Fair / 25° FEditorial: Like health care, Obama leading climate from back
Published 6:48pm Sunday, August 1, 2010“The meek inherited the earth.”
In the midst of the supposed greatest environmental disaster in history, the BP oil spill, the Obama administration ducked any fight to cap carbon pollution.
Sept. 11 gave us the Patriot Act.
Wall Street’s collapse, the bank bailout. BP, nothing.
A 100,000-barrel spill in 1969 in Santa Barbara, Calif. — two days of the BP gusher output — drove Richard Nixon to create the EPA and to sign the Clean Air Act.
On June 15 the president, considered a better communicator than Ronald Reagan, delivered his first address from the Oval Office. He could have paralleled crude spewing into the Gulf with carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere, but such words as “carbon,” “emissions,” “greenhouse” or “pollution” never left his lips.
“We don’t yet know precisely how we’re going to get” off our fossil fuel addiction, Obama said. If the president doesn’t talk about it, his foes, who scream bloody murder at every turn about everything, inherit control of the battlefield by default. It’s like health care all over again, where policy details were delegated to Congress. No plan of its own, letting the Senate bicker it to death or saddle us with some feel-good, watered-down compromise that kicks the can down the road some more without tackling real threats. Instead of meeting big polluters head on, they will be courted with giant subsidies we can’t afford and global warming is shelved on the back burner, another victim of the stealth strategy of backroom dealing.
During July in this area, there were seven 90-degree days and 21 in the mostly high 80s. There were only three days in the 70s — of which Saturday, July 31, was one. July 23 was the hottest day, reaching 94. The coolest temperature, a morning low of 48, occurred way back on July 1. This on top of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirming that June was the warmest on record.
The combined global land and ocean temperature was 1.22 degrees F above 20th century averages.
According to NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center, 2010 is well on its way to becoming the warmest year worldwide since 1880 — the earliest data for which global data is available.
A comprehensive energy and climate bill was the centerpiece of President Obama’s environmental agenda. He talked about it for years because global warming was central not only to his presidency, but the planet we inhabit.
Instead of pitting the American people against corporate polluters, they get seated at the negotiating table and showered with expanded drilling for the BPs and more taxpayer subsidies for coal and nuclear than clean renewable energy.
Like health care, letting your opponents define the debate means demonizing a phrase such as “cap and trade” to scare citizens. All those weeks of oil gushing into the Gulf didn’t translate into any sense of urgency or willingness to lead, even though a June poll showed 76 percent of Americans believe their government should address climate pollution.
Instead, Congress is considering a down-sized proposal limited to electric utilities — the same climate policy George W. Bush campaigned on in 2000. No wonder they call this Bush’s third term. While the window of opportunity slid shut in 2009, the energy industry and its conservative allies had all the time needed to sharpen their anti-climate talking points.
Like “death panels” of the health debate, climate pollution penalties were cast as job-killing, economy-wrecking “taxes.”
Obama also promised to push for comprehensive immigration reform. No bill, yet protesters massed in Arizona rather than wasting ire on the president. After 18 months, that broken promise has seen Obama’s support soften in the Hispanic community, where two-thirds supported his White House bid.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., may introduce a constitutional amendment “that changes the rules. Birthright citizenship is a mistake. If you come here illegally and have a child, that child is not automatically a citizen.” An estimated 11 million to 12 million people are in this country illegally; 72 percent of Americans fault the government for not enforcing the law.
Which party will be held accountable in November?
The Arizona law and federal judge Bolton has opened yet another “VERY LARGE CAN OF WORMS” and must be applauded, because her Liberal ideology has finally unlocked an avenue to the Supreme Court. Her injunction of SB 1070 has opened the eyes of more than half the population of the United States, which would have remained repressed by most of the Liberal press. National security points of Interest for the American people to address, includes an incompetent failure to secure the border. Not uilding the real—PAIRED PARALLEL FENCES–transversely over the 1800 miles, separating us from Mexico. Nor is it fully completed, however President Dwight Eisenhower had the monumental courage in 1954 to remove illegal nationals from America’s soil. Today’s politicians prefer to hide the illegal alien invasion, under the proverbial rug. One of the most scandalous laws that has been badly misconstrued is the 14th amendment, which needs urgently to be repealed—this is birthright citizenship.
Forget about the facade of hard luck stories of illegal parents, being separated from their birthright citizenship child as they are ought to be deported, but this seldom happens if at all? Legal basis for birthright citizenship stems from the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Although the original intent of the 14th Amendment was to provide former slaves citizenship after the Civil War, including the right to due process. This Amendment has progressed to have far-reaching repercussions beyond the intent of the authors. The “Anchor Baby” illuminates the whole unraveling story, which if an illegal alien parent, can reach America before the baby is born, they can collect welfare from any state. In 2006 this was a $6 billion dollar “legal flimflam” unfairly supported by US taxpayers. In other developed nations one parent must be naturalized or citizen born in that country. These families knew exactly what they were exploiting when they came to the U.S. and had a baby born on U.S. soil, as the news of welfare entitlements spreads very quickly from poor country to country.
For illegal immigrants, having a child born in the U.S. becomes this intentional “Racket” to residing here in this land, the ramifications in 2007 was estimated to be 380.000 children annually that taxpayers forfeited in taxes. Birthright citizenship creates a massive fiscal burden on the US taxpayer. At the present time “Anchor babies” are United States citizens from the moment they’re born, and they immediately qualify for public welfare aid.
Excerpt from Federation for American Immigration Reform:
FAIR estimates there are currently more than 425,000 children born to illegal aliens each year. This figure is based on the crude birth rate of the total foreign-born population (33 births per 1000) and the size of the illegal alien population (13 million in 2008). In 1994, California paid for 74,987 deliveries to illegal alien mothers, at a total cost of $215.2 million (an average of $2,842 per delivery). Illegal alien mothers accounted for 36 percent of all Medi-Cal funded births in California that year and now count substantially more than half.
Pro-Sovereignty organizations have called these children of pregnant illegal alien mothers “anchor babies” simply because they become eligible to sponsor for legitimizing most of their relatives (chain migration), including those in poor health. The illegal alien child, when they turn 21 years of age, become the U.S. “anchor” for an extended immigrant family. It has been said, over-and-over-again that birthright citizenship was never projected to be the law of the land, and thus is a flawed interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
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To intensify this giant problem, those mothers who illegally enter the U.S. to have their anchor babies have little to no health insurance. While others prenatal mothers are not even poor, but have violated a moral problem by using fraudulent ID and come from every corner of the world. By law they cannot be turned away from hospitals because the law requires that they be treated. All uninsured people, regardless of citizenship, receive medical treatment in hospital emergency rooms under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1985 (EMTALA). The only difference is that American Mothers stand to be badgered by unrelenting debt collectors afterwards until they pay. And if there are any difficulties with the pregnancy, or if the child is born prematurely and needs to be admitted into a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, the expenditures upswings by thousands more dollars.
Senator Lindsey Graham, Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) and other statesman has decided to pursue revoke the 14th amendment. A Rasmussen Poll found that 58% of Americans opposed granting citizenship to the children of illegal aliens, while only 33% supported it. The main problem most Americans cannot conceive the amount of money paid out to subsidize the onslaught of the illegal alien occupancy. Every saddled taxpayers should definitely type into Google or Yahoo “Anchor Babies cost’s” and be ready to use your politicians as a verbal punching bag at 202-224-3121
An issue that is not publicized by the left politicians is ant De Facto Amnesty or by executive order of the President. Would instantly turn into a public outrage as illegal aliens would be allowed to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment — even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents? Senator John Ensign (R-NV) has offered an amendment to gut that provision from any bill. He said, “There was a felony they were committing, and now they can’t be prosecuted. That sounds like amnesty to me. U. S. Senators Who Voted For Illegal Aliens to Collect Social Security Benefits! Let them know what you think about this vote! Go to NumbersUSA for more information on this taxpayer