amount of carbon that can be emitted nationally.  The government will then sell permits to businesses who can trade these permits to other businesses.  Of course the consumer will pay the cost of the permits as the government gobbles up more & more of your wealth & income as these permit costs are just passed along the same way any costs are for a company that can stay in business.  Over time the caps will be lowered to reduce the level of carbon dioxide - the very same gas we exhale.  The Heritage Foundation has calculated that the cost of this program will be $1870 for a family of four in 2020 rising to $6800 by 2035 - so plot your own cost curve for you & your family from now to $1870 & then to $6800.
 
Cap & Trade Will Impose a National Energy Tax on Every Single American, Will Cause Electricity Bills to Skyrocket, Will Cost American Jobs - Shipping Them Overseas to China & India, Will Not Improve the Environment, Will Cause Gasoline and Diesel Prices to Spike Further, & Will Send Billions of U.S. Taxpayer Dollars Overseas
 
Below are the list of Congressmen who voted for Cap & Trade - the biggest redistribution of wealth ever.  If this is important to you please check to see if your Congressman is on the list & do everything you can to see that he is not reelected in 2010.  He is counting on being one of the government elites who will not be affected by Cap & Trade even though you will be.
 
But maybe I have overreacted.  After all the kids are just out of school & people are planning on going on vacation hoping to relax, forgetting about this stuff so that they can enjoy themselves.  It will all still be there when they return.  Or will it?  
 
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 477
(Democrats in roman; Republicans in italic; Independents underlined)

      H R 2454      RECORDED VOTE      26-Jun-2009      7:17 PM
      QUESTION:  On Passage
      BILL TITLE: American Clean Energy and Security Act

Ayes Noes PRES NV
Democratic 211 44   1
Republican 8 168   2
Independent        
TOTALS 219 212   3


---- AYES    219 ---

Abercrombie
Ackerman
Adler (NJ)
Andrews
Baca
Baird
Baldwin
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Boccieri
Bono Mack
Boswell
Boucher
Boyd
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carson (IN)
Castle
Castor (FL)
Chandler
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly (VA)
Conyers
Cooper
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Driehaus
Edwards (MD)
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Frank (MA)
Fudge
Giffords
Gonzalez
Gordon (TN)
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hall (NY)
Halvorson
Hare
Harman
Heinrich
Higgins
Hill
Himes
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilpatrick (MI)
Kilroy
Kind
Kirk
Klein (FL)
Kosmas
Kratovil
Lance
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Luján
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney
Markey (CO)
Markey (MA)
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McHugh
McMahon
McNerney
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Miller, George
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murphy (NY)
Murphy, Patrick
Murtha
Nadler (NY)
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Obey
Olver
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perriello
Peters
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Polis (CO)
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Reichert
Reyes
Richardson
Rothman (NJ)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schauer
Schiff
Schrader
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sestak
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Shuler
Sires
Skelton
Slaughter
Smith (NJ)
Smith (WA)
Snyder
Space
Speier
Spratt
Stupak
Sutton
Tauscher
Teague
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Towns
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch
Wexler
Woolsey
Wu
Yarmuth
 
---- NOT VOTING    3 ---

Flake
Hastings (FL)
Sullivan

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