I’m back in the saddle after last Sunday off so I could helm Allman in the Morning while Jamie took some much-needed time off to relax with his fam onvacation.
On deck tonight:
- Obamacare!
- The truth of cap-and-tax
- Immigration reform hits congress next week
- EFCA update
Lots more. Your calls, Cool Points, snark. 8p CST sharp!
Hat tip from listener Caroline.
David McArthur had it last Friday when Rep. Russ Carnahan and other Missouri reps SOLD OUT Missouri workers and small business owners by voting for the Waxman – Markey bill, otherwise known as cap-and-trade. McArthur also happens to operate the long-loved McArthur’s Bakery, which has been adding to the St. Louis area tax base and providing jobs for St. Louisans for years. Of course now, with cap-and-trade moving to the senate, McArthur is ticked. He realizes that his business costs are going to increase exponentially due to the major spike in energy prices which will occur if this bill passes senate. He knows that this is going to affect how he does business and who knows? It could result in less output and loss of jobs, two things we need less of, not more.
McArthur isn’t one to play it silent. He fired off a letter to Carnahan informing him that he put the official’s name in lights, probably not in the sort of way that Russ Carnahan has always hoped:
Congressman Russ Carnahan
Fax:202-225-7452
Dear Congressman,
Many of us have had it. You are a follower not a leader. Nancy says Jump boy, you say, How high?
You do not represent the interest of your constituents on the cap and trade issue. So you now have your name in lights for 40,000 cars a week to enjoy.
You sir are not good for small business. And we are letting all of our customers and neighbors know it.
David McArthur
May I suggest that you order your July 4th goodies from McArthur’s, along with your upcoming birthday, wedding cakes, et al.
“My call to every senator, as well as to every American, is this,” he said. “We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don’t believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth.”
Hail yes! Fear of the massive unemployment that this bill will bring in the future! He insults everyone who disagrees with him by suggesting that they are just fogeys, stupid, or that they rely on misinformation. So I guess The One believes that he knows more than Warren Buffett? Or Dan Kish? Or many, many other energy experts and scientists who have come out against this plan? Does this have anything to do with the fact that in order for Nancy Pelosi to become a gazillionare depends upon the passage of this bill? Remember that liberal outcry when Haliburton won military contracts in Iraq – even though Haliburton is the biggest company of its kind in the world and the only one capable of handling that amount of work? Pelosi will actually be filling her bank account with energy dollars. Such double-standards.
Read the snotty way in which Pelosi refers to conservative voters:
“For some it was a very difficult vote because the entrenched agents of the status quo were out there full force, jamming the lines in their districts and here, and they withstood that,” Pelosi said.
Just ohmyword. “Entrenched agents.” The name-calling which comes from the left is embarrassing, but of course it’s done in lieu of knowledge on the matter because in the leftosphere, zeal is considered knowledge. Can you imagine if we’d had these blockheads leading the country during WWII? We’d be speaking German right now.
It amazes me how the left likes to brush off increasing taxes with a “oh, well, it doesn’t cost that much … now.” No wonder every single state under liberal rule, like California, is going under. They have no concept of money, no idea that in addition to the massive stimulus and the looming taxes to offset that, the tax of the healthcare bill, the climate change crap, all the expenses that they consider inconsequential are adding up. I realize that these are limosuine liberals, these are people who don’t have to worry about the state of their jobs, how they’re going to pay their bills, so they have no real idea as to what the common American is facing. They are out of touch fat cats.
An elementary lesson.
Q. What happens when you increase the cost of doing business?
A. The price of the product increases!
BONUS QUESTION: What happens when the price of energy increases dramatically, as, say, under the Waxman – Markey bill?
A. Companies will be forced to cut costs elsewhere, i.e. trim their workforce, cap benefits, in addition to raising the price of their product.
BONUS EXAMPLE: GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IN PRACTICE
Say you need to go to the store to buy a gallon of milk. For the purpose of efficiency, let’s say that milk has always been a dollar. You get into your car, spend twice as much filling up your tank because the gas station has had to increase costs due to their own incurred expenses under Waxman – Markey. You arrive at the store and see that the milk is now four dollars. The coal-burning plant which supplies the electricity (the majority of electricity comes from coal burning plants in this country, according to the Dept. of Energy) has to pass on its costs to: the farmer. The farmer incurred increased costs under Waxman – Markey and they have to pass the costs of caring for dairy cows on so that they farm doesn’t go under. The facility which pasturizes and packages the milk also has incurred expenses due to Waxman Markey; those costs must also be passed on. The distributor of the milk has also received increased costs under the cap-and-trade bill; by the time the product reaches the store, the store must also adjust its prices to offset the added expense of purchasing and storing products. In order to do this the store has raised prices and laid off 100 members of its workforce to keep it from going under. All of these is reflected in the exponentially-increased price of a gallon of milk.
Seems like a lot of people seriously need to go back to school and study up on economics before they drown themselves in a debate on the issue.
Here are the eight representatives who voted FOR cap-and-trade. Going by procedure, they have until July 2nd (so timely, yes?) to change their vote and change the course of history by NOT allowing the biggest tax increase ever to pass the House. The links go to their contact info (thanks listener Angie!) so flood their inboxes, melt their phones. Correction: votes cannot be changed. they are now in recess. I got lost in my chaotic schedule and didn’t realize that they were going to recess before the 4th. Thanks for the heads up, listener Amber.
Here in St. Louis we are making it a mission to remove Russ Carhanan and William Lacy Clay from office since they have chosen to further burden Missourians with higher unemployment. Talking points after the links.
More links and contacts from RED STATE.
Talking points:
1. Reduce aggregate gross domestic product (GDP) by $9.6 trillion
2. Destroy an average of 1-3 million jobs, every year
3. Raise electricity rates 90 percent after adjusting for inflation
4. Raise inflation-adjusted gasoline prices by 74 percent
5. Raise residential natural gas prices by 55 percent
6. Raise an average family’s annual energy bill by $1,500 annually
7. Increase the federal debt by 26 percent, which is $29,150 per person
8. The EPA admitted that it may do NOTHING to halt carbon emissions as business trying to avoid penalties may move overseas
9. The point of the bill is to super-spike energy costs so Americans will use less. This will ripple down to everything from gas to food.
10. It’s a tax and it’s the biggest tax ever proposed in the history of our country. It will cripple the middle class.
11. It will result in massive job losses, according to many, it will cost nearly 81,000 machinery jobs and by 2035 there will be nearly 263,000 fewer machinery jobs.
12. It’s not about the environment – it’s about raising money for the government to offset the stimulus. The government is expected to earn BILLIONS from this and there will be NO CHANGE AT ALL to the environment.
WANT MORE?
VIDEO: Obama on cap and trade: ‘electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket
Cap & Tax will cost 1.145 million jobs
Tell your officials to vote no on the Employee Free Choice Act! There is no choice in this legislation, the suggestion that there is is a JOKE. It opens up workers for intimidation and retaliationif they choose to not unionize! Stand up for the American worker!
Thanks to John for this info:
https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
If you can, contact ALL of the U S Representatives in your state. Let’s FLOOD THEM!
U S Reps from Missouri:
1 – Wm Lacy Clay 202 225 2406
314 367 1970
2 – Akin (he’s on board, please thank him, moral support is good)
202 225 2561
3 – Russ Carnahan 202 225 2671
314 962 1523
4 – Ike Skelton 202 225 2876
5 – Emmanuel Cleaver 202 225 4535
6 – Sam Graves 202 225 7041
7 – Roy Blunt 202 225 6536
8 – JoAnn Emerson 202 225 4404
9 – Blaine Luetkemeyer 202 225 2956
Surprise, surprise, Carnahan, Clay, and Cleaver are FOR the bill. Put the HEAT on them!!
