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2010-04-15 Fifth Column

Soros Backed 'Veterans' Organization Backs Cap 'n' Trade

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-04-15 10:11|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Using the vets is a new low. I wholeheartedly support energy independence, domestic production, and new nuclear plants but cap-N-trade won't do it anymore than the health care bill increased access and made costs more affordable for taxpayers. Soros and these tax-exempt foundations always manage to manipulate and squeeze the pulp out of us while exempting themselves and pocketing their billions, often stashing it offshore. I can hear the evil cackles over how stupid the "little people" are all the way from Leona Helmsley's grave in Sleepy Hollow, coincidentally the home of the Rockefeller family compound.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-04-15 11:39|| 2010-04-15 11:39|| Front Page Top

#2 I purely hate misleading survey questions and analysis.

We all would like to see the U.S./civilized world weaned off of oil from jihadi and fascist countries (e.g. Venezuela). The question the VoteVets.org survey very carefully didn't ask is how we should accomplish that goal: drill here now, increase the sale price of oil products through tariffs and taxes, subsidize alternative energy possibilities -- and then which ones? Solar, wind, nuclear power, oil from coal, increased natural gas use, better batteries, etc and so forth -- reward energy efficiency at the consumer and commercial levels, paint roofs in the southern half of the country white and in the northern half of the country dark, reward telecommuting, build smaller power plants closer to the users to reduce the energy lost across the power lines...

The ideas present themselves, and most give much better results than cap'n'trade legislation at a significantly lower cost to society. But then, the purpose of cap'n'trade, like the Democrats' health care bill, is to change society rather than achieve the putative aim.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-04-15 15:00|| 2010-04-15 15:00|| Front Page Top

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