Why Our Economy is in the Crapper: Command and Control

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Nothing Democratic about this (or maybe it is):

“If you don’t pass this legislation, then … the EPA is going to have to regulate in this area,” the official said. “And it is not going to be able to regulate on a market-based way, so it’s going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty.”

Yes and uncertainty is just what our economy needs, isn’t it?  How foolish of the Obama administration to come out and say something like this.

Not only was it stupid to make threats over something as important as the nation’s energy sector and everything that springs from that, but it also means that the White House owns the problem now.  Should Congress not pass Cap and Trade Obama will simply have his minions at the EPA “regulate” CO2.  What incentive do Democrats, many of whom come from states heavy in manufacturing, lay their jobs on the line by voting for such huge tax increases as would come with a carbon trading system?  Exactly… there is no incentive.

So just as Obama threatens Iran with “serious consequences” (though that country continues to kill and jail protesters) and North Korea with sanctions (they continue to smuggle weapons and test missiles)  but has done nothing, so this will be yet another threat Obama has made.

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  • I can hear the HUGE sigh of relief from Democrats in Congress from here. Now they don’t have to come up with convoluted excuses for raising everyone’s taxes before 2010 election.
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  • how fascist and pretentious at the same time. thanks, barry.

    i have issue with your last statement-this is a threat obama is fully capable of following through on.

    really surprised none of the democrats have started jumping ship yet.

  • point taken

  • The owned this economy and all the consequences the day they passed ARRA in February. Congress has become irrelevant and they let themselves become that way. P-BO grew the executive branch FAR beyond it’s constitutional limitations with Congress’s assistance. Let’s hope we can reverse this before it is well too late.
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  • This article is interesting. There is a new book just out about a small town in America that is about to get its water plant shutdown by the EPA. The citizens end up fighting federal tyranny & starts the 2nd American Revolution.

    It’s a great book to read & up with current federal bureaucrats forcing their agendas on all of us. Just read it cause it could be your town. It’s a political thriller

    Remember, “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it..”
    http://www.booksbyoliver.com

  • side note: #12 democrat is now retireing. rep. bart gordon (D-TN): http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/house/bart-gordon-to-retire.html

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