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POPSBOLD STEPS? HA! I guess they just do not get it, will not get, not capable of understanding it.
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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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POPS UN Signals Delay in Climate Change Treaty But he indicated that Copenhagen most likely won't produce a treaty, but instead will push governments as far as they can go on the content of an agreement. "The secretary-general believes that we must maintain the political momentum established by the 101 heads of state and government who attended the climate change summit and continue to aim for an ambitious, politically binding agreement in Copenhagen that would chart the way for future post-Copenhagen negotiations that lead to a legally binding global agreement," Pasztor said.
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POPS Chaos-istan The big question now is whether this is going to be about Obama’s ego, or about winning in Afghanistan. If any general is ill-advised to shoot his mouth off, this business may also teach the administration something about blowing off generals at (unnecessarily extended) criticial moments and insisting that political parameters trump military ones in wartime. Maybe if he wasn’t so distracted with trying to have Democratic Christmas in October … an expensive tax-and-fee-subsidized health care giveaway in the middle of economic crisis and war. To be followed on by cap-and-trade’s assault on business, industry, utilities and consumers. And then you’ve got Iran, unresponsive to the extended hand of friendship. AFP, “On Afghanistan, US military puts Obama on the spot,” NYT with a look at Petraeus includes the unfortunate news that this president is less interested in listening to his generals than his predecessor was.... LA Times: “Afghanistan assault points out .....
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POPSGet Informed, Get Involved, Congress.org Take a survey on our redesign! We want to know what you think of our new look and what else you'd like to see on Congress.org. The climate change bill cometh The Senate is now taking on a bill that would set limits on greenhouse gases, but the details are still to come. Public option trips on first hurdle A Senate committee rejected a public health plan, suggesting the idea wouldn't survive a floor vote. 05:27 pm September 29, 2009 Get Your Representatives' Votes by email weekly http://www.congress.org/congressorg/megavote/
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POPSA Ripe Time For Florida's Marco Rubio "Rubio intends to prove that "in the most important swing state, you can run successfully as a principled conservative." When Florida politics come up I always encourage my friends to get out and support this man. He's the one!!!! Crist is a political climber of the worst kind. I believe, at heart, he is a Democrat (when once that was not a bad thing in Florida) but chose to run as a Republican because of a Jeb Bush strong Republican state. As one pundit pointed out, Crist never runs for re-election...he's climbing the ladder. Floridian conservatives need to take back the GOP flag...even if the Party Leadership is trying to play the political odds game.
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POPSAversive Racism Yeah - you know how all those white people who hated Clintoncare weren't racist back then because Clinton was white. But if you oppose Obamacare or Cap and Tax you are racist now. When will the liberals realize that calling racist means nothing any more?
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POPSAdministration Privately Admits Cap-And-Trade Could Cost Families $1,761 A Year: FOIA Documents
So there you have it, from an internal Treasury Department document that cap-and-trade could generate federal receipts, i.e. tax revenue, in the range of $100 to $200 billion a year. Does that cost sound familiar to you? The Heritage Foundation has long predicted that: "The annual cost of emissions permits to energy users will be at least $100 billion by 2012 and could exceed $390 billion by 2035." This raises a whole other issue, that the $100 to $200 billion estimate by Treasury has no date or timeline of any kind. While Heritage follows the trajectory through to 2035, and even to 2050, the Treasury Department doesn't provide any further analysis or calculations. In a different memo, prepared by President Obama's transition team after the election, they throw this out there: "Economic costs will likely be on the order of 1% of GDP, making them equal in scale to all existing environmental regulation." That's another prediction offered up without any details as to . . .
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POPSInternal Treasury Memos: Cap & Tax Could Cost Americans $100 to $200 Billion Annually "This memo tells you it's a tax. Why else are they discussing hundreds of billions of revenue to be taken from the taxpayer?" This leaked memo must be immediately rebuked, people will don white robes and gallop across the countryside. Obama's black. We can't have leaks proving he's lying. It's racist. I condemn that piece of paper with its bigoted numbers for inciting racial hatred. Corrected: I wrote the figures were "far higher" than the numbers Obama admits, but I see now there is no reference to what numbers Obama admits, precisely. So I can't say they're "far" higher. I have corrected that to "higher." posted by Ace
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POPSU.S. Senate Democrats Skeptical About Cap and Tax Bill With most Senate Republicans expected to oppose a climate change bill in the 100-member Senate, nearly all of the 60 seats controlled by Democrats would have to line up in favor of the legislation for it to clear procedural hurdles. Continued...
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POPSDavid Brooks: Getting real reform in health care "Instead of true reform we got a series of bills that essentially cement the present system in place. The proposals do not fundamentally challenge the fee-for-service system. They don’t make Americans more accountable for their own health care spending. They don’t reduce costs. They just add more people into the mess we’ve got."
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POPSThe Next Industry on the Chopping Block game plan hasn't worked out so well for Venezuelans. And check out the poor schlub sitting next to her. You can almost read his mind. How the heck did I get stuck sitting next to this national embarrassment? After "reforming" health care, the National Socialist Democrats will target the energy industry. Whether through cap-and-tax or some other stealthy mechanism, Democrats will punish more job creators as certainly as night follows day. And If Waters is really the best that Californians can do, I would recommend that residents start evacuating now. Posted by directorblue
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POPSObama wants YOUR Computer This is Part 2, Please read them in order. This is very poignant. If this doesn't start to scare you, I don't know what will. .
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POPSMaxing Out The Race Card In contrast, what has Barack Obama done since becoming president? " Increased taxes to pay for the S-CHIP expansion, supported a cap and trade bill that amounts to a $1,500 to $4,000 tax increase on every American family, and has discussed tax increase to pay for his health care scheme. " Spending increases " a massive “stimulus,” a massive expenditure bill with 9,000 earmarks, and his trillion dollar plus health care scheme, $9 Trillion in deficit spending. " Government programs as morality, i.e. “God wants you to support nationalized health care.”) " Government funding and promotion of abortions " Mandates to buy health insurance " Appointing those who don’t pay their taxes and should to Cabinet and key advisory positions.
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POPSSteyn: It's About Moving America Left Stimulus hits a pothole Of course, the president retains his formidable political skills, artfully distracting attention from his stimulus debacle with his health care debacle. But there are diminishing returns to his serial thousand-page, trillion-dollar boondoggles. They may be too long for your representatives to bother reading before passing into law, but, whatever the intricacies of Section 417(a) xii on page 938, people are beginning to spot what all this stuff has in common: He's spending your future. And by "future" I don't mean 2070, 2060, 2040, but the day after tomorrow. Democrats can talk about only raising taxes on "the rich," but more and more Americans are beginning to figure out what percentage of them will wind up in "the richest 5 percent" before this binge is over. According to Gallup, nearly 70 percent of Americans now expect higher taxes under Obama. But the silver-tongued salesman sails on.
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POPSCap and Trade Equals Fraud and Tax In a cap and trade system, the government deems a certain level of pollution acceptable as long as the polluter pays a tax. That's like saying that it's acceptable for someone to throw trash on your lawn so long as he has bought a government permit. Even worse, he can throw even more trash on your lawn if he buys additional permits from someone who refrains from throwing trash on your lawn. In effect, cap and trade legalizes pollution. True environmentalists -- those of us who are concerned about things such as clean air and water -- should oppose schemes like H.R. 2454. H.R. 2454 is not designed to clean up the environment. It is designed to generate more revenue for the government and to give the government more power over the economy, our lives, and our freedom. And it does so at the expense of the environment.
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POPSClimate Legislation Means Voting Against Prosperity Some Democrats want to avoid voting on a measure that would force companies to get pollution permits, said Daniel Weiss, an energy and climate specialist for the Center for American Progress, a Washington public policy group that advises Democrats and supports a cap-and-trade system. “There is a lot of wishful thinking on the part of some senators,” Weiss said in an interview. “They want to do what is easy, not what is needed.” Put another way, they want to appear to be abiding by the wishes of the far-left liberal wing of the party that’s being lead by Obama while not actually murdering the economy, and plunging their constituents into the exact opposite of prosperity, with a carbon bill that amounts to a massive new tax on, well, pretty much everything. Plus, some of these Democrats (like, ahem, Dorgan and Conrad) come from states that are very rich in things like coal and oil. Voting for a cap and trade bill means voting against the prosperity of their . . .
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POPSOpponents of U.S. healthcare reform take on... the U.K.'s National Health Service This is a good example of what happens when a political culture develops in which true facts no longer matter. In order to discredit the current plans for health-care reform, opponents are trying to tar it with the National Health Service's failures. Only problem is, most of the failures they describe are made up. I kind of like the super-glue story, though. I mean, hell, I pay for a group dental plan through my job, and my wife needs an implant, and I'm seriously considering a second mortgage to pay for it. And I have insurance. Somehow, these supposed British horror stories haven't convinced yet me that our current system is so wonderful that we shouldn't change it. Remember: the U.K. has the 18th-ranked healthcare system in the world; the U.S. has the 37th; and we spend plenty more than they do.
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POPSEnergy and Environment: Around The Interwebs UK looks to abandon any semblance of private energy More Cash for Clunkers, Less Cash for Solar Why “cash for clunkers” is a terrible idea Shopfloor: Global Warming Controls = No New Single-Residence Homes Cap and Trade legislation just another tax levy
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POPSWhy the 10th Amendment movement? "We know, they intend to control our resources, it’s written in the Cap and Trade Bill." "We know, they intend control of our very lives, it’s written in the Health Care Bill." "We know,they intend to control our votes, the 2010 census is now controlled by the white house and the ones registering voters are corrupt" "We watch and wait as they install unaccountable czars for dictating not representing" "We watch and wait as they increase “organizer” funding from millions to billions of our tax dollars. And we wonder how these groups will be used to steal our life, liberty and property from us."
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POPSTeeing Up the Taxes VAT is their dream. Taxing everything at every point in the distribution chain - and its all "invisible" - except that nobody can afford to buy anything any more.
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POPSThe Words of The Messiah From last October. P.S. anybody who smokes sure got a tax increase. anybody who actually uses any energy will get a whomping doubling of their gas and electric bills through cap and tax. But he's a tax cutter - right there
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POPSCap and trade: raise the cost of living for everyone Finally, and worst of all, the tax is extremely regressive. Taxes assessed at the business level become product costs to consumers. Fixed-income and poorer Americans will be affected by the cost increases more than more affluent Americans. What slaps in the faces of the very voters that put this administration and Congress in office! I never would have believed something so heinous would be passed by an American government. You might want to make sure your senator knows how you want him or her to vote prior to the Senate’s vote early this fall.
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POPSAl Gore sued by 30,000 Scientists for Global Warming Fraud "The tragedy of Ravelle's sudden death in 1991 allowed Gore to continue using "flawed science" as the basis for CAP and TRADE - a concept spawned by the scandalous ENRON corp." The largest of the greenhouse gases is in fact water vapor, Co2 is not a pollutant, plants need it to breathe. Do some research instead of blindly following yet another defunct religion
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POPSObama's long six months
Obama sold the country a false prospectus of easy, obvious, and almost painless change. The usual six honeymoon months have elapsed, and the country is nearly through rejoicing at the consolation that they have a president whom foreigners are unlikely to throw shoes at, and who speaks in sentences. But his own Environmental Protection Agency director acknowledges that his cap-and-trade bill will have no effect on the climate, and it will neither raise revenue nor reduce carbon use. It must be replaced with a straight carbon tax of bearable impact coupled with sensible conservation, and alternate-energy-source and oil-exploration incentives. The bill that limped through the House of Representatives was a Rube Goldberg contraption of Al Gore myths and Congressional vote-buying boondoggles. Its adoption would be a disaster. The president’s claim of putting millions of Americans to work making wind-mills and solar panels is a fable that extends the frontiers of quixotry.
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POPSAl Gore to Become World’s First Global Warming Billionaire It is right that Al gore is not doing it all for the money, there is the power to consider too and the ability to affect policy. While screwing the public so hard that future generations will feel it. It is a complete farce and the power to control carbon is the power to interfere with anything on the planet. As a generl rule of thumb if AL GORE is involved it is a scam.
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