Comments on: Debating time’s over, cap-and-trade on its way? http://greenerworking.com/debating-times-over-cap-and-trade-on-its-way Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:35:00 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rob Slabaugh http://greenerworking.com/debating-times-over-cap-and-trade-on-its-way/comment-page-1#comment-3640 Rob Slabaugh Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:47:37 +0000 http://greenerworking.com/?p=7699#comment-3640 Totally agree with philip and matt. We have done quite well over the last number of years at reducing pollution...cleaning up waterways, etc. but this one is over the top. How much can our economy and we as a nation stand? We are already rapidly approaching the point of no return as far as the national debt is concerned...if we don't start SOON being fiscally responsible the nation will be bankrupt and there won't be anything to pay the taxes with anyway. Tax and trade (did I say that?) is another huge burden we can't bear. Totally agree with philip and matt. We have done quite well over the last number of years at reducing pollution…cleaning up waterways, etc. but this one is over the top. How much can our economy and we as a nation stand? We are already rapidly approaching the point of no return as far as the national debt is concerned…if we don’t start SOON being fiscally responsible the nation will be bankrupt and there won’t be anything to pay the taxes with anyway. Tax and trade (did I say that?) is another huge burden we can’t bear.

]]> By: Matt http://greenerworking.com/debating-times-over-cap-and-trade-on-its-way/comment-page-1#comment-3610 Matt Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:26:35 +0000 http://greenerworking.com/?p=7699#comment-3610 Philip, I could not agree more. Its a money grab perpetuted by those who have self interests. Philip,

I could not agree more. Its a money grab perpetuted by those who have self interests.

]]> By: Philip Johnson http://greenerworking.com/debating-times-over-cap-and-trade-on-its-way/comment-page-1#comment-3604 Philip Johnson Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:04:01 +0000 http://greenerworking.com/?p=7699#comment-3604 We certainly hate to see the AEP, among others, throw up their hands in surrender to a really bad piece of legislation backed by no real evidence. Now is the time to remind the Senators that they are part of a government that was designed to be of, by and for the people. Clearly the Senators (of both parties) have abandoned that document they swore to uphold and the people who vote them in office. While it may be inevitable that cap and trade be passed, we should not assume it is. And while AEP and others are looking at how to comply in case it is, we should not surrender to such a horrible (and certainly unconstitutional) power and money grab by the federal government and the elite who will be the only benefactors of such legislation. Indeed, this legislation DOES NOT solve a problem but rather transfers money ultimately from the average citizen through the hands of the carbon trading outfits like Al Gore's who cut out a percentage of the money as brokers, and pass it off to corrupt regimes as compensation for our generation of so much carbon while those same countries are exempt from the same carbon generation limits. This is a scheme to level the average person to the lowest common denominator while the elite gain more wealth and more control. It is one of the goals of the global governance agenda. We certainly hate to see the AEP, among others, throw up their hands in surrender to a really bad piece of legislation backed by no real evidence. Now is the time to remind the Senators that they are part of a government that was designed to be of, by and for the people. Clearly the Senators (of both parties) have abandoned that document they swore to uphold and the people who vote them in office. While it may be inevitable that cap and trade be passed, we should not assume it is. And while AEP and others are looking at how to comply in case it is, we should not surrender to such a horrible (and certainly unconstitutional) power and money grab by the federal government and the elite who will be the only benefactors of such legislation. Indeed, this legislation DOES NOT solve a problem but rather transfers money ultimately from the average citizen through the hands of the carbon trading outfits like Al Gore’s who cut out a percentage of the money as brokers, and pass it off to corrupt regimes as compensation for our generation of so much carbon while those same countries are exempt from the same carbon generation limits. This is a scheme to level the average person to the lowest common denominator while the elite gain more wealth and more control. It is one of the goals of the global governance agenda.

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