By Doug Patton,GOP USA
Is Obama trying to destroy our country?
Like much of the country,you may have spent your time last week snickering about the peccadilloes of yet another hapless politician who couldn’t keep his pants zipped. Or maybe you were captivated by the untimely but predictable passing of the most talented musical freak of the last quarter century. Perhaps while watching the ABC-Barack Obama dog-and-pony show purporting to deal with the future of your health care system,you were deceived into thinking that this was the big issue of the week. If so,you would be wrong. Make no mistake,it is on the agenda,but the real threat of the moment was simmering up on Capitol Hill in the United States House of Representatives.
Far too many Americans were distracted by other things to notice that on Friday,June 26th,211 House Democrats and 8 Republicans defiantly thumbed their noses at the will of their constituents and passed the largest tax increase in the nation’s history.
The “Cap-and-Trade”bill will likely kill two or three real jobs for every so-called green job it creates. If this bill passes the Senate,the president’s signature will make it the law of the land. If that happens,look for your utility bills to increase by fifty percent. Expect gasoline to rise to last summer’s levels and above. Count on the cost of food,clothing and anything else affected by fuel prices —in other words,everything —skyrocketing.
In fact,“skyrocket”was the exact word Obama himself used last year to describe the inflationary effects of this legislation,even as he promoted the idea during his presidential campaign. Obama told voters at that time that his cap-and-trade proposal “will necessarily cause energy prices to skyrocket.”That was a striking admission from a presidential candidate,on a par with Walter Mondale’s startling statement at the 1984 Democratic National Convention that he would “raise your taxes.”(The fact that John McCain is no Ronald Reagan has a great deal to do with Obama not losing every state but his own like Mondale did,but that’s a column for another day.)