They Must Go Now

Yesterday was a very disheartening and frustrating day. While a major energy tax was being considered, and ultimately adopted, all any major news outlet could talk about was the death of Michael Jackson...a pop star....a crazed, quite possibly mentally ill former singer...a man who most likely molested little boys. His life has been seemingly honored, and all the while, the rest of our lives have been significantly changed with hardly a second thought.

Obama's proposed "Cap and Trade" energy tax bill slid through right under the radar, thanks to eight (I believe) cowardly "Republicans" who couldn't even get this vote right. If those eight men and women had stood with the rest of their party, this bill WOULD NOT HAVE PASSED. The final vote was 219-212. Those eight betrayed their constituents and subsequently, the rest of the country. Now we will, quite literally, all pay for their ignorance. Perhaps they were bought, pressured by lobbyists or just too intellectually stupid to understand what was being considered. Most likely not a single legislator (democrat or republican) read the monstrosity of a bill before voting on it....something that has become quite commonplace, and is most disturbing to me. Either way, these eight "republicans" sold out their country and now it's time to get rid of them. They need to go.

Our energy prices will soar. This will effect every single one of us. Obama has admitted this. He simply doesn't care. As a result of the massive taxes and regulations on energy and carbon emissions, businesses (mainly in the manufacturing sector) will cease to do business in America. They will simply go where the rules are less restrictive (think China, India, Mexico...) and the loss of jobs will be staggering. Our electricity prices will rise a whopping 90% over the coming years, not to mention gas prices. We will be regulated beyond anything we can imagine by a president who is much more closely resembling a dictator these days, what with all of his self-appointed, accountable to no one, un-elected "czars".

I wonder when we will wake up. I fear it may be too late and that the damage done will be all but impossible to reverse. After this vote, I have very little hope left that universal health care will not be passed. And once that happens, I truly think it may be too late to fix.

These unread pieces of legislation that are being passed willy-nilly have consequences that many cannot even begin to imagine...and frankly, I'm scared.