Just a thought...

Consumer confidence is slipping...
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Giving away stimulus checks to Veterans...
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People in America are saving.... which is amazing considering not even five years ago the figures for Americans saving were negative.
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Sales of Durable goods (things like washing machines, cars, airplanes, boats) rising...
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Unemployment still rising...
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And the government is still searching for the wrong answers to fix the problem.
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All foreign investors have to do is stop buying bonds which is funding our government's out of control spending to destroy the value of the dollar. Pay it back... its killing our country because we can't continue to finance this. All the growth caused by the stimulus package is temporary at best, and adds to the problem of inflation and makes less and less funds available to consumers for borrowing.

So why the hell would we want to pass a bill that will further impose hardship on Americans by raising energy prices?

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Democrats have added a provision which imposes stiff tariffs on our trading partners if they don't adopt aggressive carbon restrictions of their own. (Retaliatory tariffs anyone?)

Pelosi is gaining so much ground saying it will create so many green jobs...
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How many jobs will it lose? Energy bills affect nearly every aspect of life and in order for some businesses to meet these costs they will have to let more people go.

/It is easy to see this bill is a bad idea.
//Wish people would stop the hype about Billy Mays, Farrah Faucett, and Michael Jackson, and that impressionist guy to see that something like this actually will affect your life.

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To add to and reinforce some of the things you've pointed out.

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The “Cap-and-Trade” bill will likely kill two or three real jobs for every so-called green job it creates. If this bill passes the Senate, the president’s signature will make it the law of the land. If that happens, look for your utility bills to increase by fifty percent. Expect gasoline to rise to last summer’s levels and above. Count on the cost of food, clothing and anything else affected by fuel prices - in other words, everything - skyrocketing.
In fact, “skyrocket” was the exact word Obama himself used last year to describe the inflationary effects of this legislation, even as he promoted the idea during his presidential campaign. Obama told voters at that time that his cap-and-trade proposal “will necessarily cause energy prices to skyrocket.” That was a striking admission from a presidential candidate, on a par with Walter Mondale’s startling statement at the 1984 Democratic National Convention that he would “raise your taxes.”

As we look back on Barack Obama’s first six months in office, one of two things must be true: the man either believes his policies are good for the country (in which case he is a fool), or he knows those policies are destructive to our economy and he is promoting them anyway (in which case he is every bit the autocrat and Marxist many of us warned he was during the campaign). I have come to believe the latter, but either way we have a long, expensive ride ahead of us.
For those who supported this president out of frustration with either John McCain or with George W. Bush, is it not obvious to you yet that Barack Obama hates America? Those of you who thought Jeremiah Wright was an anomaly in this man’s life, can you now see that this preacher of hate was just part of a long chain of negative, anti-American influences on Obama?
Rather than the Founders of this country, Barack Obama’s heroes have always been terrorists, felons and anarchists. Where most presidents revere Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, the father of the Constitution, this president’s role models have been domestic bomber Bill Ayers and Marxist Saul Alinsky, whose “Rules for Radicals” contains the blueprint for tearing a free America from its underpinnings and replacing it with a repressive nanny state.
As militant as this president is, he is not alone in his extremism. The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, D-CA, a woman two heartbeats away from the presidency herself, is perhaps even more radical than Obama, if that is possible. Pelosi and her counterpart in the Senate, Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, have thus far done this president’s bidding. That may change, especially in the Senate, but one thing is clear. These people hate the America you and I love, and they will do whatever they can to alter it forever.

And this quote...

"A week ago, CNN, the Washington Post and other major news outlets covered Obama's killing of a fly as if it was a major news event. (At least when the Russian press similarly gushes over Vladimir Putin, he's karate-chopping cinderblocks in half.) The good news: More photo-ops are coming, because the White House apparently has a major fly problem. I know that because I read the New York Times' flood-the-zone coverage. As Kool Aid-allergic columnist Robert Samuelson has noted, such sycophancy is a serious public-policy problem because the president is proposing a radical overhaul of pretty much everything, and for the most part the press hasn't cared that his explanations are iffier than gas-station sushi, his assurances more dubious than a North Korean press release. Obama's ongoing promise that he's 'creating or saving' jobs is as plausible as the chess team captain's claim that his supermodel girlfriend can't fly down from Canada for the prom. Maybe the fly infestation at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has something to do with the fact that the White House is a central hub of bovine manure distribution?" --National Review editor Jonah Goldberg

I find it amazing that the rest of america is so out of touch with reality and don't follow anything but the state run news media or american idol .etc.man they need to wake up out there .the things that this group of thugs are doing in washington is ~ well its insane .and yet another czar was appointed ! this needs to stop.