The Obama administration is using the crisis in the Mexican Gulf to sell it's nightmare agenda for a so called "green economy", a push for initiatives that have, according to its own government, led directly to catastrophic economic failure in Spain.
The White House has enacted a direct emailing campaign, calling for support to sell the American people on long sought global warming and Cap and Trade legislation.
The emails sent out en mass to those on the Obama campaign mailing list ask for a public lobbying effort to push for a cap and trade bill in the Senate to match legislation already passed in the House.
The email from Obama (see in full at the end of this article) reads:
The BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast is the worst environmental disaster of its kind in our nation's history. I am returning to the region today to review our efforts and meet with families and business owners affected by the catastrophe.
We are working to hold BP accountable for the damage to the lands and the livelihoods of the Gulf Coast, and we are taking strong precautions to make certain a spill like this never happens again.
But our work will not end with this crisis. That's one of the reasons why last week I invited lawmakers from both parties to join me at the White House to discuss what it will take to move forward on legislation to promote a new economy powered by green jobs, combat climate change, and end our dependence on foreign oil.
[...]Please stand with me today in backing clean energy. Adding your name will help Organizing for America create a powerful, public display of support for making this change happen.
The green push hasn't ended there. In an
interview published by Politico this weekend, Obama compared the BP oil spill with 9/11, noting:
"In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come."
Just as George W. Bush's Afghanistan invasion plan was sitting on the shelf before 9/11,
Obama's green economy bill has been laying in wait for almost two years now.
Obama's stated intention to "Implement an economy-wide cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2050" has not gone away.
Recent exposure of the fraud behind the climate science driving the global warming movement had seemingly scuppered Obama's chances of pushing through the legislation, which would see some $2.9 trillion shaved off the economy by the year 2050 if enacted. The legislation would also reduce GDP by 6.9 percent – a figure comparable with the
economic meltdown of 1929 and 1930.
Now, however, in the wake of the BP disaster, and a
tightly controlled public relations machine managing it, Obama has seen an opportunity to gain momentum, once more wheeling out his "clean energy" rhetoric:
"One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster." Obama noted in the Politico interview, clearly intimating that one of the "right lessons" would include passing his radical climate change legislation.
On several separate occasions, over the past two years, Obama has referred to the "green economy" policies enacted by Spain as being the model for what he envisions for America.
It is precisely this kind of "green economy" that has left Spain with a 20 per cent unemployment rate, virtually bankrupt and
in need of being bailed out by the rest of Europe.
A newly leaked internal document from Spain’s Zapatero administration outlines how Spain’s “green economy initiatives” have been a financial disaster.
In this so-called "green economy", over 2.2 jobs are lost for every “green job” created.
"Today’s leaked document reveals that even the socialist Spanish government now acknowledges the ruinous effects of green economic policy," reports Christopher Horner.
"Despite the soft-pedaling, the document reveals exactly why electricity rates "necessarily skyrocketed" in Spain, as did the public debt needed to underwrite the disaster. This internal assessment preceded the Zapatero administration’s recent acknowledgement that the "green economy" stunt must be abandoned, lest the experiment risk Spain becoming Greece."
Obama admits in his mass email, "There will be transition costs and a time of adjustment." This translates to gas and electricity prices going through the roof, huge new taxes and regulations on U.S. businesses, and the
ushering in of an era of green policing where, in order to meet its stated goals, the U.S. government micro-manages citizens and enterprises to ensure they are being "eco-friendly".
Without question, developing alternative energy methods and encouraging the use of solar and wind power for means of self-sufficiency and reducing dependency on oil and fossil fuels is a fantastic notion and should be widely supported. But this isn’t about helping the environment, it’s about exploiting people’s legitimate concern for the planet by diverting their attention and getting them to enthusiastically partake in their own enslavement while mandating their fellow citizens do the same.
Welcome to another dose of the “change you can believe in,” trillions more of taxpayer’s money thrown at a scam that has nothing to do with saving the environment and everything to do with raping the middle class and the poor while erecting a gargantuan police state system of informants and enforcement to carry out the elite’s new feudalist agenda.
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The email from Obama in full:
Dear xxxxxxx,
The BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast is the worst environmental disaster of its kind in our nation's history. I am returning to the region today to review our efforts and meet with families and business owners affected by the catastrophe.
We are working to hold BP accountable for the damage to the lands and the livelihoods of the Gulf Coast, and we are taking strong precautions to make certain a spill like this never happens again.
But our work will not end with this crisis. That's one of the reasons why last week I invited lawmakers from both parties to join me at the White House to discuss what it will take to move forward on legislation to promote a new economy powered by green jobs, combat climate change, and end our dependence on foreign oil.
Today, we consume more than 20 percent of the world's oil, but have less than two percent of the world's oil reserves. Beyond the risks inherent in drilling four miles beneath the surface of the Earth, our dependence on oil means that we will continue to send billions of dollars of our hard-earned wealth to other countries every month -- including many in dangerous and unstable regions.
In other words, our continued dependence on fossil fuels will jeopardize our national security. It will smother our planet. And it will continue to put our economy and our environment at risk. We cannot delay any longer, and that is why I am asking for your help.
Please stand with me today in backing clean energy. Adding your name will help Organizing for America create a powerful, public display of support for making this change happen.
The time has come, once and for all, for this nation to fully embrace a new future. That means continuing our unprecedented effort to make everything -- from our homes and businesses to our cars and trucks -- more energy-efficient. It means rolling back billions of dollars of tax breaks to oil companies so we can prioritize investments in clean energy research and development.
Many businesses support this agenda because shifting to clean energy creates opportunities for entrepreneurship. This is how we will reinvent our economy -- and create new companies and new jobs all across the country.
There will be transition costs and a time of adjustment. But if we refuse to heed the warnings from the disaster in the Gulf -- we will have missed our best chance to seize the clean-energy future we know America needs to thrive in the years and decades to come.
The House of Representatives has already passed a comprehensive energy and climate bill, and there is currently a plan in the Senate -- a plan that was developed with ideas from Democrats and Republicans -- that would achieve the same goal. But this is an issue that Washington has long ignored in favor of protecting the status quo.
So I'm asking for your help today to show that the American people are ready for a clean-energy future.
Please add your name to mine:
http://my.barackobama.com/CleanEnergy
Thank you,
President Barack Obama
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