Posted: July 21, 2009
9:09 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2009 WorldNetDaily

Editor’s note: This is another is a series of monthly “Freedom Index” polls conducted exclusively for WND by the public opinion research and media consulting company Wenzel Strategies.

Almost half of the Americans who responded to a new poll say they have concerns about the impact of carbon dioxide on the climate, but two out of three say they have no interest whatsoever in opening their wallets to pay for any mitigation.

Asked whether they “believe that man-produced carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases will induce catastrophic climate change” if unaddressed, 49.6 percent of the respondents said yes. Twenty-seven percent said no, and 23.4 percent were uncertain. The concern from Democrats and Republicans was reversed with Democrats saying 10-1 yes and Republicans saying 2-1 no.

However, when asked if they were willing to “pay significantly higher energy bills in the hope of heading off what some scientists believe to be impending climate change,” 63.6 percent said no. That included Democrats by a margin of almost 3-1 and members of the GOP by 12-1.

The WND/Wenzel survey was conducted July 12-17 using an automated telephone technology calling a random sampling of listed telephone numbers nationwide. The survey included 16 questions and carries a 95 percent confidence interval. It included 807 adult respondents. It carries a margin of error of +/– 3.4 percentage points.

“This dramatizes the decades-old problem that environmental activists have had in pushing for structural change in society to accommodate fears of environmental doom – many people may agree that some long-term harm may befall humanity, but they are much more concerned about the short-term cost,” said pollster Fritz Wenzel.

“After an unusually cold winter followed by a summer where U.S. temperatures have been unusually mild, the urgency to act is clearly waning in the minds of many,” he said.

Only 15.2 percent responded they are willing to pay much more, while 21.2 percent said they were uncertain.

Asked about the pending “cap and trade” legislation in Congress that restricts the amount of carbon dioxide and water vapor that can be produced – generating financial penalties for violators – only 23.7 percent of the respondents support the measure.

Nearly 42 percent opposed it and another 35 percent were unsure.

“As the U.S. Senate considers the bill, the fact that fewer than one in four Americans favors its passage should give them serious pause,” Wenzel commented.

The core of the opposition appeared to be the costs, but Americans also were worried about the impact on the economy from rocketing prices for gasoline, natural gas, electricity and other sources of energy.

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“Nearly half – 46 percent said they think it will harm the economy. And while President Obama and other Democrats have been touting the concept of ‘green jobs’ as the savior of the wallowing economy, few are buying it, our polling shows,” according to Wenzel.

“Just 17 percent said they think ‘Cap and Trade’ will help the economy. Even Democrats are unconvinced – just 26 percent said they think it will help the economy, while an identical percentage of Democrats said it will cause economic harm,” he said.

There also were significant doubts about the constitutionality of the tax program and concerns about its wisdom.

Fewer than 25 voters out of 100 believed the plan to limit production of natural gases that are not actual pollutants, such as carbon dioxide and water vapor event, is constitutional. Nearly 32 percent said it violates the nation’s founding document, and about 43 percent were unsure.

Forty-five percent said it just isn’t wise for the government to attempt it, and 30 percent said they weren’t sure. Only 24.9 percent agreed with the wisdom of the taxing program.

“Even among those who voted for Obama in the November elections, less than one-third (30 percent) said they believed it was constitutional. And, among those same Obama voters, just 31 percent said they thought it was wise to try to regulate man–breathed carbon dioxide and water vapor,” Wenzel said.

“[It] creates a problem for the Obama administration at a time when his job approval rating is sinking and his legislative agenda remains packed with controversial proposals,” Wenzel said. “With the public so heavily weighted against it, to pass ‘Cap and Trade’ may cost the Obama administration much more political capital than it can afford, especially given the looming battle over health care reform.”

Wenzel is president of Wenzel Strategies a public opinion research and media consulting company. Formerly associated with Zogby International, he spent 25 years as a news and political reporter for major metro dailies.

WND recently reported when former Vice President Al Gore, whose “An Inconvenient Truth” video epistle on the claims of global warming has not weathered recent scientific research, promised at a conference in the United Kingdom that the impending virtual energy tax under the U.S. “cap-and-trade” legislation will bring about “global governance.”

Gore, who this year famously left his Nashville mansion’s driveway brightly illuminated during the “Earth Hour” event that promoted energy savings, was speaking at the Smith School World Forum on Enterprise and the Environment.

He said the “cap-and-trade” legislation will be beneficial.

“But it is the awareness itself that will drive the change, and one of the ways it will drive the change is through global government and global agreements,” he said.

His address was captured on video and posted on YouTube:

Only a few weeks ago, a former NASA climatologist asserted global warming simply isn’t happening.

While so-called “global warming” was supposed to bring more and more horrific hurricanes, according to many scientists and politicians, since 2005 only one major hurricane has struck North America.

WND also reported that a team of scientists with years of expertise in climate issues recently wrote to Congress asserting the “sky is not falling” and there is no evidence man is causing global warming.

The letter was signed by physics professors Robert H. Austin and William Happer of Princeton, environmental sciences professor S. Fred Singer of the University of Virginia, retired manager for strategic planning at ExxonMobil Roger Cohen, physics professor (emeritus) Harold W. Lewis at UC-Santa Barbara and others.

WND also has reported on the Petition Project, which has compiled the signatures of more than 31,000 scientists, including some 9,000 Ph.D.s, who flatly reject the “global warming” agenda

If you are a member of the media and would like to interview Fritz Wenzel about this story, please e-mail.

See detailed results of survey questions:

Do you believe that man-produced carbon dioxide and other so-called greenhouse gases will induce catastrophic climate change on the planet if they are not addressed?

The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed a Cap and Trade bill that restricts the amount of carbon dioxide and water vapor that can be produced and imposed stiff penalties on violators. Supporters say it will help stop global climate change, but critics say it won’t help and will cause significant increases in the cost of energy and other products. Based on what you know about this bill, do you favor it or oppose it?

Are you willing to pay significantly higher energy bills in the hope of heading off what some scientists believe to be impending climate change?

If it becomes law, how do you think the Cap and Trade bill will affect the U.S. economy?

Do you believe it is constitutional for the U.S. government to impose limits on the production of natural gases that are not actual pollutants, such as man-produced carbon dioxide and water vapor?

Do you believe it is wise for the U.S. government to impose limits on the production of natural gases that are not actual pollutants?

Health policy experts say guaranteeing coverage for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade — more than double the $634 billion ‘down payment’ Obama set aside.

AP

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Your lungs may work just fine, but the estimated price for universal health care could take your breath away.

Health policy experts say guaranteeing coverage for all Americans may cost about $1.5 trillion over the next decade. That would be more than double the $634 billion ‘down payment’ President Barack Obama set aside for health reform in his budget.

About 48 million people are uninsured, and the problem is only expected to get worse because the cost of coverage keeps rising.

Still, administration officials have pointedly avoided providing a ballpark estimate for Obama’s fix, saying it depends on details to be worked out with Congress.

“It’s impossible to put a price tag on the plan before even the basics have been finalized,” said White House spokesman Reid Cherlin. “Here’s what we do know: The reserve fund in the president’s budget is fully paid for and provides a substantial down payment on the cost of the reforming our health care system.”

The potential for runaway costs is raising concerns among Republicans and some Democrats as Congress prepares to draft next year’s budget. The U.S. spends $2.4 trillion a year on health care, more than any other advanced country. And some experts estimate that a third or more of that goes for tests and procedures, rather than prevention and treatment.

“We shouldn’t just be throwing more money on top of the present system, because the present system is so wasteful,” said Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee.

The health care plan Obama offered as a candidate would have cost nearly $1.2 trillion over ten years, according to a detailed estimate last fall by the Lewin Group, a leading consulting and policy analysis firm. The campaign plan would not have covered all the uninsured, as most Democrats in Congress want to do. But it is a starting point for lawmakers.

John Sheils, a senior vice president of the Lewin Group, said about $1.5 trillion to $1.7 trillion would be a credible estimate for a plan that commits the nation to covering all its citizens. That would amount to around 4 percent of projected health care costs over the next 10 years, he added.

The cost of covering the uninsured is “a difficult hurdle to get over,” Sheils said in an interview.

“I don’t know where the rest of the money is going to come from,” he added.  (I do.  Take a guess where the money is going to come from?  Let me give you a hint; It starts with the letters,,,  taxpayer earnings being robbed up to 90% of total earnings of the common “working man”.  “Free Stuff” from Government always costs, and dearly.)  – - Capt. Karl

Some of the leading advocates of coverage for all use cost estimates around $1.5 trillion.

“Honestly … we can’t do it for the $634 billion the president put in the reserve fund,” John Rother, public policy director for AARP, told an insurance industry meeting in Washington last week.

“In all likelihood, it will be over $1 trillion,” he added, citing his own estimate of $1.5 trillion.

Economist Len Nichols, who heads the health policy project at the New America Foundation, said guaranteed coverage will cost $125 billion to $150 billion a year when fully phased in.

White House budget director Peter Orszag told the House Budget Committee earlier this month that the president’s $634 billion fund is “likely to be the majority of the cost.” Roughly half of the money would come from spending cuts (U.S. Government Spending Cuts, Yeah Right!), and the other half from tax increases.  (No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this Earth. Federal employees number in the tens of millions, and federal, state, and local, one out of six of the nation’s work force is employed by the government. These proliferating bureaus with their thousands of regulations have cost us many of our constitutional safeguards. How many of us realize that today federal agents can invade a man’s property without a warrant? They can impose a fine without a formal hearing, let alone a trial by jury, and they can seize and sell his property in auction to enforce the payment of that fine.  And, then they ask, where is the money coming from?  - – Capt. Karl)

But whether the $634 billion represents 50 percent, 60 percent or 70 percent of the cost “will depend on the details of whatever is finally done (Isn’t that special that Government does not know what the F**k it is doing?  They don’t even know the cost of the UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE they are going to pass?  Sounds like the AIG TARP money going to executive bonus contracts to me. After all SOCIALIST Security and Medicare are $90 TRILLION DOLLARS in UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon, why not FORCE Americans health care insurance into the same dire straights so that the whole damn works goes to hell in a hand basket?  -  – Capt. Karl) … as we move through the legislative process,” Orszag added. (Progress, did he say Progress?  Progress of what?  Withholding taxes, Payroll Taxes, Medicare Taxes all for the purpose of totally destroying the best health care on Earth.  Sounds sensable to any Congressman or Senator, doesn’t it?  – - Capt. Karl)

The overall cost matters because the expansion of health coverage is meant to be a permanent reform. That means future generations will have to bear the cost.  (Oh, you mean like SOCIALIST Security and Medicare at $90,000,000,000,000.00 Dollars in UNFUNED liabilities on us taxpayers, over the infinite horizon.  Isn’t that special?  – - Capt. Karl)

“We are dealing with huge numbers,” said David Walker, a former U.S. comptroller general and now head of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, a group that promotes fiscal responsibility. “We need to have a much better sense of what we are talking about doing, and whether or not it’s affordable and sustainable over time.”  (David Walker is a very honorable man, unlike the despotic tyrants in Congress and the Administration, and we all need to listen to him and learn from his knowledge and information for us.  – - Capt. Karl)

Cap-and-Trade will cause massive increases on all prices of everything because it takes energy to produce and transport all products and to move material and personnel for services.  Additionally, since all taxes and costs for all products produced are always passed on to the consumer, Cap-and-Trade taxation will cost all Americans dearly.  It will hurt the poor and lower middle class, who can not afford anymore devastating cost increases, the worst.  Add to that fact that Global Warming is a complete and utter sham, as written about elsewhere on this blog, and you have the makings for a real riot when common folk have to pay the bill for NO REASON other than total manipulation and control by megalomaniacs in Congress, the Administration and The Federal Reserve “System”.

Universal Health Care will totally ruin the best health care available on the planet right here in America.  Additionally it will follow suit with Social Security and Medicare which are $90 TRILLION Dollars in UNFUNDED liabilities, over the infinite horizon.  If our economy doesn’t soon totally collapse because of the UNCONSTITUTIONAL illegal size and scope of the U.S. Government and numerous unconstitutional legislation, causing our current calamity through the instability of “The Matrix” (the economy based on Monopoly money printed out of thin air devoid of Godliness and full of blasphemy), Social Security and Medicare will completely wipe-out whatever we have left of our economy NO MATTER WHAT all ready.  Now the U.S. Congress and the Obama administration wants to add Universal Health Care to the problem?  Wow, talk about lunacy!

WASHINGTON – Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress face big decisions in coming weeks on how to move forward on two priorities for President Barack Obama — energy and healthcare reform.

Work has begun on legislation at committee level but some Republicans oppose Democratic ideas about expanding healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured Americans and developing a cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions.

Obama, a Democrat who inherited a financial crisis when he took over from Republican George W. Bush on January 20, has faced significant Republican opposition to his proposals to overhaul the struggling financial sector, lift the economy out of a deep recession and help homeowners avoid foreclosure.

Promoting clean energy and overhauling the healthcare system are also high on Obama’s list.

A rarely used budget tool called “reconciliation” might help Democrats maneuver around Republicans in the Senate, where a united minority can easily block legislation.

But such a move would ignite a fresh round of partisan warfare and further undercut Obama’s promise of a new era of cooperation between the parties.

Democrats are still smarting from the bruising economic stimulus battle with Republicans, who accused the majority party of trying to turn the United States into a socialist state with new, big government programs.

Senator Judd Gregg, the top Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, told a top White House official this week that using the reconciliation process on healthcare or energy would be an “act of violence” against Republican interests.

Reconciliation would be written into the budget and give healthcare or energy bills to be drafted later a privileged status and an easier path to become law. Bush used the process to enact major tax cuts over Democratic objections.

Republican concerns about Obama’s healthcare plan focus on the extent of the government’s role in overhauling the $2.5 trillion healthcare system that now leaves an estimated 46 million Americans without coverage.

White House budget chief Peter Orszag did little to ease Gregg’s fears, telling him at a Budget Committee hearing that the Obama administration was keeping the reconciliation option open in moving its priorities forward.

“What we have said with regard to both healthcare and energy is that we would prefer not to start there, but we’re not taking anything off the table at this point,” Orszag said.

FAST TRACK STATUS

Budget bills enjoy fast track status in Congress, requiring a simple 51-vote majority to pass in the 100-seat Senate rather than the 60 votes usually needed to clear hurdles and advance legislation. Democrats now hold 58 seats in the Senate.

By giving healthcare and energy proposals reconciliation protection under the budget process, Democrats would have the votes to more easily get past even the most robust opposition.

Some Democrats believe reconciliation may be the only path to advance Obama’s domestic agenda, including healthcare.

“There is a sense that it might be the only way to make sure a few people in the Senate can’t hold up what the rest of the country wants,” said Representative Dan Maffei.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse said Democrats would like broad support on health legislation but not at any cost.

“If you make bipartisanship the primary goal, you empower the Republicans to move the bipartisanship goal posts until the election is completely undone and that is not what America chose,” he told reporters.

Democrats write reconciliation into the broad budget resolution that Congress must pass before getting to work on individual spending bills.

But there are pitfalls. Reconciliation is supposed to be used to reduce the deficit, meaning anything in the bill not directly related to that goal could be challenged in the Senate.

“I think there are many problems with trying to use reconciliation for large substantive legislation,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a Democrat, told reporters.

(Additional reporting by Richard Cowan and Jeremy Pelofsky; Editing by John O’Callaghan)

© 2009 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

“Oh MY, God!   That is code for $4.00/gallon gasoline and super skyrocketing higher heating, lighting and grocery costs…   And, just in time, when we are all losing our jobs and our economy is collapsing due to the Socialistic despotic Union loving Commie spendthrift likes of Dingy Harry and his ilk…    Isn’t that special?”   - -  Capt. Karl

AP

Thursday, February 19, 2009

WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he wants to take up a bill to tackle global warming by the end of the summer.

The Nevada Democrat told The Associated Press in an interview late Thursday that the Senate in the next few weeks will move to pass an energy bill focusing on several of President Barack Obama’s priorities, but then ” hopefully late this summer do the global warming part of it.”

Senator Harry Reid (A.K.A.: Dingy Harry), Senate Majority Usurper.

There is widespread agreement that the climate change issue must be addressed. But there remains sharp disagreement on just how to do it.

Many Republicans argue that the Democrats’ plan to cap the greenhouse gases blamed for global warming may be too expensive and produce higher energy costs. Democratic congressional leaders maintain that costs can be contained and that failure to act soon could have even more severe economic consequences.

Reid says he is convinced that many senators want to move on the issue this year.

“We have to take a whack at it,” he said.

Reid, who is up for re-election next year, has assumed a high profile on the need to promote “clean energy” sources such as wind, solar and biomass that do not produce carbon dioxide, the predominant greenhouse gas. These are also energy projects popular in Reid’s home state, where several major solar projects are under way or planned.

Next week, Reid will participate in a “clean energy” forum being convened by the Center for American

AlGore stands in front of the world he destroyed economically via the total scam of "Global Warming" causing massive increased costs of living on innocent human beings across the world.

Progress. Others participating will include former President Bill Clinton, possibly former Vice President Al Gore,and senior Obama administration officials.

Reid earlier this week said that he expected Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, to produce an energy package within two weeks that will be ready for floor action. Among other things, Bingaman’s bill would require utilities to produce 4 percent of their electricity from renewable energy sources by 2011, increasing to 20 percent over the following decade, according to a draft of the legislation.  OH  MY  GOD ! ! ! !  Do you guys remember what happened to California?  The land of forcing all manner of Global Warming B.S. down the throats of their citizens in the form of “requirements”?  They are now over $42 BILLION DOLLARS in debt.  They have refused to send out tax refunds to millions of people expecting them.  They are talking of raising all sorts of taxes.  And, people are leaving California by the droves!  Don’t fall for this people, study, read and learn about the sham of Global Warming for yourselves.  The whole thing is B.S.!  I have spent months researching all of this.  You can find all sorts of science articles on The Liberty Tree Lantern so that these damn tyrants don’t screw with your minds, for the sake of controlling and manipulating us.  Much of our financial disaster has been caused by the false “beguilement” of Global Warming.  Our economy can’t take anymore of it before total collapse.

Reid said he favors a 20 percent renewable standard for utilities, but added, “we’ll get by with what we can.”

Many states already have requirements for utilities to use renewable energy, but attempts in Congress to establish a national requirement have fallen short repeatedly because of regional divisions. Lawmakers from the Southeast particularly have argued that utilities in their area would be hard pressed to meet a federal requirement because they lack wind or solar energy resources.

Reid said he also favors some additional tax incentives aimed at spurring energy efficiency, especially for construction of more energy efficient buildings.

“We’ve got to give people incentives to build better buildings and also do something about the buildings that are there right now,” said Reid.

But Reid said he doesn’t expect the Senate to tackle the issue of offshore oil drilling again.

While Congress last fall ended a drilling moratorium that covered 85 percent of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, Reid said he’s convinced that Obama’s Interior Department will protect those areas where drilling shouldn’t be allowed.

“I don’t think we need to do anything legislatively,” he said.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar recently scrapped a Bush administration blueprint for offshore energy development through 2015 and said he was developing a new plan, keeping in mind that some areas are not suitable for drilling and putting greater emphasis on developing wind and wave energy projects offshore.

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Do you folks have any idea how much more you are going to have to pay for energy if Dingy Harry gets his way?  Did you enjoy $4.00/ gallon gasoline, massive increases in the cost of heat and light and huge increased costs in groceries?  This is what is on tap if you don’t stop the Senate Majority Tyrant!

Have you seen the price of a barrel of crude go up about $4.00 today.  I was wondering how the price of oil could go up that much.  I figured it had something to do with B.O. and or his Interior Secretary of despotism and creator of massively higher cost of living expenses comrade Ken Salazar.  How could this bastard stop our oil companies from producing our own cheap domestic oil supplies?  That S.O.B.! ! ! !

If we don’t start doing something to force these oppressors to let our oil companies produce our energy supplies we are really headed for trouble when we already have so many people out of work and our economy failing.  Don’t you see what these people are doing to us?  When are we going to rise up and tell these bastards where to stick it?  When are we going to tell our public “SERVANTS’ to get the hell out of our way?  When are we going to tell them to DRILL  BABY,,,  DRILL!

How long are we going to let these bastards destroy our financial lives, especially when there are so many scientists that state that we are going into another ice age?  And NASA satilites indicate a downward temperature trend over almost ten years?  I sure haven’t seen any global warming lately?  Have you?  We’ve had a lot of below zero days here in Wisconsin and plenty of snow.

Excuse me, I need to go out to my garage and hold onto my pitchfork, again, for awhile.  I’m getting those forward twitching compulsions in my arms again.  Perhaps another rope and a box of ammo, too!

We can, as Americans, fight this you know.  We all must individually decide whether or not we are going to stand up for our Constitutional rights and our right to keep our earnings from massively increasing “Federal Withholding” next year and beyond.  Or, in the alternative, give up our constitutional rights for the chains and bondage of the soup kitchens of the One World Government of the Big Brother Socialist Welfare State run by the owner / bankers of The Federal Reserve company over the heads of some ad hock World Government face, with no where to run in the world to escape the equal distribution of misery.

It is a matter of individual CHOICE, to become United together as a FREE people, to stand up to The Federal Government and demand our freedom and DEMAND that the Federal Government to OBEY THE LAW!

• Why are we agreeing for The U.S. Government to take money out of our paychecks, in Federal Withholding, to give to rich bankers? 
• Why did we let the U.S. Government create unconstitutional laws, starting with The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and many others, that gave the U.S. Congress the ability to place us all in this position? 
• Why didn’t schools teach us about the meaning of freedom (which according to The Founding Fathers means Self – Government, meaning freedom from Government) and why this form of Government, ordained and established by us for our happiness and prosperity, and not for bankers and Wall Street traders prosperity and happiness, is the greatest creator of INDIVIDUAL wealth and INDIVIDUAL empowerment ever created on Earth?
• Why didn’t schools teach us the relationships between true individual freedom, economics and individual prosperity?
• Why didn’t schools teach us that the Supreme Court found in at least two different cases that Income Taxes, if any, must be apportioned and that the Sixteenth Amendment DOES NOT CHANGE this fact?  So in other words,
• Why didn’t school teach us that because the Supreme Court found that the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no change in the tax laws for the average American in two cases, that there is NO LAW, allowing the Federal Government to force us to file and pay for Income Taxes?
• Why didn’t schools teach why taxes were to be apportioned according to the LAW of The Constitution?  (Answer according to The Founding Fathers: Because then the Federal Government will become sooooo BIG they will usurp not only our financial wealth but also our freedom and because the Federal Government, being bound by the Tenth Amendment to “enumerated” powers, meaning not legally allowed to do anything but that on an extremely short list, has no “legal constitutionally acceptable” need for Income Taxes.
• If we would force Government to comport to THE LAW, how much more money would we have to spend our economy into prosperity?  Think about it!

Freedom (from Government) always has and will once again result, over the long run, in prosperity for INDIVIDUAL average working Americans.

Socialism and Communism (which means “FREE STUFF” from Government) has always, throughout World History, resulted in the equal distribution of misery, massive corruption and injustice.  Why weren’t we taught this better in school along with the fact that freedom from Government, but under enforced “Natural Law” to protect us from the immoral, has resulted in the vast majority to gain individual prosperity, individual power, and individual happiness?

This is GETTING VERY SERIOUS NOW, PEOPLE!  We MUST decide to STAND UP FOR FREEDOM, before it is TOO LATE!  If you do not choose to do anything and rather decide that you don’t want to know these things, or do not want to personally do anything about them, then when you loose everything, it will be your own fault.  You must decide to CARE!  You must decide to learn things and read things for yourself.  And you must learn and understand that there are forces at work in the world, headed by the private corporation called THE FEDERAL RESERVE to control and manipulate everything just as the honorable Thomas Jefferson and several others such as the honorable President Andrew Jackson predicted:

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

                      Thomas Jefferson, Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802)

Damn, people, I am only trying to help you to understand what is happening so that you can do YOUR RESPONSIBILITY!  It is YOUR JOB, according to our founding fathers, not Congress’ to protect your rights and the Constitution.  How can I help you when you don’t even want to know what has happened, why it happened, what is going to happen, and what you can do about it?  Wake up, and STAND UP FOR YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, because you are going to end up homeless and herded into massive apartments in the inner city CORE, being ordered around by a small handful of elites in a capital far away and they are going to spin it that it is for our “own good” and that it will help our “Carbon Footprint”.  Don’t be such fools!

Don’t listen to those who are interested in usurping your individual wealth, liberty and power over Government.  We have to suck it up, suffer what we have caused by not living up to our responsibilities, effort, education with regards to world history, American History with emphasis in American Heritage, our world UNIQUE and GREAT American Culture based on love and honor to our God who created, as self evident, that all men are created equal, that we are endowed by him with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of HAPPINESS.  –  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,; –  That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.  In our case, we have been blessed with a Constitution that is absolutely fabulous.  I submit, therefore, people that we AS INDIVIDUALS standing UNITED  ENFORCE THE ENTIRETY OF

THE CONSTITUTION to its FULL FORCE AND

EFFECT as it was meant to the VERY WORD,

 SPIRIT, INTENT AND MEANING on the very DAY of its

final drafting. 

NOW THIS WOULD

BE CHANGE!

Now read the following from AFP and DO SOMETHING, before it is too late!  It is already too late to fight the House of Representatives; they have fired their cannons against us.  We must make our stand at the Senate!  The battle will be hard, but it is a battle against a powerful enemy that we must win for the sake of our very lives.

May God bless us.

September 4, 2008

Don’t Miss Your Chance to Unlock the OCS for Oil and Gas Production

Dear Capt. Karl

Currently, the environmental opposition is mounting an aggressive campaign to keep the OCS closed and we need your help!  The Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is home to huge, untapped resources, but access is currently restricted, slowing the crucial growth and development urgently needed to meet today’s energy demands.  To unleash the promise of our domestic reserves, your voice is needed now to help open critical areas of the (OCS) for petroleum exploration and production in the near future.

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), which makes decisions about offshore leasing programs, is now taking comments regarding a new 5-year plan for the OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program.  This plan, which would cover 2010 – 2015, is designed to better address our nation’s pressing energy needs.  Currently, the opposition is mounting a campaign to keep these vital energy reserves closed, which is why it is urgent that you communicate your support for opening the OCS.   Your comments are needed right away to encourage MMS to open all areas of the OCS to oil and natural gas development.

Please be proactive and help us speed the development of a secure energy future for America by encouraging an updated plan to succeed the existing program-one that better reflects our nation’s real energy needs and capabilities.  The time for comments is running out, and your voice in support of OCS development is needed now!

Want to learn more before you take action?  Read detailed information on the need for expanded access to OCS areas.

Thank you for supporting America’s energy future.

The Partnership for America’s Energy Security is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute and is designed to provide individual citizens with information about today’s energy issues.

POTOMAC WATCH By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

Republican Energy Fumble
August 8, 2008; Page A13

Politics has its puzzling moments. John McCain and most of the GOP experienced one late last week. That was when five of their own set about dismantling the best issue Republicans have in the upcoming election.

It’s taken time, but Sen. McCain and his party have finally found — in energy — an issue that’s working for them. Riding voter discontent over high gas prices, the GOP has made antidrilling Democrats this summer’s headlines.

AP

Members of the “Gang of 10″ discuss their energy plan, Aug. 1.

Their enthusiasm has given conservative candidates a boost in tough races. And Mr. McCain has pressured Barack Obama into an energy debate, where the Democrat has struggled to explain shifting and confused policy proposals.

Still, it was probably too much to assume every Republican would work out that their side was winning this issue. And so, last Friday, in stumbled Sens. Lindsey Graham, John Thune, Saxby Chambliss, Bob Corker and Johnny Isakson — alongside five Senate Democrats. This “Gang of 10″ announced a “sweeping” and “bipartisan” energy plan to break Washington’s energy “stalemate.” What they did was throw every vulnerable Democrat, and Mr. Obama, a life preserver.

That’s because the plan is a Democratic giveaway. New production on offshore federal lands is left to state legislatures, and then in only four coastal states. The regulatory hurdles are huge. And the bill bars drilling within 50 miles of the coast — putting off limits some of the most productive areas. Alaska’s oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is still a no-go.

The highlight is instead $84 billion in tax credits, subsidies and federal handouts for alternative fuels and renewables. The Gang of 10 intends to pay for all this in part by raising taxes on . . . oil companies! The Sierra Club couldn’t have penned it better. And so the Republican Five has potentially given antidrilling Democrats the political cover they need to neutralize energy through November.

Sen. Obama was thrilled. He quickly praised the Gang’s bipartisan spirit, and warmed up to a possible compromise. Of course, he means removing even the token drilling provisions now in the bill. But he’s only too happy for the focus to remain on the Gang’s efforts, and in particular on the five Republicans providing his party its fig leaf.

Equally gleeful was Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu, the Senate’s most vulnerable Democrat. She had been sweating the energy debate, especially after her vote against more oil-shale production — a position her Republican opponent, John Kennedy, had used against her to great effect. Yet there she was, chummily standing with the Gang of 10 and boasting that she is working with “five Republicans” to “lower prices at the pump by increasing offshore drilling here at home.”

Mr. McCain, who had been commanding the energy debate, was left to explain why he, of all people, wasn’t more enthusiastic about a “bipartisan” effort on energy, especially one that includes “drilling.” His camp was forced to take refuge in taxes, explaining that their boss couldn’t sign up for a bill that included more. If this is what Mr. McCain’s good friend Lindsey Graham considers “helping,” somebody might want to ask him to stop.

And pity poor Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has been working overtime to stanch GOP losses this fall and head off a filibuster-proof Democratic Senate. His dogged efforts to highlight Democratic opposition to drilling has kept energy in the news and laid the groundwork for GOP candidates to use the issue to their advantage.

In the Colorado Senate race, Democrats had christened former GOP Rep. Bob Schaffer “Big Oil Bob” — hoping to smear his oil industry career. “Big Oil Bob” has instead embraced his pro-drilling positions and is pummeling opponent Mark Udall for his antidrilling stance. In recent weeks, Mr. Schaffer has erased Mr. Udall’s lead. Polls show Republican Sens. Norm Coleman (Minnesota) and John Sununu (New Hampshire) both climbing in the polls on the back of strong energy arguments. As two of the GOP’s most vulnerable senators, both might well have run for cover with the Gang of 10. Instead they’re fighting on the merits.

The “bipartisan” Republican senators have undercut these efforts, and boosted Ms. Landrieu. They’ve even put a smile on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s face. He’d been struggling to tamp down the energy debate through November, where he hopes to increase his majority and permanently shelve drilling. He’s now counting on the Gang to fruitlessly continue “negotiations” straight through the Senate’s short September session and solve his problem for him.

Not one of the five Republicans in the Gang is facing a tough election this year. That’s the sort of security that leads to bad decisions. And theirs is the sort of thinking that could leave Republicans in a permanent minority.

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The Liberty Tree Lantern is happy to report that after discussions under The Liberty Tree the honorable Representative John Nygren Republican for the 89^th Assembly district of The State of Wisconsin has committed to drafting a Wisconsin Sovereignty bill upon his return from recess.  He felt that he could have such a bill drafted by mid-January.

During our discussions on the merits of such a bill, which would be a reasonable facsimile of the Oklahoma Joint Resolution bill 1089, see: http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/07/20/notice-and-demand-to-the-federal-government-open-letter-to-state-assemblyman-john-nygren/,

Mr. Nygren felt that such a bill may have broad bi-partisan support.  During deliberation it was his belief that many Democrats in the State legislature are quite fed up with Federal Government mandates dictating what the State of Wisconsin can and can not do and how our state is being so manipulated.

One of this publisher’s greatest concerns is that all of our countrymen and constitutionally independent sovereign States have at least some “sea wall” to protect our vessels of freedom against the onslaught of the “perfect storm” which has only just commenced to buffet our bobbing ship on the waves of this U.S. Congress constitutional scofflaw legislated nightmare.  The high prices of gasoline, heat, light and food, and massive devaluation of the Dollar we are now experiencing and causing us great financial harm only being the very tip of the ice berg of Socialism of which we must traverse.  The battle for freedom must be fought by the brave individuals of this country, hopefully with a little help from our State Governments.

Please, for all of our financial sakes and most importantly the cause of freedom, please – RIGHT NOW, write your State representatives and ask him if he would support such a bill.   Yes, do this in our State of Wisconsin, but also do it in whatever State you may live in and plead with your representative to do the same.

Our individual financial health and the freedom of every single one of us may very well be at stake.  If all 50 States of the Union have a little healthy rebellion to compel the U.S. Congress to finally obey the law, this would be a very good thing.  Who knows, it may even help us to avoid the civil / Re-Revolutionary War that The Liberty Tree Lantern forecasts in less than fourteen years and even perhaps just a few months out.  When The Matrix collapses, which we have already been very close to a couple of times during the last year, which it will unless the Government is successful in forcing us into the “Final Ultimatum” and the resulting Socialism under a North American Union (NAU), all hell will break loose. 

See: We Live In The Matrix: http://captkarl.blogivists.com/2008/06/17/hello-world/ and A Conversation with A Concerned Mom which is with in this string of associated posts: http://captkarl.blogivists.com/index.php?s=Matrix

The Liberty Tree Lantern shall continue to keep you informed of this developing story on this highly important matter of State.  Check back from time to time so you do not miss very important developments affecting your family, wealth and freedom.