June 30, 2009 11:58 AM
Global Warming - Cap and Trade - homeowners' nightmare
What we call Man's power over nature
turns out to be power exercised by some men
over other men with Nature as its instrument.
~C. S. Lewis~
Although it was a HUGE disappointment that the House passed the Global Warming legislation - 1200 pages - largely unread - which will have enormous negative impact on the average citizen, the bill still has to go to the Senate for approval.
So keep up the pressure on your Senators - whether Democrat or Republican. Hopefully by October cooler heads will prevail, Obama's shrinking popularity will help, too.
Here's why it matters to you:
Cap and trade completely rewrites the American dream
Kimberly Dvorak
Cap-and-trade bill as written will rewrite the American dream - home ownership and provide heavy tax burdens for generations. Provisions within the largest tax increase in the country's history will change the way you buy and sell a home, use energy and shop for goods and services.
A new government bureaucracy created within the bill will force homeowners who wish to sell their homes to retrofit their houses to be "environmentally-friendly." The costs would fall to the homeowners possibly injuring an already fragile real estate marketplace.
Potential replacement items required would range from eco-friendly hot-water heaters to windows. The homes in California have already seen values fall through the floor and homeowners see no way to recoup the expensive upgrades the state and federal government would require.
Also included in the massive 1,500-page bill is water rationing. The federal government has set up a shower manager. One website selling a shower manager calls the gadget the "Shower Nazi." Located in section 217 of the bill and the Shower Nazi units puts a three-to five-minute limit on showers.
Read more here.
Keep up with the issue at: Global Warming.org
keep up with the progress of the legislation here: Heritage Foundation
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Comments
This is so frustrating. I can not believe they are getting away with this. I think we need to call on our Senators to read the bill on the floor when it comes through. These people are voting on something they haven't read. ANYTHING could be in that bill.
It's so scary.
Posted by: Lauren | June 30, 2009 1:02 PM
Can you believe they even left blank space in the bill to be filled in later. Barney Frank said we can trust them when filling in the blanks - I don't think so. Thank you Barbara for doing what mainstream media refuses to do.
Monica
Posted by: Monica Daniels | June 30, 2009 3:11 PM
I think it's worthwhile for us to do the right thing for the environment in order to leave our children a better world after we are gone - even if it costs us a little more in the short term.
Posted by: Sarah | June 30, 2009 4:02 PM
UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just contacted my senators.......
Posted by: Lisa | June 30, 2009 5:47 PM
Sarah, you crack me up. You are kidding, aren't you?
On the chance that you aren't kidding:
Costs us a little more? LOL. What is the official definition of "little?"
And you want to trust these guys with that?
These guys are piranhas and we are fish food.
Posted by: Sue from Buffalo | June 30, 2009 8:36 PM
Your quote from CSLewis about man's dominion over nature being dominion of some men by others with nature as the instrument, that comes from the novel THAT HIDEOUS STRENGTH and it is spoken by a villian. It's not necessarily CSL's actual position.
[Then again, it's not necessarily not his position either.
As a writer, and someone who's read That Hideous Strength several times - I'm inclined to think it is.]
Posted by: OperationCounterstrike | June 30, 2009 9:10 PM
