jrance@iacwds.com 716 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 (edited) Cap-And-Trade Loss A Stunner In Aussie Vote by TIM Andrews Posted 12/02/2009 06:44 PM ET Cap-and-trade in Australia — which just a week ago was declared a certainty — is officially dead. This is the first major climate change turnaround anywhere in the Western world, with significant implications for our domestic debate. Combined with the Climate-gate e-mails revealing the data suppression and deceit underpinning "scientific consensus," the whole climate change alarmism house of cards is coming crashing down. Early last week, the leader of Australia's conservative opposition, Malcolm Turnbull, announced that he had reached agreement with the government to implement cap-and-trade, thus binding his party to support it in parliament en bloc. The agreement was signed, sealed and delivered — cap-and-trade would become law with bipartisan support. Its passage was a certainty. The elite rejoiced. But then a funny thing happened on the way to the Senate: The Australian public woke up. The days that followed were simply stunning. An unprecedented, uncoordinated and spontaneous grass-roots campaign erupted to force the opposition to reverse course. Political offices went into meltdown, unable to cope with the torrent of phone calls, faxes and e-mails opposing what was effectively a massive tax hike. By the end of the week, 14 members of the opposition leadership had resigned in protest. As the public outcry intensified, Turnbull refused to back down, staking his entire reputation and future on his passionate support for cap-and-trade. He violently attacked true conservatives, and repeatedly cried out that to win government you must be "moderate." So on early Tuesday morning, opposition parliamentarians met and voted to replace him. For the first time since 1916, the leader of a major Australian political party was deposed on the grounds of just one policy decision: the decision to support cap-and-trade. His political career is over, his aspirations to become prime minister have come to naught. The newly elected leader promptly announced that the opposition would once again start acting like conservatives, and would oppose the government's great green tax. Without their support, the legislation was soundly defeated in the Senate. Cap-and-trade, a scheme initially promoted by Enron to allow traders to profit at the expense of taxpayers, is currently before the U.S. Senate. According to the U.S. Treasury, this proposal includes between $100 billion and $200 billion in additional taxes a year, costing an additional $1,761 per family — equivalent to a 15% hike in the personal income tax. A further report commissioned by the U.S. Senate has shown that the additional gas taxes in the proposal equate to $3.6 trillion by 2035. According to an analysis by the independent Heritage Foundation, once fully implemented this would lead directly to a staggering 2.5 million jobs lost. More To Follow It is because of this that the Australian experience is so instructive, and there are two important lessons to be learned. First, the tide of international opinion has swung sharply away from the climate-change alarmists. What happened in Australia is just the beginning. Next week, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen — once billed as Kyoto 2 — will end in miserable failure: Even its most ardent supporters now admit that nothing will be achieved. More and more countries will refuse to sign on to this scam. Australia is simply the first domino to fall; we have reached the international tipping point. Second, this is a clear lesson to Republican legislators. This is an issue that will mobilize Americans like nothing else. No longer are taxpayers going to be dictated to by the elites. The tea parties, which mobilized over a million taxpayers to march in support of smaller government earlier this year, are merely the beginning. Republican legislators such as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who preach "bipartisanship" must realize that their actions have consequences. If you are elected as a conservative, you are expected to vote as such. Like their Australian counterparts, the American people will stand up and take action against those who betray them. Because as Malcolm Turnbull has learned, if you vote to send millions of people to the unemployment line, you might just find that the very first job gone will be your own. • Andrews, a native Australian, is an associate fellow at the Americans for Tax Reform Foundation. Edited December 9, 2009 by 1911 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MD_Willington 11 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Yet they still push for it here. Here's the deal - carbon credits are worth a certain amount right now, once things get colder and we need to use more carbon based fuels to stay warm, what do you think happens to those credits? The value shoots up. The carbon credit will be the new gold standard - or at least the governments see it that way. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lone Star Arms 2,047 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Unfortunately, the executive branch has chosen to bully congress using the EPA. The message is "If you don't pass it, the EPA will simply write and enforce regulations". Well, I say "fuck that sideways", I have a vote and you can bet I'll be at the polls in 2010 to do my part to hammer the Obama socialist machine into scrap. WS 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cvhanh20 1,052 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Unfortunately, the executive branch has chosen to bully congress using the EPA. The message is "If you don't pass it, the EPA will simply write and enforce regulations". Well, I say "fuck that sideways", I have a vote and you can bet I'll be at the polls in 2010 to do my part to hammer the Obama socialist machine into scrap. WS Whats messed up is the American people will more than likely vote the tool back in for another 4 years of hell. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vbrtrmn 167 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Whats messed up is the American people will more than likely vote the tool back in for another 4 years of hell. If unemployment continues the same way it has been going, the dems are going to find it hard to keep him in office. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Azrial 1,091 Posted December 9, 2009 Report Share Posted December 9, 2009 Unfortunately, the executive branch has chosen to bully congress using the EPA. The message is "If you don't pass it, the EPA will simply write and enforce regulations". Well, I say "fuck that sideways", I have a vote and you can bet I'll be at the polls in 2010 to do my part to hammer the Obama socialist machine into scrap. WS Plus 1! And I will be right there beside you, voting the parasitic bastards out as well! But folks, will it be enough? Votes are great, but money is the driving force in elections. The media put Obama over the top, with their 24/7 screaming of his name! I saw his picture, full page, on the cover of Men's Fitness. They later named him as one of the 25 fittest men in America! Who the hell looks at this 3 pack a day smoker and sees a fit man! I will never buy this deceitful publication again and help fund their in-kind covert financial support of the far left! That plus the paid advertising of people like multi-Billionaire Anti-American George Soros who bought a completely unknown freshman congressman with no experience, except as a community organizer for a corrupt and racist political machine, the Presidency of the US! They then effectively discredited the credentials and experience of a woman running the biggest state in the USA! How many idiots have you heard regurgitating their force-fed spin on Shara Palen's "lack of experience?" I am not a wealthy man, but I gave over a grand to the campaigns of conservative political candidates in this last political cycle! If you have kids, you should be giving more, if only so they have a change to grow up in the America you did. I have no children, but I can not imagine looking into the eyes of my son and telling myself that I could not budget the money to spare him a life of slavery to the state! The truth is that America today has a lot ambivalent fools just waiting on someone to tell them how to vote in the next election! If you honestly don't have the cash to help us out, how about doing your part to instruct them now? Keep in mind the kids that will be voting in the next election! Talk about it, send emails, call your congressman, do not do business with companies that support the far left, and give when you can! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
G O B 3,516 Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Cap and trade is just a thinly veiled attempt to create more and larger worthless "securities" so the big $$$ people can steal mega $$$ and pay themselves billions of $$$ to rape what is left of the American economy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BronCobraJet 80 Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Thank God the Aussies have come to their senses. Enron started out as a company in NE, and moved down south. The company I worked for at the time, Houston Lighting and Power, later became Enron. I doubt if the American people will ever believe that their elected officials are trying to pull a fast one on them. Even here in the heart of Republican country, you still hear a lot of people espousing their beliefs in Global Warmming - oops that's been changed to "climate change". In the 70's, it was "global cooling" and the next great ice age. When the hell will people smarten up and realize that it is all a scam to pick their pockets? What will it take? Why did the Aussies have to be the first to see it? What happened to this country? I will admit, I read on WND that a LOT of smaller countries were eager to sign up, no matter what, because they believed that meant money for them. You reap what you sow. Unfortunately, some people slip through the cracks and get filthy richer, while the rest of us suffer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
camon 233 Posted December 10, 2009 Report Share Posted December 10, 2009 Wow... now THIS would be the biggest and most dangerous attempt to usurp power that I have seen the O admin do yet. Obama uses the EPA and threatens Congress to pass the Cap/Tax bill or else. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lakedweller 10 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Guess I will retire to Australia instead of Tennessee. At least it's warm this time of year.... :super: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lone Star Arms 2,047 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 You may want to study up on gun laws first... Australia for some unfathomable reason is not a gun friendly country. It's a terrible shame. Sounds like some of the resident libtards down under might be coming around though. One can always be hopeful. WS Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ktcm7271 999 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Good point Waffen, next to us, Australia are a rifleman's country. Well used to be. Hard to believe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
IndyArms 10,186 Posted December 12, 2009 Report Share Posted December 12, 2009 Australia are a rifleman's country. Well used to be. Hard to believe And little by little that is happening here... not too hard to believe after you think about it for a few moments... They probably allowed the same shit we do... mass populace complacency and ignorance... and POOF... they were HOSED! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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