April 30, 2010
RevereAmerica.org
On April 15, 2010 a new organization announced its birth. It's RevereAmerica.org. It's chairman is former New York governor George Pataki.
The About Us page at their website has a clear and concise summary of exactly what their mission is. I happen to love their first sentence, as it really says it all:
Revere America is a new organization dedicated to advancing common sense public policies rooted in our traditions of freedom and free markets that will once again make America secure and prosperous for generations to come.
When you step back and think about those words, they map out a pretty broad strategy. There are many public policies. In fact, I would say there are hundreds of them. Think about all the issues: taxes, energy, defense, immigration, etc. All you really have to do is look at the Cabinet positions for the primary topics, and then subdivide into all the things covered under each one.
The first goal of this new organization is to gather one million signatures of citizens who still shudder to think how the Obama Care Health Care Bill was ramrodded and shoved down the collective throats of Americans when there were accurate polls that a vast majority of citizens didn't want this Bill.
I urge you to visit the RevereAmerica.org site and sign their petition.
Everyone should read Aftershock ASAP by Bob Wiedemer/Cindy Spitzer. Also put a large part of your retirement funds in Numismatic Gold Coins. I rolled my IRA in March. Paper assets, including dollars will be worthless not far down the road.
You can either be a survivor or hope your loved ones will come to your rescue.
Tim is right on the mark. 24 is being taken off the air because our socialist government doesn't want programs like 24 on TV.
We must vote for a person who has the moxy to get us through the next several years. Read The Rogue if you really want tounderstand Palin and what kind of Moxy we need. No one else comes close that has surfaced so far.
john wilmot on April 30, 2010 2:03 PMTim, I read this earlier today, and I have been stewing about it all day. This is horrible. Look at what is hidden in the Cap and Trade bill. As a builder this ought to really get you hot. The bill should be called Cap and Control. This the the link to the copied part from an article by Frank M. Carrio. http://www.nachi. org/forum/ f14/cap-and- trade-license- required- your-home- 44750/
A License Required for your house
Thinking about selling your house - A look at H.R. 2454 (Cap and trade bill) This is unbelievable!
Only the beginning from this administration! Home owners take note & tell your friends and relatives who are home owners!
Beginning 1 year after enactment of the Cap and Trade Act, you won't be able to sell your home unless you retrofit it to comply with the energy and water efficiency standards of this Act. H.R. 2454, the "Cap & Trade" bill passed by the House of Representatives, if also passed by the Senate, will be the largest tax increase any of us has ever experienced.
The Congressional Budget Office (supposedly non-partisan) estimates that in just a few years the average cost to every family of four will be $6,800 per year.
* No one is excluded.
However, once the lower classes feel the pinch in their wallets, you can be sure these voters get a tax refund (even if they pay no taxes at all) to offset this new cost. Thus, you Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class America will have to pay even more since additional tax dollars will be needed to bail out everyone else.
But wait. This awful bill (that no one in Congress has actually read) has many more surprises in it. Probably the worst one is this:
* A year from now you won't be able to sell your house. Yes, you read that right.
The caveat is (there always is a caveat) that if you have enough money to make required major upgrades to your home, then you can sell it. But, if not, then forget it. Even pre-fabricated homes ("mobile homes") are included.
* In effect, this bill prevents you from selling your home without the permission of the EPA administrator.
* To get this permission, you will have to have the energy efficiency of your home measured.
* Then the government will tell you what your new energy efficiency requirement is and you will be forced to make modifications to your home under the retrofit provisions of this Act to comply with the new energy and water efficiency requirements.
* Then you will have to get your home measured again and get a license (called a "label" in the Act) that must be posted on your property to show what your efficiency rating is; sort of like the Energy Star efficiency rating label on your refrigerator or air conditioner.
* If you don't get a high enough rating, you can't sell. And, the EPA administrator is authorized to raise the standards every year, even above the automatic energy efficiency increases built into the Act.
---What can we do to stop this awful bill from passing? But then, they will probably have the EPA go after us anyway.
Edna Earle Crews on April 30, 2010 11:28 PMKeep up your Fire Pit. We need to send flames all over the nation!
Edna Earle Crews
Dear Edna Earle,
Yes, it is scarrey on the Cap and Trade Bill! It even controls showers to be 3 minutes if I remember correctly, and governors to be installed for the hot water on showers.
Here in Ohio, I know there are many poor families who can't afford energy right now for heating, and don't use their heating systems anymore, and just use wood burning stoves for heat in the winter to survive. With all the financial hardships right now, how many folks have the money to do all these things? Talking about dropping the economy, this Bill alone will do it in a heartbeat!! By the way, woodstoves will be completely banned. Something somewhere has to give!
Connie Mahany on May 1, 2010 3:51 PMOK, enough of the forums … what does the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 really say?
I believe that if the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is enacted, new home construction costs will go up, and home affordability will decline. It appears as if a “national building code” will be created, thus usurping some of the rights of State’s to control building quality as they see fit.
A cursory examination of the 1,428-page bill, in its current form, finds it does not call for mandating an energy audit on existing homes. However, according to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Section 204 of the legislation does call for building an energy performance labeling program for new home and commercial properties.
With all the government people in and around Tallahassee, maybe we can get a few to drop a comment or two
GCHandy on May 2, 2010 6:27 PMLet your vote this fall do your talking. This country must be given back to the common working man. The TV program 24 is too close to reality.
Lake Lester on May 3, 2010 7:51 AMI am following with horror the attempt by the Senate and House to audit the Fed. This is a thinly (very thinly) vailed attempt for this fiscially irresponsible and morally corrupt group to gain control of monatary policy.
It's not enough that they spend and borrow and spend some more now they want the keys to the printing press as well.
If this passes in any form Greece will look like a financial giant compared to the USA.
John C on May 6, 2010 10:05 PMPlease let us stay healthy. I am 55 and was diagnosed with breast cancer at 43 Under new guidlines I would not be here and healthy today My parents are helthy and nearing 90 I want them to remain that way for as long as possible My mother can see and be indepenent due to cterac sugery last year My father gooes for pain manegment for his back due to an injury durring ww2
sharon nancy leventon on June 17, 2010 10:43 AM