There she goes!

We've officially seen the ship roll over. By ship I mean the sinking wreck that was once the greatest nation on the planet. I guess we should have seen it coming....she's been sinking for 150 years. The passing of the Waxman Markey bill, also known as Cap and Trade, has officially begun the final death throes of our once great union. First let's get a few things straight. Most importantly, Global Warming is a scam. Period. Now, let me be clear. There is no way that 6 billion folks and rising cannot have an effect on their environment. It simply has to be true. However, this is far more localized than the GW scammers will have you believe. I love the Earth. I enjoy being in nature and I try to get to it as much as possible. I also believe that we are very ignorant with energy consumption. But that's another post. Back to GW. The planet has never been stable in temperature. There are up swings and down swings in overall temperature. Read your earth science books from junior high. So we're on an upswing. It happens. However, this whole GW nonsense is something dreamed up in the minds of the power and money hungry. My example would be governments SELLING FOR PROFIT carbon credits! But we're just trying to save the Earth! Pardon the French, but BUUUULLLLSHIIIITT! This is nothing more than a move to take the money of hard working folks, Americans, Europeans, whatever, and place it in the hands of the Politicians and their special interest groups. This garbage has eaten away at Europe and turned the EU into a bankrupt, blood sucking leetch on its citizenry. And now the Euro-Fascism has made it's way to the US.
Well actually it's been here quite some time. Folks like to blame Roosevelt and the New Deal, me included. But after some study I've come to realize that while this appears to be socialist in nature, it was a limited timeframe and scope deal. Social Security was intended to be a trust fund much like the Federal RailRoad Retirement Fund, which has more money in it than was paid in, but some dumbass president (LBJ) decided that Congress should have access to it. And now it's bankrupt. Imagine that. A perfect example of the US govt's M.O.
Anyway, so now we are seeing the first signs of what the US Govt is becoming. More for us, less for you. By the way, that is the point. The middle class is the enemy of all governments, as they are the ones who are the most independent. The upper class has enough money that whatever happens will affect them minimally, plus they were smart enough to get there in the first place, so they know how to minimalize losses. The lower class wants as much given to them by the government as they can get, rendering them essentially bought votes for the spread the wealth politicians. And most of them are too ignorant or lazy to get out of the lower class. This leaves the middle class. Most of them just want to be left alone. Here's my taxes, now get the hell out of my way! So if this class is eliminated then they are no longer a threat to those in power. How do you eliminate an entire class of folks? Tax them and those that provide them with goods and services until they are broke and then they will be the dependent, subservient lower class. This is what Cap and Trade is all about. Not saving the planet or reducing dependency on fossil fuels. But simply making America a two class society, with the lower serving the upper.
So what can we do? Unfortunately, running is not an option. The rest of the civilized countries that any American would choose to live in are far worse off than we are. So technically the US is still better. But for all you bleeding heart, "This is still the greatest nation on earth" types, times up on that little schpiel. We've officially become no better than Europe. So we can't run, now what. Well, this half cocked power trip bill still has to pass the Senate. So get on the email, get on the phone, or simply show up at your two senator's offices (you do know whom they are, don't you?) and tell them that you refuse to be run over and if they vote for this nonsense you will ensure that they will not get your vote and the votes of your friends and relatives. The only way to deal with the power hungry politicians is to threaten to remove their power. Then after you have suffieciently exhausted that effort, you start to talk to those in your community, city, county, and even state. You talk them about how great it would be if you were not subject to the whims of a bunch of folks who live hundreds or thousands of miles away. Talk about how great it would be if you were governed by folks who had common values. Folks whose offices you can walk in with just a short travel and tell them how you feel. Folks who care when you express that opinion because you represent a large portion of their constituents. Then contact the leaders responsible for these communities, cities, counties, or states, and tell them that enough is enough. You do not want to go down with the ship. You see, there are lifeboats all around us. But we simply cannot be scared to jump in. Doing so is difficult, but we at least stand a chance in the lifeboat. If we stay with the ship we will surely drown.