If we're a welfare state (nation) we're easier to control! Let them have everything, then when there is no one left to pay - we'll truly be France or England or better yet SPAIN!
The rallying cry for every election from enactment will be, 'They're try to take your ENTITLEMENTS away from you! Vote for me to keep them!'
Someone, somewhere needs to spell it out for the common folk! Take it to the level of, 'If you're making $20,000 and you're paying $210 a month for electricity or natural gas/propane to heat your house, by 2013 you'll be paying $295, and $378 by 2035! To operate your car now is approx $85 a month just for GAS, in 2013 it will be $118, and by 2035 $154. Motor oil will go from $4.50 to $7.35 a quart! These are rough estimates, but probably very close to accurate.
If gas would have been $2.79 at the pump, it will be $3.57 under this plan (Just from the added costs of this Legislation - not demand)! So the next time the market sends gas to over $4.25, it will be to $6.32 instead!
And when your BUDDY tells you, 'Well Europe spends that much NOW!' Tell him, 'Yeah but Europe doesn't have ANY OIL on the Continent, they IMPORT everything, we're self sufficient in Natural Gas but can't use it, coal but 'It's so dirty!, and could reduce our dependence on Foreign OIL by half, saving $300 BILLION dollars a year, AND produce it cleanly with very little environmental damage'
But we must be made to 'PAY', cause we are lemmings and not very intelligent to boot! Socialism doesn't work well, and Communism didn't work AT ALL! Why go there?
The above is the approximate cost JUST from the enactment of these pieces of legislation, not from NORMAL increases due to market variations, ie; it could be far worse!
Get someone, intelligent (not necessarily me), to establish a standard, condition based, break-down chart system to provide an estimate of family costs, for both Health Care and Cap and Trade!
Utilize the amounts of $20K, $35K, $65K $100K, and $250K or something near these amounts and break it down into understandable bites. When we see what is going to happen, we can make a determination to do this or not. I think NOT!
