Letter to John McHugh re: Cap’n'Tax
Dear Congressman,
Thank you for selling out your constituents, and your countrymen, by supporting the Cap & Trade bill. A bill which you, like your colleagues, could never have had the time to read before the vote. A bill which even 44 Democrats crossed the aisle to prevent because even they understood that the mandates contained in the bill would be disastrous for business, for our economy, and for both workers and consumers.
Congressman, this is the second letter I’ve written you inre your failure to read a bad bill, and your willingness to vote for it anyway.
Mr. Congressman, if I get a response, I suspect that response will be, much like the one I got for the above-mentioned letter, a form letter extolling what you view as the virtues of this legislation — or at least, the fact that they included your own amendment. Kindly allow me to rebut in advance:
So?
Mr. Congressman, if you’ll allow me to be so blunt, neither I, your constituents, nor indeed most thinking Americans, could give two shits whether your amendment prevents acid rain, saves the whales or turns corn starch into dandelion-excreting fuel alternatives. And why don’t we care? Because the REST of the bill, Mr. Congressman, presents us with far more pressing problems. Problems like how we plan on feeding our families, or driving to work.
There’s this thing that should be taken into account, sir, before agreeing to pass legislation. A thing upon which the lives and livelihoods of your countrymen depend far more than bad science and mandates. It’s called Economics. Perhaps, at some point during your career as a Legislator, you’ve heard of it?
As relates to the Cap & Trade bill you so cavalierly signed, it works like this:Producers’ costs go up, as demanded by following the C&T mandates. That cost is passed on to Consumers. (Consumers, just so we’re clear here, are your basic taxpayers. Folks, like those in your state of New York who have less money every year thanks to tax and fee increases). Consumers have to make choices about what they buy, because they can no longer afford to buy everything they otherwise would. Thanks to the price increases. So… producers must find ways to cut costs. How? By cutting production. Which means cutting personnel. Which means — have you figured it out yet? — unemployment goes up. And with Cap&Trade, we’re not talking about a percentage point here. We’re talking about an astronomic increase in good, taxpaying men and women who suddenly don’t have a means of supporting their families.
All thanks to you and seven other turncoat Republicans.
I hope the fact that those of your constituents you sold out don’t have the option of voting you out of office helps you sleep at night.
Yours, sincerely
I am a local DJ here in St. Lawrence County, NY. My wife's name is Melanie, and we have four children.
I have to disagree with you and say that McHugh at least has a brain and realizes that a country has to step up and solve problems before they ruin us. Cap & Trade not only works to slow CO2 production but it will help in the area of oil/gas depletion. It will make other fuel sources viable. Is that a good thing? It is certainly worth a try given the alternative. Will it make energy more expensive, sure, but it will get expensive anyway. We need alternatives now!
You don’t really think our soldiers are dying in Iraq and Afghanistan to provide democracy?
http://www.energybulletin.net/primer
Well, Mayme, I have some questions for you.
How come global warming wasn’t that big a deal until Al Gore’s sensational movie throughout which there were a lot of lies told?
Indeed, if it’s such a crisis why do they have to lie at all?
I would think it would be apparent as a problem without lies, wouldn’t you?
If Wind and solar power are such great viable alternatives to fossil fuels, don’t you think they would have done better in the market since the technologies have been around for decades? Wind power has been around for centures, in fact. You know, windmills? Instead, they’re just big bulky, and innefficient. So, the techno-wizs who can’t seem to solve those problems blaime the fossil fuels companies and get government subsidies to continue being big bulky and innefficient… because they can’t compete on the open market.
When cap and trade was ramped up in the 70’s and 80’s it killed the steel industries and crippled the economy in so many ways it was unreal. But they’re such pretty lies it’s hard not to believe in them, right? So, now, if this new legislation passes, we get to watch more inductries die while their alternative energy sources are allowed to continue to be big bulky and inefficiient on our dimes which we will pay them in two ways: taxes and higher utility bills.
But they’re such pretty lies, you’d rather believe the lies than the truth.
There are likely to be a lot of typoes in that. I can’t see black on dark gray very well, so I apologize in advance.
StephC’s last blog post..TN, aided by the Feds, engage in revenue killing and an assault on yet another industry
Mayme, you are obviously a lefty tool, correct? Anyhow I will proceed under that assumption*. You are correct that Cap and Trade will attempt to decrease CO2 production, the problem is that it does so by artificially increasing the cost to the consumer and limiting supply. Additionally we don’t know what the baseline levels of CO2 should be. With this in mind how can Cap and Trade actually hit it’s goal to save the world? For all we know the decrease in CO2 could have negative affects on our climate, or it could have absolutely no affect and would therefore be a failure and a monumental waste of money.
Now on to your insulting rhetoric about our Military. Yes the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq are fighting to provide the respective peoples with Freedom and Democracy. To not see the actual results of this effort make you a complete and total moron leftist (but I repeat myself). In case you weren’t aware the War in Iraq has been won…the U.S. and the new Democratic Government of Iraq won….your ilk lost…get over it. Afghanistan is still somewhat a mixed bag, although maybe your Man God Barry will just default on the whole thing an give it too Russia…you just never know.
So in closing, Leftist, Statist trolls such as yourself will be the demise of this once blessed country. When the economy collapses and you are roaming from city to city to find work that most Americans won’t do, don’t bother stopping by my house for a bite to eat as all the food will be reserved for those who aren’t worthless traitors to their Nations ideals and goals, established in our Founding Documents.
Have a nice day.
Forgot my footnote from above.
* Yes I should never assume and surely I shouldn’t go forward based on an assumption, but I figured that since you were doing so wrt Cap and Trade that I would be forgiven for doing so myself.
Cheers.
Good video with William Engdahl
http://free–expression.blogspot.com/2009/07/william-engdahl-full-spectrum-dominance.html
I agree with every word in the article except that calling him a Judas is a discredit to Judas. When I hear that he hung himselfe then maby I’ll change my mind.