Facts ignored by the MSM

September 22nd, 2010 | 1 | Comments Off

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The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd 2009 — it was actually January 3rd 2007.
The day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives & Senate, the start of the 110th Congress.
The Democratic Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

“For those of you who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is “Bush’s Fault,” think about this:

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress:

At the time:
The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77
The GDP for the previous quarter was 3.5%
The Unemployment rate was 4.6%
George Bush’s Economic policies SET A RECORD of 52 STRAIGHT MONTHS of JOB CREATION!

Remember the day.
January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking Committee.
The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the economy?
BANKING AND FINANCIAL SERVICES!

THANK YOU DEMOCRATS for taking us from 13,000 DOW, 3.5 GDP and 4.6% Unemployment to this CRISIS by (among MANY other things) dumping 5-6 TRILLION Dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac FIASCOS!
(BTW: Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie & Freddie – starting in 2001 because it was financially risky for the US economy).

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?
OBAMA

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie?
OBAMA& the Democratic Congress

So when some idiot tries to blame Bush
REMEMBER JANUARY 3rd, 2007 THE DAY THE DEMOCRATS TOOK OVER!
Bush may have been in the car but the Democrats were in charge of the gas pedal and steering wheel they were driving.

“It’s not that liberals aren’t smart, it’s just that so much of what they know isn’t so.” -Ronald Reagan

Sushi night

August 15th, 2010 | 1 | Comments Off

Last night we took out my buddy Chris for a non-bachelor party dinner at some Sushi joint in Totowa, NJ. The place was actually pretty good. Not sure what the hell I ate, all I was concerned about was it being cooked. I prefer my meals to be cooked, fire is a good thing when it comes to dinner. Starting tonight I will attempt the No-Carb diet for a week. This is not going to turn out well.

Random thought: Did anyone really expect this President to condemn the Taliban haven at Ground Zero?

Dinner

August 14th, 2010 | 1 | Comments Off

I haven’t posted anything since Italy broke my heart in the World Cup so I figured why not a quick post about one of my favorite topics, food. I see a recurring theme here, this has legs. Sure it would be easy to write about the douchebags behind the Ground Zero Mosque or talk about the JournOlist, a group of 400 media types that set out to anoint Obama by fooling that American public, must suck to be made fools of, or I could preview the NFL season but then I would be tipping my hand for fantasy football.

So instead I will keep it to what I had for dinner. Tonight my wife breaded chicken cutlets and topped them with tomatoes from my father’s garden and fresh mozzarella. Oh my God it was spectacular.

That’s all for now.

USA Soccer fail

June 27th, 2010 | 1 | 4 Comments »

I was scolded for not writing anything for the last few months so I thought this was the perfect time to blog, actually this may seem like a rambling rant so I apologize ahead of time.

So far I have heard every ridiculous reason as to why soccer continues to fail in the United States while they powers that be avoid the real reasons.

The reality is that there is plenty of talent on the street of America that gets purposely looked past by the coaches and managers that have only one motive, the almighty dollar. If you don’t pay big money for your kid to go to a camp here your kid will never get looked at. Coaches only play kids that pay them to go to their camps diluting the talent which is a major reason why USA soccer will always suck. You have to kiss ass or pay your way through.

Several years ago I was at an MLS game a few rows in front of two soccer coaches from Division I schools in NJ. The one coach was saying how he has these two players. One has all the talent in the world and is probably his most gifted player, the other stays late, talks strategy and goes to the coach’s camp in the off-season. He went on to say that he had no choice but to start the player that kisses his ass and pays to go to his camp. Well not exactly in those words, but you get the point. This is the same mentality all over the country. Here in New Jersey, it seems as if every high school coach runs or has a hand in their own camp. The only way a kid playing up the ranks from grammar school has a chance to play for that coach at the high school level is to start paying his way early on, as early as 5 years old.

Currently New Jersey had 4 major soccer camps. If your child does not attend one of those 4, forget about the professional level. The Red Bulls are guilty of this and it’s magnified because of the hypocrites they are. The whole marketing strategy behind the Red Bulls is to be in a neighborhood that breeds soccer and the passion that goes with the sport. Unfortunately the soccer camp costs thousands of dollars. How many parents in the greater Harrison, Kearny and Newark are can afford that? Instead you get the Bornsteins of Bergen county who get taught a systematic, robotic way to play the game. In other words boring, un-creative soccer that will never appeal to the masses.
It’s a shame because all they have to do is look in their own backyard and they could find 23 players that could beat this years USA national team with the right leadership.

The MLS should look at how Pablo Escobar, the notorious drug cartel leader in Columbia in the 80′s built up the sport with his money. No I’m not saying build it up with drug money, but take the money and resources we have and go to the neighborhoods where the skill and talent already exists. Soccer skills cannot be created over years like American football, it cannot be developed like learning to skate in ice hockey, it cannot be taught like swinging a golf club. Just like basketball, the best players can be found in the backyards creating their own dreams, not running 20 miles a day without water at Tab Ramos’ soccer camp.

This World Cup was a disgrace for the United States. We lost to a third world country because we did not have the best most talented, most creative players on the field. Until the MLS figures this out soccer will remain out of the mainstream and its a total shame. We will continue to lose the Giuseppe Rossi’s of the world and lets face it, if Lionel Messi who came from total poverty, lived in the US he too would have been passed on and would be just another 22 year old kid looking for a job somewhere.

Lost

February 3rd, 2010 | 1 | Comments Off

LOST

 

Here’s my take on last nights episode. There is a parallel universe that is showing what would happen if the plane doesn’t crash. Its Bizzaro world for the Losties. Hurley never has bad luck and Sawyer isn’t a con man so their lives seem to be better. Jack is still a whining cry baby that wants to save the world, John is a miserable bastard and Kate is on the run. Their lives still will intertwine even though they don’t hit the island.

 

Back on the island, the blast seems to have jolted them back to the present. After she dies, again, Juliette tells them “it worked”. That means, I think, that the blast worked and she is back home, the island never happened for her. Her being is permanently in the Bizzaro world. This leads me to think that the non-con man Sawyer will somehow meet with Juliette in Bizzaro non-plane crash world and live happily ever. Sayid Died, then came back to life in the temple of Jacob who told Hurley to go there because Hurley sees dead people. Oh yeah Jacob has a son, we don’t know who just yet. I hope it’s the Kung foo man that lives in the temple. The temple is also home to people who got kidnapped, the stewardess, the kids, maybe we’ll see Claire

 

Locke is the man in black. The man in black is the smoke monster. The smoke monster can be held back by some sort of special dirt.

 

I’m now thoroughly confused except for the fact that Kate is hot! It seems that if a character is happier without the island s/he is killed off and ends up back at Bizzaro world (life without the Oceanic plane crash) except for Charlie who wants to be dead.

 

Only 16 more hours of Lost to go.

 

The Fundamental Transformation of America

December 22nd, 2009 | 1 | Comments Off

Credit to Matt Bruce

The Fundamental Transformation of America
When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist,
people said it didn’t matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists, sent Obama’s mother to a socialist school, introduced Frank Marshall Davis to young Obama,
People said it didn’t matter.

When people found out that he was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and step father were both Muslims,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he wrote in another book he authored “I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”
people said it didn’t matter.

When he admittedly, in his book,said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college, people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist party ********** he ran for the Illinois Senate,
people said it doesn’t matter.

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology,
people said it didn’t matter.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the “most liberal senator”,
people said it didn’t matter.

When the Palestinians in Gaza , set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign,
people said it didn’t matter.

When his voting record supported gun control,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez,
people said it didn’t matter.

When it was pointed out that he was a total, newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals,
people said it didn’t matter.

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn’t matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn’t matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro gun control, pro abortion, pro homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition people said it didn’t matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues,  people said it didn’t matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn’t matter.

When his background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn’t matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn’t matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco, a man of questionable character,
who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he started appointing czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, people said it didn’t matter.

When he stood before the nation and told us that his intentions were to “fundamentally transform this nation” into something else, people said it didn’t matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed a science czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as regulatory czar and he believes in “Explicit Consent”, harvesting human organs with out family consent, and to allow animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting,
people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, Education network, as safe school czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd as diversity czar and he believed in curtailing free speech, taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth and admires Hugo Chavez, people said it didn’t matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama’s senior White House advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn’t matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn’t matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as global warming czar, and she is a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax,
people said it doesn’t matter.

When he appointed Van Jon es, an ex-con and avowed Communist as green energy czar, who since had to resign when this was made known,
people said it didn’t matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama’s pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn’t matter.

When as president of the United States ,he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , people said it didn’t matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn’t matter.

When his actions concerning the middle-east seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time friend, People said it doesn’t matter.

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States, people said it doesn’t matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn’t matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc.
people said it didn’t matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn’t matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn’t matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn’t matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State , people finally woke up…….. but it was too late.
Any one of these things, in and of themselves does not really matter. But…. when you add them up one by one you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that Obama is determined to make America over into a Marxist/Socialist society. All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this, do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ? Personally, I like happy endings.
If you are an Obama Supporter, please do not be angry with me because I think your president is a socialist. There are too many facts supporting this. If you seek the truth you will be richer for it. Don’t just belittle the opposition. Search for the truth. I did. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians and what have you, we all need to pull together. We all must pull together or watch the demise of a society that we all love and cherish. If you are a religious person, pray for our nation.
Never before in the history of America have we been confronted with problems so huge that the very existence of our country is in jeopardy. Don’t rely on most television news and what you read in the newspapers for the truth. Search the internet. Yes, there is a lot of bad information, lies and distortions there too but you are smart enough to spot the fallacies. Newspapers are a dying breed. They are currently seeking a bailout from the government. Do you really think they are about to print the truth? Obama praises all the television news networks except Fox who he has waged war against. There must be a reason. He does not call them down on any specifics, just a general battle against them. If they lie, he should call them out on it but he doesn’t. Please, find the truth, it will set you free.
Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , or Iran ; no, our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC led by the Progressive Left Liberals who support the previously mentioned things…

There’s still time in 2010 to take back America and send a message LOUD and CLEAR to those who think ‘it doesn’t matter’…

I happen to think ‘it does matter’…

God Bless America!

Matt Bruce
An American Independent Conservative Who Thinks ‘It Matters’…

Dear Mr. President

November 1st, 2009 | Uncategorized | 8 Comments »

I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s VERY well stated.

 

Dear President Obama:

 

Today I read of your administrations plan to re-define September 11 as a “National Service Day.”

 

Sir, it’s time we had a talk.

 

During your campaign, Americans watched as you made mockery of our tradition of standing and crossing your heart when the Pledge of Allegiance was spoken.  You, out of four people on the stage, were the only one not honoring our tradition.  

 

We noticed.

 

During one of your many speeches, Americans heard you say that you intended to visit all 57 states.  We all know that Islam, not America , has 57 states.   

 

We noticed.

 

When President Bush reverently leaned over at Ground Zero and gently placed a flower on the memorial, you tossed your flower onto the pile without leaning over. 

 

We noticed.

 

Every time you apologized to other countries for America ‘s position on an issue we have wondered why you don’t share our pride in this great country..    

When you have heard foreign leaders berate our country and our beliefs, you have not defended us.   

 

 We noticed.

 

When your pastor of 20 years damned America and said that 9/11 was “America ‘s chickens coming home to roost”  and you denied having heard recriminations of that nature, we wondered how that could be.  When you later disassociated yourself from that church and pastor because it was politically expedient to do so. 

 

We noticed. 

  

When you announced that you would transform America , we wondered why.   

With all her faults, America is the greatest country on earth.  Sir, if not for America and the people who built her, you wouldn’t be sitting in the White House now.  Prior to your election to the highest office in this country, you were a senator from Illinois and from what we can glean from the records available, not a remarkable one.    

 

We noticed

All through your campaign and even now,  you have surrounded yourself with individuals who are basically unqualified for the positions you appointed them to.  Worse than that, the majority of them are people who, like you, bear no special affection or respect for this country and her traditions.  

 

We noticed.

 

You are 9 months into your term and every morning millions of Americans wake up to a new horror heaped on us by you.  You seek to saddle working Americans with a health care/insurance reform package that, along with cap and trade, will bankrupt this nation.   

 

We noticed.

 

 

We seek, by protesting, to let our representatives know that we are not in favor of these crippling expenditures and we are labeled “un-American”, “racist”.  We wonder how we are supposed to let you know how frustrated we are.  You have attempted to make our protests seem isolated.    

 

We noticed. 

 

 

On September 11, 2001 there were no Republicans or Democrats, only Americans.  And we all grieved together  and helped each other in whatever way we could.  The attack on 9/11 was carried out because we are Americans.   

 

And we  noticed. 

 

There were many of us who prayed that as a black president you could help unite this nation even more.  In six months you have done more to destroy this nation than anyone since 9/11.  You have failed us.   

 

We noticed. 

 

September 11 is a day of remembrance for all Americans.   You propose to make 9/11 a “National Service Day”.   While we know that you don’t share our reverence for 9/11, we pray that history will report your proposal as what it is…

a disgrace.

 

When Americans come together again, it will be to remove you from office.  

You have made a mockery of our Constitution and the office that you hold.   

You have embarrassed and slighted us in foreign visits and policy.   

 

We have noticed all these things.  We will deal with you. 

The people of America…

Is another 9/11 set to unfold?

September 24th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

Is another 9/11 set to unfold?
By Lee Benson Deseret News
Published: Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009 9:32 p.m. MDT 

    Earlier this year, quite by happenstance, I read a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James B. Stewart. “Heart of a Soldier” tells the story of two men who, well before it happened, foretold not only of the terrorist attack of 9/11 but also the 1993 bombing in the World Trade Center parking garage that preceded it .One of the men, Rick Rescorla, was chief of security for Morgan Stanley with an office in the World Trade Center. He died on 9/11, but not before he shepherded all but six of Morgan Stanley’s 2,700 employees to safety because of a well-prepared and well-executed evacuation plan. He’d have made it out, too, had he not gone back in the building looking for those six. The other man, Daniel J. Hill, is still alive.

    With another Sept. 11 approaching I wanted to talk to The Man Who Predicted 9/11.Although the primary focus in Stewart’s book is on Rescorla — a bona fide hero for his actions on 9/11 — I found Hill to be an even more fascinating character. It was Hill who converted to Islam as a young U.S. Army paratrooper stationed in
Beirut in 1958. It was Hill who learned fluent Arabic. It was Hill who joined the Mujahedeen Freedom Fighters in Afghanistan and fought the Soviet invasion there in the 1980s. It was Hill who personally met Osama bin Laden. It was Hill who used information from Islamic extremists to warn Rescorla that terrorists would use the underground parking garage for a car bomb attack on the World Trade Center. It was Hill who asked the U.S. government to assist him in an assassination attempt on bin Laden in 1998 (the request was rejected). And it was Hill who warned the FBI just weeks before Sept. 11, 2001, that his Mideast contacts told him “something big” was about to happen in the United States, in New York, Washington, D.C., or Philadelphia — maybe all three. 

    Through the Internet I managed to contact Hill at his home in Florida. He’s 71 now. I asked him if his reputation as a terrorism prognosticator without parallel has changed his life much. “Oh, that blew over pretty fast,” he said. “Most of the people even in my hometown don’t know any of that stuff. “He didn’t want to talk about the past. He wanted to talk about the future. The very near future. The man who predicted 9/11 is worried that its sequel is imminent. “Muslims that I talk to say things like, ‘America thinks they’re safe now. They’ve forgotten about 9/11. But watch, Daniel. Stay near your TV. It’s going to be bigger than 9/11,’” he said Hill said the next terrorist attack will involve suitcase nuclear bombs that will be detonated in small, low-flying two-seater private airplanes manned by men hanging onto the belief that, like the 9/11 hijackers, they are about to die as martyrs and enter paradise. He is not alone in suggesting such a scenario. A 2007 book, “The Day of Islam,” spells out the details, as do any number of Internet sites about a plot called “American Hiroshima.” The nukes, he said, will be detonated over New York, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. I asked Hill, “Why now?” “Eight years from 1993 to 2001, eight years from that 9/11 to this 9/11,” he said. “Symbolism. They’re big on symbolism.” Ramadan started two weeks ago Saturday,” he said, referring to the Muslim holy month of fasting. “It always hits around Ramadan.” Eight years ago, Hill predicted the attack would come on Oct. 16 — almost in the middle of that year’s Ramadan (the timing of Ramadan varies from year to year). He was about a month off.” I don’t know the second, hour or day. I just know they have the means, will, motivation and desire to do it,” he said, noting that it’s believed that years ago the suitcase nukes, acquired from former USSR operatives, were smuggled into America across the Mexican border.

    Hill said he has warned the FBI, the CIA and others in government. For the past two years, he’s sent out proposals for a book on the subject. All he’s gotten back are rejections.” To most people, I am a deviant personality,” he said. But there’s no arguing his credentials.” I’m a Muslim,” he says. “I’m a special ops expert, I’m a terrorist and I’ve lived among Muslims. I fought the Russians with the same guys we’re now fighting in Afghanistan. I met Osama. I volunteered to assassinate him. I know (the enemy) so well because I’ve worked, slept and prayed alongside them for years. I’ve become one of them. I know their nature, I know their culture, I know how they think. I can quote the Koran like a Southern Baptist minister can quote the New Testament. I know these are people who do not tire, who do not quit. There are odds this won’t happen, but they aren’t big odds.”

“I hope you’re wrong,” I told him. “Yeah. I hope so, too,” he said.

Idiot of the week

September 19th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

How can I possibly hand out just one idiot of the week when it seemed as if so many tried to top each other?
First there’s the obvious: Kanye and Serena.

Now for the real genuine idiots like WOLF BLITZER. This past week on celebrity jeopardy the CNN “journalist” got one of the worst scores ever, a negative 4600 being soundly beaten by late night side kick Andy Richter. Wolf Blitzer, you are an idiot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs-MFOQWQ&feature=player_embedded#t=420

Next we have the smug, “genius”, talking head Charlie Gibson who when asked about the corrupt former employer of Barack Obama, ACORN, he was clueless as to who they are…IDIOT!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3QS7PgoTao

Michelle Obama is next on the list for her beyond selfish act of shutting down parts of
Washington DC to go get certified Tuscan kale. For those of you so fooled by the climate change bs, why are you not up in arms over the fact that she left a carbon footprint of a few tons.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/17/AR2009091703679_pf.html

Jimmy Carter you irrelevant moron, you are either that stupid or are one of 3 people that actually watches CNN  and thinks they have a clue (see Wolf Blitzer) This week you accused anyone that disagrees with the person that is battling you as the worst president ever as racists. You race bating piece of dirt, the Congress should censure you.

Lastly I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the biggest moron, idiot of the week, President Barack Obama who may have made one of his downright stupidest moves in a list of many in his short career as dictator. The decision to remove missile defense from Poland without anything in return from his comrades shows how weak and pathetically ignorant this many is. 2012 can’t come soon enough.

The Smartest people of the week go to he almost 60% of the country that are against the Healthcare plan the Liberals are trying to shove down our throats.

Look for my NFL picks tomorrow!

Open letter to our Congressman

June 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Comments Off

Below is an open letter to the Republican Congressman Leonard Lance of New Jersey how voted for the massive Obama tax increase:

Dear Congressman Lance,

I am disappointed and outright disgusted in your decision to vote for the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. The Carbon Tax you voted for is an outrageous power grab by the federal government that will greatly expand government control and increase energy costs for my family. This system of “allocations” has failed in Europe and will politicize
America’s energy policy. Especially in these difficult economic times, the fact that you sided with the tax and spend Liberal wing of Congress is beyond disturbing. I voted for you in the past election mainly because you ran against those very principles you sided on for this vote. Personally I am sick and tired of out-of-touch Washington politicians taxing me and my family. The Cap and Tax bill you and 7 other Republican Congressmen and women voted for has nothing to do with helping the environment, it is a huge tax hike that will hurt American families, kill American jobs and cripple our economy as it struggles to emerge from the recession. Environmental extremists have convinced big government politicians that they can seize control of the energy sector by claiming this bill helps the environment but nothing could be further from the truth. The EPA even admits that cap-and-trade could increase global carbon dioxide emissions as jobs flee the country to produce goods overseas safe from business-killing carbon regulations. During the campaign President Obama famously said “under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” But he also pledged not to raise taxes “even one dime” on middle class Americans. Well it looks like he may be poised to break that promise. House Minority Leader John Boehner was absolutely correct when he said “This is the biggest job-killing bill that’s ever been on the floor of the House of Representatives, right here, this bill”. When your term is up I will not forget how you sided with taxing and taking my hard earned money from my family.

Regards