A nice piece of socilaist engineering. This will be the Democrat parties single accomplishment since taking power, aside from forcing employers to pay for higher wages that they set, and arbitrarily at that.
If it had actually accomplished any positive, noteworthy results, they would be standing next to a lecturn right now, pointing at pie charts and grinning. But we haven't heard anything of the sort, because it fixed nothing that they claimed it would-just like this bogus "energy bill". -Matt If the energy bill that passed the House on Dec. 6 is now passed in the Senate, American taxpayers will be burdened with $21 billion in new taxes and have less freedom to drive the cars that they want...the congressional mandates will cause more unnecessary highway deaths, more inconvenience to American families, and will force manufacturers to produce vehicles that might be uneconomic for some companies. The energy bill also mandates that electric utilities produce 15 percent of their power from "renewable sources," which makes no economic sense in many parts of the country. If nuclear energy can be produced for a third of the cost of a renewable, why should all consumers be saddled with higher prices to do things less efficiently? But Congress, by giving tens of billions of dollars of subsidies to political favorites, such as corn farmers to make uneconomic ethanol, and engaging in mindless regulation, is distorting those price signals and actually slowing energy innovation. Also, the ethanol scam, by diverting crop land, is a major factor in the rise in food prices. By proposing $21 billion more in taxes to pay for the subsidies and misallocating scarce resources, Congress will make all Americans poorer, less safe and less free. A new study indicates the legislation will cause a net loss of 4.9 million jobs and by 2030 diminish the average American household"s annual purchasing power by about $1,700 from baseline levels. http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/COMMENTAR Y/112120009 <http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071212/COMMENTA RY/112120009> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
