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POPSWhy Should We Trust Them With More of our Money? It's become pretty obvious to anyone paying attention, that state and federal governments are not good at managing money. We have a huge federal deficit, many states are facing huge deficits, and some large cities are even going bankrupt. Why would we even consider raising taxes to give government even more of our money to mis-manage? All they'll do is pass more ridiculous legislation that spends our money even more unwisely. Instead, let's focus on cutting government spending. Or an even more radical idea, let's run our governments like a business, led be real business executives instead of politicians. I'm tired of seeing a large portion of my paycheck get flushed down the drain because our state and federal governments don't know a thing about how to spend it wisely.
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POPSWelcome To A Preview Of The Economy Killers energy-efficient appliances and home upgrades to "save" the environment and what remains of your bank account. Of course, this may not be an issue for you. You may not mind adjusting to newer, smaller vehicles that cost more and can do less. You might think that the increased taxes are worth it. You may have extra money in your home budget that you would otherwise waste on frivolous things if not required to use them to pay for necessities like natural gas and electricity. I'm thrilled for you. Really. I am.
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POPSVirgin Group Chairman Sir Richard Branson Willing To Pay Carbon Offsets Former United Nation's chief Kofi Annan. "We must have climate justice." Abdul Gayoom is president of The Maldives, a band of 1,200 islands in the Indian Ocean. He said his nation faces elimination if sea levels rise, as a result of global warming... and suggested proceeds from aviation-related carbon offsets go towards benefitting small nations.
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POPSMcCain/Obama: No Light Carbon Footprint For Them
But cap-and-trade lets politicians decide which lobbyists get permits for their clients, and which are so ungrateful that they do not. Best of all, politicians get to decide how to employ the trillions that will be paid for permits. This undercover raid on energy consumers and plan to enhance government power is not the only energy policy that has the approval of both presidential candidates. Both promise "energy independence;" let's hope they are bright enough to know they are being economical with the truth. Both want to keep the ban on drilling in Alaska; Obama wants to maintain the ban on drilling off-shore, and by leaving it to the governors of those states, McCain effectively favors the same ban. Both fear that the globe is warming. So it seems that we have a choice between two candidates who have drunk deeply of Al Gore's global warming potion while zooming around the country in private jets and racing to meetings in the large SUVs favored by them and their entourages.
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POPSCap and trade us to death Germany tried this with disastrous results. Now their steel industry is moving to Saudi Arabia. Too expensive to do business in Germany with the cap and trade policies. And you just know that the taxes will get passed on to us in increased prices. Meanwhile, unless tariffs are imposed, foreign goods will flood the market becasue it is cheaper to produce goods in countries that don't have these ridiculous policies. And when they do impose tariffs those countries who were trading tariff free with us will raise tariffs on us making our goods more expensive to sell oversees. Why can't they just leave well enough alone. They know what happens and they are justifying it by using Climate Change as an excuse.
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POPSCarbon Copies - Emissions Taxes Based upon a widely accepted formula originated at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, if the entire United States adopted the original Kansas legislation, it would prevent a total of 0.11 degrees F of global warming per century. Read that again, because it's not a typo: Eleven one-hundredths of a degree in 100 years. Instead, let's apply the original Kansas legislation to every nation on the planet that agreed to limit its emissions under the infamous 1997 Kyoto Protocol...The new law would prevent 0.27 degrees F of warming per century. That's an amount too small to measure, because global temperatures vary by more than that from year-to-year -- global warming or not.
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POPS 2008: THE GAS MASK ELECTION John McCain is WELL to the Left of the Bushes. So, conservative voters won't be able to even get into the voting booths - let alone PULL THE LEVER for the liberal McCain - without wearing a GAS MASK!
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POPSREALITY CHECK! There is a frightening new global trend of denial... Europeans think that they don't need to limit fishing... Car companies don't think they need to improve fuel economy standards... Bush thinks he can increase spending and cut taxes at the same time... Jingoists think we are winning the war in Iraq... Democrats think Hillary Clinton has enough experience to win an election... Polluters think that Global Warming won't really happen... Evangelicals think Jesus is coming back soon... Fundamentalists think they can win the war against modernity... The truth is: we're stuck with this world. The rules DO apply. No free passes. You have to face the music sometime. We must choose realism over comfortable delusion. Unfortunately, for now, wistful thinking will rule the day until we let it all collapse around us. Then we'll stand there scratching our heads saying: How could this happen?
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POPSNot McCain John McCain doesn't understand what tax reductions do. He also doesn't understand that Global Warming is a fraud. I hope he understands that he doesn't get my vote.
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POPS Local Food And Global Food An effort to clarify whether local produce is always more environmentally sound, at least in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide emitted in the process of growing it, trucking it and shopping for it. If the only metric is greenhouse-gas emissions, it’s clear that local is not always better, as the article makes clear. But my guess is that most people seeking local produce are not in it to save the climate. This reflects, perhaps, the deeper challenge facing those trying to make global warming the single-topic environmental issue of our time. http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/energy-an-ingredient-in-local-food-and-global-food/#more-99
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POPSU.N. Needs More Media Propaganda On Global Warming The U.N. is saying that the American people haven’t been indoctrinated enough, and that the media have to provide even more one-sided coverage The U.S. is the largest contributor to this U.N. agency, providing more than $100 million annually. This U.N. report has one of the most devious rationales for censorship that you will ever see. In a section of the report about “The Role of the Media,” the U.N. informs us that “The media have a critical role to play in informing and changing public opinion.” It goes on to lament that “one study” in the U.S. on coverage of climate change “found that the balance norm resulted in over half of articles in the country’s most prestigious newspapers between 1990 and 2002 giving equal weight to the findings of the IPCC and of the climate science community, and the views of the climate skeptics—many of them funded by vested interest groups. Continued confusion in public opinion is one consequence.”
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POPS U.N. Tax Scheme:::Sen Inhofe Says “fuhgetaboutit” The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is warning of global taxes but notes that help is on the way in the form of Senator James Inhofe’s proposed anti-global taxes legislation. Headlined, U.N. globotaxes: Fuhgetaboutit, the May 30 editorial declared: Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., is on the verge of telling the United Nations, “Don’t even think about it.” Mr. Inhofe will be introducing a bill mandating the U.N. not advocate or promote global taxation — since the hopelessly dysfunctional polyglot of poppycock is musing about “new sources of development finance.” Or for those not fluent in bureaucratic Esperanto — taxing Americans.
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POPSSave The Planet - No More Fresh Milk This is why you have to raise all those taxes for global warming. It takes hundreds of government bureaucrats to come up with plans like this. And just think how many people will be needed to kill off half of Britain's dairy cows.
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POPSThe Cold Truth - Part 2 Here's another real policy. Hurray too for the local press in the US, where clear thinking and freedom of speech seem to be in far better shape than in the national media.
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POPSCarbon Allowance Wow, these guys are really thinking ahead and all this from the friendly UN? I think I'll shift my focus on to them and their catchphrase "Sustainability". Comments more than welcome. :)
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