Alan Caruba
Obama has two more years left to destroy the U.S.
By Alan Caruba
As 2015 began the Journal Editorial Report on Fox News was devoted to having its reporters, some of the best there are, speculate on what 2015 holds in terms of who might run for president and what the economy might be. The key word here is "speculate" because even experts know that it is unanticipated events that determine the future and the future is often all about unanticipated events.
How different would the world have been if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated? One can reasonably assume there would not have been the long war in Vietnam because he wanted no part of the conflict there. Few would have predicted that an unknown Governor from Arkansas would emerge to become President as Bill Clinton did. Who would believe we are talking about his wife running for President? That is so bizarre it is mind-boggling.
Most certainly, few would have predicted that an unknown first term Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama, would push aside Hillary Clinton to become the first black American to be nominated for President and to win in 2008. Despite the takeover of the nation's healthcare system with a series of boldfaced lies, he still won a second term.
Obama now has two more years in which to try to destroy the U.S. economy; particularly its manufacturing and energy sectors. The extent to which he is putting in place the means to do that still remains largely unreported or under-reported in terms of the threat it represents.
The vehicle for the nation's destruction is the greatest hoax of the modern era, the claim that global warming must be avoided by reducing "greenhouse gas" emissions.
A President who lied to Americans about the Affordable Care Act, telling them they could keep their insurance plans, their doctors, and not have to pay more is surely not going to tell Americans that the planet is now into its 19th year of a cooling cycle with no warming in sight.
To raise the ante of the planetary threat hoax, he has added "climate change" when one would assume even the simple-minded would know humans have nothing to do with the Earth's climate, nor the ability to initiate or stop any change.
In 2015, the White House is launching a vast propaganda campaign through the many elements of the federal government to reach into the nation's schools with the climate lies and through other agencies to spread them.
In particular, Obama has been striving to utilize the Environmental Protection Agency to subvert existing environmental laws and, indeed, the Constitution unless Congress or the courts stop an attack that will greatly weaken the business, industrial and energy sectors. It will fundamentally put our lives at risk when there is not enough electricity to power homes and workplaces in various areas of the nation. At the very least, the cost of electricity will, in the President's own words, "skyrocket."
Why doesn't anyone in Congress or the rest of the population wonder why White House policies are closing coal-fired plants that provided fifty percent of our electricity when Obama took office and now have been reduced to forty percent? Did you know that more than 1,200 new coal-fired plants are planned in other nations with two-thirds of them to be built in India and China? We live in a nation that has such huge reserves of coal we export it.
The EPA attack on these plants is so illegal and unethical that one of the nation's leading liberal attorneys, Laurence H. Tribe, who began teaching about environmental law 45 years ago, went on record to declare the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional.
The plan is a regulatory proposal to reduce carbon emissions from the nation's electric power plants. Tribe pointed out that a two-decade old Supreme Court precedent forbids the federal government from taking action to commandeer the powers of state governments by leaving them no choice but to implement it.
"The brute fact," said Tribe "is that the Obama administration failed to get climate legislation through Congress. Yet the EPA is acting as though it has the legislative authority anyway to re-engineer the nation's electric generating system and power grid. It does not."
As 2014 came to a close, the Obama administration either proposed or imposed more than 1,200 new regulations on the American people.
Alex Newman, writing in the New American, calculated they will add "even more to the already crushing $2 trillion per year cost burden of the federal regulatory machine." Not surprisingly, "most of the new regulatory schemes involve energy and the environment – 139 during a mere two-week period in December, to be precise."
"In all," Newman reported, "the Obama administration foisted more than 75,000 pages of regulations on the United States in 2014, costing over $200 billion, on the low end, if new proposed rules are taken into account." Just one, the EPA's "coal ash" regulation, "is expected to cost as much as $20 billion, estimates suggest."
Then add to that the EPA's "ozone rule" that is estimated to cost "as much as $270 billion per year and put millions of American jobs at risk under the guise of further regulating emissions of the natural gas." Released the day before Thanksgiving, "Experts also pointed out that the EPA's own 2007 studies showed no adverse health effects from exposure to even high levels of ozone."
These are just two examples of the regulatory strangulation of the nation's economy and energy infrastructure.
This is Obama's agenda for the remaining two years of his second and thankfully last term in office. Whether you know anything about the science of the climate or have ever even read the Constitution, the sheer disaster of ObamaCare should have told you by now that everything Obama has put in motion has had the single objective of destroying the nation's economy in every possible way.
The voters have put Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress and their primary responsibility will be to reverse and repeal the damage of Obama's first six years. The courts will play a role, but this is a job for our elected representatives.
© Alan Caruba
January 21, 2015
As 2015 began the Journal Editorial Report on Fox News was devoted to having its reporters, some of the best there are, speculate on what 2015 holds in terms of who might run for president and what the economy might be. The key word here is "speculate" because even experts know that it is unanticipated events that determine the future and the future is often all about unanticipated events.
How different would the world have been if John F. Kennedy had not been assassinated? One can reasonably assume there would not have been the long war in Vietnam because he wanted no part of the conflict there. Few would have predicted that an unknown Governor from Arkansas would emerge to become President as Bill Clinton did. Who would believe we are talking about his wife running for President? That is so bizarre it is mind-boggling.Most certainly, few would have predicted that an unknown first term Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama, would push aside Hillary Clinton to become the first black American to be nominated for President and to win in 2008. Despite the takeover of the nation's healthcare system with a series of boldfaced lies, he still won a second term.
Obama now has two more years in which to try to destroy the U.S. economy; particularly its manufacturing and energy sectors. The extent to which he is putting in place the means to do that still remains largely unreported or under-reported in terms of the threat it represents.
The vehicle for the nation's destruction is the greatest hoax of the modern era, the claim that global warming must be avoided by reducing "greenhouse gas" emissions.A President who lied to Americans about the Affordable Care Act, telling them they could keep their insurance plans, their doctors, and not have to pay more is surely not going to tell Americans that the planet is now into its 19th year of a cooling cycle with no warming in sight.
To raise the ante of the planetary threat hoax, he has added "climate change" when one would assume even the simple-minded would know humans have nothing to do with the Earth's climate, nor the ability to initiate or stop any change.
In 2015, the White House is launching a vast propaganda campaign through the many elements of the federal government to reach into the nation's schools with the climate lies and through other agencies to spread them.
In particular, Obama has been striving to utilize the Environmental Protection Agency to subvert existing environmental laws and, indeed, the Constitution unless Congress or the courts stop an attack that will greatly weaken the business, industrial and energy sectors. It will fundamentally put our lives at risk when there is not enough electricity to power homes and workplaces in various areas of the nation. At the very least, the cost of electricity will, in the President's own words, "skyrocket."
Why doesn't anyone in Congress or the rest of the population wonder why White House policies are closing coal-fired plants that provided fifty percent of our electricity when Obama took office and now have been reduced to forty percent? Did you know that more than 1,200 new coal-fired plants are planned in other nations with two-thirds of them to be built in India and China? We live in a nation that has such huge reserves of coal we export it.
The EPA attack on these plants is so illegal and unethical that one of the nation's leading liberal attorneys, Laurence H. Tribe, who began teaching about environmental law 45 years ago, went on record to declare the EPA's proposed Clean Power Plan is unconstitutional.
The plan is a regulatory proposal to reduce carbon emissions from the nation's electric power plants. Tribe pointed out that a two-decade old Supreme Court precedent forbids the federal government from taking action to commandeer the powers of state governments by leaving them no choice but to implement it.
"The brute fact," said Tribe "is that the Obama administration failed to get climate legislation through Congress. Yet the EPA is acting as though it has the legislative authority anyway to re-engineer the nation's electric generating system and power grid. It does not."
As 2014 came to a close, the Obama administration either proposed or imposed more than 1,200 new regulations on the American people.
Alex Newman, writing in the New American, calculated they will add "even more to the already crushing $2 trillion per year cost burden of the federal regulatory machine." Not surprisingly, "most of the new regulatory schemes involve energy and the environment – 139 during a mere two-week period in December, to be precise."
"In all," Newman reported, "the Obama administration foisted more than 75,000 pages of regulations on the United States in 2014, costing over $200 billion, on the low end, if new proposed rules are taken into account." Just one, the EPA's "coal ash" regulation, "is expected to cost as much as $20 billion, estimates suggest."
Then add to that the EPA's "ozone rule" that is estimated to cost "as much as $270 billion per year and put millions of American jobs at risk under the guise of further regulating emissions of the natural gas." Released the day before Thanksgiving, "Experts also pointed out that the EPA's own 2007 studies showed no adverse health effects from exposure to even high levels of ozone."
These are just two examples of the regulatory strangulation of the nation's economy and energy infrastructure.
This is Obama's agenda for the remaining two years of his second and thankfully last term in office. Whether you know anything about the science of the climate or have ever even read the Constitution, the sheer disaster of ObamaCare should have told you by now that everything Obama has put in motion has had the single objective of destroying the nation's economy in every possible way.
The voters have put Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress and their primary responsibility will be to reverse and repeal the damage of Obama's first six years. The courts will play a role, but this is a job for our elected representatives.
© Alan Caruba
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