travis' brain dump

Funny how my blog has turned pretty political lately… perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the government paid to work for us continues to amaze me with the constant poor performance as a whole they give this country. If I were to directly compare it to my line of work I would expect to be fired for failure to perform my duties as assigned.

Don’t get me wrong, there are quite a few politicians up there that seem to have the right ideas at least 50% of the time but overall we’ve got problems. Enough on my rants about the lacking abilities of our government. Let’s turn our attention towards this whole climate nonsense, because it is at that nonsense.

This past week (July 7th) at a Senate hearing law makers started the battle concerning whether”cap-and-trade” would hurt or help the US economy with a little pressure from cabinet officials.

“Denial of the climate-change problem will not change our destiny; a comprehensive energy and climate bill that caps and then reduces carbon emissions will,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu in remarks before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.

I’ve figured it out… Chu and Waxman are planning a family together cause let’s face it, they support each other like a husband and wife… I wonder who the wife is…

Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the panel’s top Republican, said the cap-and-trade system would amount to the largest tax increase in American history, a statement echoed by many Republicans but shot down by Democrats including Sen. Barbara Boxer of California, who chairs the committee.

“There are no new taxes,” Ms. Boxer said Tuesday morning.

No new taxes? So you’re saying that the several trillion dollars the government expects to collect from this bill just magically appears out of nowhere!? Clap your hands kids, the fairy dust will make you flyyyyyyy! Really!? Do you expect us to believe that collecting money from introducing a new “tax” on companies by way of this “cap-and-trade” nonsense isn’t going to get passed onto us American’sby way of increased costs of production and loss of jobs over the course of this bill being put into action? You are so full of self-importance and self-indulgence that you can’t see past your own ego’s for 2 seconds to realize that by doing so it will only cause another round of increased recession and failure in our economy that will cause this country to land in such a downward spiral that will leave us with nothing left but the skin hanging off our bones. You think you’re saving the planet? The planet doesn’t need saving, we do.

“It’s no surprise that during today’s G8 meeting, China, India and other developing nations refused to accept mandatory emissions controls on their economies,” Senator Inhofe said. “Without participation from China and India, anything we do here at home would impose burdensome costs on consumers in the form of higher electricity, gas, and food prices, all for no climate gain.  Unless supporters of cap-and-trade legislation can develop a plan to convince China and India to make meaningful emissions reductions on par with the United States, no such bill will pass the U.S. Senate.”

Go Senator Inhofe!

The only good news out of this whole debate came from the EPA!? That’s right, the EPA Administrator herself confirmed while appearing before the committee the following:

 ”I believe the central parts of the [EPA] chart are that U.S. action alone will not impact world CO2 levels,” Administrator Jackson said.

Nuff said. This bill is exactly what people are calling it… “Crap-and-Tax” If this bill were to pass it would eventually complete the job of flushing our economy entirely down the drain.  America, it was nice while it lasted but the dream has turned into a nightmare… somebody wake me up.