I'm sure you missed it. With the deluge of media coverage on the Tiger Woods saga, how could you see it anyway. Perhaps it was timed for release at that favorable moment just so you wouldn't notice another of your cherished freedoms slip away. Am I delusional, paranoid, or just plain crazy? Not at all, I just take the time to notice things.
What I'm referring to, in this rambling way, is the capacity given last week to the EPA to regulate so called "greenhouse gases.” You see, this bothers me because it has stripped us of our voice. President Obama and the Democratic Congress have tried again and again to ram the "Cap and Trade" policy down our throat. It is a means whereby our industries will be regulated and taxed based on the amount of gases they release into the atmosphere. Conservative Congressmen have fought this tooth and nail because "we the people" have asked them to. It is a policy that will stifle industrial growth and output, burden energy companies with huge tax increases that they will pass on to consumers and effectively double energy bills, and it will send what few manufacturing jobs are left in America overseas. Not being able to push it through Congress, the President and his buddies merely went around it.
First of all let me say that "global warming" is a myth perpetrated by the very same scientists and naysayers whom in the seventies told us we were headed for another Ice Age. Second of all, why do we as a nation wish to handicap ourselves with this nonsense when developing nations have no intentions of doing such. China currently builds one new coal fired plant every two weeks, India one a month. Here in America, you even talk of it and here come the tree huggers and hippies to tell us how to conserve and ration. And industry? American industries will be speaking Spanish and Chinese in no time, and "Made in America" will only refer to fast food you pick up at the drive thru.
The problem is the EPA will now be able to do the same exact thing as Cap and Trade, only more. They have the ability to levy fines and shutter doors of those "not in compliance". And, being a government entity directed from the White House and budgeted by a Democratic Congress, the EPA will do whatever is asked of it. The EPA nearly wrecked American industry in the 1970's with emissions rulings which were ill timed with high energy prices, a devalued dollar, an ongoing war overseas, and a bad economy. It looks like history indeed repeats itself and President Obama may be this generation’s version of Jimmy Carter. The only question now is, where is our new Ronald Reagan?
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