Cap and trade?

Climate change is an issue that is currently causing quite a stir around the world.  Many people are arguing for and against policies and taxes to help protect our planet.  Right now one of the ideas in vogue is cap and trade.  Where people are charged  for using fossil fuels and rich corporations are paid for others burning of fossil fuels.  Currently Al Gore has become the first carbon billionaire, he has made over a billion dollars selling carbon credits, and other very wealthy individuals have jumped on the band wagon, never to let a great money making scheme get by.  Rothschild,  Murdoch and most of t he very rich have bought into the carbon markets.  Using the power of media they have convinced a massive section of the population to support a cap and trade scheme.  

Politicians getting great donations from these big corporations vote to hit the population with more taxes, further draining the pockets of those already being hit hard by the recession.   My big question is, how can a great way to make the really rich even richer  help save anything?   We need to stop this huge transfer of our earnings to the already wealthy so we as Oregonians can decide to conserve energy.  Instead of us sending another billion to Al Gore or Mr Rothchild we should keep our earnings in our pockets. Maybe add a few inches of insulation to our homes?  Or buy a hybrid car to commute back and forth to work.  As has been proven by the MAX train the amount of money wasted on that train would have allowed hundreds of Oregonians to drive hybrid vehicles and cut emissions by far more. While allowing people to do what they see as being the most effective.  The huge increase in property taxes to keep funding the MAX would have allowed Oregonians to insulate their homes,   or  replace their single pane windows.  Instead of taxing the elderly out of their homes.

Oregonians have always shown their love for the environment, recycling at rates other cities would kill to match, even  before it was mandated.  An efficient and money making private industry had grown up around recycling.  Until government interference put that industry out of business.   Oregon Tilth spear headed an efficient private verification of organic  farms in Oregon.  They had an effective  system worked out with stringent organic requirements.  You knew when it was certified organic by Oregon Tilth that the land was tested and free of chemical contaminants. Until the government got involved. Then Monsanto and Dow lobbyists worked, and the stringent rules were relaxed. So now organic certification doesn't mean what it used to.

 When government and corporations work together to help one another, they win and we lose.  If you want to help rich people and large corporations make more money to buy more congressmen, support cap and trade .  If you want to help keep our planet healthy act locally and think globally. If we all do what we can, our planet will benefit.  Oregon led the way with voluntary recycling and other states followed our lead.  The best way to lead is by being a good example.  Not by using the force of government against the wishes of the individual.

Wow it's working!

For some reason this blog was non operational and now it is working again! Wow, is this a coincidence? I have just begun to assemble a team and get organized for my 2010 congressional campaign against Earl Blumenauer. Checking links on my website after swapping over to the new 2010 top banner. Thank you April and Raymond! The people of this nation are waking up to the fact, that we have the power to restore our republic! I am very excited about this years elections, I am hoping congress gets the message, what message? We are mad as hell and we are not going to take it! We have to let them know that we will not allow them to spend our children into poverty, tax small businesses into bankruptcy while sending corporate welfare to big companies like Walmart! We will not allow them to take control of our health care to pay back the insurance companies that padded their campaign coffers and got them elected. Thank you for checking out my blog I will be here again, now that it's working! If you want to join our team let me know!

Delia

Here I go

Well I am not a writer, reader yes, but never felt I had enough to say people would really want to hear, let alone track me down to read it. So when told I needed to blog, I felt kind of "what me?" So here I am, please bear with me as I get started. I have never been the one to have grand notions of what I wanted to be when I grew up. Life would throw something at me and while dealing with life things happen. You learn and change. The more strange things you do the more useless knowledge you acquire. Life started with my dad in the 82nd airborne dropping out of planes, I slept in a cardboard box as my sister was 16 months old and in the crib buying another one was not in the family budget. While I was running for congress I was surprised because most every person I spoke with assumed I was born into money, like the vast majority of those in congress. I think that is a huge problem in our nation, the people who are representing us have no idea what our lives are about. What type of challenges we face and how to best assist us. Our government decided to take on the task of helping the "poor" a noble idea I admit. Now as they have geared up and really taken control of most aspects of our lives, really you need government permission to catch a fish! The "poor" are now trapped in poverty by the very government regulations that were supposed to protect them! Now in Oregon our Representatives just doubled car registration fees and increased the gas tax by 20% this will affect the "poor" far more than the "rich" they are doing this to supposedly keep government programs for the "poor". Anyone else see the irony here? Between car registration, drivers license, car insurance and the cost of gasoline it is getting harder for the "poor" to afford a car. If you can not afford a car the choice of jobs you can take is more limited, not to mention the idea of starting a business of your own, which was one of the best ways for a "poor" person to climb out of poverty. So as our government has created rules and regulations, increased business taxes and please understand a business never pays taxes, they must be passed on to the consumer, so right now between 33% and 50% of the cost of every single item you buy goes to the government. Permits and fees are all a tax, in Oregon more than 1/2 of the income the state receives comes from other, it is another word for tax. So all these regulations make it harder to start a small business. Top that off with the IRS rules that give big breaks to big business at the expense of small and even better breaks to those that remove themselves from the grip of the IRS gestapo and you see why so many companies move overseas and take jobs with them. The result is always the same every single time throughout history when the government tries to take on social reform, you can call it socialist or communist we are more fascist now our government is so entwined with business. It is a great system where the congressmen can take money from us, the taxpayers, and give it to a company and then the company gives part of it back to them, can you say campaign contribution? It is a bipartisan screw job on the taxpayers. It is not a new thing and has been getting worse for nearly 100 years. Check out the Federal Reserve I first became aware of the story behind it during Reagan's time in office J. Peter Grace was commissioned to see how to cut costs and improve efficiency in government, governments love slavery. Just take a good hard look at Income Taxes. AND don’t tell me that Taxes go to pay for infrastructure, etc. NO IT DOES NOT. Read the Grace Commission Report put out by Peter Grace back in the 80’s. Not one red cent pays for services or infrastructure. It all goes to pay the interest/usury on the National Debt which builds more government to spend money. They borrow all of it from the Federal Reserve, which is a private Banking Cartel cum Cabal. The IRS is NOT an agency of the United States Government. It is a branch of the Federal Reserve. Almost seems prophetic for Thomas Jefferson to have said "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. " We need to get back to being a nation of laws, with no one above the law. At this time most of our congressmen and ex and current presidents should be charged with treason. They swore an oath to defend and uphold the constitution against all threats both foriegn and domestic, then violated that oath and have sold their country out for cash and favors. We need to replace the poloticians with people that will uphold the oath of office. No wars without a vote of congress as required by our constitution, congress coins money not shirk the responsibility so they can spend money we do not have and drive down the American standard of living. Creating unconstitutional rules and taxes to benefit big businesses that pay for the campaigns to keep the jobs and benefits they love. Lets fire them all re-elect nobody check out http://www.retakecongress.com/ we need to Take Back our Country before it is too late
Dee