The U.N.'s Candidate
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: The United Nations prays for an Obama victory so its collectivist agenda can be fulfilled. High on the list is climate change, as Obama prepares to declare our breath a pollutant.
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The definition of socialism includes government ownership and control of the means of production, and the Obama administration is prepared to sign agreements and carry out policies that in effect will do just that. The U.N. couldn't be happier.
An informal survey of U.N. officials by the Washington Post found overwhelming support for the former Illinois state senator. One American U.N. employee was surprised that he was even asked who he was supporting. "Obama was and is unstoppable," he said, adding: "Please, God, let him win."
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says an Obama win would help clear the deadlock in talks on a new international agreement on climate change to replace the failed Kyoto Protocol. Negotiators from 200 countries will meet in December in Poznan, Poland, to discuss ways to limit CO2.
One way that Obama will seek to limit CO2, the basis for all plant and therefore all animal life on Earth, is to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to formally and finally regulate it as a pollutant gas. This is something the Bush administration has resisted even after the Supreme Court in 2007 said the government has the authority to do so.
Obama would do so. He "would initiate those rulemakings," his energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said in an Oct. 6 interview in Boston. "In the absence of congressional action" 18 months after Obama's inauguration, the EPA would move ahead on its own, he warned.
Details of what the EPA would do were revealed in a document released in July that said agency rules would affect everybody and everything "down to the grass clippings." Translation: EPA would regulate your lawn mower and everything else with an engine.
Placing carbon dioxide on the same level as other pollutants will lead to caps on power-plant emissions, leading to higher energy prices as new plants are not built and existing plants are forced to use expensive CO2 emission controls.
Bloomberg says this move may halt construction plans for half of the 130 proposed new U.S. coal plants. Twenty-five U.S. states now get more than 50% of their electricity from coal. Rust Belt manufacturing states such as Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania would be particularly hard-hit.
The irony is that the earth is in fact cooling, and has been since 1998. The U.S. economy would be hit harder than by the mortgage meltdown, for no good reason. A President Obama would mean job- and growth-killing subservience to U.N. dogma on climate change and an EPA empowered to regulate and control our means of production. To us, that's socialism.
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: The United Nations prays for an Obama victory so its collectivist agenda can be fulfilled. High on the list is climate change, as Obama prepares to declare our breath a pollutant.
------
The definition of socialism includes government ownership and control of the means of production, and the Obama administration is prepared to sign agreements and carry out policies that in effect will do just that. The U.N. couldn't be happier.
An informal survey of U.N. officials by the Washington Post found overwhelming support for the former Illinois state senator. One American U.N. employee was surprised that he was even asked who he was supporting. "Obama was and is unstoppable," he said, adding: "Please, God, let him win."
Rajendra Pachauri, head of the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, says an Obama win would help clear the deadlock in talks on a new international agreement on climate change to replace the failed Kyoto Protocol. Negotiators from 200 countries will meet in December in Poznan, Poland, to discuss ways to limit CO2.
One way that Obama will seek to limit CO2, the basis for all plant and therefore all animal life on Earth, is to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to formally and finally regulate it as a pollutant gas. This is something the Bush administration has resisted even after the Supreme Court in 2007 said the government has the authority to do so.
Obama would do so. He "would initiate those rulemakings," his energy adviser, Jason Grumet, said in an Oct. 6 interview in Boston. "In the absence of congressional action" 18 months after Obama's inauguration, the EPA would move ahead on its own, he warned.
Details of what the EPA would do were revealed in a document released in July that said agency rules would affect everybody and everything "down to the grass clippings." Translation: EPA would regulate your lawn mower and everything else with an engine.
Placing carbon dioxide on the same level as other pollutants will lead to caps on power-plant emissions, leading to higher energy prices as new plants are not built and existing plants are forced to use expensive CO2 emission controls.
Bloomberg says this move may halt construction plans for half of the 130 proposed new U.S. coal plants. Twenty-five U.S. states now get more than 50% of their electricity from coal. Rust Belt manufacturing states such as Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania would be particularly hard-hit.
The irony is that the earth is in fact cooling, and has been since 1998. The U.S. economy would be hit harder than by the mortgage meltdown, for no good reason. A President Obama would mean job- and growth-killing subservience to U.N. dogma on climate change and an EPA empowered to regulate and control our means of production. To us, that's socialism.
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=310086079871869