CAP & TRADE = "CAP GROWTH" AND "TRADE AWAY JOBS", AND IT WON'T REDUCE GLOBAL CO2 ONE BIT. THE ONLY THING IT WILL REDUCE IS OUR LIBERTY

CAP & TRADE = "CAP GROWTH" AND "TRADE AWAY JOBS", AND IT WON'T REDUCE GLOBAL CO2 ONE BIT.

THE ONLY THING IT WILL REDUCE IS OUR LIBERTY

IT AIN'T ME JUST SAYING IT.

IT'S A FACT.

• EVERYTHING WE DO REQUIRES ENERGY.

• AND MOST OF OUR ENERGY PRODUCES CO2 AS A BY-PRODUCT.

• YOU CANNOT AS A TAX BURDEN ON CO2 WITHOUT RAISING THE PRICE OF ENERGY, AND RAISING THE PRICE OF ENERGY RAISES THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING.

• AND THAT WILL DEPRESS ECONOMIC ACTIVITY - AT A TIME WHEN WE NEED TO GENERATE AND STIMULATE MORE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.
  

IF CAP & TRADE WAS ENACTED AT A TIME WHEN ECONOMIC GROWTH WAS GREAT, IT WOULD SLOW IT.

NOW - WHEN GROWTH IS AT A BARE MINIMUM AND WE ARE CLAWING OUR WAY OUT OF A DEEP RECESSION IT IS INSANE.

REPEAT: IF CAP & TRADE WAS ENACTED AT A TIME WHEN ECONOMIC GROWTH WAS GREAT, IT WOULD SLOW IT.

NOW - WHEN GROWTH IS AT A BARE MINIMUM AND WE ARE CLAWING OUR WAY OUT OF A DEEP RECESSION IT IS INSANE.

• QUESTION: ARE OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES INSANE?

• ANSWER: YES, PARTLY.

LEFTIST UTOPIANISM IS AN IRRATIONAL AND DELUSIONAL WAY OF THINKING.

AND IT ALWAYS HAS BAD CONSEQUENCES; JUST LOOK AT THE USSR AND MAOIST CHINA AND NORTH KOREA AND ZIMBABWE AND CUBA AND KAMPUCHEA, AND SO ON.

OBAMA AND HIS COMRADES THINK THAT THEY ARE IN A WIN-WIN:

• FIRST, THEY THINK THAT THEIR POLICIES MIGHT WORK;

• AND SECOND, THEY THINK THAT IF THEY DON'T WORK THAT THEN THE CRISIS WHICH FOLLOWS WILL BE ONE IN WHICH THEY CAN INFLICT US WITH EVEN MORE SOCIALISM.

IF MORE GOVERNMENT AND CENTRAL PLANNING AND ARTIFICIAL CONSTRAINTS ON THE MARKETPLACE WORKED BETTER THAN THE MARKETPLACE, THEN GORBACHEV WOULD STILL BE RUNNING THE USSR.

ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS: PROSPERITY IS A BY-PRODUCT OF LIBERTY.

• JUST BECAUSE IT PASSED THE HOUSE DOESN'T MEAN IT'S OVER.

• WE CAN AND MUST DEFEAT CAP & TRADE IN THE US SENATE.

• IT'S NOT JUST OUR ECONOMY WHICH IS AT STAKE.

• THE FREE WORLD IS AT STAKE - BECAUSE WITHOUT A ROBUST USA, THE FREE WORLD WILL COLLAPSE.

• THOUGH LEFTISTS AND THEIR HEROES HAVE LONG DREAMED OF IT, THIS WOULD ACTUALLY BE A DISASTER FOR HUMANITY.

YES: THAT MUCH IS AT STAKE, AND WE MUST FIGHT FOR IT EVERY BIT AS HARD AS THE FOUNDING FATHERS FOUGHT GEORGE III.

If we wish to be free--if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending -- if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained -- we must fight!

I repeat it, sir, we must fight!

... we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.

The millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.

Besides ... we shall not fight our battles alone.

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us.

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

... Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have?

Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Forbid it, Almighty God!

I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!