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POPS Washington and the Jobs Market The larger measure of joblessness that includes marginal and part-time workers jumped 0.5% to 17.5%. And the average hours worked in a week stayed the same at 33.0, which means that millions of Americans working part-time will have to become full-time before employers start hiring new workers. If Democrats really want to create jobs and save themselves from a debacle in 2010, their best policy option is to stop creating so much investment uncertainty and additional barriers to business hiring. Stop trying to raise business costs by making it easier to unionize via "card check." Stop trying to raise energy costs with a cap-and-tax bill. Stop adding to the deficit and future tax burden with a 12% increase in domestic spending for 2010. Above all, stop trying to ram through Congress on a partisan vote a health-care bill that imposes a 5.4-percentage-point income tax "surcharge" on anyone making more than $500,000 a year......
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POPSSaudi Arabia Wants Compensation if Global Warming Bill Passes Saudi Arabia, which sits atop the world's largest proven oil reserves, is seeing economic growth slide because of fallout from the global meltdown, but experts still expect the country, flush with cash from oil's earlier price spike last year, to be better able than other nations to cope with the current crisis. Al Sabban accused Western nations of pursuing an agenda against oil producers, under the guise of protecting the planet. “Despite the variability in the region, the current Arab position is mainly focused around protecting the oil trade rather than saving the planet form the adverse impacts of climate change,” said Wael Hmaidan, the executive director of IndyACT.
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POPSIt Has The Stench Of Opportunity By reducing the amount of the potent greenhouse gas released into the air, the projects also potentially could turn cow dung into dollars, if a climate bill before Congress becomes law. "Agriculture and agribusiness is what Greeley is all about," Biggi said. "We needed to take that strong traditional economic base and ... merge it with emerging renewable energy and technology." Waste may be the new energy crop in these parts. But elsewhere, communities are looking anew at power sources such as the sun and wind that may exist in their own backyards.
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POPSObama’s Energy Czar: Socialist Agent For World Government Socialist International
Barack Obama’s “climate czar" Carol Browner has been exposed as being a member of Socialist International, a highly influential group headed by a Bilderberg Group luminary that calls for the implementation of global government, despite Socialist International’s attempts to seemingly “memory-hole” information about Browner on their website. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that Obama and his cabinet are preparing to exploit fearmongering about global warming to push new measures of taxation, regulation and internationalism. Obama himself has vigorously promoted the revival of a bill that would slash carbon emissions by 80 per cent, a move that would inflict a new Great Depression, cost millions of jobs, and sink America to near third world status. Obama has also publicly stated his intention to create a new infrastructure of “green brigades” and informants to regulate every aspect of our behavior in the name of saving in the name of saving . . .
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POPSVote Against Stimulus, Then Race For The Cash. White men speak with forked tongue. On top of that, ""I am writing to request your support for a number of projects in my home state of Utah that I believe merit your department's attention," Bennett wrote, adding that he would "greatly appreciate" any funding considerations for his state." "Utah's lawmakers sent these letters despite repeated promises from President Barack Obama that the stimulus bill wouldn't include pet projects and that the money wouldn't be awarded based on the desires of lobbyists or home-state politicians." Tsk, tsk, tsk.
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POPSTell President Obama to Cut Off ACORN Now! Petition long-term care and insurance premiums. Men and Women in Uniform We must support the men and women who protect our nation. That means giving them the tools and equipment they need, as well as the benefits and moral support they have earned. I support tax benefits to help ease the financial burdens our citizen-warriors and their families face and updated, improved GI Bill education benefits. And we must also support our first responders, who put their lives on the line to protect us in our homes, businesses, and communities. I was proud to have the MN Police and Peace Officers Association endorse my TRACK Sex Offenders Act, which gives law enforcement and officers the tools they need to keep us safe from sexual predators.
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POPSGlobal Warming Legislation Effect on States The preceding is a list of the 50 state-by-state breakouts of the impact the bill would have on jobs and the economy. Lieberman-Warner (S.2191) relies heavily on an unproven technology, capturing carbon and sequestering it. Even with the most generous assumptions " presuming that carbon capture and sequestration is commercially developed in 10 years " the economic costs for the average American are staggering. Under a more realistic scenario, the economic impacts in terms of losses in the job market, losses in household budgets, and higher energy prices will be drastically higher. To make matters worse, there will be inconsequential effects on the environment to show for it, if any. The Senate's leading climate-change bill, while aiming to combat global warming by reducing carbon dioxide in the air, actually poses "extraordinary perils" for Americans and the economy, according to a new study from The Heritage Foundation.
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POPSPalin: Dollar woes show need for energy independence THIS should be among the top 2 issues that Washington is addressing! How many of our economic problems could be solved just by going full-force on this desperate need? Can someone explain to me (other than the environmentalist's drumbeat) why this is so hard to implement?? I hear the talk but see no movement. Crisis indeed!!
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POPSClimate Bill ‘Radioactive’ -‘More Controversial Than Health Care’ “People forget what life is in the middle of the country, and I think that’s what we’re trying to talk about.” Reuters: McCain Assails Senate Democrats' Climate Bill (09/29/09) CQ: Senate Floor Action Unlikely Until Next Year (09/29/09) Energy Daily: Dems Worry about Impacts on Economy, Manufacturing, and Employment Back Home (09/30/09) Reuters: Long Road, Little Time for U.S. Climate Bill (09/29/09) AP: Senate Climate Bill Tougher than House Version (09/29/09) Politico: “Bill Dodges Some of the Most Contentious Issues” (09/30/09) Congress Daily: Dem: "I am not committed to cap and trade at this point under any circumstances," (09/30/09) E&E News: Boxer-Kerry Bill Draws “Mixed Reviews” By Senators (09/30/09) Washington Times: Senate Climate Bill Stricter on Emissions (09/29/09) http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Minority.Blogs&ContentRecord_id=0b023b35-802a-23ad-49da-f4c4f8d823a6&Issue_id=
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POPSMaybe We Could Target Verbal Pollution Next? No one has the time for a full cataloging of Kerry's ignorance. In any case, the average American may or may not know what "cap and trade" means but they know what BS smells like. STILL WAITING FOR THE SOUNDBITE: "It's not healthcare reform, it's death reduction". Posted by Tom Maguire
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POPSGlenn Beck Interviews Communist Party USA Chairman Sam Webb Webb lauded Obama's $800-plus billion so-called stimulus package as "a good bill that will ease the pain of this crisis, create jobs, and begin to reflate the economy." He explained labor unions, which he said were instrumental in Obama's election, must work to keep the White House in check by "exercis an enormous influence on the political process. Never before has a coalition with such breadth walked on the political stage of our country," he said. Indeed, in an article just after last November's election titled, "Special Interest or Class Consciousness? How Labor Put Obama in the White House," Political Affairs reported on polling data released that revealed the extent of union support for Obama. The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, or AFL-CIO, sponsored a poll showing union members supported Obama by a 68-30 margin and strongly influenced their family members. http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88380
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POPSSteven Chu: Americans Are Like 'Teenage Kids' When it Comes to Energy More elitist behavior; and yes, they are influencing our kids through public indoctrination. I'm all for being a responsible energy user. I have noticed one thing though...the more we try to save on our utility bill, the more revenue the city loses so they have to increase the rates! Lose - Lose.
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POPSGlenn Beck and Sarah Palin Make sure you understand what they are talking about......it is critical to the country to be aware of the possibilities inherent in these symbols and this ideology. It's no longer just a couple of wing-nuts. It's an army of the most despicable characters than one might imagine to have any kind of voice in legitimate political discourse. This is all being brought to you by the so-called "fair & balanced" Fox News (aka Faux News, and FoxPac). If you like listening to: Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Savage,....etc. then stay tuned to FoxPac cable network, and the Wing-Nut radio stations. You need to make sure that you are throughly brainwashed, so that you can get out them guns and overthrow the government, and be a member of the group that calls themselves PATRIOTS! Thanks Fox News for taking such a big part in this Anti-American shameful show of hysterical, bigotry!
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POPSSave on Your elec. Bill--Beware the Phantom Beware the Phantom My Aunt Helen used to yell "Turn Out That Light" every time she heard someone leave the bathroom. To her credit, this was one of the ways she saved up for trips to Europe every year.
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POPSFactCheck: Obama part wrong about abortion exclusion from healthcare One of the bills making its way through the House, though originally making no mention of abortion, has been amended to say that "Hyde-amendment" abortions - those performed in cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother - "shall" be covered. Whether or not this part of this bill becomes law - or ends up stronger or weaker - is impossible to say. Nonetheless, Obama did misrepresent the bill's approach to abortion when he insisted "no" abortions would be paid for with federal money. Some of you with whom I disagreed, based on his comments, were at least partly right. My apologies to you, and I am dismayed and disappointed by the President's distortion.
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