| In an e-mail subjected "*****SPAM*****", Paul Welday shouts the following: “The Cap and Trade bill just passed in the House will have as significant a negative impact on Oakland County as anything Washington has ever forced down our throats,” said Welday. “In a time when Michigan ’s unemployment rate is over 14 percent and climbing, Gary Peters just voted to wipe out hundreds of thousands of jobs. This bill dramatically raises taxes on every working family and increases costs on virtually everything we purchase. And Peters vote did nothing to expand our nation’s need for energy independence. He owes it to the voters of the 9th District to stand before his constituents during this 4th of July recess and explain how he can possibly justify the unjustifiable.”
That's ... hundreds ... of thousands of jobs that Gary Peters has now killed by voting for a bill that ... dramatically ... raises taxes. By the way, getting back to that Krugman column from yesterday: Given this contempt for hard science, I’m almost reluctant to mention the deniers’ dishonesty on matters economic. But in addition to rejecting climate science, the opponents of the climate bill made a point of misrepresenting the results of studies of the bill’s economic impact, which all suggest that the cost will be relatively low.
This also is true. The Right, which still doesn't think climate change is a problem, keeps screaming that the cap-and-trade bill -- despite having support from such a wide swath of industry that some environmentalists think that a con job has been pulled on Congress -- will destroy jobs. And, as they go with the hard, natural science... |
